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Overview
Accelerate Engineering Innovation with Fidelity CFD Software
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an aspect of multiphysics system analysis that simulates the behavior of fluids and their thermodynamic properties using numerical models. Cadence Fidelity CFD software is used in today’s design processes, such as propulsion, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and combustion, to improve and increase the efficiency of products without relying on time-consuming and expensive physical testing. Over the last decade, tools and methods have been constantly improved to increase productivity and reduce time to results.
Key Benefits
High-Accuracy Results for Fast Time to Market
Fast and Reliable
Reduce lead time from days to hours with fast and reliable pre-processing and high-quality mesh generation for most complex geometries.
Highest Accuracy
Predict flow structures and wake dynamics and capture changes in lift and drag in agreement with experiments.
GPU Acceleration
GPU acceleration is transforming high-fidelity CFD, providing 9X throughput or 17X less energy for the same throughput of CPU.
Intelligence
Accelerate time to market and lower design risk through AI-driven multiphysics analysis and optimization.
Features
State-of-the-art Technology Delivers Unprecedented Speed and Accuracy
CFD Workflow Acceleration
Cadence leverages its 30+ years of expertise in computational software to impact and accelerate all steps of the design process, including creating strong automation for preprocessing and meshing, solving with technology advancements and GPU acceleration, and learning through AI-driven optimization with the Cadence Optimality Intelligent System Explorer. Streamlined workflows, strong automation, state-of-the-art solver acceleration, and intelligent analysis unlock the full potential of Fidelity CFD and provide more than 10X acceleration across all steps of the simulation process for faster time to results.
Preprocessing and meshing: Up to 80% of engineering time is still spent on manual geometry preprocessing and meshing. Fidelity CFD software enables engineers to overcome this bottleneck with an automated, AI-driven methodology that cuts preprocessing and meshing time from days to hours. In addition, designers can create high-fidelity meshes with 100% viscous layer coverage for highly accurate results.
High-Fidelity CFD
The Fidelity CharLES solver is the industry’s first high-fidelity CFD solver that expands the practical application of large eddy simulations (LES) to a broad range of engineering applications in aerospace, automotive, and turbomachinery. Solver advancements, both on the numerical scheme and GPU acceleration, enable massive LES simulations, such as the accurate simulation of a realistic aircraft in landing configuration in 12 hours, with modest resource requirements.
GPU Acceleration
GPU acceleration is transforming high-fidelity CFD and massively impacting aerospace, automotive, and many other industries. Leveraging these modern computer architectures provides 9X throughput for the same cost with 17X less energy consumption of CPUs.
Industries
Tailored CFD Solutions for Key Industries
Aerospace
Fidelity has been leveraged to address simulations of various high-speed aircraft configurations, ranging from subsonic, transonic, and supersonic regimes, with major successes on full-scale commercial aviation vehicles. Typical quantities of interest have been aerodynamic forces and prediction of flow separation in complex configurations or aeroacoustics.
Automotive
External aerodynamics, thermal management, and acoustic noise modeling, among others, are key challenges today in improving vehicle efficiency and comfort. Fidelity CFD provides specialized solutions to address these engineering challenges.
Marine
Today’s key challenges for the marine industry are minimizing operating costs and lowering emissions while ensuring safe power margins. Fidelity CFD software provides a dedicated CFD solution and efficient tools to address these challenges and improve propeller efficiency, decrease ship resistance, optimize performance, and increase fuel efficiency.
Turbomachinery
Fidelity CFD provides solutions specifically designed for engineers to optimize the power and efficiency of turbomachinery designs quickly and accurately. High-fidelity meshing combined with advanced numerics, automated design of experiments, and a sophisticated optimization engine enables designers to push the performance of rotating machinery to its absolute limits without sacrificing efficiency and staying within design parameters.
Customer Stories
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“With Fidelity CFD, we have all the steps of the workflow of the CFD simulation in one tool. This allows us to go from the geometry to the mesh, to the actual solver, and the post-processing in one tool, making the entire simulation process, which is demanding and challenging, easy.”
Mathis Trachsel, Maxon group
“Cadence software automatically generates high-quality structured and unstructured meshes and provides high-speed throughput flow computation thanks to Cadence's innovative technologies, such as the CPU Booster and Non-Linear Harmonics, enabling a significant reduction of the design cycle time and cost.”
Yusuke SAKAI, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
“We chose Fidelity Autoseal and Fidelity Hexpress to be our standard workflow for CFD preprocessing. They allowed us to reduce our total lead time and work hours by over 90%, while consistently providing high-quality meshes with excellent layer coverage."
Antoine Delacroix, Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA
“The Fidelity CFD preprocessing solution is used across Honda Motor Co., Ltd. in a diverse range of critical applications from external aerodynamics, thermal management, exhaust systems, power unit, drivetrain, and beyond.”
Dr. Takashi Takiguchi, Honda Motor Co. Ltd. Japan
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