The services form a spectrum, from which the customer chooses the "colour"
which best fits his or her needs.
At one end lies consultancy, with CHAM doing the
flow-simulation work and the customer receiving the required report or advice;
at the other lie sales of software and hardware to the customer, who himself does the
simulation work with their aid.
- Reports, containing numbers graphs and pictures, resulting from
computer simulations made by CHAM to solve the problem specified by the customer.
Click here for a typical example
Often these result from the use by CHAM of its "Virtual Wind Tunnel"
- Briefer reports supplemented by computer-output files plus
"virtual-reality-viewer" software which enables the customer to explore the
results of the simulation.
Click
here for a look at the viewer
- A problem-set-up software package, of virtual-reality style similar to
the viewer, enabling the customer to specify the geometrical conditions (from a CAD file
or by other means) and the physical conditions (known temperatures, wind speeds, etc)
which define his problem, and to transmit the specifications electronically to CHAM.
Click here for an AUTOCAD-to-VR
example
CHAM then performs the simulations and transmits the results electronically to the
customer, who inspects them via the viewer.
- The same problem-set-up package with provision for the customer to make
decisions about material properties and physical models (eg regarding how turbulence,
radiation and chemistry are to be simulated) before transmitting the specifications to
CHAM.
Click here to see the material-properties menu
Click here to see the physical-models menu menu
CHAM examines, and if necessary gives advice on, the customer's choice, then supplies
the numerical inputs (grid size, relaxation parameters) enabling the computer simulations
to be run, and transmits the results as before.
- As for item 4, except that the customer is enabled also to supply the
numerical inputs, which CHAM will scrutinise before the computations are run, making
modifications if necessary. Results are supplied as before.
Click here to see the initial-values menu
Click here to see the numerical-settings menu
- As for item 5, except that CHAM's contribution is confined to
performing the computations and transmitting the results, unless during-the-run
diagnostics indicate untoward behaviour, whereupon CHAM intervenes so as to minimise
waste.
- As for item 6, except that, if the customer has requested it, the
simulation results (and perhaps also the problem specification which has led to them) are
inspected by an associated expert in the relevant field of engineering, etc. The
recommendations of the expert as to reliability and quality are supplied via CHAM along
with the results.
- CHAM supplies the simulation-software module, as well as the input and
viewer modules, for use on the customer's own hardware.
Click here to learn how to rent or purchase
PHOENICS software modules
To assist the customer's personnel to learn how to use it, PHOENICS contains on-line tutorials and lectures.
CHAM can also supply on-site training courses, free
user support, and further
consultancy services as requested.
- As for item 8, except that CHAM additionally supplies add-on software,
designed to perform supplementary simulation, diagnostic or results- interpreting
computations requested by the customer.
- As for items 8 or 9, except that CHAM additionally supplies the
hardware, suitably adapted to run the software economically and reliably.