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Webinar: Simulating Performance of Fluid Machines – Compressors
Join us on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 at 11:30 AM-12:30 PM (IST) for the “Simulating Performance of Fluid Machines – Compressors” webinar. During this webinar you will be able to watch case studies from leaders in global markets, demonstrating how Simerics-MP+ helped them successfully meet their deadlines as well as see how Simerics-MP+ can help you affordably improve your designs and develop innovative products.
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SIMERICS India hosts a series of webinars
A series of webinars on Fluid Machines were held in Bangalore, India from April 28- 30, 2020. The prospective customers were provided the opportunity to learn about the uniqueness of Simerics-MP+ and best practices in simulating the performance of Centrifugal Machines, Positive Displacement Machines, Hydraulic Systems with Valves and Compressors.
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SP80’s partnership with Orca3D and Simerics: a step towards hull’s optimization
While the world is tearing apart due to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, our team is still working as hard as before to keep the three years SP80 project objectives. Now that teleworking is mandatory almost worldwide, SP80’s partnership with Orca3D and Simerics has enabled the possibility for faster and easier CFD computation from home.
Orca3D Marine CFD is the result of a collaboration between two American software specialists: Orca3D and Simerics, Inc. It combines naval architecture (Orca3D) and CFD (Simerics) softwares. Its designers have bet on the facility and user-friendly aspects for their product, allowing quick alternative designs simulations without the long learning curve typically associated with CFD.
“Orca3D Marine CFD is providing additional knowledge about how to make the SP80 sailboat go very fast without the past requirement of having a PhD in CFD” insured Rich Moore, Executive Vice President, Strategy, OEMs, Partners, at Simerics, Inc. For us, its main asset will be the facility and velocity of CFD hull simulations with respect to other CFD softwares. Furthermore, it will particularly allow to save time when defining a set-up and also to quickly study several shapes and parameters.
“Orca3D Marine CFD will be essential for our future work” commented Anaëlle Manon and Charles de Sarnez, two members of the SP80 fluid dynamics team. We will start by using it for the Velocity Prediction Program data generation. It will afterwards allow us to simulate different parameters’ influences, such as pitch, yaw or speed on the hull we already have. The results are going to be used to improve the VPP’s precision, which will in turn permit a study on the hull’s shape optimization.
David Sanchez, member of the performance prediction team
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SP80, Simerics, and Orca3D Partner to Create the World’s Fastest Sailboat.
Orca3D Marine CFD is enabling SP80 to break the current world record of 65.45 knots by a sailboat using CFD software
BELLEVUE, WA March 2 2020 – Orca3D and Simerics, developing Orca3D Marine CFD, are collaborating with SP80 as part of their sailboat design project to break Paul Larsen’s sailing speed record set in 2012. Started in 2019, SP80 has a four-year plan to develop, build, and tune their revolutionary boat using CFD to break the current record. Using CFD is allowing SP80 to quickly simulate alternative designs with Orca3D Marine CFD software without the long learning curve typically associated with CFD. SP80 boat design leverages super-ventilating hydrofoils and an innovative kite power management system. The SP80 design team can now use Orca3D Marine CFD to better understand this particular sailboat and how to make it go faster without the need to become a CFD specialist.
By working together, Simerics, Inc. and Orca3D have enabled SP80 to test different boat designs and also save thousands of hours of water testing by using CFD simulation software.
“SP80 will be the first sailboat to ever reach the speed of 80knots. Therefore, understanding how it reacts within its environment is a crucial mission. At these speeds, you can’t afford to just build, test, crash and learn. We must have a precise idea of the dynamic stability of our hull while minimizing its drag. This is what Orca 3D Marine CFD simulations will enable us to achieve.” said Xavier Lepercq, co-founder of SP80 and CTO. “We are very excited to use Orca3D Marine CFD simulation to break the world’s sailing speed record and help sailboat designers around the world gain even more confidence in applying CFD to their sailboat designs, just as we are doing with SP80.”
“Orca3D Marine CFD is providing additional knowledge about how to make the SP80 sailboat go very fast without the past requirement of having a PhD in CFD. In other words, CFD experience not required for Naval Architects and Marine Engineers,” said Rich Moore, Executive Vice President, Strategy, OEMs, Partners, at Simerics, Inc.
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Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Engineer the Un-seeable
Please read the PTC’s blog post written by Rich Moore, Executive VP Strategy, OEMs, Partners at Simerics, Inc. :
What if all CAD users could see the un-seeable in their designs? For example, air, the inside of a bubble, heat, nitrogen, oxygen, pressure, pressure forces, or even water (because it’s usually in a pipe or in a pump or under the earth or seeping into your house).
Let’s call these un-seeables in your CAD designs and models, digital fluids. If you could model these digital fluids in your CAD system, you could save your company dollars in hardware prototyping costs and offer your customers lower cost products with the money you save.
To model digital fluids (the internal volume, external volume, or combination of both), we need an extraction tool in our CAD system. There’s a good rumor going around that Creo Flow Analysis, a PTC product, has this capability and it works on and inside of Creo Parametric models. Yes, it’s true; you can now extract fluid volumes automatically from Creo Parametric, using Creo Flow Analysis.
These fluid volumes make computational fluid dynamics (CFD) usable by CAD users. The CAD user now has a digital fluids model—fully associative with systems like Creo, Windchill, Vuforia Studio, and Creo Simulate. So if you change the model, your CFD settings in Creo Flow Analysis remain the same, saving you tedious labor time and costs no matter if you do this work in house today or outsource it. And it’s fully part of your digital thread.
Digital fluids cover the following: fluids; heat; fluids and heat (conjugate heat transfer). All things that you can’t 3D print or prototype. But since you can’t print air or the inside of a bubble or heat, you would typically make a prototype(s) and watch the digital fluids run and operate in the physical world. Or you might hand the problem over to an analyst or outsource it to a specialist.
With Creo Flow Analysis, that’s no longer necessary.
Use it for things like the inside/outside of a blower, fan, a black box, valve, pump, compressor, heat exchanger, car, plane, propeller, water jet, tank, pipe, duct work, or gear boxes. The digital fluids results from Creo Flow Analysis are prototype accurate within 1% of how the un-seeable (heat and air) portion of your designs actually work.
To create Creo Flow Analysis, PTC partnered with Simerics, Inc., a company with 14 years’ experience developing high-end CFD for analysts. Together, the two companies produced a usable, affordable, and prototype accurate tool just for Creo users.
Now you can make accurate digital prototypes for the un-seeable using Creo Flow Anlaysis. Seeing is believing, and if you haven’t had a chance to look at Creo Flow Analysis from PTC and Simerics, you might see something in your product that you have never seen before!
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