Femap provides engineers and analysts with a finite element analysis modeling solution to handle even the most complex tasks easily, accurately and affordably.
Femap is recognized as the world’s leading CAD-independent pre- and post- processor for advanced engineering finite element analysis. It is widely used by the world’s leading engineering organizations and consultants to model complex products, systems and processes, including satellites, aircraft, defense, automotive vehicles, electronics, heavy construction equipment, lift cranes, marine vessels and process equipment.
Using Femap’s digital simulation capabilities you can:
- Predict and improve product performance and reliability
- Reduce time-consuming and costly physical prototyping and testing
- Evaluate different designs and materials
- Optimize your designs and reduce material usage
Femap is CAD-independent and can access geometry data from all major CAD systems including NX, Solid Edge, CATIA, Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks and AutoCAD. Femap is also solver-neutral and provides in-depth pre- and postprocessing support for all of the main commercial solvers on the market, including NX Nastran, Ansys, LS-DYNA, Abaqus and TMG. You can take full advantage of the advanced analysis capabilities of these solvers using Femap’s comprehensive modeling and analysis support, particularly for dynamic, geometric and material nonlinear, heat transfer and fluid flow analyses.
Femap with NX Nastran
A series of advanced NX Nastran solution capabilities are available as add-on modules to Femap, providing engineering desktop solutions for even the most advanced Nastran analysis.
Within Femap it is possible to directly define and control most aspects of the NX Nastran simulation including solution options, specific job controls, load and constraint definition, model checking, and detailed result generation requests.
A comprehensive range of add-on modules allows the product to be configured to provide the functionality you need, allowing for great flexibility and scalability extending to the most advanced types of analysis that are able to handle the toughest engineering problems. NX Nastran modules include:
- Base module
- Dynamics
- Advanced Bundle
- Superelements
- Aeroelasticity
- DMAP
- Distributed Memory Parallel (DMP)
- Optimization
- Advanced Nonlinear
- Rotor Dynamics
- Structural Analysis Toolkit
- Desktop Extension
Femap Thermal Solvers
Femap’s thermal solvers add state-of-the-art thermal analysis solutions to the Femap environment and provide fast and accurate solutions to complex thermal engineering problems.
Using finite-element mesh, finite-volume based numerical techniques, the Femap Thermal Solver makes it easy to model nonlinear and transient heat transfer processes including conduction, radiation, and phase change. Accurate thermal analysis can be performed quickly and effectively, delivering the engineering insight and turnaround speed needed to ensure success within today’s rapid development cycles.
Femap Advanced Thermal Solver adds a number of more advanced thermal modeling and simulation capabilities to the Femap Thermal Solver package including 1D fluid network modeling and free and forced convection. An extensive suite of thermal modeling tools are provided to allow users to define more advanced and sophisticated thermal simulations, such as radiation and spacecraft modeling, including solar and orbital heating, orbit modeling and display, ray tracing capabilities, and articulating structures. These extensive modeling tools are also complemented by a number of more advanced solver features such as custom user subroutines, model simplification, sub-structuring, and interfaces to industry thermal codes.
Femap Advanced Thermal Solver
When your thermal analysis needs are more demanding, Femap Advanced Thermal Solver adds more advanced thermal modeling and simulation capabilities. These include 1D fluid network modeling, as well as free and forced convection. Femap Advanced Thermal Solver is ideal for sophisticated simulations such as radiation and spacecraft modeling, including both solar and orbital heating, orbit modeling and display, ray tracing, and articulating structures. In addition, the software includes more advanced features like custom user subroutines, model simplification, sub-structuring, and interfaces to industry-standard thermal codes.
Femap Flow Solver
The Femap Flow Solver adds state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis solutions to the Femap environment and provides fast, efficient and accurate solutions to complex CFD problems.
Femap Flow software is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution that is fully embedded into the native Femap environment. It provides fast, efficient and accurate functionality to simulate fluid flow and heat transfer for complex parts and assemblies. You also can explicitly couple Femap Flow with Femap Thermal and Femap Advanced Thermal for comprehensive thermo-fluid modeling of a wide range of multi-physics problems.
A sophisticated algebraic multi-grid solver provides the backbone to a complete CFD capability that is able to support the simulation of both laminar and turbulent fluid flow, low speed and high speed compressible flow, forced flow, natural convection and mixed flows, all with multiple inlets, outlets and internal flow boundary conditions. This memory efficient capability ensures that solutions are solved quickly and easily.
Benefits
- Allows investigation of multiple “what-if” scenarios involving complex assemblies
- Provides extensive set of tools for creating CFD analysis-ready geometry
- Allows troubleshooting of operational thermo-fluid problems prior to expensive physical prototyping time
- Enables advanced CFD simulation within Femap such as high speed flows, rotational flows, non- Newtonian fluids, static motion of surfaces, particle tracking.