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SP80, Simerics, and Orca3D Partner to Create the World’s Fastest Sailboat.
Orca3D Marine CFD is enabling SP80 to break the current world record of 65.45 knots by a sailboat using CFD software
BELLEVUE, WA March 2 2020 – Orca3D and Simerics, developing Orca3D Marine CFD, are collaborating with SP80 as part of their sailboat design project to break Paul Larsen’s sailing speed record set in 2012. Started in 2019, SP80 has a four-year plan to develop, build, and tune their revolutionary boat using CFD to break the current record. Using CFD is allowing SP80 to quickly simulate alternative designs with Orca3D Marine CFD software without the long learning curve typically associated with CFD. SP80 boat design leverages super-ventilating hydrofoils and an innovative kite power management system. The SP80 design team can now use Orca3D Marine CFD to better understand this particular sailboat and how to make it go faster without the need to become a CFD specialist.
By working together, Simerics, Inc. and Orca3D have enabled SP80 to test different boat designs and also save thousands of hours of water testing by using CFD simulation software.
“SP80 will be the first sailboat to ever reach the speed of 80knots. Therefore, understanding how it reacts within its environment is a crucial mission. At these speeds, you can’t afford to just build, test, crash and learn. We must have a precise idea of the dynamic stability of our hull while minimizing its drag. This is what Orca 3D Marine CFD simulations will enable us to achieve.” said Xavier Lepercq, co-founder of SP80 and CTO. “We are very excited to use Orca3D Marine CFD simulation to break the world’s sailing speed record and help sailboat designers around the world gain even more confidence in applying CFD to their sailboat designs, just as we are doing with SP80.”
“Orca3D Marine CFD is providing additional knowledge about how to make the SP80 sailboat go very fast without the past requirement of having a PhD in CFD. In other words, CFD experience not required for Naval Architects and Marine Engineers,” said Rich Moore, Executive Vice President, Strategy, OEMs, Partners, at Simerics, Inc.
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Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Engineer the Un-seeable
Please read the PTC’s blog post written by Rich Moore, Executive VP Strategy, OEMs, Partners at Simerics, Inc. :
What if all CAD users could see the un-seeable in their designs? For example, air, the inside of a bubble, heat, nitrogen, oxygen, pressure, pressure forces, or even water (because it’s usually in a pipe or in a pump or under the earth or seeping into your house).
Let’s call these un-seeables in your CAD designs and models, digital fluids. If you could model these digital fluids in your CAD system, you could save your company dollars in hardware prototyping costs and offer your customers lower cost products with the money you save.
To model digital fluids (the internal volume, external volume, or combination of both), we need an extraction tool in our CAD system. There’s a good rumor going around that Creo Flow Analysis, a PTC product, has this capability and it works on and inside of Creo Parametric models. Yes, it’s true; you can now extract fluid volumes automatically from Creo Parametric, using Creo Flow Analysis.
These fluid volumes make computational fluid dynamics (CFD) usable by CAD users. The CAD user now has a digital fluids model—fully associative with systems like Creo, Windchill, Vuforia Studio, and Creo Simulate. So if you change the model, your CFD settings in Creo Flow Analysis remain the same, saving you tedious labor time and costs no matter if you do this work in house today or outsource it. And it’s fully part of your digital thread.
Digital fluids cover the following: fluids; heat; fluids and heat (conjugate heat transfer). All things that you can’t 3D print or prototype. But since you can’t print air or the inside of a bubble or heat, you would typically make a prototype(s) and watch the digital fluids run and operate in the physical world. Or you might hand the problem over to an analyst or outsource it to a specialist.
With Creo Flow Analysis, that’s no longer necessary.
Use it for things like the inside/outside of a blower, fan, a black box, valve, pump, compressor, heat exchanger, car, plane, propeller, water jet, tank, pipe, duct work, or gear boxes. The digital fluids results from Creo Flow Analysis are prototype accurate within 1% of how the un-seeable (heat and air) portion of your designs actually work.
To create Creo Flow Analysis, PTC partnered with Simerics, Inc., a company with 14 years’ experience developing high-end CFD for analysts. Together, the two companies produced a usable, affordable, and prototype accurate tool just for Creo users.
Now you can make accurate digital prototypes for the un-seeable using Creo Flow Anlaysis. Seeing is believing, and if you haven’t had a chance to look at Creo Flow Analysis from PTC and Simerics, you might see something in your product that you have never seen before!
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A Foolproof Approach to Flow Analysis
Please visit the page https://www.ptc.com/en/cad-
software-blog/foolproof-flow- analysis-demo to see Creo Flow Analysis demo. The interactive tool allows you to choose your options, so you can predict fluid flow (internal or external) quickly and easily. -
Creo Flow Analysis Free Workshop
Join us for a Creo Flow Analysis Free Workshop.
I will be held at Elite Engineering Services in Bothell, WA on Friday April 24th, 2020 @9:30am
To register and find out more information please click here
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Webinar with Orca3D Marine CFD: Maneuvering and Other Advanced Features
Join us on February 26th for a webinar showcasing the advanced analyses available in the Premium version of Orca3D Marine CFD. Join CFD experts from Orca3D and Simerics, Inc. to learn how you can affordably improve your designs with computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Please click here to register.
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