PHOENICS-2014 ist freigegeben. Ab August 2014 werden die Kunden mit einem Wartungsvertrag diese Version empfangen. Selbstverständlich können neue Kunden diese Version ab heute bestellen.
Die Höhepunkte der neuen Version:
- Pre-Processor (VR-Editor)
- When opening an existing case, there is now an option to:
- Copy the case files to the current working directory, or;
- Switch the working directory to the folder containing This will allow any geometry files specific to the case stored together with the case files to be picked up.
- The current working directory is shown in the status bar.
- The 'Object affects grid' attribute has been split into the three coordinate directions. This allows greater control over how the grid is divided into regions in each direction. For example, we may want a floor object to create regions in the Z direction, but not need them in X and Y.
- Faster processing (up to 15x) of Q1 files with many Inform commands attached to objects.
- The WIND Object has been extended to add pre-set compass directions for the wind direction.
- A long-standing error in the Auto-mesher has been corrected.
- In Flair, the FIRE object has a new option to read the heat, mass and smoke sources from a table in a file, allowing any complex fire curve to be used.
- In Flair the JETFAN object can set a turbulence intensity.
- The delay in switching variables for contour plots is now no longer noticeable even for very large grids.
- The PARSOL solids detection algorithm has been given a complete overhaul to the extent of being rewritten. One aim was to provide more robust detection. The other was to provide a better start-point for the long-awaited multi-cut cell. It has also resulted in a reduction of memory usage of around 8%.
- The performance of the conjugate heat transfer solver has also been improved.
- InForm can use (much) longer and more complex formulae – up to 100 operands.
- For all OUTLET, OPENING or ANGLED_OUT objects, a quadratic loss coefficient K can be specified.
- When opening an existing case, there is now an option to:
- Solver (Earth)
- Often there is a need to link the flow rate and temperature at one boundary condition to the flow and temperature at another.This can now be achieved by a pair of linked ANGLED-IN objects. One ANGLED-IN, set to extract flow, acts as a 'donor'. The immediately-preceeding or immediately-following ANGLED-IN takes the flow rate from the 'donor' and uses it as the inflow. The linking happens in pairs, so that a linked pair can be copied or arrayed. The correct objects will stay linked.
- Post-Processor (VR Viewer)
- FLAIR, smoke calculations: visibility reduction can be estimated from the Beer-Lambert law.