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Optimizing Aerodynamic Workflows with FieldView


Making things move fast and smoothly is the essence of aerodynamics. Making the aerospace engineering process run fast and smoothly in aircraft aerodynamics is essential to meeting cost and schedule goals, exceeding performance targets, and creating a sustainable competitive advantage. Complex, highly unsteady flows, very large datasets, and widely varying operating conditions pose many workflow challenges. New designs must achieve significant performance gains in areas like fuel efficiency and cruising range, making optimization important. Data comparison among multiple simulations is extensive, and often requires access to much earlier data.

FieldView: Aerospace Industry De-facto Standard.

In this demanding environment, the CFD workflow has to be fast, agile, and efficient. It has to be capable of handling hundreds of thousands of cases with ease and getting to vital insights and accurate answers in these areas.

  • Drag reduction
  • High-lift devices
  • Aeroacoustics and noise reduction
  • Propulsion integration

FieldView, the de facto standard in the aircraft industry, delivers the fastest CFD post-processing and interpretation capabilities, the most advanced visualization, and powerfully productive data management and automation tools available.

With FieldView, you can:

  • Visualize, interrogate and interactively explore large, high-resolution models quickly
  • Create and share presentation-quality animations, images, and real-time working sessions with ease
  • Manage huge volumes of complex, transient data efficiently
  • Automate post-processing tasks to increase capacity and throughput
  • Scale up parallel or scale out with batch processing to maximize HPC resources.

Boosting Productivity in Aeroengine Design

Boosting Productivity Aeroengine Design
Highly unsteady and complex, aeroengines pose significant design, airframe integration, and large data management challenges. You need strategic, robust CFD simulation and visualization tools to thoroughly understand the performance of your engine design. Even extensive physical testing cannot reveal, nor isolate, hidden physics or phenomena that occur too quickly or in non-testable conditions.

Success requires an efficient, productive CFD workflow that helps you quickly visualize and interrogate even your largest models, compare results, and identify numbers of merit and areas of interest for further exploration in:

  • Thrust and efficiency (performance, range, fuel efficiency)
  • Combustion stability, predictability of burn
  • Shock propagation
  • Aeroacoustics / noise reduction
  • Emissions

Short time scales and the need to optimize engine performance over a wide range of operating conditions add to your development challenge. FieldView responds with the industry’s fastest post-processing and interpretation capabilities, most advanced visualization, and powerfully productive data management and automation tools. Maximize use of your HPC resources with parallel or batch processing workflow options.

FieldView works with virtually any in-house or commercial solver, delivering:

  • High-performance algorithms and tools such as interactive streamlines and streaklines
  • Automatic detection of vortex cores, surface flows, and shock values
  • Comparison tools, both qualitative and quantitative
  • Rapid, one-click transient animation
  • Specialized tools for handling rotating machinery.

Let FieldView help you harness the full value of your CFD data and maximize your productivity and throughput.


FieldView Sets the Standard in Aerospace

Optimizing Aerodynamic Workflows

In aerospace, where complex, highly unsteady flows, very large datasets, and extensive parametric studies are the norm, CFD is mission critical. For the world’s top aerospace companies, FieldView is the de facto standard for CFD analysis and visualization, and by addressing and solving the industry’s most complex CFD challenges.

Aerospace Trusts FieldView.

From NASA’s space shuttle and Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, to Boeing’s 700 series jetliners, many of the world’s helicopters, and the aeroengines that move them all, FieldView has proven its value as a strategic tool.

In these demanding environments, the CFD workflow has to be fast, agile, and efficient, capable of handling hundreds of thousands of cases with ease and getting to vital insights and accurate answers fast. FieldView delivers the industry’s fastest post-processing and interpretation capabilities, most advanced visualization, and powerfully productive data management and automation tools. With FieldView, you can:

  • Visualize, interrogate and interactively explore even your largest models quickly
  • Create share presentation-quality animations, images, and real-time working sessions with ease
  • Manage huge volumes of complex, steady and transient data efficiently
  • Automate post-processing tasks to increase capacity and throughput
  • Scale up with parallel or scale out with batch processing to maximize use of HPC resources

FieldView Takes Aircraft to New Heights

New aircraft designs won’t get off the ground without substantial efficiency improvements and maximum performance. These large, highly unsteady models require extensive simulation under a wide range of operating conditions to understand performance in areas such as:

  • Aerodynamics – drag reduction, lift, Reynolds and Mach numbers
  • High-lift devices – including STOVL and V/STOL applications
  • Aeroacoustics and noise reduction
  • Airfoil devices – flaps, slats, ailerons/spoilers, multi-element airfoils
  • Passive and active boundary layer control devices

FieldView: Aerospace Industry De-facto Standard

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. FieldView is the de facto standard for aircraft CFD analysis and visualization, delivering the industry’s fastest post-processing and interpretation capabilities, most advanced visualization, and powerfully productive data management and automation tools. Companies like Boeing, EADS and Lockheed Martin rely on FieldView to:

  • Visualize, interrogate and interactively explore large, complex models quickly,
  • Compare datasets across multiple designs; validate experimental data,
  • Create andshare presentation-quality animations, images, and real-time working sessions with ease,
  • Manage huge volumes of complex, steady and transient data efficiently,
  • Automate post-processing tasks to increase capacity and throughput and
  • Scale up with parallel or scale out with batch processing to maximize use of HPC resources