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Hello, Could somebody explain to me the difference in the application of SC/Flow and SC/Tetra?

M Mueller
M Mueller over 3 years ago
Hello,

Could somebody explain to me the difference in the application of SC/Flow and SC/Tetra?
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    0 Chuel-Ho.Kim over 3 years ago
    Both of them belong to the unstructured mesh solver.
    The difference between scFLOW and SC/Tetra is the definition points of physical variables.
    I've attached the image of that.
    scf_vs_sct
    Please understand that the followings are all my personal view.
    SC/Tetra had been developed for 17 years from 1999 to 2016.
    But I've heard that the develop team decided to make a faster CFD code than SC/Tetra in order to get the solutions of steady state of the CFD problems .
    So they have started to develop scFLOW for the purpose from arround 2016 .
    Now their main power of developping of the code focus on only scFLOW.
    However SC/Tetra also has a lot of fans , so it can be used for them.
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    0 M Mueller over 3 years ago
    Thank you very much for the explanation. 
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