PHOENICS

What is PHOENICS

PHOENICS, which is owned and developed by CHAM, is a powerful multi-purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software package.

PHOENICS provides an accurate, reliable, cost-effective, and easy-to-use tool to simulate a range of processes involving ﬂuid ﬂow, heat or mass transfer, chemical reaction and/or combustion in engineering equipment and the environment.

With the longest history of validation and a large user base, it is not surprising that PHOENICS has a proven track record in nearly every branch of science and engineering in which ﬂuid ﬂow plays a key role.

Many organisations large and small are using PHOENICS to sharpen their competitive edge in the research and development of products and processes involving ﬂuid ﬂow and heat transfer.

Why use PHOENICS

• True Ease of Use

PHOENICS uses an intuitive 3D interactive user environment for pre- and post-processing.

• Proven Performance

PHOENICS boasts an impressive portfolio of applications.

• Unique Array of modelling features

Multi-phase ﬂows; particle tracking; free-surface modelling; chemical reaction, moving grids, ﬁne-grid embedding - part of an extensive battery of modelling features offered by PHOENICS.

• Expandability

User-deﬁned inputs made easy via built-in features such as “GROUND”&“IN-FORM”.

• Licensing ﬂexibility

Dali Dongqing Software Technology (DDST) provides ﬂexible and cost-effective solutions, from short-term to perpetual, whether individual student or multi-national corporation.

Who uses PHOENICS

PHOENICS offers unrivalled beneﬁts by way of product optimisation at early stages of the design process, facilitating shorter development cycles, cost reductions, and environmental impact assessment for many industries, including:

• Aerospace

• Automotive

• Building services / HVAC

• Chemical

• Combustion

• Electronics cooling

• Environment

• Fire/Smoke Hazard / Risk Analysis

• Marine & offshore/petroleum

• Medical / Health

• Metallurgical

• Nuclear and power generation

• Process

• Turbomachinery

PHOENICS in Practice

Architects & Building Services

From ﬁre safety to thermal comfort and internal or external ﬂows, PHOENICS FLAIR is the application of choice for architects, designers, HVAC and ﬁre safety engineers. A wide range of environmental conditions can be assessed in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost to carry out a ﬁeld experiment or wind-tunnel test.

ISO7726 heat parameters for critical, general and partial dissatisfaction, ISO7730 comfort parameters, PMV values, PPD values, PD draught and temperature gradients are catered for.

Electronics Engineers

PHOENICS HOTBOX provides electronics engineers with an integrated Virtual Reality environment for modelling the cooling requirements of critical electronic components and assemblies.

Transportation Designers

PHOENICS Virtual Wind Tunnel allows designers to evaluate the aerodynamics of a car, van, train or truck. Calculations for forces and coefficients of drag and lift are included.

Combustion Engineers

Combustion and Nox models, with a range of diffusion and kinetically controlled models including the unique Multi-Fluid Model for turbulent chemical reactions.

Civil Engineers

For tunnels, car-parks and large public spaces such as shopping centres, CFD modelling is often the only practical method for validating design decisions.

Environmentalists

PHOENICS can analyse pollution and thus ensure intelligent design to reduce emissions at the point of generation. For example, PHOENICS can be used to model:

Sub-surface storage and seepage of pollutants through rock structures,
Sulphur dioxide emissions produced as a waste product of fossil fuel combustion,
Discharge of pollutants from power stations and factories into rivers and estuaries,
Discharge of heat and steam into the atmosphere.

Semiconductor Manufacturers

PHOENICS CVD is designed to simulate the behavior of a wide range of CVD reactors and involves modelling the ﬂuid ﬂow and heat transfer in a multi-component gas, including both the gas-phase and surface chemical reactions and incorporates plasma effects.

Students, University Lecturers and Researchers

University Students use PHOENICS as part of under- or post-graduate courses to perform calculations to validate their experimental data. University Professors ﬁnd that PHOENICS is an invaluable tool to help their students to understand ﬂuid ﬂow, heat transfer, chemical reaction and solid stress. PHOENICS can also be invaluable to researchers as it allows user deﬁned parameters and formulae to be easily entered, allowing new concepts to be evaluated.

Schools

A special variant of PHOENICS, F1-VWT is supplied to schools taking part in the F1 In Schools Challenge to design a miniature CO2 powered racing car. See www. f1inschools.com

Licensing

There are a wide range of licensing options available. Discounts are offered for non-profit research and development activities, as well as for academic use. To discover the licensing option that best suits you please provide contact details and a member of our sales team will get in touch.