FieldView and Intelligent Light News
August 2010
Red Bull Formula 1 driving toward Constructor's and Driver's Championships with help from FieldView centric CFD workflow (PDF)
CFD is a crucial engineering strength at Red Bull Racing where over 80% of their aerodynamic design work is driven by CFD. CFD Team Leader, Nathan Sykes talks about where the challenges and achievements of his team using FieldView and automated CFD post-processing.
Red Bull continues as one of the elite teams in Formula 1, challenging for both the Constructors and Driver's Championships. The RB6 is widely considered the fastest car on the grid. After the Belgium Grand Prix, Red Bull leads the Constructors Championship Standings and Drivers Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel hold 2nd and 3rd position in the Driver's Championship. It is close at the top and every advantage will be important to help this talented team drive to win in the final 6 races of the season.
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May 18, 2010
Capturing maximum value from CFD investments - FieldView drives faster insight, increased productivity
New turbomachinery capabilities, direct OVERFLOW-2 reader delivered in FieldView 12.3
Automated, streamlined workflows; faster paths to deeper data analysis and visualization; innovative batch-only licensing and robust support for high performance computing - FieldView 12.3, the latest release of Intelligent Light's industry-leading CFD post-processing software, delivers these benefits and more to product development organizations seeking improved designs, increased productivity and the maximum return on their CFD investment.
January 31, 2010
Intelligent Light Strengthens and Expands Global FieldView™ Distributor Network
Newest distributor DesignSpokes to serve India, Singapore, Malaysia
Intelligent Light, developer of the industry-leading CFD post-processing FieldView™ software, recently renewed its reseller agreements with its global network of distributors and added India-based DesignSpokes Software & Services to provide local support to FieldView users in India, Singapore and Malaysia.
December 2009
FieldView Webinar: FieldView Basics – Get Started Quickly
The most frequently requested topic for our webinar series is: FieldView Basics. Those new to FieldView will get an excellent introduction to what is possible and how easy it is to get started. Even long-time FieldView users will pick up a few tips on how to do things more quickly and easily and how to improve the overall quality of their images and animations.
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November 16, 2009
Intelligent Light Makes the Benefits of High Performance Computing Accessible to CFD Users at All Levels
Legensky to Deliver Masterworks Presentation on HPC in Wind Energy at SC09 Conference
As the technology world turns its attention to the many facets of supercomputing at the SC09 conference in Portland this week, Intelligent Light, developer of the industry-leading computational fluid dynamics (CFD) post-processing FieldView™ software, is helping engineers, designers, and researchers reap the benefits of today's high performance computing (HPC) resources every day in real world applications.
September 28, 2009
Wind Power Engineering feature: Simulating the Turbine, Simulating the Site
FieldView software from Intelligent Light. Isosurfaces highlight vortex wake structures generated by the wind turbine's rotor blades, the tower and nacelle, and how they interact with one another.
In a cover and feature article, Earl P.N. Duque, manager of Applied Research discusses the challenges and state of the art technologies that are in use today to increase performance and decrease the cost of energy for wind energy.
"Designing the most efficient and effective wind turbine calls for modeling tools that provide accurate, reliable numerical predictions of wind-turbine rotor performance over a machine’s full range of operating conditions. Simulating real-world conditions using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) lets users understand flow phenomena and their effects on the system, better predict the system’s power output, and analyze the types of vibration, fatigue, and other wear-and-tear the wind turbine may experience for the conditions modeled."
September 29, 2009
FieldView Webinar: Get the Most from your Multi-Processor Hardware with FieldView
Significantly reduce Post-Processing time and make better use of your multi-core and multi-processor hardware with FieldView Client-Server and FieldView Parallel. This live demonstration and discussion will show how easily FieldView can be used to:
- Get more done on your multi-core and multi-processor desktop
- Access remote data and handle large data effectively with FieldView Client–Server mode
- xtend Client–Server mode for more servers to learn how to use FieldView in Parallel
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September 26, 2009
IMPORTANT BULLETIN for FV 12.2 Users
If you have installed FieldView 12.2, please log in to the Customer Support Center for an Important Update
August 12, 2009
FieldView 12.2 Exploits Multi-Core Computing for Speed and Performance
Faster parallel performance, improved data handling, enhanced workflow and productivity capabilities, and support for Windows® HPC Server 2008 highlight the release of FieldView version 12.2. The release offers performance improvements of up to 5x when 8 processor cores are used, and is already being used on large HPC systems. Customer driven improvements for automation, computation speed, and new high performance commercial solver interfaces will make FieldView version 12.2 an immediate productivity booster. FieldView 12.2, is a high-performance tool for concurrent and parallel processing of large CFD data.
July 1, 2009
Red Bull Formula 1 Team Races to 1-2 Finishes at Chinese and British Grands Prix using FieldView™ CFD Post-Processing as Critical Engineering Tool
Learning from high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and rapidly turning the results into design decisions is the rule at Red Bull Technology. With several thousand cores of high performance computing (HPC) capacity churning out simulation results 24 hours a day, converting the solution data into key metrics, launching comparative studies, and understanding important flow phenomena requires robust, efficient tools. Red Bull Technology relies on FieldView™ CFD post-processing software from Intelligent Light to turn simulation data into actionable information in this highly productive CFD workflow.
June 3, 2009
FieldView Webinar: More CFD in Less Time with Post-Processing Automation
Learn state-of-the-art methods to improve your productivity by automating your post-processing using straightforward, reliable, and reusable tools unique to your CFD workflow.
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March 11, 2009
ACUSIM Software & Intelligent Light Offer Custom OEM Version of FieldView™ CFD Post-Processing within AcuSolve™ Solution Environment
ACUSIM Software, Inc., and Intelligent Light have released AcuFieldView, a customized version of FieldView for users of ACUSIM's AcuConsole. The software brings powerful data interrogation, presentation tools in an easy to learn tool. AcuFieldView is available immediately from ACUSIM.
January 26, 2009
Intelligent Light Founder, Steve Legensky Named AIAA Associate Fellow
In recognition of significant contributions to CFD in aerospace engineering, Steve M. Legensky, general manager and founder of Intelligent Light, a New Jersey-based software company, has been named an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The honor is given annually to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the "arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics."
January 2009
Making Advanced Parallel Computing Easier
Under a new partnership agreement, Intelligent Light is now using and delivering HP-MPI in its FieldView Parallel product. HP-MPI is supported and optimized for many common platform and OS combinations enabling high-performance operations in multi-vendor HPC environments with straightforward installation and use.
January 1, 2009
FieldView Helps Launch a SmartFish
Desktop Engineering published an article (Jan 2009) featuring the use of FieldView CFD post-processing in the development of a new aircraft concept in development by a small but creative team who's simulation tools are allowing them to develop an aircraft using ingenuity, creativity, and readily available CFD simulation tools.
November 18, 2008
Intelligent Light Addresses Large-Data Bottlenecks in CFD Simulation with FieldView Parallel Capabilities and High Performance Computing
Solving the myriad challenges posed by large-data bottlenecks in CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulation is the goal and the message from Intelligent Light, maker of FieldView™ CFD post-processing software, as SC08, an international conference for high performance computing (HPC), opens this week in Austin, Texas.
August 19, 2008
Large-Scale CFD Post-Processing Gains Significantly Faster Parallel Performance, New Advanced Visualization Tools with FieldView 12.1 Release
Simulation tasks reduced from hours to minutes, even with large, unsteady datasets
FieldView version 12.1 is the fastest version of FieldView ever delivered bringing substantial post-processing performance improvements for multi-core workstations and parallel servers. The performance is complimented by major additions to the renowned FieldView presentation capabilities. The latest release of FieldView brings many new tools to help CFD practitioners improve their capability, productivity, and impact.
July 2008
US Air Force to Pursue In-Situation Turbulent Flow Analysis
A team from Intelligent Light and University of California at Davis will pursue research for the development of Intelligent In-Situ Feature Detection, Tracking & Visualization for Turbulent Flow Simulations. The team has been selected for negotiation of a US Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract. Principal researchers are Dr. Earl P.N. Duque from Intelligent Light and Dr. Kwan-Liu Ma from UC Davis.
May 2008
Intelligent Light and HP together again at HP CAE Tour event in Shanghai, China
July 14, 2008
Following the Intelligent Light participation at HP's CAE Symposium in Long Beach, We will be teaming again to bring ideas and developments from the forefront of post-processing and large data management for CFD simulations. The CAE Symposium and Asia Tour are premier CAE events for customers in multiple industries including aerospace, automotive, semiconductor, consumer electronics, defense, and security. The CAE Symposium featured more than 20 of the industry's leading CAE applications experts, industry speakers, and more than 200 engineers and managers discussing current technology trends in computational engineering.
Intelligent Light General Manager and Founder, Steve Legensky will travel to Shanghai during his Asia-Pac tour next month. He is an invited speaker for this CAE event and will deliver the presentation that he gave at the HP CAE Symposium in the US, titled "Data Management and Post-Processing Techniques for Large-Scale CFD Simulations". The abstract of the presentation is here:
The computational power of scientific computing systems has increased dramatically over the last decade. This massive computing power is no longer restricted to the isolated large scientific computing centers but, through the use of commodity clusters, is now available at relatively low cost to a wide array of academic, research and industry organizations. A consequence of this upsurge in computational power is the rapid increase in the size of subsequent datasets, with unsteady (time-accurate) simulations and parametric studies using 50-100 million grid point models now being conducted with increasing regularity. A fundamental problem with these large size data sets is post-processing - it may take 12-20 hours just to move the CFD results files from one computer network to another. This presentation will present an overview of workflow methodologies to isolate and focus on the important elements of an unsteady flow solution in a productive manner.
March 24, 2008
Upgrade to the latest FieldView release and improve your post-processing capability, productivity, and impact. Special free upgrade for POLYFLOW and FIDAP users.
FieldView Version 12 software has been updated to improve performance, provide bug fixes, and expand platform support. Users are encouraged to download FieldView Version 12.01 software from www.ilight.com. The new release requires no new passwords and is available to all currently supported users of FieldView products. Full information on the release is available on the FieldView 12 page.
POLYFLOW and FIDAP users are eligible for a special program to upgrade your FieldView software. A free upgrade to FieldView 12.01F is available for a limited time.
January 2008
Webinar: High Impact CFD with CD-adapco and FieldView
Learn how to efficiently answer your important questions with CFD simulations. Increase your productivity and make an impact with your results. Join David Vaugn of CD-adapco, and Matthew Godo of Intelligent Light for this special event.
January 9, 2008
Windows Compute Cluster and Windows HPC 2008 Support Announced
With the goal of expanding access to high-performance computing resources for CFD and CAE practitioners worldwide, Intelligent Light is working with Microsoft to deliver new capabilities for the mid-range technical computing market. The collaboration will bring expertise and accessibility together as a part of a turnkey end-to-end solution stack for simulation driven organizations.
January 2008
AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
The 2008 AIAA ASM in Reno, Nevada was attended by many of the leading aerospace CFD practitioners in the world and Intelligent Light was once again a major contributor to this event. FieldView products and Applied Research Group work were on display as we address the twin challenges of working with extremely large data and increasing workflow productivity.
As the event moves on from Reno after over 20 years, our gift to the AIAA community was a great party featuring live music from Big Mike and the Perpetrators. Over 400 people enjoyed the camaraderie, dancing, and live blues music as we celebrated and look ahead to next year's event in Orlando, Florida.
November 2007
Keynote: "Techniques to accelerate post-processing of large and unsteady CFD cases"
Steve Legensky, founder and general manager at Intelligent Light, will be a keynote speaker at the 21st Computational Fluid Dynamics Symposium on Dec 19-21 in Tokyo. The event draws together 500-600 CFD practitioners from all CFD domains including aerospace, automotive, mechanical engineering, and civil engineering. Mr. Legensky's presentation "Techniques to accelerate post-processing of large and unsteady CFD cases" will be a part of the session "Utilization of peta-flops scale supercomputer". Details from the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (Japanese)
November 2007
Intelligent Light to develop scalable post-processing system for aero-acoustics and tera-scale data under NASA Phase II SBIR contract
Intelligent Light was recently selected by the NASA Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program to advance the development of its Rotorcraft Computational Aero-Acoustics Post-processing System or RCAAPS. The two year project will enable efficient post-processing of time-dependent, aero-acoustics simulations that exceed 10 terabytes in size. RCAAPS will bring together modern distributed computing systems, CFD solvers, and post-processing techniques with wholly new approaches to meet the challenges associated with very large unsteady multiphysics simulations. The improvements in post-processing capabilities required by next generation aero-acoustics simulations will benefit the CFD and acoustics community broadly as they are deployed in FieldView products.
October 2007
Time Scale Visualizations in CFD Studies
Ansys Advantage magazine article details the use of FLUENT and FieldView to perform Poincaré analysis to obtain quantitative information on how flow patterns affect overall performance in mixing simulations.
October 2007
Intelligent Light delivers FieldView Version 12, the industry's most comprehensive CFD and CAE post-processing tool. Increased performance for large datasets and extensive feature improvements enhance CFD capability, productivity and impact; FieldView post-processing is now available for structural analysis for the first time.
With support for structural analysis (CAE) simulation data and new data readers, the benefits of FieldView are now available to many more engineering analysts. Support for the growing use of arbitrary polyhedral elements, one-click animation of multiple transient datasets, and improved performance will benefit customers in all industries.
April 2007
Chemical Engineering Progress features Intelligent Light in April cover story "Computational Fluid Dynamics: Power to the People"
"When evaluating CFD results, the criteria used to determine which design is better are becoming increasingly sophisticated," said Matthew Godo, Ph.D., FieldView product manager. “Using the appropriate post-processing tool provides the best way to answer complex questions about device performance and process efficiency."
"The ability to present the data in a way that makes sense to all these people without CFD expertise is critical to the acceptance and reliance on CFD for decision making," - Roger R. Rintala, Strategic Marketing Manager
Read the entire article (PDF 276K)
Shown are the four mixing blades inside a static mixer, with the shear stress contoured on each. The coordinate plane shows velocity vectors, colored by speed or velocity magnitude. In the histogram created for each blade, the vertical axis shows the percentage area that is covered for a particular range of shear stress. For blade 1, for instance, most of the area (about 18%) is at the l west shear plotted. As you go from blade 1 to blade 4, the maximum shear increases — which is counter-intuitive. For many static mixers, there is often a critical shear stress beyond which the final emulsion can become ruined. Such analysis lets the designer know exactly where a critical shear may be reached and offers guidance for fixing the problem.
January 8, 2007
Intelligent Light Awarded NASA SBIR for Development of Specialized Post-Processing System for Large, Unsteady CFD Simulations
Intelligent Light has been awarded a NASA Phase 1 SBIR contract to develop a specialized prototype post-processing system designed for large rotorcraft acoustics problems. This system is designated as RCAAPS - Rotorcraft Computational Aero-Acoustics Post-processing System.
December 21, 2006
FieldView global sales and support network expands as Intelligent Light signs new reseller agreement with CD-adapco Japan to serve CFD market in China
Intelligent Light is pleased to announce an important new distribution agreement with CD-adapco Japan. The new agreement will, for the first time, make the FieldView family of products available in China through CDAJ-China, an established organization with CFD expertise.
November 15, 2006
Intelligent Light’s Applied Research Group - Advancing the State of the Art in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Accelerating Customer Projects
Intelligent Light has expanded its reach and ability to help CFD practitioners by establishing the Applied Research Group headed by Dr. Earl P. N. Duque. The impact of the Applied Research Group is already being felt on the leading edge of CFD and will advance the state of the art in CFD for years to come. Beneficiaries of the work include Intelligent Light customers, users of the FieldView CFD post-processing software and the CFD community in general. The group’s capabilities have already been demonstrated in its collaborations and contracted efforts with a number of HPC users, and through its contributions to the academic community via research collaborations at leading universities and national research laboratories.
October 9, 2006
CFD at Volvo is keynote presentation at VINAS Users' Group Meeting
Intelligent Light is a proud to sponsor the participation of Mr. Anders Jonson, Senior CFD Engineer, Thermodynamics, at Volvo Car Corporation’s Fluid Dynamics Center in Sweden. Mr. Jonson’s keynote presentation is will discuss vehicle development at Volvo Cars using Computational Fluid Dynamics
At Volvo Cars, CFD has become an integral part of the engineering and design optimization process. Examples of CFD applications ranging from everyday tasks to future challenges will be presented and discussed.
Intelligent Light General Manager, Steve Legensky will also deliver a presentation on post-processing techniques for large, unsteady CFD datasets. Large-scale, time-dependent CFD simulations of complex configurations have become increasingly critical in aerospace and automotive design. Post-processing and data management techniques for such huge data sets will be presented, focusing on reliability and easy operation.
The 2006 VINAS Users' Group Meeting will be held October 26-27, 2006 in Tokyo, Japan . For more information, please visit www.vinas.com
September 28, 2006
Post-processing Techniques for Large-Scale Unsteady CFD Datasets
A single time step of an unsteady helicopter blade simulation. A moving iso-surface is interactively visualized using FieldView ATViewer and shows the complex airflow patterns.
Dr. Earl P. N. Duque delivered this presentation at the Overset Grids Symposium Houston, Texas on October 4, 2006. The presentation discussed approaches to the post-processing of large-scale, unsteady CFD datasets.
The presentation is co-authored by Steve M. Legensky of Intelligent Light and is a major topic at the 2006 VINAS User's Group Meeting in Tokyo.
This presentation is of particular interest to CFD practitioners who work with transient simulations and includes:
- Comparisons of historical and emerging approaches
- Specific concerns when working with Overset grids
- Methods and productivity
- Data Management
- Application of FieldView Parallel and FieldView ATViewer
- Examples of unsteady wind turbine and rotorcraft simulations
August 29, 2006
Intelligent Light announces FieldView 11.1
New capabilities for working with large CFD simulations. Scalability, workflow automation, and advanced numerical comparison capabilities back a major new release.
January 9, 2006
Intelligent Light exhibits at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
Intelligent Light exhibits at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Reno, Nevada where many of the world’s top aerospace CFD practitioners will experience the latest developments in big CFD data post-processing and visualization, results interpretation, collaboration, and presentation capabilities. FieldView continues to be the post-processor of choice for the aerospace industry and for mission-critical CFD users worldwide.
November 2, 2005
Intelligent Light releases FieldView 11 post-processor with new productivity and capability features including the FieldView Advanced Technology Viewer tool
FieldView 11 is now shipping and brings dramatic new capabilities to CFD post-processing and visualization. The lead feature improvements are Dynamic Clipping, Geometric Streamline Seeding, and FieldView ATViewer. Both give users new capabilities and greatly enhance their productivity. Supported platforms cover a broader range of both 64b-it and 32-bit platforms.
HPC community recognizes FieldView technology solutions
New FieldView capabilities for working with very large data earned Intelligent Light a selection as a finalist for the SC|05 HPC Analytics Challenge during the IEEE Supercomputing conference in Seattle. The new FieldView Advanced Technology Viewer and the related data management technology is the engine behind the submission. The new FieldView Advanced Technology Viewer allows users to ask entirely new questions using HPC simulations and to make a far greater impact with their results. Large, unsteady CFD simulations can be explored with fluid interaction, fidelity, and realism unachievable with existing technologies.