Lufthansa Technik Uses Ansys to Develop and Certify AeroSHARK Technology for More Sustainable Aviation
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星期二, 六月 6, 2023
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PITTSBURGH, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lufthansa Technik, one of the world's leading providers of technical aircraft services, integrates Ansys' (NASDAQ: ANSS) simulation solutions to design and certify AeroSHARK, a biomimetic coating technology that emulates shark skin and significantly reduces fuel consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Key Points:
- By leveraging Ansys' computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and high-performance computing (HPC) technology, Lufthansa Technik and BASF, a chemical company, designed the coating film with a subtle ribbed texture consisting of small elevations referred to as riblets.
- Engineers used Ansys' CFD to analyze turbulent flow phenomena surrounding the riblets to ensure they would generate the same effect.
- Lufthansa Technik used Ansys' tools to build and validate smaller, more generic virtual prototypes of AeroSHARK before scaling and tailoring the prototypes through comprehensive aerodynamic simulations.
- "AeroSHARK can significantly contribute to more sustainable air transport," said Stefan Kuntzagk, senior engineer, aircraft performance, CFD, and flight test at Lufthansa Technik.