Numerical simulation software establishes new standards
There are other numerical simulation software packages that can perform such execution procedures, however this application has established itself as the leading application in its particular field. To put it plainly, this software application can execute procedures in the order of 3 to 4 magnitudes smaller than the spacing tangential to the cell walls. The application itself is a hybrid generation approach, which enables it to combine the structured grid generators that produce stretched anisotropic layers of elements near the boundary. These grids are of particular importance because they compute mass and heat transfer with electrochemically reacting flow servers. The application uses a hierarchical structure of three steps, whereby the first step constructs the edge grids, which constitute the face boundaries. In the second step, the face grids are generated and start from the bounding face grids, whilst in the third step the volume grids are generated. The application has a strong interfacing emphasis with CAD systems, and the geometry and topology of the configuration can be extracted directly from the CAD system output. Also, an innovative method was developed to enable the user just to input a few parameters, whilst at the same time enabling the application to generate high quality surface meshes. In addition to the potential applications for the electrochemistry industry, the aerospace industry is also poised to benefit for the computations of drag associated with aircraft fuselages and wing surfaces. As such the Belgian research institute and ElSyCa will further investigate other aerodynamic applications such as viscous flow simulations at the high Reynolds number, including turbo-machinery flow.
