CFD Applications

Frustrum shaped mixing vessel

This example shows a frustrum shaped mixing vessel with a simple rotating blade. The inlet and outlet are omitted. The challenge is the fast and exact computation of the free surface. In particular the agitator blade can partly surface as it is close to the free surface.

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Twin-screw agitator in a double cylinder
Twin-screw agitators exhibit more complicated fluid mechanical phenomena than found in single-screw agitators. Mesh based simulation methods usually fail to efficiently deal with the overlapping operation ranges of the rotating blades. In NOGRID software there is no difference in modelling and computation efficiency compared to a single-screw agitators.

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Foaming Polyurethane
Polyurethanes are synthetic materials or resins covering a wide range of stiffness, hardness and densities. They are used as low density foam e.g. in upholstery fabrics and refrigerator insulation and as soft or hard plastic parts ranging from shoes to skateboard wheels to car dashboards to vibration and shock absorbers, to name just a few examples. In most industrial production processes liquid polyurethane is injected into a closed mold where it reacts and expands to finally fill out the mold. In this process air bubbles might be entrapped, or a structural failure of the hardened but still expanding plastic might occur, resulting in defects, instabilities or unattractive surfaces.

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Water Wave coming on Lighthouse
This example shows the possibilities of modelling water waves. You can also evaluate the stability of the building depending on the strength of the wave.

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Accelerated Boat
Free surfaces in fluid mechanical systems are a great challenge for numerical simulation methods in themselves. However, many applications additionally exhibit moving structures interacting with the fluid. In most cases a realistic modelling with todays standard software is simply not feasible or would at least require a non economical amount of time and computational power to solve everyday simulation problems. One such example is the simulation of a boat being accelerated until it reaches its final inclination determined by its hull shape and its speed.