Altair Releases AcuSolve V1.8b

By DE Editors

Altair Engineering has released AcuSolve V1.8b, a new version of its finite element based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation software within the HyperWorks suite of computer-aided engineering solutions.

The upgrade offers a new and improved version of AcuFieldView. This OEM version of Intelligent Light’s FieldView CFD post-processor furnishes the ability to manage large and complex CFD data visualization requirements. It incorporates Intelligent Lights most recent advancements in FieldView, including a new codebase that produces optimized graphics performance and a common graphical user interface (GUI) on all platforms.

The product provides eight-way parallel operation instead of the standard four-way parallel FieldView base model. As a result, it is able to manage the largest AcuSolve results efficiently, with no model size limits or feature restrictions. With the addition of AcuFieldView to AcuSolve, users gain complete CFD capability, from pre-processing through solver solutions and post-processing, all within the AcuSolve solution environment.

The AcuSolve V1.8b solver implements three new turbulence models: SST (Menters Shear Stress Transport model); SST-DES (SST-Detached Eddy Simulation model); and k-omega (2008 Variant of Wilcoxs k-model).

AcuSolve V1.8b features full support for edge-based surface mesh extrusions through the AcuConsole GUI. Other features in the new release serve to increase performance and further improve the user experience. For example, compared to the previous AcuSolve version,  improvements on domain decomposition for massively parallel applications allow V1.8b to deliver as much as a 15-times reduction in pre-processing time on large models with high core counts.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.