Model generation capabilities include the following:

• Complex scenarios with one or more vessels
• Parametric model generation and job execution
• Automatic adaptive mesh refinement

 

The physics engine allows simulation of the following phenomena:

• 3D, dynamic, unsteady, multi-fluid, fluid-structure
• All aero/hydrodynamic forces and moments
• 6 DOF vessel dynamics
• Free surfaces
• Wind, wave and tidal streams
• Aero and hydro acoustics

HALCYON CFD has potential applications in a range of areas where knowledge of the effects of marine fluid dynamics is required, including:

• Vessel and offshore structure design
• Harbour and channel design
• Marine and maritime simulation
• Vessel performance estimation and optimisation
• Vessel operations training, planning and support
• Hydrodynamics research
• Environmental studies
• Signature analysis – wake and acoustic profiles
• Human factors and ergonomics

HALCYON CFD aims to transform the simulation and analysis process by significantly improving the speed, fidelity and usability of CFD simulation software for:

• Faster results and increased productivity
• Improved accuracy and higher design quality
• Reduced analysis and design costs

These benefits are realised through:

• Efficient solution algorithms that can be significantly faster than Open FOAM in unsteady flow marine simulations
• Remarkably efficient capability across HPC systems with several thousand cores and models up to one billion cells
• Automatic, adaptive mesh generation, eliminating the need for manual mesh tuning
• Parametric modeling, using Python, allowing model and component reuse
• High speed solver, allowing finer mesh sizes and smaller time steps for greater flow detail
• Modeling is linear in space and cubic in time, with consideration of compressibility effects, including aero-hydro acoustics