Van Oord and Ansys Accelerate the Design of Highly Sustainable Offshore Wind Turbines
Ansys helps reduce model run time from 150 hours to 24 hours, speeding development time by 7x
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Van Oord Offshore Wind Monopile Foundation. Photo courtesy of Van Oord.
Ansys solutions enable Van Oord to quickly increase design load combinations and improve calculation time for advanced wind turbine foundation development
Van Oord s engineers use Ansys Cloud and Ansys Mechanical to optimize new product design, minimize project risk, streamline supplier negotiations and slash product development timelines
Van Oord is working with Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) to speed environmental sustainability while expediting new product designs for the offshore wind turbine industry. Ansys is aiding Van Oord engineers in their development of cutting-edge wind turbine foundations, helping them increase product quality and deliver new innovations to market faster t
Dutch company Van Oord is working with US company Ansys to speed environmental sustainability while expediting new foundation designs for the offshore wind industry.
Van Oord said designing foundations typically requires its engineers to invest considerable time developing numerous complex, dynamic analysis finite element models.
To accelerate and optimise the simulation process, Van Oord s engineering team is now working with Ansys partner Infinite Simulation Systems to harness Ansys Mechanical and Ansys Cloud.
The technologies have spurred design optimisation, shortened product development timelines and boosted the efficiency of next-gen offshore wind turbines, the partners said.
“Leveraging Mechanical and Ansys Cloud empowers Van Oord engineers to rapidly run 5x more design iterations on Cloud to predict the performance of advanced wind turbine foundations and enhance the fabrication processes while reducing project risks and speeding supply chain negotiations,” they sai
™ , which spurred design optimization, significantly shortened product development timelines and boosted the efficiency of next-gen offshore wind turbines.
Leveraging Mechanical and Ansys Cloud empowers Van Oord engineers to rapidly run 5x more design iterations on Cloud to predict the performance of advanced wind turbine foundations and enhance the fabrication processes while reducing project risks and speeding supply chain negotiations. As a result, simulations that required a week to run on multiple costly workstations now run overnight, delivering a 7x improvement in time savings, while greatly decreasing risk of production delay. Van Oord engineers employ Ansys Cloud to spur new product innovation and solve the ever-growing number of Mechanical models, which may feature over 5.5 million degrees of freedom, 1.8 million nodes and 550,000 elements, said Ralph Luiken, engineering specialist at Van Oord. Historically, these massive models each required 150 hours to run, ho
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