WarthogARJ
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Hi there,
Has anyone here used Heliciel for hydrodynamics-related purposes?
The screw propellers and Wings website: Heliciel.com https://www.heliciel.com/en/Index.htm
It's an interesting collection of three potentially two packages: MecaFlux Standard or Pro and Heliciel.
It's not really aimed at professional use yacht design per se, but more at amateur/learning/experimenting.
As in it can do some of what a full-on CFD package does, but without the flexibility or "power" of say openFoam or Fluent.
I've not yet tried it, but it seems like a good way to get up to speed with a lot of useful hydrodynamics ideas.
It's French, so maybe it's not really made much headway on BoatNet, which seems predominantly US-based/dominated.
I think that amongst other things it acts as a GUI for Xfoil. A bit like xflr5 for aerodynamics/plane designs. But they say they use other foil databases too.
It seems to handle propellors, turbines, sails, hulls, hydrofoils:
Mecaflux Suite - Solutions pour calcul de mécanique des fluides https://www.mecaflux.com/suite/en/comparatif_produits.html
Heliciel sdeems to do what you'd want for marine stuff for Euro 294/USD 382.
But you'd probably want the full suite, which is Euro 408.
I've used xfoil a bit, and it is not so straightforward without a nice GUI.
Has anyone here used Heliciel for hydrodynamics-related purposes?
The screw propellers and Wings website: Heliciel.com https://www.heliciel.com/en/Index.htm
It's an interesting collection of three potentially two packages: MecaFlux Standard or Pro and Heliciel.
It's not really aimed at professional use yacht design per se, but more at amateur/learning/experimenting.
As in it can do some of what a full-on CFD package does, but without the flexibility or "power" of say openFoam or Fluent.
I've not yet tried it, but it seems like a good way to get up to speed with a lot of useful hydrodynamics ideas.
It's French, so maybe it's not really made much headway on BoatNet, which seems predominantly US-based/dominated.
I think that amongst other things it acts as a GUI for Xfoil. A bit like xflr5 for aerodynamics/plane designs. But they say they use other foil databases too.
It seems to handle propellors, turbines, sails, hulls, hydrofoils:
Mecaflux Suite - Solutions pour calcul de mécanique des fluides https://www.mecaflux.com/suite/en/comparatif_produits.html
Heliciel sdeems to do what you'd want for marine stuff for Euro 294/USD 382.
But you'd probably want the full suite, which is Euro 408.
I've used xfoil a bit, and it is not so straightforward without a nice GUI.
