PAM-FLOW is an advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software product used to simulate unsteady flow phenomena present in a wide variety of industrial and research applications. The exceptional transient accuracy of PAM-FLOW permits the simulation of large-eddy or very large-eddy type simulations (LES) of unsteady and turbulent fluid flow phenomena.
The objective of the PAM-FLOW product is to provide an accurate CFD tool to carry out virtual testing and virtual prototyping solutions in industry at both the production level and in research and development. PAM-FLOW has applicability in many industries, including automotive and other ground transportation, rotating machinery, heavy machinery, aerospace and bio-medical. Some example applications are:
Performance
Numerical Vehicle Wind Tunnel. Can handle all types of automotive configurations, from styling mock-ups to production level geometries with extensive detail, including front-end, underhood and underbody.
Prediction for performance characteristics of rotating machinery, including accurate prediction of non-linear stator/rotor interaction.
Safety
Simulations of vehicle instabilities (static cross-wind simulation and dynamic passing simulation) for vehicle performance, safety and comfort at high speed cruising.
Airbag deployment simulation covering virtual airbag tank testing and out of position (OOP) airbag deployment simulations
Bio-fluid mechanics for occupant safety analysis during vehicle impacts
Comfort
Computational aero-acoustics prediction for dipole pressure sound sources, including wind noise prediction for vehicles (external and internal), and noise source prediction for internal components such as fans, ducts etc.
Climate control comfort estimation using flow and thermal coupled simulation
PAM-FLOW is a part of the virtual-try out space (VTOS) solution from ESI. The fluid-structure interaction capability obtained by coupling with PAM-CRASH, PAM-SAFE and PAM-SHOCK provides a compelling value-chain of virtual prototyping solutions.
