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| Azore CFD | |
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| Developer | Airflow Sciences Corporation |
| Release | 2007 |
| Stable release | Version 2026R1
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| Platform | Linux, Windows, MacOS |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Computational fluid dynamics and Heat_transfer simulation |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | [1] |
AzoreCFD is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software tool for analyzing fluid flow and heat transfer. Azore is owned and developed by Airflow Sciences Corporation of Livonia, Michigan, USA. Azore allows the modeling and analysis of engineering problems involving fluid flow, heat transfer, aerodynamics, chemical species tracking, thermal mixing, and related phenomena.
History
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Development work on Azore was initiated in the late 1990s by CFD specialist Dr. Jeffrey Franklin as part of his PhD studies. The goal was to design a new, integrated CFD tool to replace the existing product VISCOUS which had been developed during the 1980s and 1990s by Airflow Sciences. VISCOUS was based on a cartesian mesh in collaboration with Suhas_Patankar and his SIMPLE_algorithm. VISCOUS was widely used in the power generation, pollution control, and automotive industry. The development of Azore was focused on a CFD solver for complex and arbitrary geometries, allowing for any mesh topology, including tetrahedral, hexahedral, or polyhedral models.
The first commercial version of Azore was released in 2008 and featured a steady state RANS solver with k-e turbulence model, conjugate heat transfer, and two-phase (momentum coupled) flow simulation. The two-phase flow was based on a Lagrangian tracking scheme and thus could include solid particle tracking or liquid droplet evaporation. Azore purposely does not have its own integrated meshing tools, allowing the import of any generalized polyhedral cell topology from a range of mesh type software. Azore has its own built-in pre- and post-processing tools for model boundary condition set up and viewing/analyzing/plotting results. The post-processor allows scripting in order to automate the analysis and presentation of results.
Azore is regularly updated to incorporate new physics, turbulence models, computational methods, and memory allocation schemes. The solver allows parallel solving on High Performance Computing systems, implementing both Message_Passing_Interface and OpenMP parallelization techniques.
Capabilities
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Azore is a general purpose Computational fluid dynamics software which uses the Finite volume method to calculate the transport of physical quantities on a discretized mesh. For fluid flow and heat transfer, the Navier–Stokes equations are solved in each of the cells.
Usage
[edit]Azore is used across industries for flow and heat transfer analysis and optimization. Applications include pollution control systems (electrostatic precipitator[1], SCR[2], scrubber, baghouse), transportation (auto, truck, rail, air), HVAC/heating/cooling, manufacturing, metals processing (heat treating[3], quenching[4]), refineries[5]), energy (gas turbines[6], nuclear, coal-fired, wind, solar, geothermal), and heat exchangers (performance, pluggage[7]).
See also
[edit]- Computational fluid dynamics
- Computer simulation
- Computer-aided design
- Computer-aided engineering
- List of computational fluid dynamics software
References
[edit]- ^ "Improved Methodology for Accurate CFD and Physical Modeling of ESPs" (PDF). International Society for Electrostatic Precipitation. October 2018.
- ^ "Improving SCR Performance on Simple-Cycle Combustion Turbines". www.powermag.com. 1 June 2010.
- ^ Goldstein, Robert; Eddir, Tareq; Buchner, Ethan; Cryderman, Robert; Banka, Andrew; Senita, Andrew (30 May 2020). "Modeling of Temperature Gradients During Short Time Dilatometry Testing". Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. 29 (6): 3638–3660. Bibcode:2020JMEP...29.3638G. doi:10.1007/s11665-020-04862-2.
- ^ Banka, Andrew L.; Ferguson, B. L.; MacKenzie, D. Scott (March 2013). "Evaluation of Flow Fields and Orientation Effects Around Ring Geometries During Quenching". Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. 22 (7): 1816–1825. Bibcode:2013JMEP...22.1816B. doi:10.1007/s11665-013-0509-z.
- ^ "Flow modeling as a tool for WHRU performance optimization". www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com. May 2020.
- ^ "Flow Modeling Provides Data-Filled Window into Gas Turbine, Plant Performance". www.turbomachinerymag.com. 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Hot Flow Physical Model Study of Flyash Re-entrainment at Gulf Power Plant Crist" (PDF). Worldwide Pollution Control Association Newsletter. Winter 2014.
External links
[edit]- Azore webpage
- Collection of CFD project results
- Azore YouTube page with example cases and training videos
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