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Advanced Development for Better Productswww.numeca.com
FINETM/MarineCFD Suite for Marine Applications
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FINETM
/Marine :the leading CFD package for naval architects
Services
NUMECA has a team of highly qualified engineers providing a wide variety of services to the marine industry, ensuring
that your organization makes use of our tools in the best and most efficient way. We offer :
Consulting
Adaptation and customization of FINETM/Marine towards users specific requests
Integration of NUMECA suite into the customers CFD workflow
Development of interfaces towards in-house CFD tools
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) offers thecapability to bring innovative, efficient solutions into thedesign processof the marine industry. In comparison to
experimental testing facilities, CFD offers clear technicaladvantages including full-scale modelingand in-depthanalysis of flow phenomena. Furthermore, overall projectcosts and turnaround times can be significantlydecreasedwhen a CFD analysis is incorporated into thedesign cycle.State-of-the-art RANS CFD approaches predict the flow notonly qualitatively(delta-s), but also on a quantitativelevel (for both low and high Froude number flows).And as computer hardware costs continue to decrease,CFD analysis is now an economically attractive optionfor numerous marine applications including resistance& propulsion analysis, seakeeping, manoeuvring,optimization studies, and hydraulics.
Rather than using CFD as a verification tool alone, closeintegration of CFD as early as possible in the designloop is bringing large added valueto the engineering
process. This approach provides a relatively cheap butreliable tool to identify the best candidate models, evenat the concept phase, leading to more efficient designsat reduced costs and thus minimizing costly designchanges at later project stages.
To provide an optimal CFD solution to these marinespecific problems, NUMECA has released FINE/Marine, considered the leading CFD package for navalarchitects.
FINETM/Marine
FINE/Marine is a unique integrated CFD software environment for the simulation ofmono-fluid and multi-fluid flows around any kind of ships, boats or yachts including
various types of appendages. The powerful and customized graphical user interface
drives the user into the whole simulation process and integrates marine-dedicated fea-tures for different applications.
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ALSO AVAILABLE AT NUMECA
FINETM/TurboFlow integrated environment for rotating and non-rotating flowanalysis in external and internal turbomachinery applications. Reco-
gnized as the fastest and most accurate CFD suite by theworldwide turbomachinery community.
AutoMeshTM
The first comprehensive grid generation toolset cove-ring all types of applications, with a suite of dedicatedtools for high quality grids.
Particle flow in turbine
Axial turbine blade . Initial (left) andoptimized (right)
FINETM/Design3DIntegrated environment for the 3D design and op-
timization of turbomachinery channels and blades.
FINETM/AcousticsFully CFD integrated environment dedicated to
Aero-Vibro-Acoustic simulations, from fast pre-design calculation to detailed large scale analysis.
Fan stage acoustic pressure wave
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for more details
Contra rotating propeller from Volvo Penta
Cruise ship from STX Finland Oy
Sound pressure level on a micro-phone array located below the hull
and its propeller
Smoke coming from cruiseship chimney
esh of a turbocharger fromoneywell
FINETM/Open
with OpenLabsPowerful and versatile CFD flow integrated environment dedi-cated to complex internal and external flows, covering a widerange of industrial applications such as automotive, aerospace,multiphysics...
Mesh of a turbocharger fromHoneywell
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Thanks to its powerful scripting capabilities and accuracy,we have been using FINE/Marine extensively to effectivelyoptimize yacht and ship hull designs in a fully automatic man-ner. [] We were able to achieve three times the hull dragreduction of a competitor who used a standard panel code con-nected to common parametric optimization system."
Jason Ker, Ker Design
SAILING YACHTS
After consider ing vari-ous free-surface capturingCFD tools for hydrody-namic analysis applica-tions involving high per-formance racing yachts,Emirat es Team NewZealand (ETNZ) hasselected NUMECAsFINE/Marine asthe unique Navier-Stokes based simu-lation suite toserve in that capac-
ity during ETNZs
34th Americas Cup
design campaign.We believe that in com-
parison to alternatives ,FINE/Marine pro-duces consistently higher
fide li ty solutions across avery broad range of sail-ing conditions therebymaking it the analysistool of choice.
Dr. Len Imas,Emirates Team
New Zealand
Despite a limited research and design time frame we have incorporated anumber of innovative appendage features into the design.
We utilized NUMECAs FINE/Marine RANS flow solver and theFYD high performance computing cluster to study some of the hydrodynamictrade-offs associated with these features.
Britton Ward, Vice president at Farr Yacht Design
Cutting planes of turbulence viscosity field on asailing yacht
Sailing yacht in headwind
Resistance calculation including hydrofoils
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OFFSHORE VESSELS & CRUISE SHIPS
The recent key decision ofNUMECA Internationalto enable the user to script
t h e F INE/Mar inestage of the CFD processhas changed our way towork. In addition, choos-ing python as default lan-guage makes it easier for anaval architect to startprogramming. As a conse-quence, a few days weresufficient to acquire the
basic knowledge needed tostart building scripts. Weare now in a situation
where we have scripts fordifferent types of applica-tions: resistance curves aremade within a minimumof human time!
Ivan Schrooyen,Ulstein
Resistance calculation at Froude 0.24
m motor yacht in waves CFD-towing tank
FINE/Marine is the first codethat gave us confidence in the useof CFD tools, with results neverdiffering much from experimentalvalues..
Dr. Piet Van Oossanen, Van
Oossanen Naval Architects
OFFSHORE VESSELS AND CRUISE SHIPS
Colored streamlines around a Cruise ship
Courtesy of STX Finland Oy
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HIGH SPEED CRAFTS
High speed motor boat with colored streamlines (Froude 4.2)
OTHER APPLICATIONS
Anemometer Bow thruster with the gridshore platform in waves Sea kayak in waves
Transverse cut of the volumeWind study on a patrol boat
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Front view of the lateral bow thruster with colored streamlines
Ventilation effect on a propeller
Graphical User Interface
FINEGUIMarine-dedicated environmentFully scriptable
Post-processing CFViewowerful post-processing and scientific visualizationystem offering all qualitative and quantitative toolsnd marine dedicated add-ons for flow visualizationnd analysis.
Marine-dedicated add-onsFully scriptable
Mesh Generator
HEXPRESSTMHighly automated mesh generator for high qualitynd full hexahedral unstructured meshes.
Non-conformal, fully hexahedral meshesViscous layers insertion with Inflation methodThin surfaces modelingReplace geometries moduleLimited user inputs high degree of automa-tionFully scriptable
FINE/Marine Flow Solver6DOF incompressible flow solver, recognized as havingthe best accuracy for all types of marine applications, in-cluding free surface capturing. The FINE/Marine FlowSolver is developed by the Ecole Centrale de Nantes(ECN) and CNRS and industrialized in partnership with
NUMECA.
Highly accurate free surface capturing 6DOF with marine dedicated motion laws Quasi static approach Sub-cycling acceleration Adaptive grid refinement Sliding grid interfaces Cavitation modeling Mooring and tugging lines User defined dynamic libraries (forces and motions)
Surface mesh of a full appended ship
KEY FEATURES
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