Creo Flow Analysis - CFD for All Webcast Replay

Chapter Summaries

• 0:00 – Welcome: Speakers, Webinar Logistics & Session Roadmap - Diane opens the Creo Flow Analysis "CFD for All" webinar and Rich Moore introduces PTC's Todd Kraft and Tom Quaglia alongside Simerics' Alex Jiang and lead developer Lei Shi.
• 1:56 – PTC Digital Thread: Creo Associativity & Creo Flow Analysis Foundation - Rich explains how Creo's fully associative parametric backbone anchors the PTC Digital Thread and how Creo Flow Analysis extends it with computational fluid dynamics for unseeable fluids, gases, heat, and pressure.
• 4:11 – Simerics MP Analyst Platform in Creo: Base, Plus & Premium Packages - Overview of how the entire Simerics MP Analyst CFD platform, with 1,500+ physics properties, was embedded into Creo Parametric across three tiers — Base (fluids/heat), Plus (moving/sliding mesh), and Premium (cavitation, multiphase).
• 8:06 – Creo Flow Analysis RT Sneak Preview & Digital Thread Integration - Rich previews Creo Flow Analysis RT (real-time CFD-while-you-model), shows Creo Simulate FSI handoff for pressure and thermal loads, and demonstrates Vuforia Studio AR output on a snowmobile digital thread example.
• 11:00 – Customer Case Studies: Metalcraft, Invista, Royal Enfield, Bissell & Daktronics - Real-world adopters spanning landscaping blowers, metal rolling mills, motorcycles, vacuum/shampooer products, and LED scoreboards illustrate the breadth of Creo Flow Analysis deployments.
• 13:00 – CFD for All: Automated Cartesian Mesher, 50% Fewer Iterations & Real-Time Painting - Rich breaks down the market gap between CAD designers and analysts and shows how a single body-fitted mesher, fast solver (50% fewer iterations), and real-time geometry painting close it — including lattice, gyroid, and generative-topology meshing.
• 15:12 – Flow RT Demo: External Aerodynamics on a 10-Meter Column Pump - Alex Jiang runs Creo Flow Analysis RT on an axial column pump exposed to 22 mph wind, computing drag force, pressure loads, streamlines, and section views on CPU in under a minute — with pressure export to Creo Simulate for FEA.
• 22:05 – Internal Flow Setup: Wizard, Fluid Volume Extraction, MRF & Boundary Conditions - Alex walks through the guided wizard, automatic internal fluid-volume creation from the native Creo kernel, splitting rotating/stationary domains with datum planes, and setting inlet pressure, outlet flow rate, and a 34 rev/s moving reference frame (MRF).
• 27:24 – Cartesian Cut-Cell Meshing & Post-Processing: Streamlines, Section Views, Isosurface
• Deep dive on the body-fitted Cartesian cut-cell mesher plus post-processing tools — pressure/velocity contours, animated streamlines exportable to Vuforia, XYZ section views, and the Isosurface tool for locating high-velocity, high-temperature, or high-pressure regions.
• 32:22 – Transient Rotating Sliding Mesh & MGI (Mismatched Grid Interface) - Alex converts the steady-state MRF into a full transient dynamic simulation using the Volume Remesh / rotating sliding mesh and MGI mismatched grid interfaces to reach 1–2% validation accuracy with conservative connectivity.
• 35:20 – Premium Package: Cavitation Module & Expression Editor Q&A - Enabling cavitation on the column pump shows vapor pockets and volumetric-efficiency impact; Lei Shi and Alex answer a chat question on computing center of pressure using the Expression Editor (MATLAB-like) exposed over all solved fields.
• 40:20 – Base Package Validation: DrivAer Aerodynamics, EGR Cooler & E-Motor Thermal - Benchmarks from TU Munich's DrivAer wind-tunnel model (Cp along body and windshield, drag coefficient), an EGR cooler with multiple gas streams, and e-motor coil/winding thermal correlation demonstrate Base-package accuracy for flows and conduction/convection.
• 45:44 – Plus Package: Radiation Ray Tracing, Particle Erosion, Species & Sliding Mesh - Coverage of radiation (including surface-to-surface ray tracing benchmarked to 10⁻³ against a spacecraft customer's in-house code), particle injection with erosion modeling, species transport for mixing/dye/smoke tests, and translating-cell mesh for valves.
• 50:44 – Premium Deep Dive: Rayleigh-Plesset Cavitation, Multiphase & Dynamics Module - Detailed look at Rayleigh-Plesset bubble dynamics on propellers and a swash-plate piston pump erosion prediction, a 14-stage centrifugal pump benchmark, free-surface multiphase/multicomponent fill-drain simulations, and the Dynamics module for fluid-driven valves and wind turbines.
• 52:52 – Vuforia AR/VR Export, Behavioral Modeling Extension (BMX) & Getting Started - Alex demos OBJ export of streamlines to Vuforia Studio for AR marketing, shows the BMX coupling that drove a 34% pressure-rise optimization, and Rich closes with workshops, tutorials, the eight-part how-to video series on PTC Community, and instructor-led training contacts.