how much does a cfd simulation cost?

[Dmaz]

Hello, everyone, I have a curiosity.
how much do you charge a naive study for a cfd simulation?
what counts, the hourly cost of the person who sets them + the machine cost?
for example if a simulation can be done, between meshatura, resolution, post-processing and presentation results in 40 hours. .
the total cost could be 30€*40hr + margin of the company = 2000€ ?
I was high or low as an estimate?
Thank you.
dmaz

 

[Vmax]

a little unusual curiosity I try to clarify.
the cost of a cfd consultancy is strongly variable depending on many factors, the main ones are: the quality of those who give advice, the type of physics to be simulated, the number of variations to be considered, the level of accuracy sought, the complexity and the state of cad 3d available. all must be weighted compared to the cost/benefit ratio for the customer, in the light of possible alternatives.
It is therefore an activity for which to talk about hourly costs or hours of work does not make much sense.
the cost scissors that you can come to determine is typically between a few thousand and a few tens of thousands of euros, and therefore you need necessarily a level of 'dress' of the assignment absolutely dedicated to the specific order and not infrequently the activities themselves of technical qualification pre-quotation must be paid regardless.

 

[fabrizio_brescia]

a little unusual curiosity I try to clarify.
the cost of a cfd consultancy is strongly variable depending on many factors, the main ones are: the quality of those who give advice, the type of physics to be simulated, the number of variations to be considered, the level of accuracy sought, the complexity and the state of cad 3d available. all must be weighted compared to the cost/benefit ratio for the customer, in the light of possible alternatives.
It is therefore an activity for which to talk about hourly costs or hours of work does not make much sense.
the cost scissors that you can come to determine is typically between a few thousand and a few tens of thousands of euros, and therefore you need necessarily a level of 'dress' of the assignment absolutely dedicated to the specific order and not infrequently the activities themselves of technical qualification pre-quotation must be paid regardless.

It's supposed to be like this, but that's true in the process of making an offer. In the case of dmaz, the assumption is that all work lasted 40 hours. therefore those hours will have a more or less variable price (I suggest it is a simulation with standard parameters without optimizations and search for perfection) but always within a commercial fork. to me it happened to ask for an offer for a thermal simulation of a LED heat sink (parallelepipedo with fins) propositions at the cost of 2700 euros + VAT. probably that job, seeing now the videos published in the autodesk site or available on youtube, you could conclude in maximum 8 hours. So, in my opinion, the specificity of the sector makes it difficult to assess the costs and it is precisely for this reason, I believe, that the same building houses of cfd begin to offer annual licenses (see autodesk sim360) sold practically at the cost of 2 simulations.