In the race to more environmentally friendly electrical aircrafts, Pipistrel designs a propeller specially adapted for exploiting in-flight power recuperation using CFD optimization.

Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) is the core of the design approach of this vessel. With NUMECA’s software FINE™/Marine, A2V relied entirely on simulation during the design of the fully instrumented 10.5m prototype.

NUMECA presents a comprehensive toolchain for fully coupled simulations, addressing the thermal management of a complete vehicle, drastically reducing overall engineering time by using OMNIS™/Hexpress for meshing and OMNIS™/Open with OpenLabs for the flow and thermal predictions.

"A good mesh is one of the fundamentals to run the CFD analysis successfully. NUMECA's meshing suite significantly reduced our meshing time and improved the mesh quality resulting in better CFD simulations."  OPRA Turbines International BV

 

Numeca USA customer Morrelli & Melvin has been busy using FINE™/Marine for various CFD design optimization projects in the marine industry for the past two and a half years.