j. candelier - a. bannier
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Modélisation, simulation, I.A... Calcul intensif
Julien Candelier – Responsable Support / Avant-vente
Amaury Bannier – Responsable secteurs Automobile / Aéronautique
21/11/2017
Company specialized in CFD software developmentInnovative CFD software: SPH, Immersed Boundary, Finite Elements…
Dedicated hydrodynamic software for Marine Industry : VOF, potential flow …
Spinoff from Ecole Centrale Nantes and HydrOcean (acquired by Bureau Veritas in 2016)
NEXTFLOW Software short presentation
2007 20142012
CreationSpinoff from Ecole Centrale Nantes
Fluid Dynamic Lab.
HydrOcean dedicated to Marine consulting acquired
by Bureau Veritas
Turnover close to 3 million €
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
International developmentPartnership with Bureau
Veritas and first local offices
R&D developmentHuge investments to develop
accurate software and innovative services for marine industry
18 people6 PhD
11 Engineers 1 PhD Students
3.5 million €R&D investments since 2007
2000Nb of cores accessible for
industrial projects
Key figures
8Nb of solvers
codevelopped with ECN Fluid Dynamic Lab.
2016
Timeline of NEXTFLOW Software development
Simulation of a free falling life boat
Objectives :Minimize the huge deceleration occurring during water impact
Increase forward velocity to get away from sinking ship
Computations : from 1 to 100 million particles
Life boat impact simulation
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Problem set-up 20 millions of particles
Wave forcing with potential flow solver
Focused wave on a FLNG
Problem set-up Set-up of 3D calculations in 20 min
Less than 5% absolute differences with experiments on torque
Pelton turbine simulations
Problem set-up
Computation set-up :
0.25 day
6 500 000 particles
96h elapsed on
512 processors
Car gear box
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MICHELIN: hydroplaning simulation