Simcenter FLOEFD
Frontloading CFD — Thermal Simulation Embedded in Your CAD
Accelerate product development through integrated, intuitive CFD simulation embedded directly in your CAD environment.
What It Is
FLOEFD front-loads thermal and flow analysis inside NX, Solid Edge, Creo, CATIA V5, and SolidWorks so mechanical and thermal engineers can evaluate performance and iterate designs without leaving CAD.
Core Capabilities
Core capabilities
- Embedded in NX, Solid Edge, Creo, CATIA V5 and SolidWorks
- automatic Cartesian Immersed Body meshing, no manual mesh creation
- SmartCells™ boundary-layer resolution without body-fitted mesh
- conjugate heat transfer, natural and forced convection, radiation
- LED module with optical-thermal coupling
- electronics cooling module with PCB modelling and compact thermal models
- EDA bridge for PCB data import
- parametric study and optimization inside CAD
- transient and steady-state analysis
- comparison module for side-by-side design variants
Best For
- CAD-embedded electronics cooling
- Enclosure and equipment cooling
- Power electronics
- Heat exchangers and fluid passages
- Lighting systems
- Product-level thermal management
- Design-engineer-led CFD
Six-stage workflow position
Why engineering teams choose FLOEFD.
Representative engineering situations these tools are asked to resolve.
- 01
A mechanical designer wants to know whether thickening a heat spreader from 1.5 mm to 2.5 mm is worth the 40 g and the tooling change, and the thermal team is three weeks out. FLOEFD answers it inside the same NX session in under an hour, with no geometry re-authoring and no export — and the answer, 3 °C, ends the debate.
- 02
A ruggedised handheld runs 8 °C hotter in the field than the bench predicted, because at 45 °C ambient the buoyancy-driven external flow behaves nothing like the 22 °C lab. FLOEFD resolves internal and external natural convection in one conjugate model and recovers the missing 8 °C without exporting to a specialist tool.
- 03
A power converter chassis fails a customer thermal audit because the intake filter pressure drop was assumed at 15 Pa and measures 60 Pa when loaded. FLOEFD takes the measured filter curve as a porous-media boundary and closes the model gap, turning a rejected submission into a defensible one.
- JEDEC-compliant compact thermal models
- LM-80 / TM-21 for LED work
- ASHRAE TC 9.9
- IPC-2221 thermal derating inputs
- Mechanical design engineer
- Product engineer
- Thermal engineer
“Because the simulation runs inside the same CAD environment our designers already use, thermal analysis happens earlier and more often, instead of being a separate specialist step.”
Customer statement published by Siemens. Not an Electro Source engagement.
How this reaches your team.
Delivered by Electro Source with rollout planning for CAD-embedded teams, NX / Solid Edge / Creo integration setup, and training aligned to your product-development cadence. Contract simulation available via ROIfast™ when you need results without in-house build-up.
Discuss Your FLOEFD Application
Tell us what you are designing, what thermal behavior you need to predict, and where your current workflow is creating uncertainty.