OVERVIEW
Project Falcon is a free* technology preview that simulates air flow around vehicles, buildings, outdoor equipment, consumer products, or other objects of your choosing in a virtual wind tunnel. Falcon technology is extremely geometry tolerant and easy to use, enabling you to begin seeing and understanding air flow behavior within seconds of starting the application. Results update almost in real-time in response to changes in wind-direction and speed that you specify. Visualization tools available within the Falcon family of applications include 2D and 3D flow lines, shaded result planes, vector plots, and surface pressure shading. Quantified outputs include velocity, pressure, drag force, and drag coefficient.
Project Falcon uses a revolutionary automatic meshing technology that can handle flow around any geometry at any stage of design. This technology is coupled with a transient, incompressible fluid flow solver and LES turbulence model in a way that delivers quick results and requires very little setup on behalf of the user.
AVAILABILITY
Presently Project Falcon is available as follows:
- Project Falcon standalone (installs on Windows and Mac and requires no CAD software)
- Project Falcon for Inventor (add-in that runs inside Inventor Professional 2013)
- Project Falcon for Revit (add-in that runs inside all versions of Revit 2013)
- Project Falcon for AutoCAD (add-in that runs in AutoCAD 2013)
The technology previews will operate until August 30, 2013.
LATEST UPDATE
Project Falcon standalone has been updated to include lift force outputs, improved visualization and graphics card support, greater video control, and other changes requested by the Falcon user community.
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FEATURED VIDEOS
DOCUMENTS
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To highlight the accuracy of Project Falcon, a full 3D analysis was applied to a number of aerodynamic cases. As shown by the coefficient of drag documented in the Project Falcon Validation PDF file, in each of the cases, Project Falcon was able to settle on a value that closely matches the published values. The validation guide available provides some additional background on the approach and reviews some example cases. Help documentation for Project Falcon is available on the Autodesk WikiHelp site. This includes additional validation cases not covered in the PDF file. |
DOWNLOAD
To get started with Falcon, access the download link on the right side of this page.
GET INVOLVED
To shape the future of this technology, share your feedback via the links on the right side of this page. For returning users, we would appreciate it if you would complete this short survey.
* Free technology previews are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license and services agreement that accompanies download of the software.
