EnSight

EnSight (Engineering InSight) from CEI is the market-leader for visualisation of scientific and engineering simulation data.

Post-processing is a critical step in any engineering or scientific calculation.  With the right tool, it is possible to gain additional understanding of how your product works and then present these insights from your simulation results in a meaningful way to any audience.

EnSight is used by engineers and scientists in Australia & New Zealand across a broad array of disciplines, as it allows them to quickly and efficiently communicate their results from large or multiple datasets (either multiple design iterations, or multiphysics cases involving coupled CFD/FEA and more).

Effectively, EnSight allows engineers and scientists to turn their simulation data from this:

into an impressive and easily understood result such as this:

 

LEAP Capabilities

In Australia and New Zealand, many of LEAP's customers work with EnSight because of its ability to handle extremely large datasets, and then combine these visualisations with datasets from other sources. Additionally, EnSight's robust post-processing system is able to handle these datasets comfortably with fairly minimal hardware power.

To demonstrate EnSight's ability to handle large datasets efficiently with minimal hardware, see below for a visualisation of external aerodynamics for an SR-71 Blackbird, analysing both Mach number and temperature:

The dataset contains approximately 7.1 million elements (~7 million 3D elements), and in this instance has been comfortably post-processed using only about 1.25GB of RAM. The laptop used to post-process this was a 15" MacBook Pro with a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of RAM and a 256MB nVidia GeForce 9600M graphics processor.

For more examples, have a look at the 'Examples' tab.

 
Ensight Strengths

  •  Fast and efficient visualisation for large and transient data
  •  Supports a multitude of CAE interfaces
  •  Able to display up to 16 data sets simultaneously
  •  Powerful and free multi-platform 3D viewer
  •  Parallel and remote visualisation options
  •  Highly customisable and fully scriptable
  •  High quality output and customisable views
  •  Strong animation capabilities, including stereoscopic 3D and life-size cave abilities

 
Compatible Interfaces

EnSight provides interfaces to read in data from all major Computer-Aided Engineering software packages, such as (but not limited to):

  •  Major ANSYS solvers (such as FLUENT, CFX, Mechanical, POLYFLOW and others)
  •  CAD data from Creo/Paramteric, Creo Elements/Pro and Pro/ENGINEER and other major CAD packages
  •  DEM datasets in a variety of formats

For a more complete list of EnSight interfaces, or to see if your current CAE software is compatible with EnSight, please contact your local LEAP office.

 
Other Examples

Fluid-Structure Interaction of a Stented Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Jet Engine Combustor

Olympic Skeleton Racer