As a technology partner to leading engineering firms, we continually seek innovative solutions to address the industry’s most pressing challenges. With many advanced CFD tools, there’s a tough trade-off between accurate high-fidelity, scale-resolving simulations and speed and affordability. We’ve released HiPer, a brand-new solver designed from the ground up to deliver a step-change in cost-effective simulation capability.
Why develop HiPer?
To give you an inside look, we caught up with the product’s lead developer and our CAA and CFD Specialist, Product Lead Acoustics, Mark Allan, to find out the vision behind HiPer.
Mark told us:
“The aim was to provide a dedicated solver for complex engineering challenges that could offer an order of magnitude change in runtime, accuracy, and memory requirements. While we have experience with Immersed Boundary methods in our general-purpose zCFD solver, this was a far more ambitious goal.
“We needed a dedicated high-fidelity, scale-resolving solver suitable for complex aerodynamics and aeroacoustics that was also cost-effective to run, highly accurate, and for which it was simple to generate meshes.
“The HiPer product stemmed from Zenotech’s contribution to the LandOne project designed to enable next-generation computational aero-acoustics (CAA) technologies to deliver an integrated landing system design solution for Airbus aircraft as they pioneer more sustainable flight.”
Funded by The Aerospace Technology Institute, the Government’s Department for Business & Trade and Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, find out more about the LandOne Project.
Who is HiPer for?
HiPer is for any customer performing CFD on complex geometries where scale-resolving simulations are vital. If your work involves intricate shapes and demands the highest level of accuracy, HiPer is for you. It is already being used in the aerospace and automotive sectors for applications including:
- Automotive: Analysing the exterior aerodynamics of a new car or the interior climate control flow.
- Aerospace: Simulating the performance of high-lift systems on aircraft wings or the complex aeroacoustics of landing gear.
Find out how our partners at Moya Aero are using HiPer on their innovative electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft project.
The HiPer Advantage
When you use HiPer, you’ll immediately notice three core benefits that set it apart.
- Firstly, there’s unprecedented ease of use.
According to Mark Allan: “It’s no exaggeration to say that children could use it! HiPer is so easy to use that we’ve seen school children run a scale-resolving simulation within a matter of hours. It removes the complexity, so you can focus on the results.”
- Cost-effective supercomputer power: High-fidelity simulation no longer requires a massive hardware investment. HiPer is optimised to run large, complex problems on very modest gaming GPUs, making high-end CFD accessible to more users than ever.
- Fast, accurate results: HiPer combines speed with uncompromising accuracy, allowing you to innovate faster, make better decisions, and shorten your entire design cycle.
What Our Users Are Saying
The feedback from our initial users has been overwhelmingly positive. Barbara Luz, during her placement at Moya Aero, told us:
“Working with Zenotech’s simulation software has been invaluable on this dynamic project. It allows us to rapidly test different design iterations and gain crucial insights into aerodynamic performance early in the development cycle.”
As with all our products, we are committed to listening to our users and will continuously improve the HiPer experience based on your feedback.
Experience HiPer
Ready to take your simulations to the next level?
Contact Zenotech today for a trial or a demo run, where our experts can show you what’s possible by tackling one of your own models.
