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On-Demand Webinar - End-to-end Design and Modeling of Turbo Compressors for Hydrogen Applications

Hydrogen fuel is considered one of the most promising means to achieve decarbonization and reach the world's ambitious CO2…

AnneMarie CFD
AnneMarie CFD 12 Jan 2023 • 1 min read
CFD , featured , turbomachinery , webinars , Computational Fluid Dynamics

On-Demand Webinar: Making the Shipping Sector Greener by Leveraging CFD

CFD tools have become commonplace to optimize vessel design and reduce lifetime fuel emissions. In this webinar, learn how…

AnneMarie CFD
AnneMarie CFD 4 Jan 2023 • less than a min read
CFD , Marine Engineering , shipping , FINE Marine , featured

Fidelity CFD Mesh Adaptation that Respects Geometry and Reduces Runtime

Fidelity CFD mesh adaptation technique respects geometry, improves mesh quality, adapts to the near-wall shear layers, and…

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 6 Dec 2022 • 3 min read
CFD , featured , Meshing Monday , Pointwise , Mesh Refinement
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On-Demand Webinar - How to Efficiently Mesh Complex Tip Blades with High Accuracy

Learn how the Cadence Fidelity CFD Platform can simulate complex turbomachinery configurations, maintaining high-accuracy flow results and a quick turnaround time for a short engineering product cycle. We will mesh a turbine blade with complex tip geometry in the Fidelity CFD platform, and complete the analysis with a conjugate heat transfer (CHT) simulation using Fidelity CFD’s pressure-based solver.

AnneMarie CFD
AnneMarie CFD 2 Feb 2023 • 1 min read
CFD , fluid simulations , turbomachinery , webinars , Pointwise , Computational Fluid Dynamics , webinar , fluid dynamics , fidelity , Fidelity CFD , CFD Applications , simulation software , Mesh Generation , Turbo , Cadence CFD , Meshing , Fidelity Pointwise , simulation

Hull Shape Optimization Reduces Ferry Fuel Consumption by 13%

CFD can provide an accurate understanding of ship performance and show us where and how to optimize ship designs for minimal fuel consumption. Read how this ferry company managed to reduce fuel consumption by 13% - and save USD 337,000 per year operating two engines on one boat - through CFD optimization.

AnneMarie CFD
AnneMarie CFD 1 Feb 2023 • 2 min read
CFD , Marine Engineering , shipping , FINE Marine , Fidelity Optimization , marine design , naval architecture , marine , fine/marine , Computational Fluid Dynamics , Cadence Fidelity , fluid dynamics , Fidelity CFD , CFD Applications , simulation software , naval

Limitless Export Formats with Fidelity Pointwise CAE Plugins

One of the best things about Fidelity Pointwise is that it fits well into any company's analysis process. Pointwise reads and writes a variety of geometry and grid formats, so you can import files from other design and analysis tools and export them to any other software to be used for the next step in the process.

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 29 Jan 2023 • 2 min read
CFD , Meshing Monday , engineering , simulation software , Mesh Generation , Cadence CFD , Fidelity Pointwise , Plugins

Opra Turbines: Gas Dispersion Analysis and Explosion Protection of a Gas Turbine

"A good mesh is one of the fundamentals to run the CFD analysis successfully. Cadence's meshing suite significantly reduced our meshing time and improved the mesh quality resulting in better CFD simulations." OPRA Turbines International BV. Read about how they use Fidelity Automesh in their workflow, describing the particular case of designing a marine version of their OP16 gen-set for use onboard ships.

AnneMarie CFD
AnneMarie CFD 26 Jan 2023 • 4 min read
CFD , turbomachinery , Computational Fluid Dynamics , Cadence Fidelity , fluid dynamics , Fidelity CFD , CFD Applications , simulation software , Mesh Generation , Cadence CFD , Meshing

Last Week at Fidelity CFD

While a large contingent of Fidelity CFD team members are at the AIAA SciTech Forum this week, let's take a look back at what happened here last week. This post's featured image is a blast from the past of flow through a valve. (Image created...

John Chawner
John Chawner 23 Jan 2023 • 2 min read
CFD , turbomachinery , Computational Fluid Dynamics , fluid dynamics , T-Rex meshing , Fidelity CFD , Aerospace Engineering , cadencelive , Mesh Generation , Conferences

5 Small Features for Easy Meshing in Fidelity Pointwise

The big powerful features such as unstructured quadrilateral surface meshing, unstructured hexahedral layer extrusion in the anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion (T-Rex) technique, and tetrahedral mesh clustering sources often overshadow the small yet formidable features in Fidelity Pointwise. This blog enlists the top five small features for easy meshing in Fidelity Pointwise.

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 23 Jan 2023 • 2 min read
CFD , Meshing Monday , Cell count , Small Features , engineering , simulation software , Mesh Generation , Cadence CFD , Fidelity Pointwise

Why Use T-Rex Hybrid Meshing?

As a CFD practitioner, have you experienced difficulty generating meshes in regions where the flow changes rapidly, especially along the boundary layer or wall boundary? At your rescue is the Fidelity Pointwise T-Rex meshing for near-body or boundary layer meshing with special handling of symmetry boundaries.

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 16 Jan 2023 • 4 min read
CFD , surface meshing , Pointwise , T-Rex meshing , Fidelity CFD , engineering , simulation software , Mesh Generation , hybrid meshing

Last Week at Fidelity CFD

Happy New Year and welcome to the first post of 2023 when we look back at what's been happening here at Cadence Fidelity CFD. From the Blogs Women in CFD with Fanny Besem-Cordova For the December post of the Women in CFD series, we have Fanny Be...

John Chawner
John Chawner 12 Jan 2023 • 3 min read
CFD , Marine Engineering , FINE Marine , AIAA SciTech , webinars , Computational Fluid Dynamics , cadencelive , Mesh Generation , Conferences

On-Demand Webinar - End-to-end Design and Modeling of Turbo Compressors for Hydrogen Applications

Hydrogen fuel is considered one of the most promising means to achieve decarbonization and reach the world's ambitious CO2 reduction goals. However, processing, transporting, and storing this gas in the current infrastructure is possible only with adapted and dedicated rotating equipment. This webinar will demonstrate how to design turbo compressors for hydrogen applications with Fidelity CFD efficiently and accurately…

AnneMarie CFD
AnneMarie CFD 12 Jan 2023 • 1 min read
CFD , featured , turbomachinery , webinars , Computational Fluid Dynamics , Cadence Fidelity , fluid dynamics , Fidelity CFD , Turbo , Cadence CFD

Easing the CFD Engineer's Life with Automated Meshing

Mesh generation is where the user’s expertise and ingenuity can influence the convergence and accuracy of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution by selecting mesh type, topology, and cell quality. Explore how solid model assembly, surface meshing, and volume meshing can be automated in Fidelity Pointwise

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 8 Jan 2023 • 5 min read
CFD , Automated meshing , T-Rex meshing , engineering , simulation software , Mesh Generation , Cadence CFD , Fidelity Pointwise

On-Demand Webinar: Making the Shipping Sector Greener by Leveraging CFD

CFD tools have become commonplace to optimize vessel design and reduce lifetime fuel emissions. In this webinar, learn how Fine Marine offers solutions for: trim and hull-shape optimization, calculating energy efficiency indices (EEXI and EEDI) and evaluating alternatives to classic propulsion methods and designs.

AnneMarie CFD
AnneMarie CFD 4 Jan 2023 • less than a min read
CFD , Marine Engineering , shipping , FINE Marine , featured , marine design , naval architecture , marine , Computational Fluid Dynamics , webinar , fluid dynamics , CFD Applications , Cadence CFD , naval

Defining a Good Grid for Solution Accuracy

CFD practitioners must decide on several simulation aspects, such as solution algorithms, turbulence models, and convergence schemes. Simultaneously, understanding the consequences of their choices regarding the computational mesh is essential for generating high-fidelity simulation results.

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 2 Jan 2023 • 5 min read
Mesh quality metrics , Meshing Monday , advection , Computational Fluid Dynamics , Solution Accuracy , engineering , simulation software , Cadence CFD , Meshing , Fidelity Pointwise

On-Demand Webinar: LMG Marin Cuts Time and Costs in Ship Design Using Fine Marine

LMG Marin is a naval architecture design and engineering office working on commercial ships, such as ferries, tankers, tugs, and catamarans. In recent years, the role of CFD in their processes has grown considerably, and it has replaced towing tank tests in most of their designs. Watch this on-demand webinar, where we demonstrate using Fine Marine at different stages in our design workflow.

AnneMarie CFD
AnneMarie CFD 21 Dec 2022 • 1 min read
CFD , Marine Engineering , marine design , webinars , marine , fine/marine , Computational Fluid Dynamics , fluid dynamics , CFD Applications , simulation software

Women in CFD with Fanny Besem-Cordova

For the December post of the Women in CFD series, we have Fanny Besem-Cordova, principal application engineer at Cadence, to inspire us through her career journey. She is a woman with multiple talents and a great role model for those who aspire to excel at work and co-curricular activities. Read our conversation to know more about Fanny and her journey in the world of CFD.

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 20 Dec 2022 • 6 min read
CFD , Pointwise , fluid dynamics , WomenAtCadence , Fidelity CFD , women in engineering , simulation software , NUMECA , Women in CFD

Last Week at Fidelity CFD

Let's take one last look during 2022 of what's happening here at Fidelity CFD.  From the Blogs Fidelity CFD Mesh Adaptation that Respects Geometry and Reduces Runtime Mesh adaptation is a common technique employed to help improve simula...

John Chawner
John Chawner 19 Dec 2022 • 3 min read
CFD , Marine Engineering , FINE Marine , turbomachinery , Pointwise , Computational Fluid Dynamics , fluid dynamics , Fidelity CFD , cadencelive , Mesh Generation

Adhering to User Preferences with Entity Selection

It is often a cumbersome task to select the entities that ought to be modified individually. But with Fidelity Pointwise, every aspect of a CFD grid can be manipulated. It has tools beyond the traditional point-and-click to help users quickly select and work with objects individually and collectively for quick and efficient management of various entities.

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 19 Dec 2022 • 4 min read
CFD , user preferences , Meshing Monday , engineering , simulation software , entity selection , Mesh Generation , Cadence CFD , Fidelity Pointwise

Last Week at Fidelity CFD

The year 2022 may be coming to an end, but Cadence Fidelity CFD never stops. Here's our weekly review of what we've got going on. From the Blogs Fidelity CFD Mesh Adaptation that Respects Geometry and Reduces Runtime Mesh adaptation can be u...

John Chawner
John Chawner 12 Dec 2022 • 3 min read
CFD , Pointwise , Computational Fluid Dynamics , adaptation , Mesh Generation

Play by the Rules – Identify and Fix Mesh Quality Issues Right Away!

The physical models, the solver algorithm, the grid type, the available computer resources, desired outputs, desired level of accuracy, organization's best practices truly determine a grid's acceptability. Using Fidelity Pointwise’s Rules command, one can monitor and verify the specified grid requirements at any time during the meshing process.

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 12 Dec 2022 • 4 min read
CFD , Meshing Monday , Mesh metrics , Commands , mesh quality , engineering , simulation software , Cadence CFD , Fidelity Pointwise

Fidelity CFD Mesh Adaptation that Respects Geometry and Reduces Runtime

Fidelity CFD mesh adaptation technique respects geometry, improves mesh quality, adapts to the near-wall shear layers, and reduces run-time for improved CFD solutions.

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 6 Dec 2022 • 3 min read
CFD , featured , Meshing Monday , Pointwise , Mesh Refinement , Fidelity CFD , simulation software , NUMECA , Meshing , mesh adaptation

Last Week at Fidelity CFD

It's a new week in CFD and time to refresh our memories about what's going on here at Cadence Fidelity CFD. From The Blogs Cadence and McLaren Accelerate Innovation During a recent visit to the Cadence office in Austin, Texas, McLaren CEO Za...

John Chawner
John Chawner 5 Dec 2022 • 3 min read
CFD , thermal management , Pointwise , Computational Fluid Dynamics , fluid dynamics , Fidelity CFD , Mesh Generation

Smooth Extrusion for Accurate Viscous Flow Simulation

An optimization-based smoothing technique in Fidelity Pointwise promises to accurately resolve the boundary layers in a viscous flow by extruding a mix of prisms and hexahedra.

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 5 Dec 2022 • 3 min read
CFD , Meshing Monday , Fidelity CFD , engineering , simulation software , hybrid meshes , Mesh Generation , Onera M6 , viscous flow

Giving EV Batteries a Second Life

With the roads flooded with electric vehicles worldwide, it is on us to give EV batteries a second life, which would count as an effort to reduce e-waste and achieve the net zero emission targets set by policymakers.

Veena Parthan
Veena Parthan 1 Dec 2022 • 4 min read
Battery Performance , electric vehicles , Battery Thermal Management , Computational Fluid Dynamics , Fidelity CFD , engineering , simulation software , EV batteries

I’m Samuel Afari and This Is How I Mesh

Hi, I’m Samuel Afari and I’m a CFD Applications Engineering Intern at Cadence. I am currently a PhD candidate at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. I also did my MSc in Aerospace Engineering at the same school...

John Chawner
John Chawner 30 Nov 2022 • 8 min read
This Is How I Mesh , machine learning , fidelity , acoustics , OpenFOAM , Fidelity DBS , internship , SU2

Webinar on Dec 1: Advanced Pre-Processing and Unstructured Meshing in Fidelity 2022.2

Join us for a CadenceTECHTALK (aka webinar) to learn how the upcoming release of Fidelity CFD software significantly extends the capabilities of our pre-processing and unstructured meshing solutions. We'll demonstrate: Better performance for lar...

John Chawner
John Chawner 28 Nov 2022 • less than a min read
CFD , geometry modeling , Computational Fluid Dynamics , webinar , fidelity , Mesh Generation

Upcoming Webinar about Adaptive Grid Refinement

Unstructured meshing can automate much of the mesh generation process, saving significant engineering time and cost. However, controlling numerical errors resulting from the discrete mesh requires adaptation to the developing solution. Join this webinar to learn how Cadence CFD Adaptive Grid Generation methods use a continuous-size field that gets updated as the solution progresses. As a result, adherence to the underlying…

AnneMarie CFD
AnneMarie CFD 23 Nov 2022 • 1 min read
CFD , Pointwise , Computational Fluid Dynamics , fluid dynamics , Fidelity CFD , CFD Applications , Mesh Generation , Meshing
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