AeroDynamic Solutions Inc. (or ADS for short), the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation specialist, has announced the CFD based on its proprietary CFD solver, dubbed Code LEO.
Major new features include:
- Ludicrous-speed resonant stress and aerodamping analysis for turbomachinery applications. Fed up with waiting a week for your simulations to run? Now with ludicrous speed, those sims will take less than a day.
- Exit mass flow control. New in release 7.0, users will be able to specify an exit mass flow target. The software will then modulate the exit static back pressure until the flow rate is achieved.
- User-defined turbulence modeling. New in release 7.0 is the ability to add your own turbulent viscosity model. Implementing it as a dynamic load library, you can develop your own turbulent viscosity module and replace the ADS-provided one.
- Improved multi-threading integration. Apply a dynamic number of threads at runtime for each block and allow for efficient resource allocation.
- Targeted Y+ meshing. WAND will automatically select the near-wall spacing for a Y+ of 1.
- Cantilevered stator support. WAND now supports rotating endwalls for cantilevered stators.
- Rotating nose cone meshing. WAND now automatically creates rotating nose cone meshes.
Updates to the workbench include the following: upgrades to Eclipse 4.7, wizard improvements such as section data autopopulate and OHHH mesh parameter selection, chart customization, zipping and backup cases/projects, version checking, automatic updates and 3D visualization of airfoils in the overview page.
And speaking of airfoils, the updated airfoil designer tool features new updates to the UI and functionality including UI speedup, velocity triangle information, new keyboard shortcuts and a new 3D surface view.
“We continue to incorporate capabilities deemed of high importance to our turbomachinery clients,” said Bob Ni, chairman and CTO of ADS. “ADS CFD 7.0 offers a significant upgrade to our existing capabilities and enables our clients to further streamline aero analysis. The goal at ADS has always been to enable confidence in designs, and ADS 7.0 continues with that tradition.”
ADS CFD v7 is available now, and you can get a 30-day trial here.