PITTSBURGH, March 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
/ Key Highlights
- Using Ansys simulation solutions, Emirates Team New Zealand
developed a highly advanced racing yacht to successfully defend its
America's Cup title
- The innovation collaboration empowered team engineers to
quickly design their high-performance yacht — eliminating expensive
and laborious physical prototype testing
Leveraging Ansys' (NASDAQ: ANSS) engineering simulation
solutions to design and optimize its next-generation 75-foot
foiling monohull racing yacht, Emirates Team New
Zealand (ETNZ) retained the America's Cup. ETNZ used Ansys to
engineer rapid enhancements to its yacht to remain
ultra-competitive — the simulation-driven development process
helped lead to a 7-3 win against its challenger in the best-of-13
competition.
ETNZ combined its proprietary velocity prediction program with
Ansys models and high-performance computing to create an enhanced,
real-world modeling system that powered real-time simulation of the
yacht. This helped the team generate the yacht's digital prototype,
which was used to test, evaluate and optimize the yacht's
performance — eliminating expensive physical wind tunnel and tow
tank testing.
Ansys enabled the team to improve the yacht's aerodynamics above
the water and hydrodynamics below the water and measure how the
vessel would behave under different sailing conditions. Simulations
also validated that the yacht's carbon composite components were as
light as possible and strong enough to withstand harsh loads while
sailing. Additionally, Ansys empowered the team to reduce its
design concept review time from six months to a single week.
"We're elated to defend the America's Cup in New Zealand against incredibly strong
opposition. Ansys has been the central tool of our structural and
aerodynamic development," said Steve
Collie, aerodynamics coordinator, ETNZ. "Through the
countless simulations carried out with Ansys, we accurately
predicted the performance of these incredible sailing machines and
then optimize and develop our race yacht, Te Rehutai, right down to
the last race."
ETNZ used Ansys simulations early in their design cycle to
significantly optimize the yacht's performance.
"With limits placed on physical testing in this campaign, ETNZ
ran comprehensive simulations of fluid dynamics and composite
structures using Ansys to help them rapidly, reliably and
affordably test a range of design concepts," said Nick Goodall, Ansys business manager, LEAP
Australia, ETNZ's dedicated Ansys
channel partner. "We are proud of our longstanding relationship
with ETNZ, who are an inspiration to all engineers in our region.
Their success is proof that simulation powers innovation and
provides a competitive advantage that helps achieve our engineering
goal — whether it's being first to the finish line or being first
to market with a new product."
"We congratulate ETNZ on this remarkable achievement. Swiftly
solving complicated structural and fluid-dynamic issues is a major
challenge for designing next-gen racing yachts," said Shane Emswiler, senior vice president at Ansys.
"By working closely with ETNZ, our combined resources empowered
their engineers to shift from time- and cost-intensive physical
trials to high-fidelity virtual testing — delivering a cutting-edge
craft that logged the fastest times around the courses to outsail
and outrace the competition."
/ About Ansys
If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane,
driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a
bridge or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a
product where Ansys software played a critical role in its
creation. Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation.
Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering Simulation, we help
the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better
products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest
portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve
the most complex design challenges and create products limited only
by imagination. Founded in 1970, Ansys is headquartered south of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Visit www.ansys.com for more information.
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