Does anybody know if cosmos can do aerodynamic analysis? If so is it any good?
Ta

Cosmos Floworks is what you are looking for.

Any special q's I can direct to someone who knows quite a bit about it.

Cheers,
Syd.

cheers syd, u2u replied to

Out of interest does anybody already have a locost drawn up on solidworks that I could have to play about with?

ta

Solidworks has floworks built into it, and that can do fluid dynamics for basic shapes, ie air flow through a plenum. But if can't do complete vehicle aerodynamics.

The company I work for has just had this work commisioned. We did complete vehicle modelling and then send the data to MIRA who spent many weeks and many thousands of pounds doing the work.

Unless you have the sort of back up that MIRA has ie a room full of very powerful computers and very clever people who do this work day in day out, and here is the important bit, back up all test with wind tunnel models to ensure the CFD work is accurate then forget it.