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How to Benefit from Decades of Experience in Turbulence Modelling

David Fletcher from LEAP discusses the importance of the 3rd Turbulence Best Practices guide recently released by Florian Menter and his team at Ansys.
This latest BPG documents the key best practices in RANS turbulence modelling, with comprehensive coverage of all widely-used 1-equation, 2-equation and Reynolds stress models.

Guest Blog by ECU-R: Analysing F-SAE Aerodynamic Flow Fields Using CFD

    Guest blog by ECU-Racing on how the team uses CFD simulation to drive aerodynamic design improvements, explaining how CFD simulation results provide help identify problematic aspects such as flow separation, undesirable flow structures, and poor use of flow energy which can then lead to new ideas which can be tested in CFD to improve the overall flow around the car.

    Helping EO/IR Sensors to accurately detect & track hypersonic vehicles

      Learn how recent developments in Ansys provide a new “optical CFD” workflow to help more accurately simulate the complex interactions between the flowfield and electromagnetic fields in the Electro-Optics / Infra-Red (EO/IR) range. This helps engineers to improve their simulations of flow field phenomena around fast-moving vehicles and improve the performance of EOIR sensor signals for tracking hypersonic vehicles.

      Monash High Powered Rocketry blasts onto the world stage

      Read about Monash High-Powered Rocketry’s amazing achievement to win second place in its category at the 2021 Virtual Spaceport America Cup – including an acknowledgement of their quality simulation work, with first place in the Charles Hoult Award for Modelling and Simulation.

      F1 in Schools spotlight – Team Hydron racing into 2021 National Finals

        F1 in Schools Spotlight: After achieving great success at the 2020 Virtual Victorian State Finals where they placed first overall and were awarded 11 of 13 category awards including Best Engineered and the Innovation Award, Team Hydron describe the many hours of CFD testing and design conducted by their engineering team, supported by LEAP Australia and Ansys.

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        Guest Blog by USYD Rocketry Team: Reaching for the Skies

          Guest Blog by USYD Rocketry Team (URT) who use simulation in their development of high-power sounding rockets to compete in the Australian Universities Rocketry Competition (AURC) and Spaceport America Cup. URT was the first Australian team to compete and took first place in the 10,000 ft COTS category with their Silvereye rocket.

          Guest Blog by MMS: Aero Mapping for Formula-SAE using CFD

            Monash Motorsport has been designing Formula Student cars with wings and diffusers for many years, but this process has been fast-tracked through greater automation of Ansys CFD simulations to help the team gather more simulation data points & generate a comprehensive aero map to analyse the impact of changes in vehicle roll, yaw, steer and ride height.