Autodesk Labs: Project Falcon for AutoCAD Air Flow CFD Overview

Project Falcon is a free technology preview that simulates air flow around vehicles, buildings, outdoor equipment, consumer products, or other objects of your choosing in a virtual wind tunnel. Falcon technology is extremely geometry tolerant and easy to use, enabling you to begin seeing and understanding air flow behavior within seconds of starting the application. Results update almost in real-time in response to changes in wind-direction and speed that you specify. Visualization tools available within the Falcon family of applications include 2D and 3D flow lines, shaded result planes, vector plots, and surface pressure shading. Quantified outputs include velocity, pressure, drag force, and drag coefficient.

See http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/fa... for more information.

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[000000haytham]

How is it going - I have a problem with the program - I owned AutoCAD .32 bit Broken the piece I Is it possible to program one help me

[RosciiRulez]

This is fantastic. its going to be very useful for structural designers.Good job AD

[Jonathan den Hartog]

@127civileng - Falcon currently models air only, so no hydraulic analysis in this initial release. If there is something specific you are looking for you can let the team know at labs.alias.falcon@autodesk.com

[127civileng]

Is this functional for hydraulic analysis, say for a bridge pier? Are there settings to simulate water as a posed to air flow?

[Jonathan den Hartog]

thanks dataspa - Falcon provides a quick, high level understanding of how wind will behave. It is not intended to be a wholesale replacement for traditional CFD or physical wind tunnel testing, but it can be used earlier in the process when an good approximate solution is appropriate. Validation was and continues to be a key part of Falcon's development and is done with published experimental data and physical wind tunnel tests. See the Falcon help documentation if interested.

[dataspa]

This might give you an approximation of what is happening BUT you'd need to run a full transient simulation to get a proper answer. The video of vortex shedding looks nice but I wouldn't rely on this to design a multi-million dollar building. I wonder if there has been any validation of this software against actual wind tunnel data...

[Nuno Álvares]

As a aerospace engineering student i must say, i find this tool to be really handy. Congrats autodesk, you're always one step beyond...

[hackerisslv]

Nice!