Alliance to advance aero-acoustic research and promote joint consultancy activities
Leuven, Belgium – LMS, the engineering innovation company, announces a partnership with the Brussels-based von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI). This collaboration will promote joint research, technology and development projects and consultancy activities in aero-acoustic modeling and testing. It combines LMS’ numerical vibro-acoustics simulation and data acquisition expertise and VKI’s wind-tunnel testing, measurement techniques and flow phenomena modeling know-how.
VKI’s knowledge of environmental and applied fluid dynamics, wind technology, measurement techniques and flow phenomena simulation will help LMS develop and validate new methods and software technology. LMS’ expertise in the field of numerical vibro-acoustics and data acquisition technologies brings considerable value and application knowledge to VKI research projects. Formalizing a five-year collaboration in acoustics and fluid dynamics, the joint LMS-VKI association will focus on consultancy projects and research and development activities in aero-acoustics and fluid-structural interaction for both simulation and testing applications. In the aero-acoustics field, these activities cover heating, ventilation and air-conditioning projects, whereas fluid-structural interaction applications are useful in wind noise transmission research.
“VKI started research activities in aero-acoustics more than a decade ago, mainly combining experimental and theoretical approaches. Our cooperation with LMS helped us to efficiently and quickly launch Computational Aero-Acoustics (CAA) activities thanks to the LMS acoustic solver techniques and our expertise in computational fluid dynamics. I am sure that the LMS-VKI partnership will strongly support industrial customers in the aero-acoustics field. The VKI educational program has already benefited from our partnership. Our students are being trained using the LMS software,” stated Jérôme Anthoine, aero-acoustics group leader at VKI.
LMS Engineering Services and VKI are already working together on joint consultancy activities for energy production, steel, HVAC systems, gas distribution and ground, air, and rail transportation.
In terms of research and development, LMS and VKI have recently invested in a high-performance computing facility, comprising 48 nodes in a SGI Altix 1U rack-mounted server with 12 quad-cores Intel Xeon 2.5 GHz (96 Gb RAM and InfiniBand) to support its shared research projects. This facility, located at the VKI, can be remotely accessed and has already been used by the research team in the European research projects, SIMVIA2 and AETHER.
"Our partnership with the von Karman Institute is a strong asset for LMS. LMS has been investing in flow process engineering solutions for over 5 years now. Combining our expertise with the well-recognized range of experimental and numerical competences of the VKI will foster a strong alliance for aero-acoustics and fluid-structural issues as well as a strengthened joint research and development capacity," commented Christophe Schram, project leader research, technology and development at LMS.
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About LMS:
LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. With approximately 30 years of experience, LMS helps customers get better products to market faster and turn superior process efficiency into key competitive advantages. With a unique combination of 1D and 3D simulation software, testing systems and engineering services, LMS tunes into mission critical engineering attributes, ranging from system dynamics, structural integrity and sound quality to durability, safety and power consumption. With multi-domain solutions for thermal, fluid dynamics, electrical and mechanical system behavior, LMS can address the complex engineering challenges associated with intelligent system design. Thanks to our technology and dedicated people, LMS has become the partner of choice of more than 5,000 manufacturing companies worldwide. LMS is certified to ISO9001:2000 quality standards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locations around the world.
About von Karman Institute:
The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, founded in 1956, is an international non-profit organization for post- graduate education and research in fluid dynamics. The VKI permanent staff totals about a 100 people, who are spread over 3 departments: Aeronautics and Aerospace, Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics, Turbomachinery and Propulsion. The research and training activities are carried out combining experimental, theoretical and numerical approaches, and comprise aeronautical as well as non-aeronautical flow applications for industrial purposes. VKI has a large number of advanced experimental facilities; a total 43 wind tunnels and test rigs, ranging from low speed to hypersonic flows, as well as industrial facilities. Experimental research is complemented by an important activity in the domain of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) which now covers more than 1/3 of the research activities. Three clusters of multi-processor computers are available. Many of the research activities carried out at the VKI are supported by research contracts with industry, governmental or international institutions.
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