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OMNIS™ Environment


Welcome to OMNIS™: Discover the power to explore, collaborate and innovate, all in one environment.

ONE COMMON INNOVATIVE GUI ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL TECHNOLOGIES FULLY PARALLEL & MULTI-THREAD

  • Set-up and co-&post-process all your simulation projects in one unique environment, compatible with all NUMECA solvers.

PLUG IN ANY EXTERNAL SOLVER VIA AN EASY-ACCESS-API

  • The OMNIS™ Environment has a Python and C++ API to plug in any proprietary or open source solver. You can plug in your solver and benefit from the advanced OMNIS™ CAD, pre- and post-processing and optimization capabilities.

DESIGN, ANALYZE AND OPTIMIZE

  • Geared to support the entire design toolchain from preliminary and detailed design to simulation and multidisciplinary optimization including structures, fluids, acoustics etc (integration of FINE™/Design3D soon to be announced).

PERFECT FOR COMPLEX AND LARGE SCALE PROJECTS

  • One simulation, several physics, several solvers spanning the full range CAD - FEA - CFD, CAA, CSM - 1D, 2D, 3D, Meridional, B2B, Cylindrical etc.. Optimization based on segregate methods, databases and data mining. Co-process the result analysis while the server runs.

APPLICATION-BASED GUI - OPEN TO USER CUSTOMIZATION

  • Covering the requirements of all CFD users, from entry-level CAD centric users looking for rapid insights into the physics, to high level fluid experts willing to get advantage of NUMECA's higher level CFD codes and accuracy.

AutoMesh™


Suite of high-precision meshing tools for structured and unstructured grids

HIGHEST QUALITY GRID GENERATION SOLUTIONS

  • Access in minutes high quality full automatic multi-block structured meshing (AutoGrid5™), full unstructured hexahedral meshing (HEXPRESS™), parallel unstructured hex dominant meshing for the most complex and/or unclean geometries (HEXPRESS™/Hybrid) and the multi-block structured meshing for arbitrary geometries (IGG™).

ONE SINGLE SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT

  • All your meshing grids requirements are covered with the different modules of AutoMesh™.

DRASTIC REDUCTION OF YOUR MESHING COST AND TIME

  • Spend time on analysis rather than on meshing and benefit from CPU time reduction.

AutoMesh™ software systems are available on all major platforms as stand-alone software, interfaced with all major CFD commercial solvers and supporting direct CAD connectivity to most of the CAD systems.

FINE™/Turbo


The fastest and most accurate integrated environment for turbomachinery

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY

  • All types of multi-stage axial, radial or mixed-flow configurations are supported: compressors, turbines, pumps, fans, propellers or contra-rotating propellers.

FASTEST SOLVER ON THE MARKET

  • FINE™/Turbo is the fastest CFD suite for rotating machinery - incompressible and compressible fluids, from subsonic to hypersonic flow regimes. Solve your problem up to 20 times faster and more with the CPU Booster™ module.

NON LINEAR HARMONIC

  • Non Linear Harmonic (NLH) module for full unsteady rotor-stator interactions simulations with gains of 1 to 3 orders of magnitude in CPU time.

RELIABILITY

  • Take into account real operating conditions and manufacturing tolerances and enhance the reliability of your CFD simulations with the Uncertainty Quantification module.

HPC PERFORMANCE

  • Make your simulations go even faster with HPC performance on both CPU and GPU (factor 2 to 2.5 with single GPU card).

FINE/Agile™


Best-in-class turbomachinery design tool from preliminary and detailed design to full 3D steady and unsteady CFD

FROM 1D TO 3D

  • Full package containing meanline design dedicated to your specific turbomachinery applications (including pumps, turbines, propellers, etc.), as well as detailed 3D design capability using AxCent® and parametrisation.

HIGH-QUALITY STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS

  • With AutoGrid5™ benefit from a seamless integration with our structured and unstructured meshing solution containing seamless step-by-step Wizard for your topology.

ULTRA FAST CFD SOLVERS

  • Get access to fastest solvers on the market with FINE™/Turbo and FINE™/Open with Openlabs thanks to the CPUBooster™ technique, Non Linear Harmonic (NLH) approach and HPC scalability.

ADVANCED FLOW VIZUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS

  • Dedicated turbomachinery post-processing tool with CFView™ and pbPost™.

FINE™/Agile is the result of a strong partnership between NUMECA International, with its Flow Integrated Numerical Environment, and CONCEPTS NREC with its Agile Engineering Design System®. FINE™/Agile brings the fastest and most accurate CFD suite as recognized by the worldwide turbomachinery community.

FINE™/Open with OpenLabs™


The powerful CFD Flow Integrated Environment dedicated to Multiphysics CFD

LIGHTNING-FAST CFD SOLVER

  • One of the fastest solvers available on the market! And thanks to the add-on CPU-Booster™ technology, speed goes up another 3-5 times, making it undoubtedly the fastest solution today.

DEVELOP AND CUSTOMIZE FREELY

  • Get access to the core of the code, allowing you to adapt and customize a commercial CFD code to your requirements, with an easy-to-use meta programming language via OpenLabs™ technology. Customize turbulence models, add source terms or build completely new models.

MULTI-PHASE, -FLUID & -SPECIES MODELING

  • Tackle any kind of multiphysics CFD problem with built-in models for free-surface capturing, a range of cavitation models, disperse phase modeling etc.

FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION AND MODAL APPROACH

  • Perform fluid-structure analysis any way you want, one-way or two-way strong coupled, thanks to the modal approach module. Simply export the modes from any structural code and get started.
    For even more in-depth analysis, NUMECA also offers a fully integrated fluid-structure solution with FINE™/FSI-Oofelie.

ADVANCED COMBUSTION AND RADIATION MODELS

  • A range of non- and pre-mixed combustion models are directly available from the interface for any type of liquid or gas combustion problem. Combine with radiation to get the full physical picture.

FINE™/Marine


The leading CFD software for naval architects and marine engineers

THE MOST ACCURATE SOLVER ON THE MARKET

  • Our 6DOF incompressible flowsolver works for all types of marine applications, including free surface capturing.

THE ONLY FULLY INTEGRATED CFD SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR MARINE

  • A powerful, customized graphical user interface, with integrated marine-dedicated features, for the simulation of mono-fluid and multi-fluid flows around any kind of ship, boat or yacht, including various types of appendages.

A FULLY AUTOMATED MESH GENERATOR: HEXPRESS™

  • High-quality and full hexahedral unstructured meshes.

AUTOMATIC SET-UP OF THE CFD CHAIN WITH C-WIZARD

  • Drastically reduce the engineering time for the complete CFD simulations set-up. Don’t spend time on setting numerical parameters: get the job done immediately. NEW: SEAMLESS WORKFLOW TO EXPORT YOUR CAD MODEL

Thanks to the Rhino plug-in for FINE™/Marine export your CAD model from the Rhinoceros interface directly to C-Wizard or to our meshing environment, hasslefree.

FINE™/Design3D


The unique optimization software for your CAE environment

MULTIDISCPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION

  • Plug-in all NUMECA and external solvers and benefit from its state-of-the-art technology for multi-disciplinary optimization.

PARAMETRIC MODELING

  • Define a large design space thanks to a range of Parametric Modeling capabilities such as Autoblade™ or Axcent™ for turbomachinery applications, our brand new OMNIS™ Morphing, built-in Rhino/Grashopper plug-in and external modelers.

STATE-OF-THE-ART EXPLORATION AND OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS

  • Thanks to our partnership with Cenaero, get access to the Minamo optimization engine and boast a number of cutting edge features in terms of Design of Experiments (DoE), model reduction, optimization algorithms and post processing.

UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION

  • Take into account uncertainties and quantify the influence of variability on the simulation prediction to ensure your optimization is in real life conditions.

ROBUST DESIGN OPTIMIZATION.

  • Combining FINE™/Design3D with Uncertainty Quantification further allows you to perform Robust Design Optimization. It maximizes the performance and minimizes the performance variability to ensure your optimum really is optimum.

Key Features


  • Multidisciplinary optimization platform
    1. Plug-in all NUMECA and external solvers and benefit from its state-of-the-art technology for multi-disciplinary optimization.
    2. Addressing various sectors: Turbo, Marine, Aero, Combustion, ...
  • New optimization kernel Minamo
    1. Advanced Optimization Algorithms.
    2. Comprehensive data-mining and analysis tools, such as Self-Organizing Maps, ANOVA, and others (see list on the website)
  • Large choice of parametric modelers such as Autoblade™, Axcent™, Rhino, OMNIS™/Morphing, external by python scripts.
  • Unique Uncertainty Quantification for operational, geometrical and manufacturing variability.
  • Unique Robust Design Optimization.

OMNIS™/LB


A high-fidelity flow solution for complex in-and external flows.

FOCUS ON HIGHLY COMPLEX PHYSICS AND GEOMETRIES, MESH-FREE

  • Capable of handling complex geometries on a mesoscopic scale without the burden of having to set-up and fine-tune a mesh.

HIGH-FIDELITY LES MODELING - FULLY TRANSIENT

  • The particle based Lattice Boltzmann solver allows new levels of modeling capability.

LARGE NUMBER OF PHYSICAL MODELS AVAILABLE

  • Allows to model a wide range of applications such as internal and external flow including free surface flows, external aerodynamics, microfluidics, porous media, fluid-membrane interaction, heat transfer problems etc.

BODY-TO-BODY MOTION

  • Capture moving bodies such as rotating gears, positive displacement pumps, pistons, and much more, accurately, with almost no user-input.

Key Features


  • Features
    1. Highly effective parallelization
    2. Model highly complex geometries without meshing.
    3. Body-to-body motion
    4. Gridless approach (Cartesian Grids with IBM, Bounce Back or Cut Cells)
    5. Large number of physical models available
    6. External and Internal Flows
    7. Multi-layer grid refinement
  • Applications
    1. Drivetrains, gearboxes, clutches, bearings
    2. Volumetric pumps, mixers and blenders
    3. Filters
    4. Geophysical flows
    5. Biofluids
    6. Fluid-membrane interaction with large deformation
    7. External aero
  • Modeling capabilities
    1. Mesoscopic, fully transient modeling of complex fluid flows
    2. Large eddy simulations
    3. Free surface flow
    4. Multi-component and multi-phase fluids
    5. Conjugate heat transfer
    6. Chemical reactions
    7. Non-Newtonian rheology
    8. Surface tension
    9. Porous media

FINE™/FSI-OOFELIE


Two-way strong coupling between Finite Element solver Oofelie and FINE™/Open with OpenLabs™

ONE SINGLE ENVIRONMENT

  • FINE™/FSI-OOFELIE, set-up and start complete FSI simulations using only one software. FINE™/FSI-OOFELIE couples the Finite Element solver Oofelie of Open Engineering with NUMECA’s fast and accurate parallel flow solver FINE™/Open with OpenLabs™ into one single environment.
    The workflow is handled by the SAMCEF Field generic interface.

TWO-WAY STRONG COUPLING

  • The direct coupling, carried out within one single environment, allows for great gains in set-up time and reliability.

EASY TO INSTALL

  • The installation process requires only one step.

FINE™/FSI-OOFELIE is a fully integrated solution for strongly coupled fluid-structure interaction simulations. It is developed in collaboration with Open Engineering, combining the latest technology in Multiphysics, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Mechanics design.


Key Features


  • A FULLY INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT FOR FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION
    1. Two-way strong coupling: equilibrium between fluid and solid at each time step
    2. Steady and Unsteady computations. 2D and 3D capabilities
    3. Non-conformal meshes at the interface: finer fluid domain resolution possible
    4. Structures: linear and nonlinear analysis. Elastic and thermo-elastic computations
    5. Scripting capability
  • STRONG COUPLING
    1. A strong coupling approach is considered, allowing to verify the equations of all physical models at each time step. Strong coupling of multiphysics phenomena reveals much more information than just consecutive simulations. It ensures fast convergence and solution stability, while simulating multi-unstable environments. A staggered approach is used with two solvers ensuring the most efficient method for each field.
  • APPLICATIONS
    1. Wing flutter or buffeting
    2. Wind turbine blade deformation
    3. Fuel tank sloshing
    4. FSI in hypersonic rocket nozzle
    5. Missiles subsonic wing oscillations

FINE™/Acoustics


The Integrated Simulation Suite for Aero-Vibro-Acoustics

FROM FAST PRE-DESIGN CALCULATIONS TO DETAILED LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS

  • FINE™/Acoustics is a complete simulation suite for the analysis of a broad range of industrial applications involving Acoustics, Vibro-Acoustics and Aero-Acoustics.

TONAL NOISE

  • Simultaneous noise source and propagation analysis with the Non-Linear Harmonic method (NLH).

BROADBAND NOISE

  • Flow-noise source reconstruction based on steady RANS. Noise propagation with Boudnary Element Method (BEM) and Finite Element Method (FEM).

LES/DES/URANS COUPLING

  • Ffowcs Williams - Hawkings (FW-H) solver for radiation analysis. Import of unsteady solutions from any CFD tool.

VIBRO-ACOUSTICS

  • Fluid-structure coupling based on modal approach.

Key Features


ACOUSTICS

  • CAPABILITIES
    1. Acoustic sources retrieved from experiments or defined analytically.
    2. Noise propagation analysis in uniform and non-uniform mean flows.
    3. Sound absorption from porous/fibrous materials and perforated sheets.
    4. Impedance boundary condition to simulate acoustic liners.
  • METHODS
    1. Iterative FEM (Finite Element Method) and BEM (Boundary Element Method) solvers, for propagation analysis,based on multi-frequency parallelization technology.
    2. FW-H (Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings) solver for radiation analysis, compatible with fixed/rotating, solid/porous radiation surfaces.
    3. Impedance Matrix method for the Transmission Loss analysis of mufflers and exhaust systems.
    4. Eigenvalues analysis for cavity modes detection..

AERO-ACOUSTICS

  • CAPABILITIES
    1. Efficient simulation of TONAL and BROADBAND noise sources thanks to the full integration with NUMECA’s CFD methods (used for noise source characterization).
    2. Possibility to exploit CFD solutions obtained with any CFD tool on the market (import of CGNS, Tecplot, FieldView file formats).
  • METHODS
    1. Integration with the Nonlinear Harmonic (NLH) method for the simultaneous simulation of TONAL noise source and propagation including liners (ASME GT2014-26429 and ETC ETC2015-197 papers). Orders of magnitude faster than with propagation approaches based on unsteady CFD solutions.
    2. FINE™/Acoustics includes the Flow-Noise method for the analysis of BROADBAND noise based on the reconstruction of synthetic turbulence from a steady RANS solution (SAE 2015-01-2329 paper).
    3. LES, DES, U-RANS solutions can be imported in FINE™/Acoustics and used to characterize the source region and to compute the sound propagation.
    4. Eigenvalues analysis for cavity modes detection..

VIBRO-ACOUSTICS

  • CAPABILITIES
    1. Structure excitation based on acoustic sources, unsteady pressure fields and point forces applied to the vibrating structure.
    2. Fluid-structure coupling based on import of structural modes (from NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS).
  • METHODS
    1. FEM-BEM solvers for fully coupled vibro-acoustic simulations.
    2. Mixed direct-indirect BEM approach to include thin shells in frequency response analysis.
    3. FEM cavity modes analysis including sound absorption and structure vibration.

Modules


AutoGrid5™

A fully automatic hexahedral grid generator for all types of rotating machinery: complex axial, radial, and mixed-flow configurations.

CPU-Booster™

A unique convergence acceleration technique for drastically reduced computation time.

C-Wizard

Automatic set-up of the CFD chain with the C-Wizard to drastically reduce the engineering time.

HEXPRESS™

Generates non-conformal body-fitted full hexahedral unstructured meshes on complex arbitrary geometries.

HEXPRESS™/Hybrid

The latest of NUMECA's meshing tools designed for meshing complex geometries starting from unclean CAD data.

IGG™

Interactive Geometry Modeler and Multi-Block Structured Grid Generator.

Modal & Flutter Analysis

An efficient method for fluid structure interaction prediction. Only one single integrated code is used.

NLH Method

Non-Linear Harmonic module: Gain 2 to 3 orders of magnitude in solving speed for unsteady simulations.

TabGen

Table Generation tool for real fluid and combustion modeling.

Uncertainty Quantification

Quantify the effect of input parameters' uncertainty on CFD analysis to enhance the reliability of your CFD simulations.