Features¶
As general purpose finite element analysis software, WELSIM contains tons of features those allow you to conduct many simulation studies.
Specification¶
| Specification | Description |
|---|---|
| Operaton system | Microsoft Windows 10/11, 64-bit; Linux: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, CentOS 7, Fedora 27 and higher versions, 64-bit; 3D rendering driver: OpenGL 3.2 or higher |
| Physical memory | At least 4 GB, and 8 GB and higher is recommended |
| Geometry modules | Imported geometry formats: STEP, IGES, STL Built-in geometry generation: Box, Cylinder, Sphere, Plane, Line, Circle, Vertex Boolean operations: Union, Intersection, Cut |
| Supported automatic mesh | Tet10, Tet4, Tri6, Tri3 |
- User-defined results: deformation, rotation, strain, stress, reaction force, reaction moment, etc.
- Archive file: file with suffix "wsdb" and the associated folder (same file name).
- Export mesh formats: UNV, MFEM, SU2, VTK.
- Export result formats: VTK, Tecplot, Plain Text.
Structural¶
| Structural analysis | Description |
|---|---|
| Types | Static, transient, and modal |
| Materials | Isotropic elastic, hyper-elastic, plastic, visco-elastic, and creep |
| Deformation types | Small, and finite |
| Contact types | bonded, frictionless, and frictional; small and finite sliding |
| Boundary conditions | constraints, displacement, force, pressure, velocity, acceleration |
| Body conditions | body force, acceleration, standard earth gravity, rotational velocity |
| Results | deformations, stresses, strains, velocity, acceleration |
| Probe results | reaction force (total, x, y, z) |
- Multi-body analysis.
- Multi-step quasi-static analysis.
- Nonlinear materials.
- Contact analysis.
Thermal¶
| Thermal analysis | Description |
|---|---|
| Types | Static, and transient |
| Materials | linear and nonlinear |
| Initial conditions | Initial temperature |
| Boundary conditions | temperature, convection, radiation, heat flux, heat flow, perfectly insulated |
| Body conditions | Internal heat generation |
| Results | temperature |
- Multi-body analysis.
- Temperature-dependent nonlinear material.
- Orthotropic thermal conductivity material.
- Heat flux results.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)¶
| Fluid analysis | Description |
|---|---|
| Types | 2D Static |
| Boundary conditions | wall, inlet, outlet, pressure, velocity, temperature, convection, heat flux |
| Results | velocity, pressure, mass density, pressure coefficient, mach number, energy |
- 2D incompressible static analysis.
- 3D incompressible static analysis.
- 2D compressible dynamic analysis.
- 3D compressible dynamic analysis.
Electromangetic¶
| Electromagnetic analysis | Description |
|---|---|
| Types | Electrostatic, and magnetostatic |
| Materials | linear |
| Boundary conditions | ground, voltage, symmetry, zero charge, surface charge density, electric displacement, insulting, magnetic vector potential, magnetic flux density |
| Results | voltage, electric field, electric displacement, magnetic vector potential, magnetic flux density, magnetic field, energy density |
- Vector result display.
- Multi-body analysis.
- Nonlinear materials.
Need more features?¶
Feel free to send questions, comments, requests, bug reports, and success stories. Asking for a new feature usually results in adding the request to the TODO list or, if it already is in the list, in assigning higher priority to it.