STAR-CCM+ Capabilities for Aerospace & Defense Deryl Snyder, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
STAR-CCM+ Capabilities for Aerospace & Defense Deryl Snyder, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
STAR-CCM+ Capabilities for Aerospace & Defense Deryl Snyder, Ph.D. Application Areas (1/3) Surface Wrapping Aircraft Systems / Thermal Robust Prism Layers Management In-plane Conduction Mechanical Systems (APUs,
- Aircraft Systems / Thermal
Management
– Mechanical Systems (APU’s, undercowling, etc.) – Ice Protection – Avionics / Electronics Systems – Fuel systems – Heat Exchangers – Other Conjugate Heat Transfer
Application Areas (1/3)
Surface Wrapping Robust Prism Layers In-plane Conduction Eulerian Multiphase Lagrangian Multiphase Liquid Film Conjugate Heat Transfer Automatic Imprinting Fan Models
Ice Protection / Collection Efficiency Avionics Cooling Engine Thermal Management
- Propulsion Systems
– Pumps – Rocket Motor, Ramjet, & Scramjet – Compressors, Fans, Turbines – Combustion, sprays, chemistry – Inlets & nozzles – Fuel systems, sloshing
Application Areas (2/3)
Automatic Conformal Meshes Motion Models Harmonic Balance Gas, Particle, Surface Reactions Erosion Models Morphing Boundaries Cartesian Trim-Cell Meshes AUSM+ FVS Continuity Convergence Accelerator
Turbomachinery Supersonic Combustion Solid Rocket Motors
- Aerodynamics
– Subsonic Through Hypersonic – Aeroacoustics – Store Release – Stage Separation – High-Lift Devices – Plume Effects
Application Areas (3/3)
Polyhedral Mesh Turbulence Models Transition Models Tightly-Coupled FSI Mesh Morphing Solution Mapping GSI / Solution Driver Overset Mesh Mesh Adaptation
High-Speed Aerodynamics Fluid-Structure Interaction High-Lift Aerodynamics
Fidelity Systems-Level Modeling Optimization
Industry Analysis Needs / Trends
Fidelity System s-Level Modelin g Optimiz ation
Complex Geometry
Solid 3.3 M Polyhedral Cells Fluid 7.5 M Polyhedral Cells
- CAD Exchange
- Surface wrapper
- Automated Mesh Parameters
- Parts-based Meshing
N E W : A u t
- m
a t i c E d g e P r
- x
i m i t y R e f i n e m e n t
- RANS, LES, DES
- Trimmed Mesher
- Segregated and Coupled Solvers
Transient Analysis
Fidelity System s-Level Modelin g Optimiz ation
Eurocopter: 30x solver speed-up over in-house density-based solver TLG Aerospace: Unsteady buffeting behind rocket payload fairing
- State-of-the-art motion modeling
- STAR-CCM+ unique formulation for
flexibility and accuracy
- Automatic hole-cutting
Overset Mesh
Fidelity System s-Level Modelin g Optimiz ation
N E W : M u l t i p l e O v e r l a p p i n g R e g i
- n
s
- Steady-state
– Broadband noise
- Transient
– Source capture – Mid-Field Prediction – Resonance
- Farfield Propagation
– FW-H
Aeroacoustics
Fidelity System s-Level Modelin g Optimiz ation
- Blade Element Method
– Orders of magnitude less expensive than transient – Thrust (collective pitch) and moment (cyclic pitch) trimming
- Propellers, rotors, fans
Virtual Blade Model
Fidelity System s-Level Modelin g Optimiz ation
Fixed Rotor Trimmed Rotor
N E W : T r i m m a b l e B l a d e E l e m e n t M e t h
- d
( B E M )
- Three-dimensional
– Collection Efficiency – Conjugate Heat Transfer – Runback – Ice Accretion
- One Model / Multiple Analyses
Ice Accretion
N E W : I c e A c c r e t i
- n
/ M e s h M
- r
p h i n g
Collection Efficiency
Baseline geometry Predicted Ice Shape N E W : F l u i d F i l m F r e e z e / T h a w
Fidelity System s-Level Modelin g Optimiz ation
Experimental Ice Shape
- Fluid-structure interaction
– STAR-CCM+ to structural model at fluid/solid interface
- Fluid/solid thermal
– STAR-CCM+ to STAR-CCM+ at fluid/solid interface
- Integration of sub-systems
– STAR-CCM+ to STAR-CCM+ at fluid/fluid, fluid/solid,
- r solid/solid interface
CoSimulation
Fidelity System s-Level Modelin g Optimiz ation
8x Speed Up for full-flight transient thermal
- Understand sensitivity of the
solution to parameter variations
– Geometry changes – Mesh changes – Boundary condition changes
- Drive optimization algorithms
- Provides design insight
– Effective for many design variables
- Future: Error estimates for mesh
refinement
Adjoint Solver
Fidelity System s-Level Modelin g Optimiz ation
- STAR-CCM+ Add-on
– Design Exploration – Design of Experiments – Robustness Analysis – Optimization
- Integrated into the STAR-CCM+
CAD-to-Solution process
- Designed for high-cost objective
functions like CFD
Optimate+
Fidelity System s-Level Modelin g Optimiz ation
Baseline Optimized
Outlet CO reduction due to injector optimization Improved cruise L/D due to control surface location
- CD-adapco continues to innovate the
CAD-to-Solution capabilities of STAR- CCM+
- Addressing the needs and trends
identified by the industry
– Increased fidelity of solutions
- Geometry/Mesh
- Physics
- Numerics