CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
18 September 2008
Events News
CD-adapco to Unveil New Technology for the Simulation of Floating Vessels
At SMM 2008, the leading international trade fair for shipbuilding and marine design, September 23-26 in Hamburg, Germany, CD-adapco will be unveiling the latest version of its Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software, STAR-CCM+. In line with the theme of SMM 2008, "innovation to meet today's rising standards for competitive ships", CD-adapco will be demonstrating its new Dynamic Fluid Body Interaction model, which enables engineers to simulate the fluid induced movement of a body, for everything from a tanker listing under heavy seas to an aerodynamic body tumbling in free fall.
“The significant advantage of our new DFBI model is that it allows the fluid induced motion of an object to be predicted in six degrees of freedom, with no additional effort from the user, compared to performing a simple steady state simulation of flow past the same body,” says Jean–Claude Ercolanelli, CD-adapco’s Vice President of Product Management. “The meshing process for a DFBI simulation is identical to that for a simple non-moving calculation and the DFBI model accomplishes its task without invoking the complex and time-consuming re-meshing schemes used by other Computational Fluid Dynamics tools.”
CD-adapco staff and senior management will be on hand throughout the show (Booth 222 in Hall B2 EG), to demonstrate STAR-CCM+ and its DFBI capability, as well as to explain the benefits of CFD technology applied to the marine design industry. Show attendees are also invited to a reception being jointly held with CD-adapco’s partner Germanischer Lloyd, on September 25 from 1-2pm, Booth 150, Hall B4 EG. Dr Ould el Moctar, GL’s Head of Department Fluid Dynamics, explains:
“Germanischer Lloyd and CD-adapco have already been working together for many years. Both parties have considerable experience in the field of CFD analyses. The true value offered by advanced engineering providers lies in the symbiosis of software or hardware and highly skilled staff."
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