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advanced Developments for Better Products

Numeca International

Why Numeca?
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About Us
Numeca has been providing computational Fluid Dynamics (cFD) Software, grid generation systems and consulting services worldwide since 1993. Numecas software systems are used for the simulation, design, and optimization of fluid flow and heat transfer. They are used by product developers and design and research engineers, allowing them to reach superior product quality and performances, at a reduced engineering cost. NUMECA International corporate headquarter is located in Brussels, with offices, resellers and service centers in USA, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Spain, Poland, Japan, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea and Taiwan.

Application-Driven Grid Generation and CFD Software

NUMECAs product strategy is based on the development of automated, integrated and customized software systems allowing optimal and rapid simulation, design and optimization. Our software closely follows industry requirements and needs:
In grid generation, with AutoMesh-4GTM, covering the

Major Benefits to Your Organization

Improved performance, leading to a more effective

Products

design process.
Significant time and cost reduction throughout the

automesh-4G FINe/Turbo

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whole range of applications with tuned meshing solutions, as the pre-processor of most commercial CFD tools.
In CFD, with FINETM/Turbo, FINETM/Open, and FINETM/

whole CFD chain. Numeca grid generation automated systems automesh-4GTm, combined with the significant speed-up in cPu with its cPu Booster, guarantee a reduction of one to three orders of magnitude in your engineering and cPu time, on large test cases and complex geometries.
Improve overall engineering efficiency and productivity. Improve decision support with reliable simulation. Effective design through optimization.

FINe/Open and FSI OpenLabs

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autoBlade & FINe/Design3D FINe/marine VNoise

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Marine, dedicated respectively to Turbomachinery, Aeronautics, Automotive, Multi-Physics and Marine applications.
In design and optimization with FINETM/Design3D.

Key Features

Services
Customer satisfaction is our main objective and we continuously improve our software and services to help you achieve successful product design. We offer a wide range of services including:
Consultancy in a wide range of fluid, heat transfer,

efficient aero-acoustics Prediction Non-Deterministic Simulations

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Advanced Development for Better Products

NUMECAs R&D team is a worldwide center of excellence comprising highly-skilled engineers and PhDs, of more than 20 nationalities, in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Fluid Dynamics. NUMECA International participates in a large number of research projects with university departments, research laboratories and leading industrial partners, allowing us to offer the latest breakthroughs in technology to our customers. By choosing NUMECA you will gain access to the most advanced technology in the field of application-driven, fast and accurate CFD simulation software, automated full hexahedral mesh generation, solution-adaptive grid optimization, dedicated post-processing, CAD modeling, and optimization

FINe/Open for combustion & Radiation modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-21 multifluid & multiphase Flows
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and multiphysics applications;

Upgrades, advanced hot line and dedicated training

and webinars;
Flexible licensing arrangements to deal with all spe-

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cific organizational and business requirements;

Extended partnership including:

- Special arrangements to meet specific requirements in terms of confidentiality, proprietary developments and know-how; - Validation and calibration of our software to your specific test cases; - Customization of the whole CFD chain towards customer specific requests; - Integration of NUMECA software into customer desgin cycle chain; - Access to software routines and R&D program through priviledged partnerships.

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Numeca Solutions

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automesh-4G
HeXPReSS HeXPReSS/ Hybrid autoGrid5 IGG

New Generation of Innovative High-Quality Full-Hex and Hex Dominant Meshing Tools for Whole CAE Applications

Increase your Productivity by One Order of Magnitude

AutoGrid5 HEXPRESS
UnstructuredFull Hex- Non Conformal - body fitted grid generator for arbitrary geometries. No prism, no tetrahedra, no pyramid cells.
Customization to User-Specific Features: Python based commands accessible through scripts User-defined scripts for batch mode operations in design process Counter-Rotating Open Rotor AutoGrid5 combined with HEXPRESS enables the meshing of complex rotating machine - Turbo Compressor Axial multi-stage turbine

Full automatic hexahedral block structured grid generator for all types of rotating machinery and turbomachinery: complex axial, radial and mixed-flow configurations.
AutoGrid5 generates grids in a few minutes, with just a few clicks through a wizard-based interface.

HEXPRESS/Hybrid
Integrated CAD cleaning and parallel grid generation system creating conformal body-fitted meshes on complex arbitrary geometry.
HEXPRESS/Hybrid produces a 100-million cell grid on a full car including the underhood in 1 hour on 48 cores, starting from unrepaired STl files.

Complex hub/propeller interaction Courtesy ECN

Urban environment Wind turbine mesh Automatic multistage mesh topology Non axi-symmetric end walls Parametric design and meshing of cooled turbine blade. Centrifugal multi-stage pump

IGG
Interactive Geometry Modeler and Multi-Block Structured Grid Generator for arbitrary geometry
Viscous layers around main plate and flap

F1 racing car grid

Simple and intuitive block creation tools Automatic mapping and block connections Automated meshing based on Phyton scripts Meshing replay can be used in optimization loops.

HeXPReSS and HeXPReSS/Hybrid use a similar volume-tosurface approach, suppressing the need for a surface mesh. Both systems run in batch or interactive mode and are interfaced to all major commercial cFD codes.

FINe/Turbo
Advanced CFD Technology for Turbomachinery

High Performance Computing

FINE/Turbo HPC Capabilities Extend Beyond 1-Billion-Cell Grids on Thousands of Processors

FINeTm/Turbo HPc streamlines process:

Fully transparent and virtual domain decomposition,

Linear Speed-up up to 500 Processes

FINE/Turbo
FINE/Turbo is an accurate and powerful block structured Navier-Stokes CFD software dedicated to the simulation of internal, multi-stages rotating and turbomachinery flows. FINe/Turbo integrates:
fully hexahedral automated grid generator AutoGrid5

Multi-stage axial compressor (Courtesy RR)

allowing the launch of a grid with a small number of blocks on an arbitrary number of processors. Efficient and optimized automatic load balancing, taking advantage of a large HPC configuration (thousands of processors). Fully transparent reconstruction of the solution, allowing for the analysis and visualization of the solution on the original grid or at a coarser level in CFViewTM

Linear speed-up comparison: 3.5 Stage IDAC Steady Computation (80 million cells, 3 multigrid levels)

& IGG; advanced density-based numerical algorithms with robust local preconditioning for incompressible flow; automatic performance curve construction & summary reports; easy-to-use and intuitive interface for fast solution set-up; dedicated post-treatment for turbomachinery in CFView; batch process for transparent integration in a design cycle; multi-physics: aero-acoustics, fluid structure interaction, real gas modeling, particle tracking, cavitation, conjugate heat transfer, etc.

Casing/hub treatment

Virtual Process Decomposition

21 blocks

Application
Stage 67 Transonic compressor
80 Million Cells with 3 multigrid levels Non-linear Harmonic analysis with 4 frequencies Computation completed on 512 processes in less than

Preparation of the model in AutoGridTM using standard block topologies Virtual decomposition following a meta-block tree structure
1000 blocks

Wind Turbine

Centrifugal Compressor

Space Pump

1 day
Complex tip gap - recirculation channel flows

Fan

Hydro Energy applications

Reconstitution of the final solution onto the original block topology

Convergence in 50 cycles
Counter Rotating Open Rotor

cPu Booster:

Post-processing with CFViewTM

Integrated Nacelle & Rotating Fan

Automatic Block Decomposition

Nasa Stage 67: 1 rotor, 1 stator, and recirculated injector, unsteady flow phemenomena simulated using the Non-Linear-Harmonic approach, allowing the use of a 1-single-passage high-quality and high-density mesh.

Propeller

cPu BOOSTeR axial compressor Allowing higher CFl number ~1000 Very fast convergence Gain: 1 to 2 orders of magnitude faster CPU time

Automatic Performance Curve construction starting from design point within user-specified range

55 blocks split into 2640 virtual blocks (left) balanced on 1151 computational processes (right).

Stage 67 Time reconstruction, snapshot of the solution at a given rotor position, close to tip, blade-to-blade distribution of static temperature

FINe/Open
FINe/Turbo & FINe/Open are also available in one single license.

Unstructured CFD Technology for Complex Flow Configurations

multiPhysics Fluid Structure Interaction

Modal Approach, Coupling through MPPCI and Strong Coupling in FINE/FSI-Oofelie

Biomedical flows : Blood simulation in the aorta

FINE/Open
FINE/Open is an accurate unstructured Navier-Stokes solver, with extended turbulence and physical models. FINE/Open solves any flow, from incompressible to low and high speed flows. FINE/Open integrates HEXPRESS or HEXPRESS/Hybrid.

Modal Approach for Forced Response Analysis

Rotor 67 Transonic compressor blade

Flutter on Agard Wing 445.6

Vortex Viwration Beam: Amplitude and Frequency Experiment and CFD Comparison

Urban environment flows: Brussels, Courtesy Immobilire du Royal Rogiers and AM Art & Build/Montois Partners

Transonic compressor blade magnitude of deformation on the blade surface [m] and relative mach number at mid span.

MPPCI for Flutter Analysis

Automotive applications

FINE/FSI-Oofelie for Curtain Header Displacement

Fluid: water & Solid material: steel. Maximum enlargement of the slot: 1.21 mm with no reinforcement, 0.069 mm with cylinders, 0.44 mm with plates.

Composite wind turbine blade displacement. FSI simulation: Coupling of FINETM/Open (CFD) and ABAQUS (Simulia-FEA) through MPCCI. MPCCI: Mesh-based Parallel Code Coupling Interface from Fraunhofer Institute SCAI

MPCCI interface for codes coupling.

Convergence for complete car geometries in 50 cycle! Jeep (19 million cells) Solution-adaptive grid optimization for higher accuracy

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Aerospace: transonic to hypersonic flows

OpenLabs
Customize and Add Your Own CFD and Physical Models Examples of Applications with OpenLabs

What Can Be Done?

Free customization on
Transport equations:

How?
Define and plug models from a GUI without the need

Example: Imposing an unsteady inlet boundary condition, GE-E3 blade

The computation is set as 2D and non-rotational, and the relative values are imposed at the inlet. To simulate the effect of upstream weak of the vane, the formula below is used to give the relative total pressure at blade inlet, which is dependent on physical time t

Example: Soot Formation modeling (Khan & Greeves)

to worry about programming details or code structure

A dynamic library is automatically built and loaded at

convection - diffusion - source equations

Algebraic relations Source terms Diffusion coefficients Initial and boundary conditions Thermo-physical properties

run time
Compared to source-coded models, CFD solutions are

obtained with identical computing and memory costs

(equation of state and transport properties)

Output/post-processing

These functionalities allow the addition and customization of cFD and physical models for:
Initialization of unsteady solutions; unsteady boundSave the resource -file Resourcefile Text Control-file CREATOR Compilation script

Where: Po-bg relative total pressure at inlet, 223332.0 (Pa) n number of blades which is 76 rotation speed, 8283rpm time period for one wake passage, =60 / (*n)
=>AUXTERMS @ n=76 @ omega=8283 @ P0-bg=223331.0 @ PI=4*atan(1.0) @ Period= 60.0/(omega*n) =>CUSTOM_BOUNDARY_CONDITIONS @ CUSTOMIZED_BOUNDARY_CONDITION: PtInlet ->EXPRESSION: P0-bg * (1.0 - 0.15 * pow((sin(n*tCoord/2+PI*Time/Period)),10)) ->ExistingBC: Absolute Total Pressure , row_2_flux_1_Main_ Blade_upStream_inlet

ary conditions
Turbulence (e.g. turbulence modeling for a wind farm) Reactive flows; combustion; pollutant formation Radiation (e.g. modification of optical properties; take
GUI

Controlfile C++ code

Dynamic lib binary

soot into account)

Multi-phase (e.g. cavitation) Heat-transfer; steady or unsteady heat sources Porous media And much more!

Flowchart of the process used to generate the OpenLabs library. The process is automatized and fully integrated in the FINE/Open environment.

=>EQUATIONS @ PDE: Soot_Equation ->EXPRESSION: DDT(Ysoot) + CONV(Ysoot) = DIFF(YsootDiffCoeff) + SOURCE(SourceSoot) ->INITIAl_VAlUE: 0.0 ->TypeSolidBoundaryCondition: Neumann ->TypeInletBoundaryCondition: Dirichlet ->TypeOutletBoundaryCondition: Neumann =>AlGEBRAIC_DIFFUSION_COEFFICIENTS @ AlGDIFFCOEFF: YsootDiffCoeff ->EXPRESSION: EddyViscosity/PrSoot => SOURCETERMS @ SOURCE: SourceSoot ->EXPRESSION: B*Pressure*Xfuel*exp(-TA/Temperature) A*Density*Ysoot*Turbk/Epsilon =>CONSTANTS @ CONSTANT: PrSoot ->Value: 0.7 @ CONSTANT: B ->Value: 10 @ CONSTANT: TA ->Value: 20230 @ CONSTANT: A ->Value: 4.0

OpenLabs meta-language sample for the specification of an unsteady boundary condition of the inlet absolute total pressure.

OpenLabs meta-language sample for soot formation modeling. A transport equation for the soot mass fraction with a nucleation and oxidation source term is introduced with OpenLabs.

What are the benefits?

Flexibility
User-interaction with FINE/Open Adaptation to your modeling requirements

cost/Time efficiency
Fast and easy integration of your physical models Benefit from NUMECAs CFD industrial environment

and features (HPC, parallelization, meshing capabilities, advanced numerical methods)

No programming knowledge is needed Free access for the entire FINE/Open community
OpenLabs GUI used to introduce the physical models. The library is built by a simple click in the GUI and automatically loaded by the flow solver at run time.

A turbulent ethylene flame is simulated with the non-premixed combustion model and the P1 radiation model available in FINE/ Open. The soot formation model by Khan & Greeves is introduced with OpenLabs. The soot mass fraction is shown in the figure. GE-E3 blade with an unsteady inlet boundary. The time evolution of the static pressure over one period is observed.

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autoBlade & FINe/Design3D

3D Design and Optimization Rotating Machinery

Multipoint and Multi-Objective Optimization

AutoBlade
AutoBlade is an advanced and easy-to-use 3D parametric modeler dedicated to the design of rotating and turbo-machinery blades including: Conversion of CAD models to a fully parametric definition, Fitting module to import an existing geometry Interactive graphical edition of the design parameters, large variety of turbomachinery parametric models, Parametric variables for: end walls; non-axisymmetric hub/shroud; blade profile; splitter blades; profile stacking; technological effects; User defined parameters; Dependency between parameters decreasing the size of optimization parameters; Tool analysis for blade and meridional contour; Full undo/redo capability; And much more!

Initial

FINE/Design3D
FINE/Design3D is highly integrated 3D optimization tool designed to improve the performance of rotating and turbomachinery blades. It allows designers to break the limit of traditional design rules and explore the concept of computer-based 3D innovative design. FINE/Design3D integrates in a user-friendly interface, the 3D parametric blade modeler AutoBladeTM, genetic algorithms artificial intelligence, design of experiments techniques and efficient optimization algorithms.
Turbocharger innovative guide vane profile (Courtesy BOSCH MAHLE Turbosystems)

Optimized

Pre-defined parameter templates for various configurations: axial, centrifugal, radial, compressor, fan, turbine, pump, wind-turbine.

3D Compressor blade multi-points optimization

AutoBlade Easy-to-Use GUI including:

1. Model editor 2. Interactive 3. Contextual Menus 4. Customizable 3D view 5. View controls 6. Analysis tools 7. Undo / redo functions

3D turbine multi-points optimization

Initial

Optimized

Mixed flow fan stage optimization Number of blades and separation zones (red area) are improved

Applications
Blade Re-cut Non-axisymmetric hub/shroud User-defined parameters Torque Converter optimization KAPLAN Turbine optimization

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FINE/Design3D covers a large range of applications including multi-stage axial, radial and mixed-flow compressor, turbine, pumps, fans, wind-turbine or propellers.

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FINe/marine
Solutions for the Marine Industry Dedication Accuracy Integration for Naval Architects

Refined grid (3.88M cells)

FINE/Marine
FINE/Marine is a Flow Integrated Environment incorporating High-Fidelity and Automated CFD Simulation dedicated to Naval Architecture. FINE/Marine combines the powerful full-hex automated unstructured mesh generator HEXPRESS, the incompressible RANS FINE/Marine solver and the flow visualization and analysis system CFView.

Automatic Grid Adaptation

Specific Interface Capturing Algorithms for Accurate Free Surface Resolution

Exp.
Oblique wedge impact.

Original grid (3.07M cells)

6 DOF Motion & grid deformation for accurate wave breaking capturing

Sliding Grid for Hull - Propeller Interaction

Example of adaptive mesh refinement Virtue Container Ship (Froude 0.272).

Comp.
Temporal mean of wave elevation fixed DTMB 5415 in head waves (exp. by IIHR).

Advanced Turbulence Modelling for Accurate Wake Capturing

Exp.

CFD Comp.

Isowake at propeller plane with Explicit Algebraic Stress Model (EASM) and grid refinement versus KRISO experiments. Mean of wave elevation KCS ship (Tokyo CFD workshop 2005) Iso-contours of streamwise velocity-sliding grid computation on Hamburg test case with INSEAN propeller.

Wind Effects
(Courtesy of Van Oossanen and Associates)

HEXPRESS for High Quality Full-Hex Complex Geometries Meshing

Efficient Real Scale Assessments

Success Story:
For the last 8 years, we have been using 3 different CFD codes. FINE/Marine is the first code that gave us confidence in the use of CFD tools, with results never differing much from experimental values. Meshing with HEXPRESS, although not without problems in the case of really complex bodies (e.g. superstructures) is a pleasurable experience much more advanced than common meshing tools. 14
Dr. Piet Van Oossanen, Van Oossanen & Associates b.v.

Model Scale (TOP) and Real Scale (BOTTOM) CFD Result. Top: details on mesh of stern appendages of a hopper-dredger (Courtesy of IHC Holland Dredgers b.v.). Bottom: details on mesh of aft ship of a generic inland vessel.

Real Scale on sea test result (LEFT) & CFD Result (RIGHT) (Courtesy of IHC Holland Dredgers b.v.).

Some applications with FINe/marine

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VNoise
Integrated CFD-Vibro/Aero-acoustic Solution

Integrated solution
A scalable tool for aero-vibro-acoustic analysis allowing simple pre-design calculations as well as detailed large scale analysis of coupled aero-vibro-acoustic problems over a network. Key features:

Key functionalities:
Easy integration in any CAE NVH chain Advanced 3D interpolation for importing velocity

Random Vibroacoustics
PSD evaluation of accelerations and stress due to a diffuse acoustic source

Vibro-acoustic Aero-acoustic Parallel/distributed solver CAE Interfaces Direct import of FINE/Open, FINE/Turbo and NlH results

distribution and structural modes from the structural mesh into the acoustic mesh Fully automatic mesh coarsening coupled with advanced 3D interpolation for easy data exchange and manipulation Automatic shrink-wrapping for hole closure, fixing non conforming meshes, mesh size reduction, etc. Batch command files Direct import of FINE/Open and FINE/Turbo results

Engine Radiation
Sound power evaluation and Velocity contribution Vectors for fast engine run-up analyses

core Technologies:
Direct and indirect BEM

formulations, FEM solver, Multi domain and Mixed domain, Coupled FEMBEM, Frequency response, Eigenvalues Full coupling with structural modal equations, Propagation with mean flow (BEM-FEM) locally and bulk reacting absorbers, Perforated tubes, Fast multi-domain analysis, Random vibroacoustics, Symmetries, load cases Post-processing: Tl (multi input multi output systems), Intensity, soundpower, Virtual impedance tube

Structural mesh of an automotive oil sump (left) as automatically processed by the Shrink-Wrapping algorithm in order to obtain a suitable acoustic BEM mesh for sound radiation (right)

Acoustic fatigue analysis for a Solar Array. Structural modes imported in VNoise (left) and used to start a coupled vibro-acoustic analysis with a diffuse acoustic source described with VNoise principal component analysis feature. Results reported in terms of PSD and RMS acoustic quantities (right) as well as PSD of structural accelerations (middle) that are compared with measurements in a semi anechoic chamber.

Sound Power radiated by a vibrating engine, computed starting from measured vibrations. Results compared with acoustic measurements and another BEM code (Courtesy of the University of Kentuky)

Transmission Loss evaluation of complex mufflers

Bulk and locally reacting absorbing materials, perforated tubes, specific tools for Tl evaluation
Intake system: Structural mode automatic projection from the structural FEM mesh (right) into the acoustic mesh (left)

Acoustic Transfer functions

Structural acoustic transfer function evaluation for an automotive oil sump

Modular Approach for Aero-acoustics analysis:

Import CFD results Define source and propagation area Create acoustic mesh for source and propagation region

Postprocessing

Execute FEM/BEM analysis for propagation region

Calculate tonal and/ or non-tonal sources using FWH and/or FlowNoise

Courtesy of ElASIS

Flow Chart of a general aeroacoustic analys with VNoise. The modular approach with identification of source and propagation regions and the use of specific modules for each step makes complex analyses affordable in an industrial context

Tonal Noise radiation from a centrifugal FAN. CFD analysis was conducted on the rotating FAN and then the results were imported in VNoise where the FWH modules was used coupled with the BEM solver

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Transmission loss analysis for an automotive muffler composed by three chambers, with perforated tubes (left). Comparison between measured TL curve (blue) and VNoise results (red) is showed on the right.

Evaluation of the transfer function between a structural force applied on an oil sump and the radiated sound power. On the right is shown the acoustic mesh, and on the left the transfer function obtained by VNoise (blue) is compared with other numerical results (red). On the top is shown the case of a force applied in the vertical direction, while below the case of a force applied horizontally

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Efficient aero-acoustics Prediction

Ffowcs-Williams-Hawking (FWH) Approach Far field Noise Propagation

Non-Deterministic Simulations
Managing Uncertainties and Risks within NUMECAs CFD Simulation Process

Cost Efficient NLH for Noise Source & Nearfield Acoustics Generation

Operational and geometrical uncertainties in the CFD simulation:

Tolerances of manufacturing Uncertainties on inlet and boundary conditions Model uncertainties Incompressible numerical errors etc.

NASA Rotor 37

DucTeD FaN - Nacelle

Nearfield Acoustic Waves of Fan, Nacelle & Ground (NlH 24 hours for 3 millions cells on 16 cores machine) Operational uncertainty: Uncertain Inlet Total Pressure profile. Pressure distribution around mid-span blade profile. Node locations (left). Shock locations are observed with larger uncertainty(right). Error bars represent variation of standard deviation .

OPeN ROTOR
4 million grid points mesh 11 hours on 6 processors (NLH computation) Similar unsteady simulation, based on sliding grids, takes 2 months on 200 processors with other methods
Permeable FW-H surface

Operational uncertainty: Uncertain Outlet Static Pressure. Pitch-wise averaged pressure ratio radial distribution. larger uncertainty near tip. (right)

NACA0012 Airfoil
Courtesy TU DElFT

Re=3.106, Angle of Attack: 3 degrees Geometrical uncertainties:

Uncertain relative

Noise spectrum at observer location

thickness,
Uncertain camberline.

Counter-rotating open rotors

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available in coming releases: Ducting influence in propagation: linearized Euler Equations (lEE) approach Broadband noise via lES simulation

Output: The airfoil pressure coefficient & its standard deviation. Pressure ratio versus mass flow compressor map. larger uncertainty at low mass-flow. Error bars represent variation of standard deviation .

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FINe/Open for combustion & Radiation modeling

Robust, Accurate and Reliable Modules for All Types of Combustion

Full Hex HEXPRESS Mesh of an Aero Engine Combustor

FGM - Flamelet Generated Manifold Approach: NUMECA s Unique Feature for Improved Modelling

Simulation of the Reactive Flow in a Combustion Chamber

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applications

Simulation of furnaces General non-premixed

or partially premixed gaseous combustion processes

Aero-engine combustors Gas turbine combustors
Attached Flame Lifted Flame

Easy to Use GUI for Combustion and Radiation Modelling

Combustion Look-up Table

Automatically Generated full-Hex Mesh

RANS Flamelet

FGM

Progress Variable FGM table created with TABGEN/Chemistry, NUMECAs combustion table generation tool. The plot shows the temperature manifold in dependence of the mixture fraction and the progress variable

TU Darmstadts Generic Gas Turbine Combustor

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Non-Premixed combustion modeling:

Mixture fraction approach Tabulated chemistry method Enthalpy defect method for simulation of non-adi-

multi-species framework for general reactive flow simulations

Non-premixed Combustion GUI

Partially-premixed Combustion GUI

Finite rate chemistry Eddy dissipation modeling approach >

Accurate and Reliable Predictions with the FGM Method

Experiment Temperature OH Velocity magn.

abatic flames (radiative heat loss)

Spray combustion >

Radiation modeling:

Partially Premixed combustion modeling:

First Order Spherical Harmonics Method (P1) Emission Model for optically thin media Finite Volume Method (FVM) for radiative heat transfer Weighted-Sum-of-Grey-Gases (WSGG) method for

Mixture fraction/progress variable approach Two modeling methods available: Flamelet Generated Manifold technique Hybrid BMl/Flamelet model >

the determination of optical properties

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modeling Pollutant Formation:

z z z

Premixed combustion modeling:

NOx postprocessing module (thermal) Soot models: One equation model of Greeves & Khan Two equation model of Moss & lindstedt

Progress variable approach for flame front tracking Zimonts Turbulent Flame Speed Closure

Modeling of the Reactive Flow in Premixed Combustors

Modeling the Combustion Process and the Radiative Heat Transfer in Furnaces
Sydney/Sandia Bluff-body Stabilized Flame (Experiment and simulated flow fields)

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This shows the streamlines coloured with the temperature of the simulated flow field in DLR Stuttgarts model combustor. The computation was carried out using Zimonts modeling approach for premixed combustion processes.

Simulated temperature field in the IFRF glass melting furnace. The temperature field was obtained using a non-premixed flamlelet method coupled with the P1 radiation model

FGM: Flamelet Generated Manifold

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multifluid & multiphase Flows

Porous Media for Flow in the Nuclear Reactor Lagrangian particle tracking in turbomachines

A Large Range of Models to Cover all CFD Applications and Physics

VOF Model for Free Surface flow

User Defined Fluid Properties

Streamlines of relative particle velocities in a turbine (stator-rotorstator configuration)

TABGEN: User Generated Thermodynamic Table

for Multiphase & Multifluid Thermodynamic & Transport Properties

Lagrangian Particle Tracking for Separators

Broken Dam Problem with the free surface VOF model. Evolution of the wave shape with time

Perfect Gas, Ideal gas with Cp(T), Real fluid modeling

Barotropic Model for Cavitating Flow

Multiphase flow Lagrangian particle tracking approach one or two way coupling

TABGEN, Thermodynamic table generation tool for

Modeling of Evaporating Sprays

complex real Fluids and mixture definition based on the NIST-REFPROP database.
84 pure fluids & mixtures with up to 20 components:

Compressible Cavitating Flows

typical natural gas constituents, hydrocarbons, main air constituents, water, refrigerants, noble elements

DELFT Hydrofoil Cavitating flow showing bubble detachment captured by FINE/Turbo barotropic cavitation law. Courtesy TU Delft.

Volumic Heat Sources for FIRE Simulation

Particle velocity streamlines with fluid axial velocity contour field and iso-lines of particle diameter at location of complete evaporation.

Mean number diameter of initially mono-dispersed evaporating droplet spray.

Fire simulation with FINETM/Open volumic heat source model

Cavitating flow of R114 liquid on 4 Venturi (Thermo table approach). Compressibility effects are well taken into account here. Sharp discontinuity captured at the bubble frontier. Cavitating flow on marine propeller. The wake is well captured by FINE/Turbo barotropic cavitation law. Experimental results courtesy INSEAN Italy.

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unsteady Phenomena Predicted in Hours,

Superior Solutions with Non-Linear-Harmonic (NLH) approach

2 Orders of Magnitude Gain in CFD Turn-Around Time

NLH METHOD for Large Scale Multi-Stage Turbomachinery Unsteady Flow

One passage mesh only: less memory and affordable CPU time

NLH for Flow Distortion

Flow distortion in external and internal flow

NLH for Mechanical Analysis

Direct mapping of pressure amplitude & phase for FEA analysis

NLH Method for Casing Treatment

(Courtesy lFA TU-Mnchen).

NLH METHOD for Clocking Analysis

Only one run for the whole clocking spectrum

Stator 1 and Stator 2 are aligned

Non Linear Harmonic (NLH) CPU Time 3D Radial Turbine

NLH for Aero-Acoustics

Counter-Rotating Open Rotor near field acoustics signature
Solution after rotation of the stator 1 by 80% of its pitch. Efficiency is better at this clocking angle. Result (in black dot) is confirmed by full unsteady computation (in white dot).

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2 orders of magnitude gain in CPU time. NlH compared to full unsteady with reference to quasi-steady mixing plane in logarithmic scale.

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cooling Flow and Thermal effects in Turbomachinery

All Hexahedral Cooled Channel Structured Mesh

FINE/Turbo, FINE/Open & AutoMesh-4G Offer Flexibility in Handling Cooled Turbine & Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) Flows
Full meshing flexibility in automesh-4G by: Parametric design and meshing in AutoGrid5TM; Fully hexahedral unstructured meshing in HEXPRESSTM; Extremely complex configuration meshing in HEXPRESSTM/ Hybrid. Rich options for solving Turbine conjugate Heat Transfer by meshing real geometry or by source/sink terms without channel meshing.

Local Source & Sink Terms for Film Cooling

No meshing of the channels is required
Full mesh

cooling module

cooling module

Full mesh

Extremely Complex Configuration Meshing in HEXPRESS/Hybrid

experiment : red dots cooling/Bleed : blue continuous line Full mesh : blue dotted line

Cooling Module and Full mesh flow configurations give similar results. (Case Duden, 1999)

AutoGrid5 allows easy positioning of local source & sink locations: single hole, line of holes or slots

Cooled Turbine Parametric Design and Automatic Meshing in AutoGrid5

Internal cooling passages, solid body and external blade main channel meshing (AutoGrid5)

Increasing blowing ratio

Interactive and easy-to-use graphical user interface.

Fully Hexahedral Unstructured Mesh (HEXPRESS)

CHT

CHT simulation compared to test result. Blade surface temperature. Mark II turbine test case

Streamline and temperature in fluid and solid body. 1 stage (IGV + Rotor), 20 million cells on 45-core cluster.

FINE/Open with HEXPRESS provide high quality full hexa unstructured resolution of cooled turbine phenomena.

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conjugate Heat Transfer simulation is made simple with non-matching

interfaces between solid-fluid and fluid-fluid blocks for higher quality of mesh

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NUMECA CFD Solutions for aerospace applications

Broad Range of Applications: External, Internal, Low Speed, High Speed, Thermal, Fluid Structure Interaction

Automated Full-Hex Mesh for Quick CFD Turn Around & Accurate Refueling Simulation

HEXPRESS/Hybrid Hex Dominant Parallel Meshing of Hyper-Complex Full Aircraft Configuration in Hours

Passenger Comfort Analysis

HVAC in an aircraft cabin

Hypersonic Flow

HEXPRESS full-Hex mesh of a wing-box fuel tank for refueling simulation

High-Lift Device Design

Flutter Analysis
Flutter Analysis: FSI coupling of FINE/Open and an FEA code through MPCCI Very fast accurate aerodynamic performance of transonic, supersonic & hypersonic flows with CPU-Booster

Alpha=10

Alpha=31

Fast and Accurate Prediction of Aerodynamics of Passenger Airliner Extended Range of Capabilities for Aircraft Installation and Integration
Lift vs.angle of attack

High-lift devices performance at low speed configuration

CPU Booster: Convergence at 50 cycles.

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Aircraft configuration study: Open Rotor-Fuselage interaction (top left), Pylon-Open rotor interaction (top right), Ground effect at take-off (bottom left), Wingbody interaction (bottom right)

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NUMECA CFD Solutions for the automotive Industry

Increase Your Productivity by at Least One Order of Magnitude

Breakthrough in Full Automatic Meshing with HEXPRESS/Hybrid

NO CAD Cleaning - NO Surface Mesh

Standard approach:

NUMECA CPU Booster combined with the agglomeration multigrid allows for running with CFL 1000 in around 50 cycles for complete car geometries! This translates in a gain of at least one order of magnitude in convergence time!

Hydroplaning
Hydroplaning simulation of a tyre, employing free-surface and splash, plus particle tracking within the grooves
Days / weeks of engineering time

Breakthrough in CFD Solution with FINE/Open

Full Second Order Accurate solution Agglomeration multigrid CPU Booster

Numecas solution:
F1 (40 million cells)
Hours with HEXPRESSTM/Hybrid

Thermal Flow in a Cabin Heat Transfer

Flow over a motor bloc

Hyper-Complex Configuration Meshing

HEXPRESS/Hybrid allows meshing of complete car configurations ...

External Aerodynamics

Zooms on different parts of the buggy

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Buggy (24 million cells)

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NUMECA Solutions for the Wind Turbine Industry

Breakthrough in Full 3D Wind Turbine Blade Optimization with FINE/Design3D

Multi-point and multi-objective optimization Fully automatic process with no user intervention Optimization featuring Design of Experiments,

Artificial Neural Network and Genetic Algorithms

Powered by autoBlade, 3D parametric blade modeler

with pre-defined template for Wind Turbine

Black: Optimized Blade Red: Initial Blade

3D flow features at high wind speed

Breakthrough in 3D Wind Turbine Meshing:

Full automatic all hexahedra cells meshing in minutes with autoGrid5

2.5 MW twist distribution optimized blade with a gain in annual energy production between 5 and 10%.

Simulation of Terrain Effects on Wind Farm Energy Production with FINETM/Open Fluid Structure Interactions
Strong fluid/structure interaction

with FINETM/FSI-Oofelie
Modal approach in FINETM/Turbo Coupling to FEA commercial or

in-house tools through MPCCI

advanced applications:
Complex configuration Cross wind in single blade passage Unsteady flow simulation Vibration Flow generated noise

Breakthrough in Flow Simulation Computing Time:

Fully accurate solution in about 50 cycles with CPU Booster.
Wind speed prediction for wind turbine placement in urban environment

FSI - Enhancing the torsional flexibility of the blade by optimal selection of the composite fiber orientation

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Advanced CFD and Optimization Solutions for Hydro engineering

High Quality all Hexahedra Cells Meshing with AutoGrid5 and HEXPRESS

Non Linear Harmonic Method: A Major Breakthrough in Unsteady CFD Simulations

Accurate Rotor/Stator interactions Single passage mesh simulations Accurate unsteady solution with low number of harmonics

(Blade Passing Frequencies)

Reconstruction in time of the solution

Unstructured mesh for spiral casing and distributor (HEXPRESS - < 1 hour CPU time for 1 million cells) Comparison of Non-linear harmonic and sliding grid simulation: instantaneous Blade pressure distribution and pressure fluctuation amplitude through FFT

Structured mesh for Francis Turbine stay vane, guide vane and runner (AutoGrid5 - mesh generated in a few minutes on a standard PC)

Full 3D Blade Optimization with FINE/Design3D

Advanced Cavitation Modelling

Non-Linear Harmonic Mesh size RAM Iterations CPU Time w.r.t. Steady Mixing Plane 900,000 1.5 Gb 500

Sliding Grid 15,000,000 7.5 Gb 40,000

Before After

Optimized blade and comparison of Blade Sections (initial in red & optimized in green)

> 1000

CPU cost comparison for Non-linear Harmonic and Sliding Grid simulation with reference to Steady Mixing Plane simulation. Centrifugal Pump - Cavitation increase on suction side of the impeller with decreasing NPSH

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