MSC Software Confidential MSC Software Confidential More innovation using Cradle CFD software for CFD and FSI Simulation 2013 Users Conference Presented By: Yuya Ando Software Cradle Co., Ltd. May 7-8, 2013
MSC Software Confidential MSC Software Confidential
More innovation using Cradle CFD
software for CFD and FSI Simulation
2013 Users Conference
Presented By: Yuya Ando
Software Cradle Co., Ltd. May 7-8, 2013
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A table of contents
1. Introduction to SOFTWARE CRADLE
2. Introduction to SC/Tetra
3. Advanced features of SC/Tetra
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A table of contents
1. Introduction to SOFTWARE CRADLE
2. Introduction to SC/Tetra
3. Advanced features of SC/Tetra
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Dayton, OH USA
Headquarters
Osaka, Japan
Establishment: 1984
Offices:
Headquarters: Osaka, Japan
Branch Office: Tokyo, Japan
Subsidiary: Dayton, OH USA
Tokyo, Japan
Corporate Profile
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Business
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Software Development
CFD
Data cleaning and modification software
Optimization
Trainings, seminars, and technical Support
Engineering Services
Simulation service
Customization
Automation
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2002: Won JSME award
(The Japan Society of
Mechanical Engineering)
2005: Awarded by METI
(Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry of Japan)
2006: Won AEI2006 Tech Awards
(Automotive Engineering
International)
2007: Certification of Visualization Award
(APCOM 2007)
2009: Best CFD Graphics Award
(The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics)
Awards
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Products
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Multi-purpose CFD Unstructured Mesh
Automotive / Aerospace Marine/ Machinery/ Energy/Electrical Appliances Oil & Gas/ Bio-medicals
MAIN INDUSTRIES:
Buildings & Architectures/ Civil & Oceanic engineering/ Electronics Applications
CFD
Multi-purpose CFD Structured Mesh
CFD for Electronics Structured Mesh
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Products
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Advanced Data Cleaning Tool
•Data Cleaning •Data Modification
Optimization
Option
•Multi Objective •Genetic Algorithm
Optimization
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TOYOTA group
DAIHATSU group
YAMAHA group
HINO Motors Ltd.
NISSAN group
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Corporation
Suzuki Motor
Corporation
Ford
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AISIN group
DENSO group
INOAC Corporation
KOJIMA
Kanto Auto Works
TOKAIRIKA
Trinity Industrial
DELPHI
COPELAND
CATAPILLAR
Senior Automotive
Siemens VDO
Automotive
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Panasonic group
SANYO group
SHARP Corporation
SONY group
IBM Japan Ltd. NEC group
Hitachi group
Mitsubishi group
Toshiba group
Samsung
Sumitomo Electric group
Fujitsu group
Oki Electric group
RICOH group
Pioneer Corporation
Automotive
Electronics & Electrical Appliances
Ishikawajima-shibaura
machinery Co.,Ltd.
Hitachi Zosen Corporation
Hitachi Plant Engineering &
Construction Co.,Ltd.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,
Ltd.
Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Bosch Corporation
Komatsu Ltd.
Murata Machinery, Ltd.
Nidec Corporation
Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
Nakashima Propeller Co, Ltd.
NTN Corporation
SEKISO Industry Co., Ltd.
Torishima Pump Mfg. Co., Ltd.
Kubota Corporation
Mitsui Engineering &
Shipbuilding Company,
Limited
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Industrial Equipments & Machinery
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Ube Industries,Ltd. Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. Daido Steel Co., Ltd. Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
Hitachi Metals, Ltd Kobe Steel, Ltd. Sumitomo Metal Industries,
Ltd. Nippon Steel Corporation
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Shimizu Corporation
Sekisui House, Ltd.
Chemical & Materials
Construction & Civil Engineering
Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Japan Automobile Research Institute
Japan Ultra-high Temperature Material Research Institute
Japan Weather Association
National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan
National Institute for Fusion Science
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
National Research Institute of Police Science
Government
More than 800 companies &
organizations worldwide
Customers
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A table of contents
1. Introduction to SOFTWARE CRADLE
2. Introduction to SC/Tetra
3. Advanced features of SC/Tetra
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Introduction to SC/Tetra
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General: All-in-one package CFD software consisted of :
•Preprocessor
•Solver
•pressure based FVM
•density based FVM
•Postprocessor
•Data mapping Tool to FEA meshes
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Compressible / Incompressible flow
Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluid
Heat radiation / Solar radiation
Multi-phase / Free surface flow /Particle tracking
Humidity / Condensation / Solidification / Melting
Diffusion / Chemical reaction / Combustion
LES / Porous media / Cavitation
Thermoregulatory model
DES/ VLES / 12 more turbulence models
Fan model / Thermal conduction panel
Joule Heating / Aero Acoustic
Simple Linear Structural Analysis
2-way Fluid Structure Interaction with Abaqus
Mesh Related Technology Overset mesh
Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE)
Passive motion control
Adaptive mesh refinement
Physical Model:
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Low Memory Consumption
User Friendly Interface and Usability
Outstanding Computation Speed and Accuracy
State of the art Postprocessor
Parallel Pre/Solve(CFD & Structure)/Post
Fast-Robust-Intuitive Mesher
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Selection methods:
Rubber box
Rubber circle
Rubber arbitrary shape
Octant size (level)
Octants adjacent to specified surface
Octants adjacent to specified edges
Closed volume
Material
Registered surface
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Mesh resolution can be flexibly controlled using octree
Efficiently aim for better accuracy!
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Fast-Robust-Intuitive Mesher – Adaptive Mesh Refinement
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1st
103,251 2nd
285,575 3rd
418,165 4th
631,620
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Less than 15 min. is required to
generate 15 million elements
including prism layers. Windows XP x64 edition / 4GB memory
Intel Xeon 5580
Fast-Robust-Intuitive Mesher
Additional functions:
Smoothing
Prism layer adjustment (thickness, the # of layers)
Internal hexa-mesh
Sweep mesh
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About 5 million elements/1GB!
With 2GB : 10 million elements
With 8GB : 40 million elements
With 32GB: 160 million elements
With 64GB: 320 million elements
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Low Memory Consumption
10M
3M
1M
# of mesh
Comparison of the # of mesh per 2GB RAM memory
More complicated geometry
Better accuracy
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(1) Verification of Aerodynamics
(2) Engine Intake Port Flow
(3) Air-Conditioning Analysis
(4) Air Conditioning Analysis from Defroster Nozzle
Comparison of Commercial CFD software (2001)
Outstanding Computation Speed and Accuracy
[Reference 1] JSAE Symposium No.14-01 “Comparison of CFD Commercial Codes and Computers - Benchmark CFD Study of Aero- dynamic,
Engine Cold Flow, and Air-Conditioning-” (2001)
[Reference 2] Taniguchi, N., “Validation of CFD Commercial Codes for Vehicle Design and Development“ (2002) Paper Engine Number: 2002-01-
1297
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Vehicle body
Comparison of Commercial CFD software (2006) * JSAE symposium on Recent Activities in CFD toward Higher Quality, No. 08-06 (2006)
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Outstanding Computation Speed and Accuracy
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CD CL
Experiments 0.245 -0.273
Simulation 0.247 -0.275
Difference <1% <1%
[Reference 1] Kumano, T. Et al., Wind Tunnel Testing of a 1/5 Scale Vehicle Model (in Japanese), JSAE symposium on Recent
Activities in CFD toward Higher Quality, No. 08-06 (2006).
(Japanese Title: 低C(D)車デザイン模型に基づくCFDベンチマーク )
[Reference 2] Shimano, K. Et al., Wind Tunnel Testing of JSAE Standard Low- aerodynamic-drag Vehicle Body Using 1/5 Scale
Model, Review of Automotive Engineering, Vol. 30, No.1, (2009).
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Outstanding Computation Speed and Accuracy
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• Model propeller (Experimental conditions)
Diameter: 250 mm
Rotation speed: 25 rps
Velocity: 6.365・7.927・8.805 m/s
• Cavitation model
– Full cavitation model(Singhal et al, 2002)
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Cavitation analysis of PPTC using CFD
Propeller rotate region
570 2000600
OutletInlet
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Outstanding Computation Speed and Accuracy
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*PPTC: Potsdam Propeller Test Case
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• J = 1.019 (Velocity = 6.365 m/s) s = 2.024
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Comparison of analysis and experimental results
Cavity region
Sketch (Experimental) Void fraction: 20% Void fraction: 50%
KT (Thrust coefficient)
Exp : 0.3725
Cal : 0.3750 (+0.67%)
Fujiyama1, K., Kim, C., Hitomi, D., (2011), Performance and Cavitation Evaluation of Marine Propeller using Numerical Simulations.
Second International Symposium on Marine Propulsors (smp‟11), Hamburg, Germany.
Outstanding Computation Speed and Accuracy
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Propeller simulation including cavitation
Outstanding Computation Speed and Accuracy
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A table of contents
1. Introduction to SOFTWARE CRADLE
2. Introduction to SC/Tetra
3. Advanced features of SC/Tetra
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Motion Handling: ALE / Overset Mesh
Advanced features of SC/Tetra
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Motion Handling: ALE / Passive Motion / Overset Mesh
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Advanced features of SC/Tetra
Motion Handling: ALE / Passive Motion / VOF/ Overset Mesh
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• Approximate Riemann solver
– Roe method,
– HLL method,
– Rotated-RHLL Flux method *1
• Diffusion term
– Alpha-damping scheme *2
• Advection term
– 2nd-order (Limiter function of Venkatakrishnan is applied)
• Time marching method
– 1st-order Euler method,
– 2nd-order Runge-Kutta method,
– Dual time stepping method (BDF2)
Density-Based Solver
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Numerical analysis method Red:Default
Reference
[1] Nishikawa, H. and Kitamura, K., \Very Simple, Carbuncle-Free, Boundary-Layer Resolving, Rotated-Hybrid Riemann
Solvers," Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 227, 2007, pp. 2560-2581.
[2] Nishikawa, H. Beyond Interface Gradient: A General Principle for Constructing Diffusion Schemes. AIAA2010-5093
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– Validation of Shock Wave Diffraction of supersonic flow (Ms=5.09)
– Simulation results:Compared to the visible image of experiment
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Validation of inviscid flow
Reference
[1] Bazhenova, T. V.; Gvozdeva, L. G.; Nettleton, M. A. Unsteady interactions of shock waves. Prog. Aerospace
Sci., 1984, 21(4), p. 249-331.
• Computational results,
density gradient (animation)
Experiment,
Schlieren photograph[1]
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• Flow with a shock wave around a 2D Airfoil “RAE 2822”
• Mach number at mainstream: Mc=0.729
• 2.31º angle of attack.
• Reynolds number is 6.5×106.
• Turbulent flow with SST k-ω model
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• Density-based solver
Validation of a viscous, turbulent transonic flow
Pressure-based solver
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– Simulation results: Comparison of pressure coefficient with experiment[1]
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Reference
[1] Cook, P. H. et al. Aerofoil RAE 2822 - Pressure Distributions, and Boundary Layer and Wake
Measurements. AGARD Report AR 138. 1979.
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-1.0
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0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
-Cp
X/D
Experiment, lower surface
Experiment, upper surface
Pressure-based solver
Location of a shock
wave on the wing
upper surface
Validation of a viscous, turbulent transonic flow
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Data Import
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Model file formats
Parasolid XT *.x_t
STEP *.stp, .step
STL *.stl
NASTRAN *.nas
DXF *.dxf
IGES * .iges, .igs
ACIS(SAT) * .sat
VDAFS * .vda
UNIVERSAL *.unv
ABAQUS *.inp
Mesh file formats
NASTRAN *.nas
ANSYS *.cdb
UNIVERSAL *.unv
ABAQUS *.inp
Design Space *.dat
Drag & Drop
Native file formats
CATIA V4 * .model, .session, .exp
CATIA V5 * .catpart, .catproduct
PRO/E, Creo * .asm, .prt
Inventor * .ipt, .iam
SolidWorks * .sldprt, .sldasm
NX * .prt
SolidEdge * .par
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Coupling Analysis
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Mapping thermal
coefficient
Structural Analysis
NASTRAN(.nas), I-DEAS(.unv)
ANSYS(.cdb), ABAQUS(.inp),
* 2-way FSI: Direct coupling with Abaqus
Acoustic Analysis
MSC Actran
LMS SYSNOISE / Virtual.Lab
Optimization
HyperStudy, Optimus, iSIGHT, modeFrontier,
Morphing
HyperMesh, Sculptor, MeshWorks Morpher,
1D Simulation
Flowmaster, KULI
Coupling Analysis
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Fluid Structure Interaction
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Fluid Structure Interaction
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• Microsoft COM (Component Object Model) technology
– Enables software components to communicate one another
– Cradle products are all complied with COM technology
• Automation with VBA* & VBS* (thereafter, called VBI)
Calculation
Conditions Geometry
Pre-programmed Report COM complied program VBA/VBS
Automation
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Fully Automated System 30°
CAD
VBA
VBA
User Application
Meshing
Solving
Post process
COM driven
Automation
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• Features of SC/Tetra
• Advanced features of SC/Tetra (Overset mesh)
• Coupling capability (FSI)
Summary
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Thank you!