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FINE /Marine
Technical Specification
NUMECA, a new wave in fluid dynamics

A fully integrated platform of Computational Fluid Dynamics dedicated for naval architecture
based on fully hexahedral un-structured Grid System combining :
• HEXPRESS™ : Automatic Full Hexahedral Grid Generation system,
• ISIS-CFD™: 3D Unstructured Incompressible Navier-Stokes Solver
• CFView™ : Computational Field Visualization System,
• FINE™ GUI : Interactive Graphic User Interface,
• Computational MONITORING
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FINE™ GUI*
INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE
(recommended for full capabilities usage) : • Inlets: • Fully integrated GUI
• Parallel machine with fast inter- † Flow field imposed • Simple user-friendly POINT & CLICK
connexion. † Prescribed Stokes waves (1
st,
2nd graphical user interface (GUI) :
rd
• Ram requirement: about 2Gb per and 3 order) † Mouse-driven
million nodes • Outlets: † Context-sensitive
• Recommended CPU loading: less than † Prescribed pressure † Intuitive and fast to
500 000 nodes per processor † Extrapolated pressure gradient learn interaction
• 64 bits machine with sufficient memory • Walls: • Easy-to-use object-oriented interface:
required for preprocessing (350Mb per † Euler † pulldown menus
million nodes) † Navier-Stokes walls † pullright menus
† Moving walls † dialogue boxes
• Symmetry Conditions: † keyboard input areas
COMPUTER PLATFORMS † Plane of symmetry • Selection of graphical entities by :
† mouse picking or
• Linux Intel 32 bits FLOWS CAPABILITIES· † keyboard entries
• Linux Opteron 64 bits • View buttons operations for geometry
• IBM Power PC • Free-surface or mono-fluid flows and quantity representations in any
• Propeller modelled through an actua- perspective, with immediate visual
tor-disk theory feedback
ISIS-CFD™ FLOW SOLVER • Cartesian coordinates • Multiwindows environment
• Euler • Access to pre and post processors
• Laminar • Task management
NUMERICAL METHOD • Turbulent • Convergence tracking
• Fully unstructured • Steady state flow • Parallel computation set-up
• Cell centred conservative finite volume • Unsteady flow • Batch mode
method • Incompressible
Pressure equation formulation • Gravity COMPUTATIONAL MONITORING:*
• Free-surface capturing strategy with • Turbulence Models:
high-resolution interface schemes † Spalart-Allmaras 1 equation model Direct run-time Convergence History
• Spatial discretization: † k-ε model Launder-Sharma monitoring of:
2nd order centered and backward † k-omega (SST) • Global and Block Residuals
schemes • Forces: Lift, Drag, Momentum
† k-omega (BSL)
• Time discretization • Turbulence Variables
† k-omega (Wilcox)
2nd order backward scheme
† EARSM (Explicit Algebraic Reynolds
Stress Model)
PARALLEL PROCESSING
• Up to 999 processors Except the Spalart-Almaras one-equation-
• Domain decomposition with Metis model, all models can be used with:
• Distributed memory (MPI based) † wall functions
• Automatic partitioning † low-Reynolds formulations
• Automatic solution reconstruction † rotation correction
* available in the next release

High Fidelity CFD system for Naval Architecture

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Hexpress
Technical Specification
NUMECA, a new wave in fluid dynamics

• A STAND ALONE MESH GENERATOR FOR NON-NUMECA’S SOLVER AND CSM CODES OR
EMBEDDED IN NUMECA’S UNSTRUCTURED CFD SUITE FINE™/MARINE AND FINE™/HEXA

• 3D GEOMETRIES PURE HEXAHEDRAL CELLS WITHIN PASSAGE AND NEAR SURFACE BOUNDARIES
• LIMITED USER INPUT
• EASE OF USE:
` COMPREHENSIVE WIZARD FOR STEP-BY-STEP GRID GENERATION
` FULLY AUTOMATED TEMPLATES FOR SIMILAR GEOMETRIES

FEATURES MESH WIZARD “ STEP

“ STL
• Fast and Automatic mesh generator • Initiate meshing
“ ACIS
• Non-conformal all-hexahedra meshes † Transfer your CAD file to
“ CADDS
a computational domain
• Conformal meshes* “ Pro-Engineer
† Automatically set an initial grid
• Mesh generation in 2 main parts: for your domain or import † Powerful and efficient
† Domain to mesh preparation a pre-used mesh CAD cleaning tool
(CAD data processing) • Mesh refinement/adaptation
† Mesh generation (Volume to
† Choose generic meshing criteria: EXPORT FORMATS
surface, Octree approach)
“ surface curvature • FINE/Marine and FINE/HEXA
• Geometry Manipulation Menu “ number of cells between • STAR-CD
• Domain simplification: two surfaces
• FLUENT
† Manual Edge/Face Merge/Split utility † Set a target cell size either:
† Automatic Edge/Face Merge utility “ locally (close to selected
• CSM code (SAMCEF BACON)
based on feature angle recognition surfaces) or
“ within an interactively
• All-hexahedra meshes
† Accuracy of classical numerical
created volume COMPUTER PLATFORMS
schemes • Finalize meshing • Unix:
† High aspect ratio cells in † Automatically snap the grid points † SGI
boundary layer on CAD geometry
† SUN
• Mesh Periodicity • Optimize mesh quality † HP
• Multi-domain and FNMB connections • Insert Boundary Layers around † IBM
• Multi-block Meshing surfaces and curves † DEC
• Hybrid mesh generation
• Possibility to STOP meshing process † Alpha
at each step † Itanium 2
• Grid Quality Monitoring † PA-RISC 64 bits machines
• Interactive mesh correction tool IMPORT FORMATS • Linux:
• Automatic Mesh partitioning • Direct import for: † Opteron (LINUX 64 bits)
(in FINE™/Marine and FINE™/Hexa) † Pentium EM64T (LINUX 64 bits)
† CATIA V5 (*.CatPart) files:
• Face orientation correction in Star-CD † PARASOLID files: • Pentium/Athlon (WindowsNT, 2000, XP)
surface mesh to STL conversion † STL + properties files
• Batch Mode (Stereolithographics)
• 64 bits Mesh Generation • Through CADfix:
† Simple and fast file import:
“ IGES

*Available in the next release

Automated Unstructured Full HEX-meshing

Contact: NUMECA International s.a.
Av. Franklin Rossevelt 5
http://www.numeca.com B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM
Tel: +32 2 647.83.11, Fax: +32 2 647.93.98
E-mail: info@numeca.be
NUMECA USA, Inc.
2141 Mission Street, Suite 201
San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Tel: +1 415/558-8483; Fax: +1 415/558-8463
Email: sales@numeca-usa.com