DAY1 Program - VINAS Users Conference 2015 - A Comprehensive solution for Large Data, Optimization and Workflow Management


9:00 – 9:30	Registration
9:30 – 9:50	Opening Speech Achieving Higher Efficiency in CFD by Open Source Solvers and Cloud Computing Yasuhiko Fujikawa, President & CEO, VINAS Co., Ltd.
9:50 – 9:55	Overview of FieldView 16 and XDBview 2 and Technical Support and Consulting Service by VINAS Yoshiyuki Sawa, Pre & Post Technical Group, Engineering Department 1, VINAS Co., Ltd. FieldView 16, releasing in October 2015, will feature 3D PDF, which supports CFD design works to share the information and experience with XDBview. The overview of new features and technical support, training and consulting service by VINAS will be presented.
9:55 – 10:30		FieldView 16 Revealed Mr. Yves-Marie Lefebvre FieldView Product Chief, Intelligent Light
9:55 – 10:30		As Intelligent Light gets ready to release new versions of its flagship products FieldView and XDBview, we will review how Intelligent Light’s vision and our users’ feature requests have met to give birth to new breakthroughs in such areas as sharing and presenting CFD results or processing large simulations with unprecedented efficiency and performance.
10:30 – 11:05		Optimized CFD Workflow - a Winning Formula in Motorsports Mr. Torbjörn Larsson Technical Expert Aerodynamics & CFD Methodology, Creo Dynamics AB
10:30 – 11:05		Known as the “pinnacle of motorsports”, Formula One (F1) is widely being regarded as an excellent proving ground and catalyst for new technology. Over the last decade, significant advances in CFD methods and HPC have been fundamental for the evolution of the highly sophisticated engineering workflows seen in F1 today. Aerodynamics design and development, while driven at a pace second to none, rely on efficient and well-integrated CFD tools. Extracting, processing and analyzing the vast amount of computational data being produced each day require fully automated and ultra-fast post-processing tools. With the integration of recent FieldView technology and its associated workflows critical bottlenecks in such CFD processes can be eliminated. The presentation will highlight how FieldView technology can raise the bar in one of the most demanding of automotive industries, namely Formula One.
11:05 – 11:10	Break
11:10 – 11:15	Overview of Pointwise V18 and Technical Support and Consulting Service by VINAS Hiroyuki Suzuki, Pre & Post Technical Group, Engineering Department 1, VINAS Co., Ltd. The next version, Pointwise V18, will improved its T-REX ,anisotropic tetrahedral cell extrusion for boundary layer, to support triangle and rectangle surface mesh. The presentation gives the overview of Pointwise V18, and also, technical support, training and consulting service by VINAS.
11:15 – 11:50		Pointwise Flexibility and Quality: Meshing Considerations for Efficient Design Analysis and Optimization Mr. Richard J Matus, Ph.D. Vice-president, Sales & Marketing, Pointwise, Inc.
11:15 – 11:50		Optimal integration of meshing into the analysis process requires working well with other design and analysis software while still meeting mesh quality requirements. Advantages of Pointwise in this process will be discussed along with a preview of future development plans.
11:50 – 12:25		Open-Source CFD Analysis and Design with SU2 Dr. Thomas D. Economon Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University
11:50 – 12:25		SU2 is an open-source computational package for solving multi-physics analysis and optimization tasks using unstructured meshes such as those created with Pointwise. SU2 will be demonstrated for a number of applications relevant to the aerospace and automotive industries.
12:25 – 13:35	Lunch / Demonstration *Short presentation
13:35 – 14:10		Speed-up of Diesel Combustion Analyses by Large-Scale Parallel Computing Using OpenFOAM Assistant Professor Tsukasa Hori Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
13:35 – 14:10		A free license open code “OpenFOAM” is used in a diesel spray combustion analysis and a flow analysis of piston compression and expansion to test its parallel performance. In both analyses, we confirmed reduction of calculation time down to 1/150 with 512 parallel processing.
14:10 – 14:40	Introduction of CFD workflow using HELYX / Helyx-SAS Junichi Fukui, CFD Product Group, Engineering Department 1, VINAS Co., Ltd. HELYX and Helyx-SAS are OpenFOAM-based CFD software that have user-friendly GUI and improved robustness feature. We will show how HELYX and Helyx-SAS improve existing CFD simulation workflow.
14:40 – 15:10		Practical CFD with HELYX M. Sc. Eng. Paolo Geremia Director, Manager of GUI Development, ENGYS Ltd.
14:40 – 15:10		In this talk we introduce the HELYX general purpose CFD suite based on Open Source technology. Unique features of the toolset will be highlighted and several applications demonstrating the utility of the code will be presented. An additional demonstration will be provided and the key features of the latest version of the software will be showcased.
15:10 – 15:15	Break
15:15 – 15:45		Advanced Applications with HELYX Modules Mr. Paolo Geremia, M.Sc.Eng. Director, Manager of GUI Development, ENGYS Ltd.
15:15 – 15:45		The HELYX CFD suite supports various plug-in modules that extend the core functionality to tackle specialized applications. These include coupled solvers, adjoint optimization, advanced multiphase and ship hull design. Several usage scenarios for these extension modules are demonstrated, showcasing their advantages over conventional solvers.
15:45 – 16:15		Automotive Aerodynamic Noise Analysis by using HELYX Dr. Yasuhiko Okutsu Vehicle Function Testing Dept., Development Engineering Office , Mitsubishi Motors Corporation
15:45 – 16:15		When driving an electrically powered vehicle such as an EV or PHEV, aerodynamic noise is more noticeable inside the cabin as the noise from the power source is quieter. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate car body shapes by CAE analysis from an early stage of development in order to reduce aerodynamic noise. However, aerodynamic analyses involve high calculation cost, and license fees of commercial solvers go up when the level of parallelization is increased for large scale calculations. This has led us to focus on large scale aerodynamic noise analysis using an open source code.
16:15 – 16:50		Development Efforts to Increase the Reliability of FaSTAR Dr. Atsushi Hashimoto, Researcher, Aeronautical Technology Directorate, Numerical Simulation Research Unit, Japan Aerospace Explosion Agency
16:15 – 16:50		FaSTAR (FAST Aerodynamic Routines) is a high speed CFD code for unstructured grid. The most prominent feature of the code is high speed calculation, which is achieved by simple data structure, sorting of data for efficient memory access, parallelization based on domain decomposition, and convergence acceleration by Multigrid. Development efforts in improving the reliability of FaSTAR will be discussed in this presentation.
16:50 – 17:25		【Special Speech】 Large Scale Turbulent Flow Analysis Program “FrontFlow/blue” and its Latest Application Examples Professor Chisachi Kato Institute of industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
16:50 – 17:25		Recent increase in computer performance has enabled applications of large-scale computations that use tens of billions of grid points. FrontFlow/blue (FFB) is a freeware developed for performing such computations that use up to hundreds of billions of grid points. Features implemented in FFB and some of its latest application examples will be presented.
17:25 - 17:30	Break
Keynote Speech
17:30 – 18:30		Complex Fluid Simulation and Large-scale 4D Data Analysis for Weather and Climate Prediction Dr. Keiko Takahashi Director-General, Center for Earth Information Science and Technology (CEIST), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)	(Multi-Scale Simulator for the Geoenvironment)
17:30 – 18:30		Predictions of weather and climate involve an ultra-large simulation of multi-phase turbulent flow dynamics in various scales of time and space ranging from local weather conditions to global atmosphere-ocean phenomena. This presentation explains interesting aspects of these simulations as well as its challenges and provides information about recent trend in 4D data analysis.	(Multi-Scale Simulator for the Geoenvironment)
Reception Party
18:30 – 20:30	A fantastic opportunity for sharing and exchanging information with each other. -Venue: Tokyo Conference Center Shinagawa – 5th floor foyer[in front of the grand hall]- *Please notify your attendance at the time of registration.