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Powerful thermal-fluid analysis, including high-fidelity representations of all modes of heat transfer,
within a single software package
Seamless Thermal-Fluid Coupling with RapidFlow™
RapidFlow™ is a 3D flow solver integrated with TAITherm™ and MuSES™, designed for airflow applications and convection heat transfer analysis. It offers fast, high-fidelity results, works on complex geometries, and is easy to use with minimal setup time. This integration provides automated thermal-fluid coupling within a single software solution, streamlining your workflow and increasing efficiency.
Cabin Climate Control
Optimize automotive cabin climate control with TAITherm's comprehensive solution. Our software accurately simulates human thermal comfort, HVAC energy use system effects, and defrost/defog performance environmental influence while minimizing user burden. RapidFlow seamlessly integrates with TAITherm's existing capabilities, providing high-fidelity analysis with efficient computation.
This integrated approach allows for a detailed assessment of local thermal comfort by considering all modes of heat transfer within a single platform. Whether you're analyzing preconditioning or transient cool-down/warm-up scenarios, RapidFlow allows detailed airflow patterns to be easily included. RapidFlow offers flexible configurations to meet your needs: experience streamlined workflows, reduced computational costs, and enhanced accuracy compared to CFD-only approaches.
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Ground vehicle IR signature management
Enhance ground vehicle IR signature management accuracy with MuSES' integrated RapidFlow solver. This powerful combination allows for high-fidelity 3D airflow analysis, capturing the significant impact of wind on vehicle thermal behavior. MuSES with RapidFlow provides more realistic IR predictions than standalone MuSES or snapshot simplified CFD approaches by accurately simulating transient wind effects automatically derived from natural weather data.
This leads to improved signature mitigation strategies, better survivability assessments, and more effective automatic target recognition algorithm training. With a modest model setup and computational cost increase, you can experience increased fidelity and confidence in your analysis.
RapidFlow Features
Cabin Airflow Analysis
RapidFlow’s solver, based on simplified Navier-Stokes equations, is well-suited for cabin airflow analysis. It offers high-fidelity 3D airflow modeling with a low user/computational burden.
3D Cabin Solutions
Complement TAITherm's existing cabin modeling strengths, enabling comprehensive 3D cabin solutions for soak and cool-down/warm-up. Allows robust local thermal comfort analysis, including high-fidelity representations of all modes of heat transfer and environmental effects, within a single software package.
Dynamic Modeling
RapidFlow supports TAITherm Input Parameters for specifying inlet boundary conditions, enabling dynamic modeling/coupling with external system models.
Benefits for TAITherm Users
Existing TAITherm users benefit from reduced model prep/build time and reduced computational time when 3D airflow effects are required. When expensive simulations are impractical for early design analysis, higher airflow fidelity can be included, potentially complementing full-up CFD-coupled analysis in later stages. It offers new TAITherm users an easier learning curve to complete thermal-fluid analysis with one tool.
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Streamlining Fluid Dynamics with RapidFlow™
Extensions
Beyond Comfortable
Our Human Thermal Extension is the state-of-the-art technology for predicting human thermal comfort, safety, and effectiveness. It operates within our thermal analysis software, TAIThermTM, to comprehensively simulate human thermal sensation and thermoregulation under transient and asymmetric environmental conditions. Users can simulate all thermoregulatory responses based on many factors, including activity level. We have developed a comprehensive library of standard human models in various poses, including female and male physiologies. We have also developed an extensive clothing database for rapid model setup.
Take Charge with Thermal Simulation
The Battery Extension is designed to analyze the complexities of your batteries at a cell and pack level. As a licensed component of TAITherm, it uses thermal simulation to determine the lifetime, durability, and safety of your battery system. You can verify design choices, and mitigate complications due to safety issues including thermal runaway and aging.
Improved Heat Protection Strategies
The Exhaust Extension uses transient thermal simulation to solve thermal challenges in one of a vehicle's most complex systems: the exhaust system. With a library of pre-built components and a simple set-up process, you can optimize your exhaust system design quickly and understand how it will perform in hot soak or time-based scenarios. The Exhaust Extension is built to reduce set-up time, generate results quickly, and provide realistic solutions with transient simulation.
Getting Started
Training
The most efficient way to get started is to attend our two-day training. After the training, you will be proficient at using the TAITherm thermal analysis software on your own. Additional training is available to cover advanced topics such as infrared simulations, human comfort analysis, thermal comfort simulations, or advanced coupling processes such as steady-state coupling. We offer two training sessions a year in southeast Michigan, or we can arrange private training at your office.
Tutorials
Start on your own. Our step-by-step tutorials cover basic and advanced techniques. Once you have a software license, these tutorials are available for you to advance your knowledge.
Support
We are here to answer your questions at every step. We support our customers before and after the sale, our commitment to you never changes.