Intelligent Light and FieldView

Seeking Aerodynamic Perfection in Pixels and Wind

F1 Teams Look for Aerodynamic Advantages in Wind Tunnel Tests and CFD Simulation

• Seeking Aerodynamic Perfection in Pixels and Wind
  
• Riding on the Speed of Additive Manufacturing and HPC
  

In the 1960s, F1 cars began to sprout wings. The so-called airfoils operate much like aircraft wings, but in reverse. Whereas airplanes use their wings to create lift, race cars use theirs to create negative lift, or downforce. "The most obvious aerodynamic devices on a Formula One car are the front and rear wings, which together account for around 60% of overall downforce (with the floor responsible for the majority of the rest)," FIA explains.

For most F1 engineers, the race began long before the car's tire touches the track. Their quest for aerodynamic advantages began in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) programs and wind tunnel tests.

"The role of FieldView is from when the solver run ends to when the engineer makes a decision. The software focuses on reducing the movement of results files which, in the case of F1 teams, could be massive. In minimizing data movement, it increases the CFD solution's performance and nimbleness. The software also emphasizes data management, allowing small packages of data to replace large results files while maintaining full numerical fidelity."

Steve Legensky, General Manager and Founder, Intelligent Light

Torbjörn Larsson of Creo Dynamics AB is working on Formula 1 overtake simulations. FieldView images by Intelligent Light.

"Formula One puts more stress on CFD than anybody else we know. We work with NASA, Boeing, Lockheed, and the Department of Energy, but F1 demands daily turnaround on multi-million-cell models to understand the smallest design details or the impact of weather. They want both fidelity and
speed."

Steve Legensky, General Manager and Founder, Intelligent Light

 Powerful CFD Post-Processor Enriches Altair Partner Alliance Offering

FieldView Strengthens HyperWorks CFD Post Processing Automation and Design Capabilities with Reduced Cycle Times

Intelligent Light has been selected by Altair to extend their CFD post-processing capability by delivering FieldView Express, building on a relationship that already provides AcuFieldView to Altair's AcuSolve™ CFD users. The Partner Alliance provides on-demand FieldView Express capabilities to Altair customers performing CFD with a variety of solvers. 

"FieldView Express is designed for quick and easy activation through the Altair Partner Alliance," said Steve M. Legensky, Founder and General Manager at Intelligent Light. "We hope to enable Altair's large engineering audience with the benefits of a powerful CFD post-processor in this easy to use package. Intelligent Light is proud to join the APA, building upon our relationship with Altair through which we provide AcuFieldView for the HyperWorks® CFD code AcuSim."

With FieldView Express, it is easy to create and deliver compelling animations, visualizing your data and supporting your analyses. Videos can be saved in MP4 format, ready for use with PowerPoint or YouTube. 3D PDFs exported from FieldView Express are easily shared with clients and management and will add interactive analysis to reports and presentations. Every FieldView Express license is a parallel license and parallel processes enable faster data reads allowing users to tackle problems of greater size and fidelity than they could have attempted previously. 

"We are pleased to further extend our partnership with Intelligent Light on CFD post processing," said Stephen Cosgrove, VP of CFD Business Development at Altair. "Our customers have told us they use multiple CFD solvers to perform their work. FieldView Express with its support of multiple solver readers allows them to standardize their CFD post processing on the most powerful, solver neutral CFD post processor available. This will enable our customers to achieve a greater degree of CFD post processing automation which will allow them to engineer better designs with reduced CFD cycle times."

This month, Aerospace Fluid Science Summer School 2017 was held at Urabandai, Fukushima, Japan. 49 students, professors and researchers from 12 universities and organizations participated this year. The goal of this event is for students to present their work then receive comments and suggestions from professors and students outside of their universities. 

​The number of participants has increased greatly year after year. This has limited discussion time with each student in the conventional conference style. In response, starting this year, a poster session style was employed. This made more detailed discussion with each student possible.

We were glad to help the students and advance aerospace education by supporting this event . We are particularly proud to see students from our University Partners at Tohoku University and Tokyo University of Electro-Communications.

航空宇宙流体科学サマースクール2017を協賛しました

9月7日から9日にかけて、福島県裏磐梯にて航空宇宙流体科学サマースクール2017が開催されました。今年は12の組織から49名の方々が参加されました。本サマースクールの目的は学生さん達に研究結果のみならず、問題やアイデアなども発表していただき普段ゆっくりお話しできる機会の少ない他の大学や研究機関の方々から助言をいただく事で す。

年々参加者が増え、学会のような発表形式では一人の学生に割ける時間が限られてきたため、今回よりポスターセッション形式が採用されました。結果学生さん達一人一人とじっくり話をすることができました。

弊社はこのイベントの開催に協力する事により、学生さん達の研究のお役に立つことが出来とてもうれしく思っております。また弊社のUniversity Partnerである東北大学および東京電気通信大学からも参加していただけ嬉しく思っております。

http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/edge/j_summerschool.html

​Intelligent Light welcomes two new CFD experts to our team:

• Dr. Steve Makinen, Custom Engineered Solutions (CES) team, brings a wealth of knowledge and experience shaping Flight Sciences technology.
  
• Seth Lawrence, Applied Research Group (ARG), adds a specialist with expertise in Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) for CFD.
  

Aerospace America Advertisement – October 2017 (click to enlarge)