Lowering Fuel Consumption Through Robust Design Optimization (RDO) of Ship Propellers

Optimizing the design of ship propellers is of key importance for the marine industry, as it has a direct impact on operational costs through its influence on fuel consumption and ship performance.

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Modeling Rotor Stator Interaction in Steady Turbomachinery with Computational Fluid Dynamics

The goal of turbomachinery CFD simulations is to predict flow behavior in adjacent rotating and non-rotating blade rows. The link between these frames of reference is called the Rotor-Stator interface

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KCS Resistance Calculation with Computational Fluid Dynamics

Computation referring to the towing tank tests performed by MOERI on the KCS.

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Trends in Computational Fluid Dynamics for Competitive Sailing Yachts

This paper describes trends in CFD (computational fluid dynamics) techniques for simulation-based design and simulation-based operation.

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Business and Technical Adaptivity in Marine CFD Simulations Bridging the Gap

The paper describes progress in software and business solutions for advanced CFD applications.

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Acoustic Simulation of Side Mirror Noise With Adaptive Spectral Reconstruction

A new method called Adaptive Spectral Reconstruction (ASR) for stochastic reconstruction of broadband aeroacoustic sources is presented and applied.

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Influence of Turbulence Closures for Wake Prediction for Marine Propeller Design

Results of computational fluid dynamics validation for flow&nbsp;around a marine propeller are presented.

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Verification and Validation of Resistance and Propulsion Computation

This paper is devoted to the verification and validation exercises with the FINE™/Marine software conducted for the Tokyo 2015 workshop.

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Resistance and Seakeeping CFD Simulations for Korean Container Ship

This paper is focused on RANS simulations of Case 2.1 and Case 2.10 of the Tokyo 2015 workshop.

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Prediction of Barehull Resistance Curve of a Day-cruise Ship in the Cloud

NUMECA partnering with CPU24-7 and the UberCloud open new era of “One-Stop-Solution” where advanced CFD simulation on HPC is made possible in an integrated and cost-efficient way.

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Accurate Impeller-volute Interaction CFD Simulation in Turbocharger Design

It is impossible to find a diesel vehicle without turbocharging/direct injection. The way to achieve lower emissions is by using turbocharging to offset the lower power density of a smaller motor.

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Investigating Hull Resistance of a Ropax Ferry in the Cloud

Calculating the calm water resistance of a modern Ropax hull form. All simulations were run using version 5.1 of NUMECA's FINE™/Marine software.

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Structured Meshing Configurations with Bulbs Using OMNIS™/AutoGrid

Meshing is always a compromise between computational efficiency and the needed accuracy. We need the smallest mesh to capture the effects that we consider as the most important inf our simulations.

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Fluid Dynamics Simulation Tool C-wizard Speeds up High-speed Planing Boat Design

The gain in convergence time, higher numerical stability, and accuracy thanks to C-Wizard

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Massive Parallel Computing with NUMECA's OMNIS™/OpenDBS

Recent developments in NUMECA OMNIS™/Open-DBS have yielded impressive improvements in massively parallel performance.

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Fully-coupled Fluid Dynamics Engine Simulation of a Gas Turbine

Detailed customer case description of the full engine simulation for the re-design of a KJ66 micro gas turbine.

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Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Cavitation in Pumps and Propellers

This article summarizes some state-of-the-art CFD technology for cavitation prediction, covering different applications and CFD features in order to answer engineers' needs.

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Autoseal - from Cad or Stl to Watertight Geometry in Less than a Minute

The best approach currently present on the market for preparing the most complex geometries - even the Titanic goes watertight in no more than 50 seconds!

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Fluid Dynamics Investigation of the Sonic Boom on a Supersonic Aircraft Concept

Cadence is active in this field and was involved in the CFD investigation of a sonic boom and aerodynamic prediction of NASA Concept 25D Powered supersonic aircraft.

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Studying the Nature of Turbulence with Neural Concept’s Deep Learning Platform

The HiFi-TURB project, which is coordinated by NUMECA, sets out a highly ambitious and innovative work programme to address influential deficiencies in turbulence modelling.

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