NUMECA FINE / Turbo 14.2

Two new features have been added to the Nonlinear Harmonic method (NLH):

- A new development allows the deformation of the periodic boundaries of a domain for a fluid-structure interaction simulation. This new feature brings critical advantages when a labyrinth seal or a blisk is taken into account in the model.
- Explicit Algebraic Reynolds-Stress turbulence models (EARSM) are now supported with the NLH method.


Custom thermodynamic table data can be generated with the new version of NIST Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties Database (REFPROP).

REFPROP 10 is integrated into NUMECA’s tables generator TabGen: the benefits of this new version are:

- the availability of 147 pure fluids
- support for mixtures with up to 20 components
- new equations of state for some fluids

FINE/Agile: Latest models and tools for an effective design

FINE/Agile now includes the latest release from Concepts NREC (version 8.8), with numerous improvements and fixes for a better preliminary and detailed design.

Aungier’s model, as well as a new intelligent wizard, make the design in PUMPAL and COMPAL easier and more exhaustive.

Mixed-flow designs created in Axial can be transferred to AxCent with the relevant blade parametrization.

The detailed design of turbomachinery in AxCent is faster, with user-defined equations for dependent geometric variables, and the fully automated analysis of a secondary flow path (casing treatments, backface, etc.).

FINE/Design3D: Minamo power for Robust Design Optimization

The search for the optimal design in a Robust Design Optimization can be performed with the optimization kernel MINAMO: the advantage of performing such optimization is the possibility of finding a robust optimum, less sensitive to operational or geometrical uncertainties.

- IGG/AutoGrid5 is included in the installation of FINE/Turbo
- CFView is included in the installation of FINE/Turbo
- FINE/Design3D is included into the FINE interface and is linked to the NUMECA CFD package FINE/Turbo (including the mesh generator AutoGrid, the flow solver and the post-processor CFView).

Supported platforms and operating systems

NUMECA software is supported in 64 bits on x86_64 processors only (64 bits processors that are compatible with Intel 8086 set of instructions).

Formally tested on
- Windows 8.1 Professional
- Windows 10 Professional
- Windows HPC 2012
Also known to run on *
- Windows 7 Professional
- VISTA Business
- VISTA Ultimate
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2012

* Known from partners and/ or customers. No official support offered on these combinations

Please also notice that the following limitations apply:

- Computations under Windows (except Windows Server) are limited to one PVM daemon running at a time. As a consequence, access to multiple users on a given machine is not allowed,
- Parasolid uses SSE2 instruction for high performance. If your platform is not supporting the SSE2 instruction, the FINE GUI cannot be started.
- AMD EPYC and RYZEN processors are slower on Windows 10 compare to Linux.

Multiprocessors calculations

Multiprocessors calculations are allowed on shared and homogeneous distributed platforms. Non-homogeneous configurations are not allowed.

The following limitations additionally apply:
- Multiprocessors calculations are allowed on distributed platforms in local user configurations provided that the same account is used for all machines,
- Domain administrators are not allowed to run multiprocessors calculations.
- MPICH2 library needs Microsoft .net Framework package before installing NUMECA software otherwise execution of mpiexec.exe will lead to a Windows error message.

Hardware requirements

Next to the standard hardware (monitor, keyboard and mouse), some specific recommendations apply in the use of NUMECA software:
- a mouse with scroll wheel is strongly recommended.
- the monitor should support 24-bit color graphics and have a 1280 x 1024 pixel resolution for adequate visualization.
- an Ethernet card should be installed and properly configured.
- NUMECA Software does not support CXFS (Clustered XFS) and IBRIX disk file systems.

Memory and disk space requirements

The Random Access Memory (RAM) required to run NUMECA software depends upon several factors, in particular including the number of grid points inserted in the grid, the physical models selected (turbulence, adaptation,…), the introduction of non-matching boundary conditions and the selected calculation mode (mixed or double precision).

Similarly, a minimum disk space is required on the hard disk to allow the storage of the project files. The size of these files largely depends upon the number of grid points generated.

More product specific details:

FINE/Turbo

As a general guideline, a minimum 100 MB is required to store the mesh and solution file (one file, no full non-matching connections, solution stored after one iteration) when running a one million nodes project.

The memory (RAM) required to run FINE™/Turbo depends upon several factors, in particular including the number of grid points inserted in the grid, the physical models selected (turbulence, optional modules,…) and the introduction of non-matching boundary conditions. The use of minimum 1 GB RAM is strongly recommended. As a general guideline, about 0.5 to 0.7 GB RAM are generally required to run a one million nodes project. Furthermore, the FINE™/Turbo solver has a memory limit of 8.59 GB per process. This is thus the maximum memory requirement for a sequential computation. The suggested swap space should be equivalent to at least 3 times the RAM installed

Graphics requirements

NVidia graphics cards are fully supported, installed together with the latest drivers.

NUMECA software makes use of the advantages of the available Graphics Card. Some trouble may however come up with the default driver OPENGL since it may not be supported by the user host computer and machine display. In order to set the system compatible with a more portable driver, typically MSW driver is used under Windows instead. Note however that the proposed drivers are usually less efficient in terms of graphical speed than the default driver.