• Engineering support in the areas of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Computational Mechanics (CM). The company will work with customers to develop and optimize engineering and technical solutions and will offer dedicated engineering skills that may be needed to extend our customers’ internal capability. Examples of tasks offered:
Clean-up and preparation of model surfaces provided by the customer
Meshing of model. Conducting analysis and ensuring numerical fidelity
Processing results and producing relevant plots
Analyzing results and producing diagnostics to assist in design optimization
Reviewing results with the customer and evolving designs as needed
• Analysis-based customer-valued solutions in the areas of: aerodynamics, thermofluids, combustion, heat transfer, two-phase flows, and related disciplines:
Preparing and analyzing base design
Conducting design iterations to optimize design or to meet design targets and developing new optimized designs
Following-up with customers and providing support on developed designs
Conducting further analysis as needed to diagnose and resolve any disparity between computed and measured performance.
Customers and Market Sectors
Optumatics has targeted its core competencies to serve the following market sectors:
Aerospace
Automotive
Power Generation
Energy
Oil and Gas
Uniqueness
What places Optumatics in a unique competitive position is its ability to:
Offer customers services at the high-end of the technical and engineering value chain at a cost significantly lower than its competitors
Accommodate customer-specific needs and requirements with an option to link its technical systems to the customer’s.
The technical leaders of Optumatics have significant industrial experience in the core technical areas of the company.
Turbomachinery
A. Turbochargers
System Integration (turbocharger components and intake/exhaust manifolds)
Optimize interfaces to minimize negative impact on the performance of the turbocharger.
Ensure good flow distribution into the aftertreatment system from turbine.
Compressor & Turbine Design: enhancements to extend the operating range of the turbocharger and/or improve the efficiency via development of:
Blades
Diffusers
Volutes
Vanes
Ported shroud
Diagnose Design Problems.
Explore & Evolve New Design Concepts.
B. Gas-turbines, Turbo-Jet/Propeller Engines, Steam/Hydro Turbines
Axial and radial compressors
Blade design, inter-stage connections, wheel-stator interactions, inlet design, influence of dust, etc.
Turbines
Blade and nozzle design, blade cooling, heat transfer issues.
Combustion Chambers
Combustion stability, fuel injection, air mixing, swirl effects, pressure losses, exit flow distribution, air mixing, heat transfer, etc..
System Integration
Internal Combustion Engines
A. Port Design
Feasible designs that achieve the required in-cylinder flow for optimum combustion and emissions while achieving high-flow capacity to maximize power.
B. Combustion Chamber Design for Gasoline Engines
Piston, chamber and port design to extend dilution tolerance (tumble, swirl, etc.).
Minimize potential for knock at high loads.
Target Port Fuel Injectors for good vaporization of injected fuel (wall layers, etc.) and fuel response.
Optimize injection process, and select injector design to minimize emissions and improve combustion efficiency.
Optimize injection process and select injector design to maximize torque and power.
C. Combustion Chamber Design for Diesel Engines
Piston design, port design, injector configuration for optimum tradeoff between soot, NOx, fuel economy, and noise.
Optimize design for best peak power and torque performance.
Trouble shooting and diagnostics.
D. Manifolds
Full-load volumetric efficiency. Full-load cylinder-to-cylinder air distribution.
Design upstream flow ducts to ensure uniform flow distribution feeding into the aftertreatment system.
Specify and target the urea injector to yield more uniform loading of the SCR catalyst.
Specify and target the HC injection to yield more uniform loading of the DOC.
Aerodynamics
A. Automotive
Aerodynamic drag and lift with design iterations.
Influence of different vehicle components on drag.
Influence and design of spoilers.
Wake-dust accumulation on windows.
Defogging of windows in cabin.
In-cabin air flow distribution and HVAC issues.
Underhood cooling and thermal management.
B. Aerospace
Aerodynamic drag and lift on aircraft/wing with design iterations.
De-icing studies.
Wing design under different Mach numbers.
Morphing wing applications.
Windshear.
Flapping wing applications.
Propeller applications (aero-planes and helicopters).
Oil & Gas, and Power Generation
Tank sloshing problems.
Stirred-tank reactors.
Heat transfer with/without boiling.
Combustion with fuel injection.
Wind-turbine applications.
Hydropower.
Video Demonstrations
Two-Phase Flows and Free Boundary Problems Breaking barrier with sloshing demonstrates Optumatics’ two-phase flow capability. This expertise is critical to engineering problems involving time-dependent free surface phenomena, cavitation, boiling, etc…
Flow Stability and Natural Convection Flows
Natural convection flows are inherent to a variety of problems, from the analysis of atmospheric flows to safety critical issues in fire control and nuclear power plants. The above shows the evolution of a free convection plume off a hot plate computed by Optumatics’ proprietary software.
Optimization of Turbomachinery
Flow in an automotive turbocharger compressor gives a glimpse of Optumatics’ leading- edge technology in the analysis and optimization of turbomachinery for power, mobility, and other engineering systems.
