About NUMECA International

NUMECA International is a pioneering provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and consulting services worldwide. NUMECA software is used for the simulation, design and optimization of fluid flow and heat transfer. It is used by product developers, design and research engineers, allowing them to reach superior product quality and performances, at reduced engineering cost. World-wide manufacturers such as HONDA,

HONEYWELL, GENERAL MOTORS, KAWASAKI, PRATT & WITHNEY, ROLLS-ROYCE, SIEMENS, SNECMA, SOLAR Turbine, TOYOTA trust NUMECA for the superior performance, reliability and easy-ofuse of its software and professional services.
NUMECA International corporate headquarter is located in Brussels, with offices, resellers and service centers in China, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Taiwan and the USA. The company won the Grand Prix Entreprendre 2000 from the Brussels Chamber of Commerce and Industry, for its success in exporting hightech products worldwide.

Advanced Technology for Better Products

As a center of excellence, NUMECA International participates in a large number of research projects with university departments, research laboratories and leading industrial partners, allowing us to offer the latest technology breakthrough to our customers. By choosing NUMECA, you will gain access to the most advanced technology in the field of fast and accurate CFD simulation, highly-automated full hexahedral grid generation, solution-adaptive grid optimization, automated post-processing, CAD modeling and optimization.

I am pleased to present to you the latest software systems developed by NUMECA International to serve its customers with the most advanced software tools for analysis and design. The NUMECA team is dedicated to support the needs of Industry towards the most efficient and dedicated CFD related products and services. Do not hesitate to contact our highly experienced team in support of your CFD related objectives. Professor Charles Hirsch President, NUMECA International

A few customers and partners

Integrated and Customized Software for Simulation, Design and Optimization

NUMECAs product strategy is based on the development of highly automated, integrated and customized software systems allowing rapid simulation, design and optimization. Our software follows closely industrys requirements and needs:

Engineering Services
The satisfaction of our customer is our main objective and we continuously improve our software and services to turn your product design into a real success for your organization. We offer a wide range of services including: Consultancy, offering unique expertise in the comprehension of complex CFD analyses and turbomachinery design and optimization; Upgrades, advanced hot line support and dedicated training; Flexible licensing arrangement to deal with all specific organizational and business requirement; Extended partnership including: - Special arrangements to meet specific requirements in terms of confidentiality, proprietary developments and know-how; - Validation and calibration of our software for your specific test cases; - Customized developments of our software.

FINETM/Turbo and FINETM/Hexa for the fluid flow simulation of complex internal, turbomachinery and external flows; FINETM/Design3D and AutoBladeTM for rapid design and optimization; AutoGridTM and HEXPRESSTM for highly automated body-fitted hexahedral grid generation.

Choosing NUMECA software will bring major benefits to your organization, including: Improved prediction quality, leading to a more effective design process; Significant time and cost reduction; Improve overall engineering efficiency and productivity; Improve decision support information with highly reliable simulation; Efficient design through optimization. FINE, AutoGrid, HEXPRESS, IGG, AutoBlade are registered trademarks of NUMECA International.
...The support engineers are also very responsive and technically strong. They are easily accessible and always return my calls to help with any issues/questions I may have... Honeywell Engines, Systems & Services.

You can reach our headquarters at +32 2 647.83.11 (info@numeca.be) or contact one of our offices or resellers (as listed on the back page).

Automated Full Hexahedral

Multi-stage highly complex turbomachinery meshing from CAD to nal grid in a single operation

AutoGrid
AutoGridTM is a highly powerful, automatic, fully hexahedral grid generation software for rotating machinery and turbomachinery. It allows designers and engineers to mesh their complex axial, radial and mixed-flow configurations with a single click.

Key features include:

High quality innovative topologies according to geometrical configurations; Automatic grid points distribution according to users grid size requirements; Advanced smoothing algorithms allowing highest grid quality; Multi-stage and bypass configurations; Capture of a large range of geometry features such as tip and hub clearance, rounded and blunt leading and trailing edge, spinners, flow path discontinuities, rotor/stator, inner/row interfaces, non-axisymmetric endwalls, bleed ports, tip basins, part-span shrouds, fillets; Automated meshing of axi-symmetric (2D) effects such as seal leakage, bleed and cooling paths, labyrinths, cavities and more; 3D effects meshing through advanced template and script technology for automated meshing replay of features such as cooling holes and channels, basin with holes, rib, pin fins, trailing edge grooves, casing treatment and more, including meshing of solid domain; Grid wake refinement; Full connectivity to IGGTM (NUMECAs general structured multiblock grid generator); Fully compatible with HEXPRESSTM (NUMECAs automated unstructured mesh generator) allowing to mesh in minutes upstream and downstream components such as nozzle, volute, ducts, condensers and more.
AutoGrid V5 brings increased flexibility in grid topology, including user-defined multiblock topology and any number of splitters;

Automated advanced smoothing algorithm for very high quality mesh. (i.e. Skewness: left - before optimization; right - after optimization).

Thanks to AutoGrid it is a matter of an hour or less to come up with a good, orthogonal, 3D, periodic mesh around multiple blade rows Honeywell Engines, Systems & Services.

How fast is AutoGrid?

AutoGrid takes only minutes for a single blade row and just an hour for a 10 million cells 19 stage axial compressor (tested on standard computers).

2D effect (i.e.seal leakage)

3D effect (i.e.cooling channels, grooves, bassin, fillets,...)

Non axi-symmetric end walls

NUMECA software offers a full CAD connectivity to CATIA, Unigraphics, ProEngineer as well as all other major formats and are compiled for several platforms including UNIX, Windows and Linux, 32 and 64 bit.

Grid Generation
Automatic Unstructured Full-Hexahedral Meshing within a few mouse clicks...

HEXPRESS
HEXPRESS is a unique and breakthrough fully automatic grid generator for complex geometries. HEXPRESS uses full hexahedral unstructured technology. It is a revolutionary tool allowing considerable time and cost saving in the grid generation of your fluid dynamics and structural mechanics simulation related task. "HEXPRESS is very simple to use and truly automated. Our more complex geometries are perfectly matched with full hexahedra meshes. Above all, needed input time for grid settings is highly reduced" Thermodyn, division of GE Oil and Gas;

Key features include:

Direct CAD import capability; CAD manipulation and advanced domain preparation and decomposition tools; Volume-to-surface approach, suppressing the need for a surface mesh; Mesh wizard for rapid solution set-up and easy back and forth operation; Buffer cell and boundary layer insertion for high quality cells in boundary layer regions; Automatic refinement procedures based on user defined sensors either next to solid walls or at specified area of the domain; Multi domain capabilities allowing the treatment of CHT and multi-part geometry models; Full non-matching multi-block connection allowing to multirow turbomachinery meshing; Powerful grid optimization algorithm; Batch mode; Mesh generation dynamic control through script; Transparent import of AutoGridTM V5 mesh and IGGTM structured mesh.

Turbine cooling holes. The latest release of HEXPRESS includes support of 64-bit processing, an improved grid optimization algorithm

Marine

Automotive

Complex hub/propeller interaction (Courtesy IHC Dredger International and ECN/CNRS(ISIS-CFD Group))

HEXPRESS represents a significant evolution in grid generation and will bring major benefits to your organization, including:
Automated full-hex wing-pylonnacelle mesh generation Arterial meshing for blood flow simulation

Considerable reduction in meshing time, leading to higher engineering productivity; Reduced convergence time; Full connectivity: including support for other well-known CFD codes as well as many other standard file formats.

AutoGrid V5 combined with HEXPRESS enables the meshing of complex rotating machine and its components(i.e. volute) in minutes.

Advanced CFD technology

"Unsteady simulation in hours instead

FINE/Turbo
FINETM/Turbo is the fastest and most accurate Flow Integrated Environment available for the simulation of internal, rotating and turbomachinery flows. FINETM/ Turbo integrates a fully hexahedral, highly automated grid generator, AutoGridTM, advanced density based numerical algorithms with local preconditioning and automated summary reports. Users pilot FINETM/Turbo through an easy-to-use and intuitive interface for fast solution set-up, or through a batch process for transparent integration in a design cycle.
Full 3D unsteady simulation of a 4.5 stage axial transonic compressor. The NEW harmonic-non-linear module requires 50 hours CPU time on 19 processors and 4.7 millions of cells while the classical Domain Scaling approach requires 2 orders of magnitude longer CPU time and 1 order of magnitude more memories. Only the first 4 rows are shown. (Courtesy Rolls-Royce Deutschland)

Advanced Rotor/Stator Interactions Techniques

FINE/Turbo contains unique features for multiple blade rows and steady or unsteady interaction. Different levels of approximation are available according to the nature of the phenomena and the frequency spectrum to be captured, including:
Standard mixing plane and frozen rotor; Steady or unsteady non-linear harmonic method (NEW); Unsteady sliding-mesh and domain scaling methods; Unsteady phased-lagged (NEW).
Fluid-structure interaction is made easier with automatic interfacing with Computational Structural Mechanics code such as ANSYS

The new non-linear harmonic capability allows significant speedup. Figures are given in the table for a single stage radial turbine computed on single processor with three harmonics. (Courtesy Honeywell Turbo Tech.)

Unsteady simulation of a Turbo Pump. Comparison with measurement for two radial gaps size (Courtesy SNECMA)

Fast and Accurate

FINETM/Turbos fully hexahedral technology allows highly accurate and reliable simulations. Its multi-grid engine ensures extremely fast convergence rates and low memory consumption for large numbers of grid points. FINETM/Turbo accepts very large aspect ratio

Generalized Initial Solution for turbomachinery applications

cells (up to 5000) and low Reynolds mesh for optimal viscous and turbulent flows capturing.

Application
FINETM/Turbo covers a large range of applications such as multi-stage axial, radial and mixed-flow compressor, turbine, pumps, fans or propellers and
Calculation of a highly loaded centrifugal compressor stage (Courtesy ABB)

their industrial environments such as volute, diffuser, heat exchangers and exhaust systems.

NUMECA software offers a full CAD connectivity to CATIA, Unigraphics, ProEngineer as well as all other major formats and are compiled for several platforms including UNIX, Windows and Linux, 32 and 64 bit.

for turbomachinery flows

of months using the harmonic non-linear module"
Major gas turbine manufacturers use FINE/ Turbo to run 3D viscous 9-15 stage compressor predictions on a daily basis

Key features also include;

Fluid-to-fluid or solid-to-fluid full non-matching interface for full meshing flexibility; Powerful parallel computing performance for multi-stage analysis, based on MPI; Powerful numerical methods; Liquid or perfect and real gas, including thermodynamic defined complex fluids such as steam, freon gases or liquid hydrogen; All flow regimes from incompressible, compressible, subsonic, transonic, supersonic to hypersonic; Wide variety of turbulence (including transition) and physical models including multiphase and cavitating flows; Generalized Initial Solution and Boundary Conditions forTurbomachinery applications; Easy-to-use interface for bleeds and film cooling,including easy set-up for holes placement; Thermal engine for conjugate heat transfer;

Gas turbine film cooling analysis, with conjugated heat transfer in solid bodies

Connectivity to other CAE software packages for fluid structure interaction; Automated post-processing (CFViewTM), allowing turbomachinery plots and reports including: pitch-

"As a key player in the field of high pressure turbocharging we have chosen the NUMECA FINE/Turbo software suite for its inherent capability of simulating transonic turbomachinery flows with excellently adapted numerical approaches..." Hannes Benetschik MAN B&W Diesel AG

average, blade-to-blade and meridional outputs.

Cavitating pump

Centrifugal blower

Chemical Mixer

End wall profiling

Fan

Leakage path

Hydrodynamic applications

Heat exchanger 9 stage axial compressor (Courtesy Rolls-Royce GmbH)

Performance drop in cavitating flows (i.e.: SHF pump).

New, Unrivaled,
Fast Modeling of CFD process from CAD

FINE/Hexa
NUMECA International is proud to announce FINETM/Hexa, a full hexahedral, highly automated and integrated software package designed to quickly analyze design products. This powerful and intuitive tool allows engineers to access the power of virtual prototyping in fluid flow and heat transfer engineering to make rapid design decision. Sharing the same solution algorithm as FINETM/ Turbo, FINETM/Hexa allows extremely fast turn around and significantly increases design process productivity. FINETM/Hexa will bring major benefit to your company, including:

Wizard based interface that guides designers through solution set up, boundary condition and fluid flow monitoring, with constant geometry display; Wizard based automated process hexahedral grid generation with HEXPRESSTM and AutoGridTM; Automated post-processing with specific application oriented terminology and plots, including animation and contours on swept planes; Superior accuracy due to an advanced densitybased code with local preconditioning, coupled to a full hexahedral unstructured data structure; Agglomeration multigrid allows very fast convergence speed; Powerful solution-based adaptation, optimizing memory costs and accuracy requirements; Automated grid quality evaluation and flow summary reports including minimum, maximum, and average quantities at inlets, outlets, walls, and throughout domains, with possibility for user-defined add-in.
Turbocharger simulation (coupling between structured and un-structured technology in FINETM/Hexa). FINE/Hexa V2 brings agglomeration multigrid convergence acceleration

Application
FINETM/Hexa covers a large range of applications such as complete aircrafts with engines, pylon, wings and flaps, cooled turbine blade and disk, automotive aerodynamics, rotating machinery multistage flows (NEW), environmental flow and more.

Deforming mesh

Example of automotive application: Formula 1 race car

NUMECA software offers a full CAD connectivity to CATIA, Unigraphics, ProEngineer as well as all other major formats and are compiled for several platforms including UNIX, Windows and Linux, 32 and 64 bit.

Unstructured CFD technology

to solution for highly efcient design
Key features also include:
Fluid-to-fluid or solid-to-fluid full non-matching interface for full meshing flexibility; Turbomachinery rotor-stator interaction; Liquids, perfect and real gases; All flow regimes from incompressible, compressible, subsonic, transonic to supersonic; Wide variety of turbulence and physical models, including S-A, k-e, k-omega and SST models; Thermal engine for large scale conjugate heat transfer; Simulation using mesh deformation; Powerful parallel computing performance basedon MPI, including automated domainde composition and load balancing.
FINETM /Hexa wizzard based graphical user interface considerably improves ease-of-use of the CFD process

FINETM /offers automatic partitioning for rapid paralell computation set-up

Hydroplaning simulation of a tire, employing free-surface and splash, plus particle tracking within the grooves

The new unstructured CFD environment FINE/Hexa offers solution-adaptive grid optimization

Example of environmental flows

In our group we have performed computations of flow around aircraft and wind turbine blades using FINETM Hexa. For these challenging applications we were very pleased with FINETM/Hexas capabilities, three of which we would like to mention especially. To begin with, the automated mesh generation was fast and took little effort of the user. Secondly, the flow feature adaptation allowed us to obtain accurate results with a reasonable number of grid points. Finally, the agglomeration multigrid technique proved to be a significant convergence accelerator, often resulting in a speed-up of a factor of five. Dr. Hester Bijl, Associate Professor, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands.
Biomedical flows: blood simulation in the aorta

COVENT GARDEN Brussels,Courtesy Immoblire du Royal Rogier and AM Art & Build/Montois Partners

Advanced Design
Multipoint & multi-objective

FINE/Design3D
FINETM/Design3D is a revolutionary, highly integrated optimization tool designed to improve the
Total pressure head (m)

performance of rotating and turbomachinery blades. This powerful tool allows designers to break the limit of traditional design rules and explore the concept of computer-based innovative design. FINETM/Design3D integrates in a user-friendly interface, a powerful parametric blade modeler, advanced artificial intelligence and efficient optimization algorithms. Its all-in-one structure allows direct integration in the design cycle for immediate use. No time is needed to couple and validate heavy optimization software with computer-aided engineering tools. We have done it for you. An informed database coupled to a neural network allow rapid optimization without CFD runs.
Turbine optimization Pump Optimization

Mass Flow (kg/s)

Optimized Torque Converter optimization

Initial

Application
FINETM/Design3D covers a large range of applications including multi-stage axial, radial and mixed-flow compressor, turbine, pumps, fans or propellers.

Optimized

Initial

Key features include:

Full interactive parametric design of the blade and channel; Inverse engineering engine for rapid parametric representation of your blade design;

Optimized

Initial

Users can define any number of mechanical or aerodynamic constraints; Unlimited numbers of design objectives; Multi-stage and multi-point optimization; Direct connectivity with FINETM/Turbo for optimal solution set-up; Covering full 3D geometry and blade-toblade 2D shape
Multi-point Optimization of the Rotor 37 transonic compressor

optimization Connectivity with any other CFD code through standard exchange process; User defined inter-dependency parameters; Failures management to avoid possible unused data; Parallelization: database generation on multiple processors, parallel computation of CFD solver for faster execution.
Optimized Initial

Aachen tubine multi-point optimization

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NUMECA software offers a full CAD connectivity to CATIA, Unigraphics, ProEngineer as well as all other major formats and are compiled for several platforms including UNIX, Windows and Linux, 32 and 64 bit.

optimization in days instead of months

and Optimization
AutoBlade

AutoBladeTM is a powerful, advanced and easy-touse parametric modeler dedicated to the design of rotatingand turbo-machinery blades. AutoBladeTM can convert any CAD model to a fully parametric design. The new version brings a new generation of interface with unprecedented interactivity. It provides a multi-view layout including a fully customizable 3D view, allowing graphical edition of the design parameters with full undo/redo capability. Large variety of turbomachinery parametric modeling of end walls including nonaxisymmetric hub/shroud, blade, profile stacking are available. User defined parameters offers flexibility to designers. Dependency between parameters permits to integrate constraints in simple way and to decrease the size of optimization problems. In addition, any blade and meridional contour can be analyzed thanks to a new embedded graphical tool.
User-defined relations between parameters Version 2 of AutoBlade brings major improvements to the user-interactivity and powerful tool for geometry analysis

Parametric definition of non-axisymmetric end walls

CFD Wizard
CFD Wizard is a highly-automated rapid flow simulation tool designed to quickly validate product design concepts in the earliest stage of the design process. An intuitive step-by-step wizard with dedicated terminology allows solution set-up and monitoring. Meshing is transparent and the system chooses the best configuration and optimal number of grid points according to your preferences. CFD Wizard integrates a modern blade-to-blade engine for 2D and 2.5 D blade design.CFD Wizard
Example of blade generation with AutoBlade

opens the door to automated computational fluid dynamics as a decision support tool throughout the entire optimization cycle. 11