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In designing, testing and deploying highly complex configurations, the flow measurement over and around them often plays a vital role. Accurate measurement of such flow is likely one of the most difficult tasks to accomplish. This leads to usage of highly specialized, expensive and lengthy conventional computer algorithms and in demand wind tunnel and wave tank testing facilities. Because a significant number of test cases have to be performed all of this adds to the overall cost and extended time to product deployment and ultimately a return on investment. The need and requirement to ensure complete integrity yet expedited testing is the two edge sword that corporations wrestle with.Any reduction and simplification in that process has dramatic effect on product development costs, ultimately leading to improved company results and profits. The route to such possibilities lies in replacing the physical with the virtual. Many Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) models have been developed to accomplish these tasks in an easier way and have been doing so for a long time, but not always to the degree required. Example:. Numerical diffusion error being one of the key factors that has to be overcome for accurate computations. To minimize such dissipation, conventional higher order methods with adaptive grid generation techniques have been used to compute turbulent small scales, but with no consideration for essential physics.
Recognizing such deficiencies, Dr. John Steinhoff undertook revising the conventional CFD model with the intent to prevent numerical diffusion and improve the modeling capabilities needed in accurate flow assessment. After years of research and refinement, Dr. John Steinhoff produced a new physics based computer model delivering an accurate and complete flow analysis tool. The new model he developed is known as Vorticity Confinement (VC). VC allows rapid product design and prototyping by eliminating the need for expensive and lengthy conventional computer algorithms and in demand wind tunnel and wave tank testing facilities. As well, since VC runs on a PC, the need for costly and time consuming super computer tests are eliminated. Now you can run thousands of flow prototypes in a fraction of the computing time needed for a conventional method, providing a multitude of tests and analyses by which to prove product efficacy.
VC has been used in a variety of design and development applications from helicopters to special effects in movies. Some of those uses are listed below:
The benefits to using a computer model as encompassing, effective and efficient as VC allows for a faster, more efficient, less costly and more accurate deployment of any flow dependent application.
