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Partnership News
- In December, the Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Lab
(INEEL) selected Fluent as their CFD partner in a project that will
couple INEEL's RELAP5-3D© advanced thermal-hydraulic systems analysis
code to FLUENT. RELAP5-3D is well known in the nuclear industry,
where it provides system level modeling for complex transient, multiphase
flows. The code coupling will enable analysts in a wide range of industries
to use CFD-level models for critical components in an overall system
model described by RELAP5-3D.
Typical RELAP5-3D model of a power plant shown using
a graphical user interface (GUI), plots, and output listings Courtesy
of INEEL
- In February, Fluent finalized arrangements under which we will be
working with Dr. Stephen Pope of Cornell University on implementation
of transported PDF methods to treat turbulence-chemistry interactions,
including detailed combustion chemistry. A leading researcher who has
worked with PDF methods for 25 years, Dr. Pope will be assisting Fluent
with our implementation and providing key enabling technologies to ensure
robust and efficient performance.
- Newmerical Technologies International and ICEM CFD Engineering
have completed a preliminary integration between FLUENT and MOM3D,
an automated mesh adaptation tool that allows solution-based adaptation
of meshes in order to improve solution accuracy and cost efficiency.
The MOM3D module is available from ICEM CFD and allows efficient non-isotropic
adaptation of tetrahedral/ prismatic meshes created in ICEM Tetra. This
new offering complements FLUENT's mesh adaption capability and provides
users of ICEM CFD with an integrated capability for solution based adaptation
of FLUENT results. For further information, contact info@icemcfd.com
or nti@newmerical.com
Application of the FLUENT-MOM3D combination to the transonic
flow over the ONERA M6 wing
A: Initial grid (89,000 nodes)
B: Initial solution
C: Refined grid after four adaptation cycles (205,000 nodes)
D: Refined solution with sharp capture of the lambda shock
DOE Funds Crystallization Initiative
The Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) at the U.S. Department of
Energy has awarded a research project to a small group of institutions
and companies to study crystallization, a widely used process in the chemical
industry. Fluent has been named a member of this group, and will collaborate
with OLI Systems, Dow Chemical, Eli Lilly, the University of Utah, Iowa
State University, the University of Sheffield, Illinois Institute of Technology,
and the AIChE Design Institute for Physical Property Research. The goals
of the project are to develop tools that will help in the design, scale-up,
and optimization of crystallizers, with the aim of improving their efficiency
and reducing their operating costs. Energy savings of several trillion
BTU per year are anticipated by the year 2020 as a result of this effort.
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