Overview
The Loci-Stream CFD code is a scalable parallel tool for fluid-flow and heat transfer simulations in large scale industrial applications. The code supports fully-unstructured grids containing generalized cells with an arbitrary number of faces, including tetrahedral, pyramidal, prismatic and hexahedral cells. Grid translators are provided to create compatible grid files using grids generated from a variety of public domain and commercial grid generation packages. Volumetric and boundary output data may be extracted for visualization with a variety of post-processing packages, including FieldView, Tecplot and Paraview. Many of the common features found in other standard CFD tools such as ANSYS-Fluent and Star-CCM+ are available. End-users can develop modules to customize existing features or add new features to the code.
- Generalized unstructured grids.
- Pressure-based formulation for incompressible and compressible flows.
- SIMPLE and SIMPLEC algorithms for all flow problems. PIMPLE algorithm currently available for non-combusting flows.
- Advanced momentum interpolation techniques for conservative treatment of momentum equation source terms.
- State-of-the art convection schemes based on the SLAU formulation for compressible flows.
- Supports grids with multiple components in relative motion with interpolated interface boundary conditions or overset grids with i-blank hole cutting.
- Comprehensive set of boundary conditions available, including file-based and functional time-dependent boundary conditions.
- First-order (BDF) and second-order (BDF2 and blended BDF/CN) timestepping schemes with variable timestep formulation.
- Comprehensive set of turbulence models available, including RANS-based k-e and k-w models, Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) models and an algebraic Large Eddy Simulation (LES) model. Momentum and thermal boundary layer wall functions for RANS simulations.
- Finite-rate chemistry simulation for combusting flows using second-order Strang operator splitting.
- Compressible flamelet method for efficient simulation of combusting flows with large combustion kinetics mechanisms. Flamelets with inert components for simulation of hypergolic reactants.
- Fully-compressible cavitation simulation with a variety of cavitation models.
- Algebraic Multi-VOF method for simulations with an arbitrary number of immiscible fluid components.
Highlights
- High-Performance CFD Solver
- Generalized unstructured grids
- Pressure-based formulation for both incompressible and compressible flows
Details
Typical total price
$0.573/hour
Features and programs
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Pricing
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.06 | $0.01 | $0.07 |
t3.2xlarge Recommended | $0.24 | $0.333 | $0.573 |
c4.4xlarge | $0.48 | $0.796 | $1.276 |
c4.8xlarge | $0.96 | $1.591 | $2.551 |
c6i.24xlarge | $2.88 | $4.08 | $6.96 |
c6i.32xlarge | $3.84 | $5.44 | $9.28 |
c7i.16xlarge | $1.92 | $2.856 | $4.776 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes | $0.08/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
The Loci-Stream charges are on-demand only, so no refunds are available.
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Release for Loci-Stream 2.1.8-p6 version of the software. This version contains the flamelet table tool for users to use in conjunction with the flamelet module in Loci-Stream.
Additional details
Usage instructions
We have created a detailed step-by-step guide for launching and using Loci-Stream on an AWS instance. Use the following link to open and view the guide: https://www.snumerics.com/s/locistream_aws_guide.pdf .
For more information on learning how to use Loci-Stream, see our Users' guide which is available at: https://www.snumerics.com/s/stream_guide.pdf .
A collection of ready-to-run tutorials for various case types to help you get started are available on our website: https://www.snumerics.com/tutorials .
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Support
Vendor support
For product support, please see the "User Resources" section on our website or contact us at https://www.snumerics.com/contact .
AWS infrastructure support
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