Fastflo Applications

Fastflo has been applied for a wide variety of problems:

• steady state elliptic PDEs in one variable (Laplace, Poisson, Helmholtz) in 2D geometries with polygonal or curved boundaries
• coupled elliptic PDEs; linear elasticity, thermoelasticity
• transient problems such as the diffusion equation solved by various timestepping algorithms
• computations in domains with multiple sub-regions; axisymmetric computations
• porous media flow
• transient advection-diffusion problems in cylindrical coordinates (solute dispersion)
• eigenvalue analyses
• acoustic scattering using the Sommerfeld radiation condition
• moving boundary problems by the ALE method; deformable meshes
• 2D and 3D flow problems using various solvers (penalty method, augmented Lagrangian, streamline-vorticity, operator-splitting)
• options pricing by the Black-Scholes equation

The following examples described in the Tutorial Guide illustrate the use of Fastflo on advanced topics:

• viscoelastic flow around a sphere in a cylindrical tube
• convective cooling of heated plates
• turbulent flow in an axisymmetric narrowing U-bend
• 3D turbulent flow in a tundish
• swirling turbulent flame inside a burner
• free surface flow in a double roll coater
• turbulent air flow around a Daimler-Benz model car
• two-phase flow in a mixing tank stirred by a turbine
• options pricing using the Black-Scholes equations
• pricing continuous and discrete Asian options
• saturated porous media flow with heat and chemical reaction

If you are interested about any specific application, contact us.

Presentations

The following presentation illustrates application of Fastflo in a wide range of areas. Click on each of the topic to see the online presentation. Yon can download the relevant presentation in PDF format. For online viewing, click on the arrow on the bottom of the screen to browse through the presentation.

Overview of Fastflo  (download pdf)

General PDE solver  (download pdf)

Fluid-structure interactions  (download pdf)

Geophysical Modelling  (download pdf)

Porous media problems  (download pdf)

Elasticity, Thermoelasticity & Viscoplasticity  (download pdf)

Case Studies

A number real life applications of Fastflo can be found here

CFD with Fastflo: Fluids ToolBox (NEW)

The Fluids ToolBox is an add-on to the Fastflo software that facilitates computational fluid dynamics analysis simpler. This significant development makes available Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) expertise assembled by the Fastflo team over a decade.  It has an intuitive graphical user interface to specify the problem, meshing the geometry and running the the solver through an integrated interface with Fastflo. A comprehensive manual describing this ToolBox is provided by our sales team when you purchase Fastflo. For more information, see Fluids ToolBox section.

Last updated August 19, 2009