PHOENICS on the Cloud

PHOENICS is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation package pioneered by Professor D Brian Spalding, FRS, at CHAM and now available on the Azure Cloud providing on demand deployment and rapid scaling capabilities.

CFD is used to model any and all types of fluid flow by creating digital prototypes that enable environmental and industrial impacts to be checked, ensure health and safety compliance, all without the need for expensive and time consuming physical testing.

PHOENICS can be applied to steady or transient flow and is capable of modelling turbulent, laminar, multi-phase, compressible and incompressible flows in 1D, 2D and 3D using Cartesian, polar or body-fitted computational meshes. In over 40 years of commercial use it has been used in fields including:

• Aerospace and Defence
• Air quality and Ventilation
• Building services / HVAC
• Combustors & furnaces
• Electronics cooling
• Environment
• Marine & offshore
• Oil and gas
• Metallurgical
• And many more will make the list too long

PHOENICS is a tool providing expertise to engineers, architects, product designers and other professionals who require fluid simulation and analysis capabilities.

Geometry can imported from CAD files and/or generated using built-in geometry tools. The mesh can then be generated automatically.

Pre-processing GUI’s exist for general- and specialist-applications; including.

• Core: for General Purpose applications
• Flair: for the built environment
• Flair-EFS: for external wind-driven flows
• Ester: for electrolytic smelters
• CVD: chemical vapour deposition