Simply-powerful airflow modeling at your fingertips. Airpak is virtual prototyping software that lets you accurately model airflow, heat transfer, contaminant transport, and thermal comfort in your ventilation system as well as external building flows. You can easily build a computer model of your application and quickly test a variety of design options to find the best solution. It eliminates the guesswork in designing ventilation systems for non-standard and one-of-a-kind facilities. Airpak can reduce risk for new designs and improve the efficiency of current designs.
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Keywords
airflow modeling, contaminant transport, room air distribution, temperature and humidity distribution, thermal comfort, computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Validation/Testing
N/A
Expertise Required
You can learn to use Airpak in one day.
Users
North America, Europe & Asia
Audience
Engineers, architects, and designers who need to assess/diagnose the performance of real or conceived ventilation system designs.
Input
Build models with Airpak's object-oriented model building tools or with imported CAD geometries; specify the ventilation system design including types, flowrates, temperatures, and locations of air inlet diffusers and exhausts; define thermal boundary conditions that represent heating loads of occupants, lighting, equipment and external conditions including solar loads; define humidity and contaminant boundary conditions.
Output
Full-color animations, pictures, and plots of ventilation airflows showing airflow patterns, air turbulence, room air distribution, temperature distribution, thermal comfort conditions, and contaminant distribution as well as the ability to automatically generate detailed quantitative reports specified by the user.
Computer Platform
Windows NT/2000, Unix, Linux
Programming Language
C++ and Tcl
Strengths
Rapid model building/meshing; fast and accurate simulation of airflow, heat transfer and contaminant transport; powerful visualization of the results.
Weaknesses
N/A
Contact
Availability
Contact Fluent at the above address or visit the web site for more information. Airpak was jointly developed in the USA by Fluent Inc. and ICEM-CFD Engineering. It is supported worldwide.
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