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ANSYS CFD
for Naval Applications
Stephan Eder
stephan.eder@ansys.com
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ANSYS CFD for Naval Applications
Preprocessing
Geometry
Meshing
Solver
AQWA
CFX
Fluent
System Coupling
Mechanical
Electronic
Postprocessing
Design Exploration
Parameters
Optimization
Six Sigma
Adjoint Solver



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ANSYS Geometry Tools
ANSYS Design Modeler
Import external geometries
Sketching functionality
Direct body creation
Multiple body operations
Fluid volume extraction
Geometry clean-up tools
Analysis tools

ANSYS Space Claim
Direct modeler
Pull, move, fill and combine
tools
Parameters without
constraints


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Geometry Interfaces
Associative Interfaces
(Associative, bidirectional
and parametric)
Creo Parametric
Creo Elements/Pro
Creo Elements/Direct
Modeling
Inventor
SolidWorks
Solid Edge
CATIA
Teamcenter
CAD Readers
AutoCAD*
Creo Elements/Pro
NX
Inventor
SolidWorks
Catia
IGES and STEP
Parasolid
ACIS
GAMBIT
* Requires an AutoCAD installation
Geometry Interfaces
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ANSYS Meshing Tools
ANSYS Workbench Meshing
Hexa meshing
Mesh sweeping
Prism-Tetra meshing
Cut-Cell meshing
Global and local mesh sizings
Size functions
Quality checks
Mesh improvment

ANSYS ICEM
Key feature:
Blockstructured hexahedral
meshing

ANSYS Fluent Meshing
Key features:
Surface wrapping
Advanced hexcore meshing
Advanced cut-cell meshing
Parallel meshing

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Mesh Topologies
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Mesh Topologies
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ANSYS CFD - Solvers
AQWA
Potential flow solver
Multi-body Hydrodynamic
and Motion Analysis
CFX/Fluent:
Finite volume solver
Pressure-based solver
Density based solver

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ANSYS AQWA
ANSYS

AQWA
TM

Fully Integrated Multi-body
Hydrodynamic and Motion
Analysis
Mooring, stability, vessel
motions in regular and
irregular waves
within time and frequency
domain
with coupled cable dynamics
with forward speed

Courtesy of PI-RAUMA Ltd.
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ANSYS AQWA
Offshore Structures
Fixed
JACKETS
Concrete
Compliant
Jack-ups
Floating
Floating Production, Storage and
Offloading unit (FPSOs)
SPARS
Semi-Submersibles
Tension leg platforms (TLPs)
Risers
Ships
Design
Offloading
Harbours

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ship & landing craft jacket launch shielding
lifting operation AMOG line Breakage mooring systems FSO and SPM with shuttle tanker
self-installing platform Arup Energy
transportation stinger cargo lowered onto vessel offloading operation SBM
ANSYS AQWA

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ANSYS AQWA Capabilities
Diffraction/Radiation
including Morison elements
Frequency domain analysis
Stability including mooring
lines
Time domain with irregular
waves
Time domain with non-linear
survival waves
Coupled cable dynamics
Multiple hydrodynamic
interaction and articulations
(up to 50 structures)
Transfer of motions and
pressures to ASAS & ANSYS
FE models

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ANSYS AQWA Modeling
Capabilities
Diffracting or non-diffracting panels
Morison elements
TUBE
STUB
DISC
Point masses
Mixed models
Moorings
Linear springs
Elastic catenaries
Intermediate buoys
Tethers
Pulleys
Fenders
Articulations
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ANSYS AQWA Modeling
Environment
Waves
Regular / irregular
Time history
Wave Spectra
Pierson-Moskowitz
JONSWAP
User-defined
Cross-swell
Current
Uniform
Profile
Wind
Uniform
Spectra
Time history


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ANSYS CFD
ANSYS CFD offers
special marine related
tools:
Open (wave) channel
flow
Compressible liquids
Implicit six degree of
freedom solver
Wide range of
dynamic mesh
capabilities

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ANSYS CFD
Wave regimes
First order Airy wave
theory
Stokes wave theories
Cnoidal & Solitary
Wave Superposition
Standing wave
Beats or wave groups
Constructive and
destructive interference
Irregular waves

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ANSYS CFD
and a lot more
Single-/multiphase
Cavitation
Acoustics
Energy/radiation/solar
load
Species transport/
chemical reactions
Turbulence
Particle Flows (Discrete
phase/Discrete
element/MPM)

Additional Input via user
programming

Climatisation of a Separator Room
(Courtesy of Flensburger Schiffbau-
Gesellschaft (Flensburg Shipyard))
Smoke from a large
production deck pool fire
(Courtesy of Daewoo
Shipbuilding)
Propeller Cavitation
(Courtesy SVA-Potsdam
(Potsdam Model Basin))
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ANSYS CFD
Mesh motion:
Automatic mesh adaption
Tetra/cut-cell:
Smoothing
Remeshing
Hexa/prism:
Smoothing
Layering
Six degree of freedom
+ implicit 6DOF
Immersed solid
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ANSYS CFD
Optimizer & mesh
morpher:
User defined objective
function
User defined deforming


Objective Function: Uniform flow at
the outlet
Baseline Design
Optimized Design
Objective function: Max. lift
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ANSYS CFD
Fluent Adjoint solver
Submarine example:
Submarine drag optimization
Sensitivity plots
Geometry deformation
35 % drag reduction within 25
optimization loops
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ANSYS CFD
Numerical Towing Tank
ANSYS Workbench
Geometry
Import geometry in Design
Modeler
Define global geometry
parameters
Automatic domain creation
Meshing
Automatic import into Meshing
Define global meshing
parameters
Automatic mesh creation
Solver
Automatic import into the Solver
Define boundary conditions
Calculate
Post-Processing
Automatic import into CFD-Post
Examine results


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ANSYS CFD
System Coupling
Multiphysics coupling
Structural mechanics
Heat transfer
Fluid flow
Electromagnetics

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