Friday, October 02, 2009

Why aren't you leveraging CFD?

Now is the time to vent!?! Ask yourself the following...

  1. Do I design products where fluid flow is a design variable?
  2. Do I design products that I have to worry about heating or cooling?
  3. Am I spending alot of time and $$$ in the physical prototyping phase?
  4. Have we traditionally over-engineered products and a change is needed?
  5. Are my products failing in the field? If so, how much $$ is this truly costing?
I realize that many have considered, investigated and even tried dabbling in the world of CFD. I am really interested to hear your thoughts on the barriers.

Like any technology, it can be a bit overwhelming at first. But there are people in the world that can help. Would like to see some comments from the heart on concerns/successes/failures...

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1 comment:

Jeff Waters said...

One golden nugget (and there are many) that will help:

If you use a formal PD process (Gantt chart, etc), do you have a gate on it for CFD? If not, you are unlikely to get CFD (or FEA) to take off as part of your natural process.

If you do have this activity accounted for on your PD process, next question: is it closer to the left edge or the right edge of the chart? You will get the full value of CAE if at least some CAE gates show up within the 1st couple inches from the left side of your Gantt chart.