GridPro in Marine

Instrumental in generating consistent and reliable CFD results, offer better numerical stability and solver convergence.

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Hexahedral mesh-based CFD has become an invaluable tool in the marine industry, enabling engineers to analyze complex fluid behaviours and optimize designs of diverse marine vessels such as ships, boats, submarines, and offshore structures. By facilitating accurate prediction of fluid flow and heat transfer, structured meshes enable cost-saving, provide valuable insights for making informed decisions, and improve overall marine engineering practices.

Ships

You can achieve precise predictions of wave and wake patterns. Get accurate modelling of the free surface, crucial for predicting ship-generated waves. Most importantly, you get reliable predictions of wave interactions with the ship, leading to accurate assessments of roll, pitch, and heave motions.

The consistency of structured meshes guarantees dependable and consistent outcomes when evaluating diverse hull geometries, thereby boosting the reliability of the optimization process.

Propellers

You can have accurate representation of boundary layer effects, turbulence, and wake field by employing the orderly, organized hexahedral cells of structured meshes. As a result, multi-block mesh-based simulations yield highly accurate predictions of thrust, torque, and cavitation characteristics.

In addition, you can have controlled refinement in critical regions, such as near the propeller blades, thereby optimizing simulation accuracy without excessive grid density.

Submarines

You can have a precise representation of the vehicle’s geometry and flow physics around the hull and control surfaces with multi-block meshes. The geometry and flow-aligned characteristics of the structured meshes effectively meet this need and facilitate accurate prediction of the submarine’s manoeuvrability, range, and overall efficiency.