Validation of STAR-CCM+ for External Aerodynamics in the Aerospace Industry CD-adapco‟s Commitment To The Aerospace & Defense Industry “CD-adapco is committed to the aerospace industry. I can assure our friends in the aerospace engineering community that we will continue to leverage our experience and expertise in order to provide solutions that have the flexibility to accurately solve this industry's broad range of flow, thermal, and stress problems with unprecedented efficiency.” Steve MacDonald, CD-adapco President What Do You Expect from Your CAE Software? Flexibility • Meshing – Hex, Tet, Poly » Solvers – Segregated, Implicit/Explicit Coupled » Experience • Highly trained and experienced staff in every facet of the company » Efficiency • Leader in software development for HPC, mesh technology, etc. » Accuracy • RAE 2822 » ONERA M6 » Multi-Element Airfoil » Drag Prediction Workshop (Wing-Body) » Joint Common Missile (Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control) » Missile Validation Cases (NAVAIR China Lake) » Impinging Jet & Supersonic Nozzle » 3 What Do You Expect from Your CAE Software? Flexibility • Processes – CAD-Embedded, Surface Wrapping, etc. » Meshing – Hex, Tet, Poly » Solvers – Segregated, Implicit/Explicit Coupled » Experience • Highly trained and experienced staff in every facet of the company » Efficiency • Leader in software development for HPC, mesh technology, etc. » Accuracy • Validated by 30+ years of use & development » Jointly validate by CD-adapco and by our customers » 4 Accuracy For Aerospace Applications “Over the past years, we have used STAR-CCM+ to predict the aerodynamic performance of both commercial and military aircraft. In particular, we ran cases from the 2nd Drag Prediction Workshop and obtained excellent results compared with experiment.” Matt Milne, QinetiQ 28 Years of experience • Proven accuracy by industrial users • Validated and tested at every stage • RAE 2822 Case Definition Mesh: 24,576 cells (369x65 structured C-grid) • M=0.729, a = 2.31, Re=6.5e6 • Coupled implicit solver (2nd order) • 6 RAE 2822 Coupled Solver Convergence 7 RAE 2822 STAR-CCM+ Validation 8 RAE 2822 NASA Code Validation 9 ONERA M6 Validation case University of Czestochowa, Poland • 10
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