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LEAP Australia is the leading engineering software solutions provider in Australia and New Zealand, assisting thousands of companies with their design and engineering problems. The aim of this site is to share the extensive experience and knowledge we have gained over the years in working with Computational Fluid Dynamics. If you are also interested in Finite Element Analysis, we encourage you to visit our FEA blog.
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Ansys 2024 Release Highlights – Fluids

Recently LEAP ran an Ansys user group meeting in Perth where local Ansys users showcased their work and the LEAP Technical Team presented their highlights of the latest updates in Ansys Structures and Ansys Fluids.

If you were unable to make it in-person to the event or join the live stream, we’ve got the next best thing for you: a live recording of the Fluids update session presented Dr. Lewis Clark. Lewis is LEAP’s Fluids Technical Manager, and in the following videos he presents the highlights from the Ansys 2024 Fluids R1 and R2 releases.

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Ansys Rocky for Slurry Flows

Understanding slurry flows is crucial for applications such as mining and mineral processing, chemical manufacturing, wastewater treatment, agriculture and many more. Ansys Rocky DEM can help to accurately predict the behavious of a slurry by simulating the size and shape of the solid particles, the types of solids present, the viscosity of the liquid and the concentration of the solids in the liquid.

This article explains how Rocky DEM empowers you to model slurry flows – from mills to open channels – and gain a clear understanding of particle-fluid interactions with remarkable accuracy.

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Guest Blog: Team Lunar Rockets to F1 in Schools World Finals with Simulation and 3D Rendering

This guest blog from Team Lunar, a Melbourne-based team made up of 6 Brighton Grammar School students participating the F1 in Schools competition explains how their usage of Ansys simulation and Keyshot 3D rendering has helped them get ahead of the pack.

With a track record of success dating back to 2022, Lunar has amassed over 30 category awards combined, establishing themselves as decorated, formidable competitors at both State and National competitions, now representing Australia at the World Finals later this year.

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Honouring the legacy of pioneering Chemical Engineering researcher, Emeritus Prof. Owen Potter with the help of simulation

Invented by Emeritus Professor Owen Potter AM, a globally renowned chemical engineer, the Venso Flow fluidisation process has significant potential to improve the efficiency and sustainability of many industrial processes. Driven by honouring her father’s legacy, learn how Caecilia Potter and her VensoGrow team are using insights from simulation and IoT control systems to help further improve the process and apply it to seed coating applications.

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Ansys 2023 Release Highlights – Fluids

Recording from LEAP’s recent series of Ansys 2023 R1 & R2 update seminars covering the latest updates in Ansys Fluids. Thes videos are from our Melbourne event, presented by Dr. Lewis Clark, LEAP’s Fluids Technical Manager.

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Simulating Aerothermal Shape Distortion of Hypersonic Vehicles

How can designers of hypersonic aircraft overcome the ‘heat barrier’ using simulation to better understand aerothermal shape distortion (aka aerothermoelasticity, or fluid-structural-thermal interaction – FTSI)? This guest blog by ADFA explains how multiphysics simulation helps designers of hypersonic vehicles account for aerothermal shape distortion (which can compromise a hypersonic vehicle’s aerodynamic performance) through to the risk of catastrophic material failures, using tools that can simulate both the aerodynamics as well as the thermal and structural response.

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A look into the lightning-fast future of GPU-powered CFD

Here we benchmark Fluent’s new fully-native GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) solver, available since the 2023R1 release, which has delivered impressive numbers on our tests that include both high-end (A100 GPU – over five times faster than a baseline using 80 CPU cores) and standard 8GB GPUs that are probably similar to one you’re already using (still delivering a 3x3x speedup over an 8 core Intel Xeon W-11955M CPU).

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