FINE™/Turbo

FINE™/Turbo is a fast and accurate flow integrated environment for simulations of internal or external turbomachinery flows, for all type of fluids. FINE/Turbo integrates a fully hexahedral, highly automated structured grid generator, AutoGrid, advanced numerical algorithms and advanced visualization tool, CFView.

    Users pilots FINE/Turbo through an easy-to-use and intuitive interface for fast solution set-up, or through a batch process for transparent integration in a design cycle.

  • FINE/Turbo fully hexahedral technology allows highly accurate and reliable simulations.
  • Its multigrid engine ensures extremely fast convergence rates and low memory consumption for large numbers of grid points.
  • FINE/Turbo accepts very large aspect ratio cells (up to 5000) and low Reynolds mesh for optimal viscous and turbulent flows capturing.
  • FINE/Turbo contains unique features for multiple blade rows and steady or unsteady interaction.
  • Different levels of approximation are available according to the nature of the phenomena and the frequency spectrum to be captured.
  • FINE/Turbo contains special features as Conjugate Heat Transfer, Cooling flows injection or bleed, Fluid-particle interaction, Condensable gas module

IGG

IGG is an interactive geometry modeller and block structured grid generator software for 2D and 3D complex geometries.

Keys features of IGG are:

  • Geometry creation tools
  • Automatic location of vertices/edges/faces on the CAD geometry
  • Automatic butterfly topology
  • High grid quality
  • Recording of operations
  • Automatic meshing for families of geometries
  • Quality Control
  • Modification of AutoGrid meshes

IGG provides powerful grid generation tools such as block mapping, boundary shape clustering, snapping functions, internal surface or edge, algebraic and elliptic smoothers for surface and volume meshes, CAD projection and scripting replay system. IGG uses CGNS standard file format compatible with most of the commercial CFD codes.

AutoGrid

AutoGrid is automated fully hexahedral grid generation software for turbomachinery configurations. It allows designers and engineers to mesh complex axial, radial and mixed-flow configurations in a few mouse clicks.

Keys features of AutoGrid are:

  • Optimized topologies according to geometrical configurations.
  • Automatic grid points distribution according to user’s grid size requirements.
  • Advanced smoothing algorithms allowing highest grid quality.
  • Multi-stage and bypass configurations.
  • Capture of a large range of geometry features such as tip and hub clearance, bulb, seal-leakages, rounded and blunt leading and trailing edge, fillet.

AutoGrid uses advanced template and script technology for batch meshing replay of every features of the mesh on similar geometries. AutoGrid uses CGNS standard file format compatible with most of the commercial CFD codes.

NUMECA’s Flow Solver EURANUS

  • A modern CFD technology…
  • Finite Volume
  • Central Scheme with Artificial Dissipation (Jameson)
  • Explicit Runge-Kutta Time-Marching Integration
  • Multigrid acceleration
  • Implicit Residual Smoothing
  • Preconditioning for low speed/incompressible flows
  • Parallel capability (shared or distributed memory)
  • Well tuned for Turbomachinery applications
  • Rotor-Stator models, including
  • Conservative Mixing Plane
  • Frozen Rotor
  • Phase-lagged
  • Sliding Mesh
  • Absolute/Relative Inlet Boundary conditions
  • CHT (Conjugate Heat Transfer)
  • Cooling/Bleed module, by means of source terms
  • Arbitrary mesh block interface treatment
  • Turbomachinery-oriented initial solution
  • Lagrangian particle tracking model

CFView

CFView is an advanced and powerful scientific visualization software system offering all type of qualitative and quantitative outputs for 2D and 3D scalar or vector field analysis.

FEATURES:

    2D/3D complex geometry

  • Structured multiblock, unstructured and non conformal hexahedral meshes
  • IJK surfaces, arbitrary cutting planes
  • Powerful macro system
  • Scalar and vector multiple representation modes
  • Calculation of derived quantities
  • Cartesians plots, numerical and experimental data comparison
  • Specific features for turbomachinery
  • Rendering
  • Animation
  • Multi-projects and multi-views Graphical User Interfaces

CFView supports scripts for parametric visualization and recorded template for automatic replay of saved screenshots on new data set. It offers specific frames for rotating and turbomachinery such as meridional, blade-to-blade, pitch averaged and cylindrical views. CFView uses CGNS standard file format compatible with most of the commercial CFD codes.


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