Case Study: Aircraft Wing Company achieves faster flutter simulation with Simr and ANSYS on cloud HPC

Aerodynamics and Fluttering Study of an Aircraft Wing with Fluid Structure Interaction using ANSYS

The customer, a generic aircraft wing company, faced the challenge of analyzing the complex aeroelastic behavior of a wing design. This required running highly detailed fluid dynamics and structural simulations that were computationally intensive, with a fine mesh model of 12 million cells being nearly impossible to process on a standard workstation within a feasible timeframe. They engaged vendor Simr, along with resource provider ProfitBricks and ANSYS software, to leverage high-performance cloud computing (HPC) via UberCloud containers.

The solution implemented by Simr utilized a 62-core cloud HPC server to run the ANSYS Workbench environment. This setup enabled the completion of the massive simulation in just 2.25 hours, a task that would have taken significantly longer on lesser hardware. The use of UberCloud containers provided easy, browser-based access and streamlined the process, eliminating resubmissions. As a result, Simr's solution drastically reduced computation time and provided the customer with the high-fidelity results needed to evaluate wing flutter stability.