Case Study: Zitron, a tunnel-ventilation leader, cuts full-tunnel simulation time from one month to days with ANSYS Fluent and ANSYS HPC Pack

Moving to a cloud environment cost-effectively increases the speed and scale of ANSYS Fluent simulations at Zitron

Zitron, a world leader in ventilation systems for underground mines, metros and power plants, faced rapidly growing simulation sizes as tunnels grew longer — a full-tunnel CFD run on its internal hardware typically took about a month to process. To address this bottleneck Zitron relied on ANSYS products, notably ANSYS Fluent and ANSYS HPC Pack, to model flow, pressure and fire behavior but needed greater compute capacity and faster turnaround to meet customer demand.

ANSYS, working with Gompute, moved Zitron’s ANSYS Fluent workflows into a managed-hosting cloud using ANSYS HPC Pack and Gompute on Demand, scaling from eight in-house cores to flexible 128-core clusters. The change cut processing time from roughly one month to several days, boosted engineering productivity and customer responsiveness, launched faster than internal procurement, and lowered total cost of ownership — with ANSYS continuing to support the environment in collaboration with Gompute.

Zitron

Ana Belén Amado

Mining Engineer