Technical Paper
SINDA/FLUINT: Recent and On-Going Expansions of the Industry-Standard Thermal/Fluid Analyzer
1997-07-01
972443
SINDA/FLUINT (Ref 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) is a computer program used to analyze thermal/fluid systems that can be represented in finite difference, finite element, or lumped parameter form. In addition to conduction and radiation heat transfer, the program is capable of modeling steady or unsteady single- and two-phase flow networks, their associated hardware, and their heat transfer processes. Because it is generalized, versatile, and user-extensible, SINDA/FLUINT is a standard in the aerospace industry for modeling thermal control systems. It is also used in the automotive, aircraft, electronics, petrochemical, HVACR (heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration), and process industries. C8R's SinapsPlus™ is a complete graphical user interface (pre- and postprocessor) and model debugging environment for SINDA/FLUINT (Ref 7, 8). SinapsPlus also supports the C and C++ languages in addition to the traditional choice of Fortran for concurrently executed user logic.