Are you using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) for your product design? Are you coping with minimization of pressure loss, wave or wind resistance? Typically, you do a lot of manual design work in order to find the best design? And, do you think that more automation of the design process for efficient shape optimizations would be great?

The CAE-platform FRIENDSHIP-Framework is generalized engineering software for the simulation-driven design of any products with flow-related tasks. It's all about design studies and shape optimization as well as process automation for more design efficiency. We address design & analysis engineers from the marine and the turbomachinery field, e.g. ship hull designers as well as engineers coming from the pump, aerospace and automotive industry.

Complex free-form surfaces are focused and designed in a CFD-based product development process. Any commercial or non-commercial simulation software for which experience has been gathered can be utilized most efficiently.

Embedded automated shape control readily allows investigation of feasible product variants and design optimization. Flexibility is central in our open software structure so get started and tailor the FRIENDSHIP-Framework to the needs of your company! Bringing tightly together parametric CAD, your analysis tools and intuitive automation mechanisms will finally highly streamline your individual design process.

Is it also a CAD system? Yes! We provide everything you need for a smart geometry design that is perfectly suited for - and this makes the difference - automated processes. Use it as your sole CAD software or as a powerful complement in your R&D department: Create geometries from scratch with our innovative parametric modeling techniques. For instance, introduce and directly control your own descriptions for angle, area and volume distributions by just a few parameters. Make your product ready for efficient investigation of feasible design variants as well as for formal optimization.

We interface to your dedicated CFD tool or any other external software you might need. Use it as your post-processing frontend for visualization of your simulation results. Tightly embed your analysis information into an automated design process chain. Input and output data is exchanged smoothly. Establish a single-click action for analyzing the flow behavior of your modified geometry. Configure and trigger your meshing and CFD software as well as do the result assessment - all within the FRIENDSHIP-Framework. See our technical overview for examples of interfaced software.

Run optimizations: As a final step of the manual design process, introduce automated shape control. Readily link your created parametric model to provided variation and optimization engines. Generated variants are managed conveniently along with corresponding CFD results for design comparison and reporting purposes.

If you already use generalized optimization software, the FRIENDSHIP-Framework can also be triggered in batch mode as an advanced parametric modeler - easily squeezed into existing work flows!

Example Applications

The FRIENDSHIP-Framework can be used for parametric design and formal optimization of the following products (selection):

• Ship hulls e.g. container carrier, bulker, tanker, yacht
• Appendages e.g. rudder and energy-saving devices
• Fan and blower geometries, propeller
• Compressor and turbine blade
• Wind rotor blade
• Pump and related components e.g. radial impeller design
• Turbocharger and general engine components
• Volute
• Complex pipe
• Diffuser
• Channel and passage

More Information

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