Altair for Fluids and Thermal Applications

Altair offers a unique set of simulation tools to evaluate product feasibility, optimize the manufacturing process, and run virtual try-outs for many traditional, subtractive, and additive manufacturing processes.e

Altair provides an industry-leading portfolio of multiphysics-enabled software to simulate a wide range of interacting physical models including fluid-structure interaction (FSI), flexible bodies, aeroacoustics, and thermomechanical simulation.

Altair offers industry-leading engineering analysis and optimization tools from simulation-driven design concepts to detailed virtual product validation, and simplified modeling workflows to advanced high-fidelity model building.

Altair ultraFluidX is a simulation tool for ultra-fast prediction of the aerodynamic properties of passenger and heavy-duty vehicles as well as for motorsport applications. Its cutting-edge technology is optimized for GPUs to deliver unbeatable performance and to allow for overnight simulations even of complex cases on a single server.

Altair AcuSolve is a most powerful Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tool, providing users with a full range of physical models. Simulations involving flow, heat transfer, turbulence, and non-Newtonian materials are handled with ease by AcuSolve’s robust and scalable solver technology. These well validated physical models are delivered with unmatched accuracy on fully unstructured meshes. This means less time spent building meshes and more time spent exploring your designs.

Altair HyperStudy is a multi-disciplinary design exploration, study, and optimization software for engineers and designers. Using design-of-experiments, metamodeling, and optimization methods, HyperStudy creates intelligent design variants, manages runs, and collects data. Users are guided to understand data trends, perform tradeoff studies, and optimize design performance and reliability. HyperStudy’s intuitive user interface combined with its seamless integration to Altair HyperWorks™ makes design exploration technology accessible to non-experts.

Altair nanoFluidX is a particle-based (SPH) fluid dynamics simulation tool to predict the flow in complex geometries with complex motion. It can be used to predict the oiling in powertrain systems with rotating shafts / gears and analyze forces and torques on individual components of the system. Utilizing the GPU technology empowers high-performance simulations of real geometries.