Advantages of CFD (2)
• Ability to simulate ideal conditions.
– CFD allows great control over the physical process, and provides the
ability to isolate specific phenomena for study.
– Example: a heat transfer process can be idealized with adiabatic,
constant heat flux, or constant temperature boundaries.
• Comprehensive information.
– Experiments only permit data to be extracted at a limited number of
locations in the system (e.g. pressure and temperature probes, heat
flux gauges, LDV, etc.).
– CFD allows the analyst to examine a large number of locations in the
region of interest, and yields a comprehensive set of flow parameters
for examination.