PowerFLOW predictions were successfully validated against high-fidelity wind-tunnel tests in 2013, and now, after the cancellation of a planned flight test due to budget constraints, NASA is using PowerFLOW simulations of a full-scale aircraft with flap and landing gear noise treatments to reach the original airframe noise objectives of the project.

At the Chair for Computational Analysis for Technical Systems (CATS) at the RWTH Aachen University, Pointwise is used as the mesh generation tool for various computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications, such as design and optimization of profile extrusion dies, simulation of blood pumps, fluid structure interaction for colloidal aggregates and aeroelastic simulation of horizontal axis wind turbines. In this article, mesh generation with Pointwise for the wind turbine application is explained.

Learn about why they selected SC/Tetra, and see some examples about how they use the tool in this narrated interview with Tomokazu Nomura, Assistant Chief Engineer in Technology Development at Honda.

Effective use of overset grid technology can improve your simulation results. New features coming in the next release of Pointwise, will ease the burden of constructing an assembled overset grid system.

Overset gridding refers to the use of multiple disconnected grids to discretize the flow domain. The component grids, which can be any size, type, or shape, need only overlap each other to completely cover the solution domain.

In June 2013 Volvo Car Australia announced that Garry Rogers Motorsport (GRM) would become the base of its factory backed V8 Supercar team, joining forces with its global racing partner Polestar. Featuring a 650 horse power 5 liter V8 developed and built at Volvo Polestar headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden, the bodywork and aerodynamics of the S60 derived racecar was to be entirely designed and constructed at the GRM headquarters in Australia. The finished product races from 0-100 kph in 3.2 sec and reaches a top speed of over 300 kph.

Unsteady propeller blade loads are important to consider in the design of the propulsion system in order to avoid problems with noise and vibrations. This is normally done through an analysis of the average wake field flowing into the propulsor in order to correctly match the different components of the propulsion system. As computational resources increase, it starts to become possible to better study the impact on the natural wake flow unsteadiness and how this influences the behavior of the propeller.