Ansys collaborated with Rolls-Royce and Intel to reduce the simulation time of the thermo-mechanical model of Rolls-Royce’s gas-turbine engine from more than 1,000 hours to less than 10 hours, saving energy and development costs. This collaboration was also supported by the computing resources at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, HPE, and researchers at the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications).
Powered by Ansys’ simulation and Intel’s high-performance computing (HPC) technologies, Rolls-Royce leverages Ansys and Intel to accelerate engineering solve times, reduce operational power consumption, and create virtual prototypes of its energy-and fuel-efficient gas turbine engines up to 100X faster.
As a result, Rolls-Royce is able to rapidly deliver clean and complex propulsion solutions for safety-critical applications in the air, at sea and on land. The advanced technology from Ansys and Intel also supports digital research and development (R&D), which incorporates simulation and digital twins to improve engine design for more sustainable, climate-neutral solutions for drive, propulsion, and power generation.
“Rolls-Royce is committed to reaching net zero within our own operation by 2030 and to enabling the sectors in which we operate to reach net zero by 2050,” said Todd Simons, HPC expert at Rolls-Royce.
Ansys helps Rolls-Royce reduce memory requirements, accelerate performance, and improve parallel efficiency. Using the Intel oneAPI Math Kernel Library MKL, Ansys® LS-DYNA® enables simulations to consume less memory and run orders of magnitude faster, which conserves power and energy consumption.
