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New York Yacht Club American Magic “Patriot”: Aerodynamics Flow Visualization. American Magic uses Tecplot 360 to visualize the CFD solutions they produce within AcuSolve from Altair. Tecplot 360 is ideal for this task […]
NASA SLS Flight Condition Analyses Time Reduced from Days to Hours
Flight condition analyses reduced the postprocessing time by a factor of 12 relative to the baseline reduction methods. […]
Optimizing Aerodynamic Workflows with FieldView
To achieve the goals of efficiency and performance, the CFD workflow has to be fast, agile, and robust, capable of handling huge volumes of data with ease and getting to vital insights and accurate answers fast. […]
Tail Strake Position Optimization for Generic Transport Aircraft
Engineers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) found that the visualization component was crucial in understanding flow effects of the transport aircraft they were designing. […]
Improving Stock Car Performance with CFD Analysis
A new case study by Brazilian Tecplot distributor ATS describes their “meticulous analysis” of the aerodynamics of the entire car, including the tradeoffs between top speed, downforce for cornering performance and braking – key components to lower lap times. […]
Using a File Format that Loads CFD Data 10 Times Faster
Tecplot 360 has 10x less time to get to the first picture with the SZL format and more flexibility than Fieldview. Find out why! […]
PyTecplot for Tecplot Scripting
Paul Ferlemann is an aeronautical engineer and researcher at the Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion Branch (HAPB) of the NASA Langley Research Center. The HAPB performs research to develop advanced technology for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion systems for aerospace vehicles. The focus is on airframe-integrated engine concepts having high performance over a wide range of flight Mach numbers. The Challenge Paul was working with a complex geometry composed of 112 distinct zones. The […]
The Stanford Solar Car Project Race for Aerodynamic Efficiency
The Stanford Solar Car Project, a student-run, nonprofit organization within Stanford University, has been designing and building solar cars since 1989, and arrives in Darwin every two years with a stunning new vehicle. […]
CFD Simulation Analysis Times Reduced
Case Study: Tecplot Chorus integrates with KARALIT CFD to save time with mesh-free CFD simulations and analyses The Immersed Boundary (IB) methodology, a mesh-free technique for running CFD simulations, has been around since the 1970s. Instead of running Navier-Stokes equations on grids that conform to the shape of an object, as is done with meshing, the IB technique immerses a CAD model of the object into a Cartesian grid and […]
Building One of the World’s Most Efficient Electric Cars
Tecplot 360 helps Stanford University students optimize design of solar-powered car to compete in the Australian Outback’s World Solar Challenge The sun shines down upon the immense Australian Outback like nowhere else, drenching the land in solar energy that begs to be tapped. Where better to stage the World Solar Challenge, a design competition established to find the world’s most efficient solar-electric car? Every two years, some of the brightest […]