TFS Feature List (abbreviated)
• Native TFM ASCII model file
• Import of TFM, TAS neutral file geometry models
• Object modification, including stretching and rotation of the incoming geometry model (useful for units changes or unwieldy angle setups)
• Export the solved states to TAS output files
• Export of the AD flow network into a TAS or Sinda readable flow conductor network
• Rhea - OV3D (ObjectView 3D) graphics engine for all display objects. Note all display objects such as 3D vector field and contour plots have their own owner dialogs. This allows multiple view angles
• Graphic objects have clip, crop, window zoom, up to 30 saved angles for restore and transfer of object view angles and zoom coordinates between objects.
• FEA display module for object shading. Allows the user to render all control surfaces as solid objects for graphical overlay.
• Imbedded thermal physical properties (TPP), current stored database has over 350 different sets of properties. User can create and maintain their own custom TPP database
• Units control. TFS is a unitless solver, but the thermal physical properties data base is automatically configured for a selection of user defined units.
Standard 3-space XYZ gravity settings for natural convection simulations
• Model information dialog to store pertinent model changes includes date and time stamp.
• Dialog to define digital transducers using graphical selection. The user can place digital transducers anywhere in the flow field to obtain the time trace feedback of solved states.
• Graphical boundary condition construction. Apply standard Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition on any control surface in the model. The special tagging method allows the user an easy method to grasp and load hard to reach surfaces.
• Dialog to deactivate solver states and solver includes auto-deactivation of velocity states once a mass balance is achieved.
• Dialog to change initial conditions on the fly to any value specified.
• Solver: semi-direct alternating direction implicit solver (ADI) solver technology allows non iterative advance of flow field, resulting is low solver CPU grind times.
• Boundary Conditions: Full setup of BC on any surface for any state. Can define multiple BC on any surface, includes Dirichlet and Neumann, heat flux and symmetry types.
• Effective Reynolds number, and mixing length turbulence models, (two equation K-Epsilon model is under development)
• Post processing with visual control volume and control surface click and feedback plots, data save to clipboard and instant plots of any data selected with PlotView2D. Simply mouse grab the control volume and obtain all information about the cell in question.
• Post processing with 3D vector field plots, 3D contour plots. All plots can be streamed for animation and instant feedback (timers can be set to different display rates)
• Post processing with axiom balance plots, mass and energy
• Object window display settings, including tile, cascade, close all, autoload of select windows with loadup of new model.
• Library of display settings, rotation angles, zoom coordinates, with fast click restore of up to 30 previous display angle sets
• Standard Rhea Tool pack, includes MouseCC, Calculator, and Rhea-PMA for creating industry standard AVI files.
• Shell linking to Hyperion-Mesh3D for RAD mesh construction and import
• NEW! Control surface contour displays
• NEW! Opengl post-processing with Hyperion-CADRazor. Simply touch-copy objects to the clipboard and paste in CADRazor, allows a buildup of any post-procssing object desired
• NEW! Pathline plotting with mouse selection rake points anywhere in the model
• NEW! Pathline animation capabilities (animate moving particles)
• NEW! Revised transducer plot routine applying PV2D.dll
Hyperion-TFS is a general-utility computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational heat transfer (CHT) simulation code. TFS provides the analyst with a low cost alternative to the unwieldy codes in today's market. One of the unique features of TFS is its ability to generate of a one-way flow conductor network. This allows the user to solve a complex CFD problem and map the results back onto a conventional node-conductor Sinda or TAS model by exporting a one-way flow conductor map. There is no other product on the market today that can do this.
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 | Boundary Conditions |
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 | FEA Viewer |
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 | Modify Geometry |
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 | TFS Solver |
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 | Plot CV (PV2D) |
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 | Properties TPP |
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 | Plot Vector Field |
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Select screen-shots from Hyperion-TFS
i WindTunnel
Hyperion-TFS houses the the pre/post processor and solver engine into one code executable. This allows TFS to operate much like a virtual wind tunnel. You can adjust boundary conditions, properties, model selections and other aspects on the fly and generate real time results. Post processing plots can be animated for instant feedback on the solution process. No need to trace back through hundreds of files. Simply watch the flow evolve as it is solved. All animations that you see were created under the same principle.
Flow Conductor
With TFS you can extract a flow conductor network using TFS and import this directly into Sinda and TAS. TFS applies a grid to grid detection method to convert your CFD flow field into a one-way flow network. Just a click of a button. No more manual construction of flow networks and erroneous predictions of heat transfer coefficients.
ð Visit our model library for prepackaged examples to use with TFS
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Hyperion-TFS
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 | Movie Combined |
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 | Movie Streamlines |
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 | Movie Streamlines |
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Animation Capabilities
Flow animation in TFS is easily accomplished using the imbedded Rhea-PMA tool. This allows you to animate anything on display in the dialog, e.g. vector plots, contour plot and pathline plots even textual dialogs. See the following movies for a quick display of the capability.
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 | Movie Animated PL |
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 | Movie Vector Field |
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Applications
Hyperion-TFS is a general thermal-fluid system solver and can be applied to a variety of simulation problems.
