SimScale

What do you like best?

SimScale is straight-forward to use even for someone with no previous experience in computational fluid dynamics. The work-flow is intuitive, there is lots of good documentation that get you up to speed quickly. There is also amazing support available through the user forum and the very helpful SimScale staff.

Thanks to the simple interface and the fact that all tools one needs for CFD from meshing to the visualisation are in one place, it's easy to generate results quickly. The possibility to import the models directly from OnShape is a nice touch. The free 3000 core hours on the community account are generous and were more than I needed to complete my project.

What do you dislike?

Some stages of the work-flow can take long to load. Inspecting the mesh or visualising the final results can require some patience. For future use, I will probably analyse the results off-line with a 3rd-party software.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

I was optimising the geometry of a RC plane. SimScale helped me to understand the effect of the dimensions of the wings and the fuselage on total lift and drag.