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Enabling the Future of Coastal Travel with Flow360

10 Mar 2023 By Flexcompute
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REGENT, a pioneer of zero-emission regional coastal transportation, has teamed up with Flexcompute to develop their revolutionary floating, foiling and flying “seagliders”. By leveraging our game-changing CFD solver, Flow360, REGENT engineers are able to simulate complex flow physics with greater confidence and in record time. Approximate reading time: 15mins Figure 1: REGENT’s next generation seaglider. See it in action. Introduction REGENT, a North Kingstown, Rhode Island based company, is designing and building “seagliders”. REGENT’s seaglider is a fully electric vehicle...

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Tiltrotor Propulsion Modeling with Blade Element Theory (Part 3 of 3)

24 Feb 2023 By Flexcompute
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In this series, we highlight our continued effort to study the fluid dynamics of the XV-15 tiltrotor aircraft. The full series consists of three parts: Part I provides some background on the need and utility of tiltrotor aircraft and summarizes the CFD study we carried out in 2021 using the Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) technique. Part II will discuss useful fluid dynamic propulsion approximations to model the XV-15 at a reduced computational cost. Part III will showcase the results obtained...

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Tiltrotor Propulsion Modeling with Blade Element Theory (Part 2 of 3)

17 Feb 2023 By Flexcompute
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In this series, we highlight our continued effort to study the fluid dynamics of the XV-15 tiltrotor aircraft. The full series consists of three parts: Part I provides some background on the need and utility of tiltrotor aircraft and summarizes the CFD study we carried out in 2021 using the Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) technique. Part II will discuss useful fluid dynamic propulsion approximations to model the XV-15 at a reduced computational cost. Part III will showcase the results obtained...

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Tiltrotor Propulsion Modeling with Blade Element Theory (Part 1 of 3)

08 Feb 2023 By Flexcompute
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In this series, we highlight our continued effort to study the fluid dynamics of the XV-15 tiltrotor aircraft. The full series consists of three parts: Part I provides some background on the need and utility of tiltrotor aircraft and summarizes the CFD study we carried out in 2021 using the Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) technique. Part II will discuss useful fluid dynamic propulsion approximations to model the XV-15 at a reduced computational cost. Part III will showcase the results obtained...

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Tidy3D helps MIT researchers design a highly efficient spatial light modulator

28 Dec 2022 By Flexcompute
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In a recent breakthrough published in Nature Photonics, a high-efficiency, high-bandwidth spatial light modulator (SLM) has been developed. The work, led by Chris Panuski and prof. Dirk Englund at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, demonstrates a proof-of-principle device based on an array of photonic crystal microcavities with all-optical control of the resonance frequencies of each individual cavity. A key innovation was the cavity design, which was optimized simultaneously for high spatial confinement, high quality factor and high directionality of the...

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