When .001/second is the difference - Using Concurrent CFD to design for Olympic Speed

There are currently no dates scheduled for this event. However a recording of a previous session is available as an on-demand web seminar.

Overview

In this web seminar Professor Bromley will describe his tried and proven philosophy of athlete-enabled engineering & technological developments in winter sports particularly related to his own sport of bobsled skeleton where he was World Champion in 2008. His small Sheffield, UK-based company, Bromley Technologies Ltd, launched a managed, sponsorship funded, high performance sports engineering initiative in 2007 that seeks to add value to elite athlete performance through technological innovation and wizardry. Operating in the same mold as a mini Formula One Motor Sport team, Bromley harnesses world class technological expertise from world leading companies and fuses it with Bromley’s pedigree and proven highly specialized engineering expertise in bobsled sports. The F-ICE program, as it is called, is a world’s first and is designed to complement the athlete’s own world class performance.

In this webinar, the history of CFD engagement in various sports and the benefits to be gained will be outlined. Then, how the Pro/E CAD-embedded CFD package, FloEFD, and its Concurrent CFD fluid flow analysis approach throughout Bromley’s design process has helped Bromley Technologies to have a direct influence on the aerodynamic usability and reliability of their finished product. Designing within the Pro/Engineer environment which he was familiar with, and using FloEFD shortened Kristan’s design lifecycle dramatically by an order of magnitude, thus enhancing their workflows leading to optimal, more robust, bobsled skeleton designs and all within extremely demanding competitive sporting timescales where the difference between winning and losing can be measured in fractions of a second or a few millimeters.

During this presentation, the presenter will demonstrate to you how easy it is with Concurrent CFD to simulate the design of a scanned elite athlete on a bobsled skeleton geometry, and then evaluate the aerodynamic results. Bromley’s technological vision for the Sochi 2014 Olympic cycle will be sketched out as well as opportunities in other sports plus there will be ample time for questions afterwards.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the impact of aerodynamic design changes in elite sports applications and how they can effect performance and reliability
• Perform fluid flow analysis using Concurrent CFD within the familiar 3D CAD Pro/E interface
• Visualize flow distributions in a virtual 3D environment
• The process by which efficient ways to share and interpret results within a high pressure time-critical winning environment with an integrated design team