Case Study: Boundary Layer Technologies achieves accelerated, large-scale hydrofoil cargo design with Rescale

Boundary Layer Technologies - Customer Case Study

Boundary Layer Technologies, a marine transportation startup in Alameda, California, is developing category‑defining hydrofoil cargo ships to fill the speed/cost gap between air and traditional shipping. To design this new class of vessel they faced complex physics (free surface and cavitation) and extremely large meshes that required hundreds of gigabytes of RAM—challenges that demanded immediate access to up‑to‑date simulation tools and high‑performance compute. They used the Rescale platform with Ansys Fluent to run these advanced simulations.

Rescale provided instant access to the latest Ansys updates and scalable remote compute so the small Boundary Layer Technologies team could build and run high‑fidelity, hundreds‑of‑GB meshes without local hardware or IT overhead. As a result, Rescale accelerated their design cycle, increased model fidelity and scale, reduced IT burden, and enabled programmatic optimization—giving the company the compute capacity to advance a faster, more carbon‑efficient cargo design.

Boundary Layer Technologies

Cameron Flannery

Aerospace Engineer