Creo Flow Analysis - CFD 101 Webcast Replay

Chapter Summaries

• 0:09 – Welcome & Introductions: CFD 101 Agenda, Simerics & PTC Speakers Moderator Diane opens the webcast and hands off to Rich Moore (Simerics EVP of Strategy, OEMs and Partners), Todd Krafft (PTC Simulation Product Manager), Tom Quaglia (PTC Director of CAD Strategic Accounts), and lead application engineer Alex Jang, who outline the session agenda.
• 3:28 – About Simerics: MP/MP+ Analyst CFD, PumpLinks & Orca3D Marine Rich Moore introduces Simerics as the developer of the Simerics MP and MP+ analyst CFD platform, plus vertical products like PumpLinks for pumps, valves and compressors, and Orca3D Marine CFD — the "digital water" for naval architects working in 3D.
• 5:41 – Creo Flow Analysis Packages & the PTC Digital Thread Overview of the Base, Plus and Premium tiers of Creo Flow Analysis and how it stays associative to Creo Parametric, Creo Simulate, Vuforia Studio and Windchill across the Creo 4, 5, 6 and 7 releases, with a snowmobile example illustrating fluid-to-structure pressure handoff.
• 9:53 – What CFD Delivers for Designers, Engineers & Managers Explains "digital fluids" — modeling the unseeable (air, gases, bubbles, heat, pressure, velocity, vortexes and 1,500+ other properties) directly inside Creo Parametric to cut prototype cycles and cost for both management and design teams.
• 13:19 – Base Package: Single Fluid Flow, External Aerodynamics & Heat Module Alex Jang walks through the Base package, covering internal and external single-fluid flow, wind-tunnel-style aero cases (car body, semi truck, full underhood with radiator), plus the conduction/convection heat module for use cases like electronics enclosures and sports helmet cooling.
• 17:55 – Plus Package: Particles, Radiation, Species & Moving/Sliding Mesh Introduces Plus-tier physics including particle release with sand/dust erosion prediction, radiation heat transfer, chemical species transport for microfluidics and diffusion, and Simerics' signature moving and sliding mesh for rotating components.
• 19:50 – Premium Package: Cavitation, Multiphase, Multicomponent & Dynamics Covers the Premium physics stack — cavitation modeling of the bubble collapse behind pump pitting, multiphase VOF for air/fuel/coolant interfaces, multicomponent gas modeling (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen) for HVAC and ventilation, and fully coupled fluid–solid dynamics for valve motion.
• 22:47 – Why CFD Now: Closing the Analyst/Designer Gap with an Automatic Mesher Rich Moore explains the 500K-analyst vs. 5M-engineer market gap, why legacy embedded low-end CFD failed on accuracy, and how the Simerics automatic body-fitted mesher and automatic fluids-volume extraction algorithm finally make usable, affordable, prototype-accurate CFD possible inside Creo.
• 27:14 – Validation Case Studies: 14-Stage Centrifugal Pump, DRIVEair & VOF Benchmarks Customer validation results, including a 14-stage centrifugal pump with pressure head and efficiency curves, the TU Munich DRIVEair full-underbody automotive aero benchmark with drag and pressure coefficient comparisons, and multiphase VOF validations on flow-over-a-weir and dam-break scenarios.
• 32:24 – Live Demo: Fuel Tank Setup with the Flow Analysis Wizard Alex launches Creo Flow Analysis from the Applications tab and steps through the wizard-driven setup — physics selection (flow, turbulence, multiphase), fluids from the built-in database, gravity, inlet flow rate, pressure outlets and initial fill level for an air-and-fuel tank filling case.
• 39:16 – Automatic Cartesian Body-Fitted Meshing & Transient Analysis Configures a 20-second transient run and generates the mesh — a Cartesian cube-based grid that subdivides into eighths and sixty-fourths near complex geometry and cuts to fit surfaces, avoiding traditional advanced meshing techniques while keeping fluid and solid cells cleanly separated.
• 42:00 – Real-Time Results, Isosurface Visualization & Baffle Design Iteration Runs the simulation with in-workspace post-processing (pressure XY plots, fuel isosurfaces colored by velocity), then edits the Creo Parametric model to add a flow deflector and pass-through baffle holes, using Update Project to remesh and re-solve without re-entering boundary conditions — a claimed 5–10× speedup over competing CFD tools.
• 51:06 – Summary & Getting Started: Demo, Workshop, Modeling & Training Options Rich Moore recaps the digital-fluids-in-the-digital-thread value proposition and offers four next steps — a deeper CFD 101 demo, a virtual workshop, a modeled sample of the viewer's own problem, or 1–4 hours of online training — with follow-up contacts at Simerics and PTC.
• 53:45 – Q&A: Rheology, Vector Fields, Fully Developed Pipe Flow & Bladder Roadmap Answers audience questions on non-Newtonian rheology for glass forming and blow molding (with solidification and melting coming in a later Creo Flow Analysis release this year), vector fields on contour section views, X/Y/Z coordinate system labeling, fully developed pipe flow calculations, and expanding elastomeric bladders (on the roadmap).