Some businesses involve complex, costly construction, and design which is most often overseen by a number of stakeholders, suppliers, technologies, and design prototypes to ensure the success of the project. Fields like aerodynamics, building construction, data center facilities, and electronics, involve tedious designing and product performance evaluation to witness success. CFD consultants are pivotal to such projects with high stakes and make the design and construction phase of the project easier and faster.

Internal factors such as computational errors, inaccurate load estimation, erroneous theories, ignorance, or negligence to repeated or repulsive stresses can add substantially to the failure of a construction or a design.

Such minutiae are better understood and utilized in estimating a design’s success with an experienced and skilled CFD consultant. They can use accurate data and weigh in the needs of the business to perform CFD simulations that can verify the performance, longevity, and efficiency of the design and make optimizations if needed.

Before we get into what the cost of a CFD Consultant is, it is important to understand what exactly they do and how they can help your business.

CFD Consultant: The Whos, Whats, and Whys

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a process that helps to identify and study fluid behavior and how it interacts with a design in the presence of external factors. CFD consultants perform complex and challenging CFD simulations and help your company save time and money by eliminating the need for unnecessary physical prototypes and optimizing designs to eliminate structure failure or other problems.

CFD consultants offer a wide range of solutions like the following:

• A full report of the CFD analysis to understand the fluid flow and improve the design for maximum performance.

• A deep investigation into boundary conditions to make optimizations to the design based on the variable and stable loads.

• CFD consultants also study the thermal transfer effects to perfect product designs.

• CFD simulations can also be used to improve the performance of HVAC systems by studying the ventilation, heating and cooling effects, and other boundary conditions of the facility or building.

CFD consultants have a well-structured workflow and communication with other experts and engineers through every step of the process to derive accurate and reliable results.

CFD consultants prepare the CAD models based on the geometry data. Non-essential elements and aggregate essential elements for meshing.

In the meshing step, the entire geometry is divided into nodes or simpler equations to solve. This step helps to make the CFD simulation faster and easier.

The simulation step is followed by the meshing step. Each node or simple equation is solved individually. This step takes more time if the CAD model is more complex and vice versa.

After the simulation, the CFD software produces results in the form of a qualitative or quantitative table or numerical data. The numbers are observed and analyzed to identify any faults or predict improvisations to the design.

You can read this to know more about why you need a CFD consultant.

Preparing a CFD Simulation Quote

At Mechartes, CFD consultants follow a very simple and quick process to estimate a quotation for CFD Simulation projects. The quotation is formulated after we have the following essential data in place –

Signing the NDA

When working with a design, essential and proprietary information is exchanged between both parties. An NDA is signed with all necessary terms and conditions in place before proceeding to the next step.

CAD Geometry

The geometry or CAD model of the design is needed to run the CFD simulation and produce accurate results. The geometry is carefully analyzed and evaluated to see if it is compatible with the CFD analysis software and technology we have.

It also helps us understand what techniques and methodologies we can use to solve the problems.

Boundary Conditions and Material Data

Once we have the CAD model, we need to understand the factors that will interact with the geometry and the material of the design. This determines the complexity, the time needed, and the severity of the load of the CFD simulation. Based on these factors, the cost of the entire CFD analysis can vary.

Type of Simulation to Perform

A CFD simulation can produce results in the form of a vast array of plots, figures, animations, pretty pictures, etc. Based on the preferred format of results, the costs can differ as each result format takes a different time to be created. The required result format is entered before beginning the CFD simulation.

What we need from the CFD Simulation

Every CFD simulation studies a specific behavior of the geometry. The CFD consultants need to know what exactly a client wants to know from the analysis so the CFD consultants can focus on those points. This can have an effect on the overall cost.

Mechartes for CFD Simulation Process ROI

At Mechartes, we are CFD simulation experts who have worked on a wide range and nature of projects ranging from building design and construction, pipeline design optimization, data center HVAC systems, heat transfer management in electronics, and more.

Our experts will understand the details and needs for your business and based on the inputs, we can produce accurate, reliable, and robust CFD simulation results for design validation and optimizations. Get in touch with us for all your CFD and FEA simulation and consultation requirements.