Fluent is a Finite Volume based code for fluid flow simulations and heat as well as mass transfer simulations. Several state-of-the-art turbulence and rheological models are available. Fluent can be run either in interactive mode using a graphical user interface (GUI) or in text-command driven batch mode without GUI and graphics.
Fluent can be used for
- analysis of incompressible or compressible, steady-state or transient, inviscid, laminar, and turbulent flows
- flows with Newtonian as well as non-Newtonian rheology
- analysis of convective (natural and forced), coupled conduction/convective and radiation heat transfer
- simulations using multiple moving reference frames, including sliding mesh interfaces and mixing planes for rotor/stator interaction modeling
- flows chemical species mixing and reaction, including combustion sub models and surface deposition reaction models
- flows with arbitrary volumetric sources of heat, mass, momentum, turbulence, and chemical species
- Lagrangian trajectory calculations for a dispersed phase of particles/droplets/bubbles, including coupling with the continuous phase (drag, lift-forces on particles)
- flow through porous media
- two-phase flows, including cavitation
- free-surface flows with complex surface shapes
- one-dimensional fan/heat-exchanger performance simulations