Hyundai Heavy Industries chooses STAR-CCM+ for fluid-structure interaction analysis

Seoul : CD-adapco has announced that Hyundai Heavy Industries, Co., Ltd. (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder, has adopted STAR-CCM+ for its fluid-structure interaction analysis of ships in waves. After an extensive evaluation HHI chose CD-adapco’s flagship Computational Fluid Dynamics product because of its breadth of applicability and its ability to substantially reduce development timescales when deployed early in the design process.

“We were looking for a commercial CFD product that offered complex geometry handling, minimal workload for surface preparation and meshing, and wide range of physical models for unsteady marine hydrodynamics.” said a senior research engineer at Hyundai Maritime Research Institute. “STAR-CCM+ is that tool. STAR-CCM+ is so easy to learn while very efficient and powerful in marine applications, especially when predicting vessel’s 6 degree-of-freedom motions as well as slamming impact loads in waves. HHI is also very satisfied with customer supports by CD-adapco Korea.”

David Vaughn, CD-adapco’s Director for the Marine Sector, is excited by this new relationship: “We are proud to name HHI in the growing list of leading industrial companies that have adopted STAR-CCM+ for hydrodynamic design analysis, and look forward to working with them further improving our software in order to meet the future needs of the maritime industry.”

CD-adapco has a 28 year history of providing state-of-the-art flow, thermal and stress simulation technology to the marine industry. From the world's largest shipyard to suppliers of small components, the use of our technology has become a standard feature in the marin design and safety assurance process. CD-adapco's software is used by classification societies such as Lloyd's Register, Germanischer Lloyd, Det Norske Veritas and American Bureau of Shipping.

Using cutting edge solver technology, CD-adapco’s customers have been able to tackle some of the most demanding problems that the marine industry has to offer, allowing engineers and designers to predict how designs will react in operation, before budget is committed to the construction of expensive prototypes. Recent successes include: ship keeping, slamming and sloshing; wave and wind loading on offshore and underwater structures; oil and pollutant dispersions; cavitation control and propulsion system optimization.