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Engineering of Fluids, Energy and Environment Research Group- GREFEMA

Services we offer

GREFEMA

Simulation thermal and of fluids

We use methods of numeric simulation FEA/CFD in Energetic Efficiency, Thermal Engineering and Fluidodinàmica, in order to make the decision making easier during the process of architectural design. A very useful service for all the professionals involved in the constructive process: Holders of a degree in architecture, Holders of an Engineering Degree, Builders, Maintainers etc.

Through the simulation CFD we help the decision making of designers and manufacturers. We simulate the behaviour of fluids in complex cases like: valvuleria, aerodynamic, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, micro-fluids, health worker, among many others.

Analysis thermal

Thermal simulation

One analysis thermal measure the effects of the fluctuations of temperature in a design. The transfer from heat can be analysed through driving (case in which we use FEA) or convection and radiation (in this case we use software CFD to investigate the transfer from combined heat. When we use FEA, we can also use the coefficient of thermal expansion to simulate the growth or the reduction in a solid as a result of adding or taking out heat.

Why to carry out one analysis thermal?

Without the need for constructing, proving and destroying an expensive prototype, the analysis thermal it can validate the decisions before the process of development of a product, team or process. Also allow to give answer to the effects of the changes of design in existing systems or to find explanations to problems of thermal type. For a still more detailed simulation, we are also capable of connecting a thermal analysis with a structural analysis (thermal stress) or an analysis of fluids (combine transfer from heat) to simulate multiple physics at the same time. If you want to spare time and money with a thermal analysis, get yourselves with us in touch!

Mechanics of fluids

Simulation combustion gases

The simulation of fluids uses the computational dynamics of fluids (CFD) to analyse the behaviour of fluids. Through the simulation CFD we help the decision making of designers and manufacturers. We simulate the behaviour of fluids in complex cases like: valvuleria, aerodynamic, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, micro-fluids, health worker, among many others. When it is about the simulation of fluids, the most important added value that we bring is our capacity to interpret and to communicate clearly these results to our customers.

An analysis CFD is more complex than that of the FEA. A solid is a solid, but a fluid can be many things. Its density can vary (compressibilitat), its viscosity can vary (non newtonià) and the flow can be laminar, turbulent or, even, of transition between both states. In some cases, it is frequent to include solid volumes and volumes of fluids in the analysis to determine the forces that affect your structures.

Why the simulation of fluids?

The power of an analysis CFD is its capacity to visualise the field of complete flow, which is almost impossible to make empirically. Before the software of simulation, the holders of an engineering degree could measure the flow submerging the sensors in the fluid, introducing like this an error in the test. Through the exploitation of parametric models CAD, the software FEA and CFD can combine completely with the design to carry out automatically a design on a large scale of experiments (DOE).

Scientific visualisation (SciVis)

Scientific visualisation

The scientific visualisation, sometimes denominated as SciVis in an abbreviated way, is the graphic representation of the data as a means to obtain understanding and knowledge from the data. Sometimes analysis of visual data is named. In this way, the customer or the user can know the system that is studied in impossible ways before.

We apply different methods to visualise two-dimensional and threedimensional data sets, as the simulation 3D, from softwares of calculation specific for the thermal fields and of fluid, and with the help of softwares of animation and renderitzat 3D.

Photogrammetry 3D

The photogrammetry is the science or technique with objective is the knowledge of the dimensions and the position of objects in the space, through the measure or of the measures carried out from the intersection of two or more photographs, or of a photograph and the digital model of the terrain corresponding to the place represented, what would have been carried out formerly for the intersection of two or more photographs.

With this technique we can extract the geometry in 3D of any element, tidying up or even building, in order to simulate its behaviour. We can also extract the thermographic image 3D from an element. This allows us to work with more accuracy and simplifies us the introduction of data at the same time.

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