Concurrent CFD for Sports Applications – Design, Test, Validate

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MECHANICAL ANALYSIS Sports Engineering

Mentor Graphics’ Mechanical Analysis Division is one of the top three CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) vendors in the world today and has been the leader in multiCAD-embedded CFD for the last 20 years. Using Mentor Graphics’ award winning CFD software simulation solutions, designers, mechanical engineers and CFD analysts are overcoming sports related fluid flow barriers and sports & leisure equipment manufacturing challenges in upfront flow related design through to manufacture and post-installation verification.

Analysts & Designers Achieve High ROI Ratios Using Mentor’s Unique Concurrent CFD SolutionCompared to traditional CFD approaches which are time-intensive in the pre-processing (geometry and meshing) stages, Mentor has pioneered a unique CAD-embedded approach with its FloEFD productline. FloEFD’s elegant and industrially validated seven integrated technologies are designed to eliminate historical bottlenecks in CFD simulation in hours and days rather than days and weeks, allowing it to be used both in the critical upfront “what if..?” design stage and concurrently throughout a product’s design cycle. Being natively multiCAD-embedded CFD (inside Siemens NX™, CATIA V5®, Creo Parametric™, and SolidWorks®) and Autodesk Inventor-integrated, FloEFD provides designers and specialists supporting the design of sports equipment with powerful fluid flow and thermal analysis capabilities that fit within real world industrial workflows.

FloEFD simulation of 100mph World Record -breaking Bernico F2 Speed boat (courtesy of Voxdale B.V.)

“We use FloEFD to direct our efforts onto which R&D areas would yield the highest rewards in terms of aerodynamic performance. The Concurrent CFD CAD-embedded approach that Mentor Graphics has pioneered fits into our design process perfectly.“

Kristan Bromley, CEO Bromley Technologies & Bob Skeleton former World Champion

“FloEFD will help us to continue improving our design processes and enhance our product range with an unprecedented level of virtual prototyping.”

John K. Solheim, V.P. Engineering, Ping

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The Return on Investment (ROI) on using FloEFD can be very high with product design and manufacturing process improvements paying for the cost of the software within a few months. Many users report orders of magnitude improvement and usable CFD predictions without the hassles of having to be experts in CFD meshing and “CAD jockey” geometry knowhow. FloEFD is engineering software than can be dipped into and out of during your work year as your business needs demand. Since FloEFD is embedded (or integrated) into all popular CAD tools, it does not require you to learn how to use a new interface. And because FloEFD uses native CAD data, it takes advantage of the same CAD data management structures; thereby enabling you to work within a single user interface environment without ever disrupting your established design workflow.

FloEFD’s Wide-Ranging Sports & Leisure Applications

Today in elite sport the difference between winning and losing can be 0.001 seconds or 1mm and even in leisure sports equipment design and manufacture the demand for cutting edge technological innovation at an ever-increasing rate is mounting. FloEFD can help in understanding and improving aerodynamic and hydrodynamic flows, equipment manufacturing processes, climate control in sports stadia and rooms, and even in biomedical related flows. With the Sports & Leisure Industry predicted to continue growing in the 21st Century, the realization of design foresights, manufacturing insights and competitive advantage for your applications is now more achievable with Mentor’s cutting-edge CFD tools.

With the increasing need to understand fluid flow phenomena within sport in real time, and to speed up the test and release of many new sports & leisure products, the FloEFD CFD solution from Mentor Graphics’ Mechanical Analysis Division can help sports engineering designers and CFD analysts with the following issues:

■ Diagnose fluid flow and heat transfer phenomena for your sports application within your native CAD environment

■ Rapidly analyse underlying geometrical features and related flow phenomena

■ Optimize athlete positions and sports equipment shapes in a “virtual wind tunnel” at a fraction of the cost of alternative testing or experimental approaches

■ Reduce your time-to-market and speed up your product development cycle

■ Increase your design productivity and reduce production costs together with improvements to your product quality

(Courtesy of Voxdale B.V. and WB-Sails)

Detailed air flow related features behind a Badminton Shuttlecock and an Ice Hockey Puck geometry illustrating FloEFD’s solution-adapted immersed boundary cartesian meshing