2.1. Overview

2.1.1. Meshing

• Engineering Sketch Pad (ESP) to Surface Mesh

• Surface Mesh to Volume Mesh

• Refinement Zones: box and cylinder

• Rotor Disk meshing

• Sliding Interfaces

2.1.2. Modeling Options

• Steady and unsteady viscous flows

• Coupled stationary and rotating domains

• Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes

• Detached Eddy Simulation

• Actuator Disk

• Blade Element Theory

• Porous Media

• User Defined Dynamics

• Conjugate Heat Transfer

• Aeroacoustics Simulation

2.1.3. Turbulence Models

• Spalart-Allmaras (SA-neg)

• Spalart-Allmaras with Rotation-Curvature correction (SA-RC)

• Spalart-Allmaras with Quadratic Constitutive Relation (SA-QCR)

• k-\({\omega}\) SST

• k-\({\omega}\) SST with Quadratic Constitutive Relation (SST-QCR)

• Amplification Factor Transport (AFT), laminar-turbulent transition model

See turbulenceModelSolver knowledge base and transitionModelSolver knowledge base for details

2.1.4. Boundary Conditions

• Freestream (with optional location dependent velocity)

• Slip Wall

• Symmetry Plane

• No-slip Wall (with optional tangential wall velocity)

• Isothermal Wall

• Heat Flux Wall

• Wall Model

• Subsonic Inflow (total pressure, total temperature)

• Subsonic Outflow (back pressure)

• Subsonic Outflow (Mach)

• Mass Flow In

• Mass Flow Out

• Translationally Periodic Boundaries

• Rotationally Periodic Boundaries