pSeven User Conference 2024

A robust enterprise data and digital engineering framework is essential as product development processes become increasingly complex and interconnected. The digital thread, which has often excluded simulation processes and data, is a critical component of this ecosystem. Studies suggest that early and continuous use of simulation throughout the product lifecycle can significantly transform businesses.

Collaborative engineering platforms that utilize a low-code approach can greatly enhance the adoption of simulation by capturing best practices, automating processes, and providing connectivity with the formal SPDM software. These platforms ensure a single source of truth by managing and authenticating simulation data, models, and test results, which can be accessed by different enterprise functions (such as design, manufacturing, quality, sales and service) and global supply chain partners.

For over two decades, Halliburton has been at the forefront of delivering digital oilfield solutions, continually evolving with advancing technologies. In June 2020, Halliburton embarked on a new chapter by integrating pSeven technology into its emerging digital oilfield platform, Digital Field Solver. Since the inception of this partnership, Halliburton's customer base has grown from zero to 24 clients worldwide. Each deployment involves tailored workflows and mobilizes multi-disciplinary teams comprising petroleum engineers and software developers. These deployments can span from several months to a few years.

This presentation will present the Digital Field Solver platform, highlighting the pivotal role of the pSeven Enterprise component in driving its success. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the collaborative efforts and strategic initiatives that have underpinned this successful partnership, transforming it into a cornerstone of Halliburton's digital solutions portfolio.

This presentation aims to present a use case of pSeven Enterprise to recalibrate a heat exchanger sizing tool in order to bring the calculation results closer to the test bench measurements. This is a classic SBO optimization based on error reduction on all points, with the great advantage, thanks to its workflow approach and its web app interface, of being easily used by design engineers who are not optimization experts.

This presentation will showcase the capabilities of pSeven Enterprise in automating complex engineering workflows, with a specific focus on analysing the aerodynamic characteristics of aircraft wings.

The live demonstration will highlight key platform features, such as automated report generation, custom block development and workflow reference blocks, by applying a methodology that addresses two common tasks: optimizing wing geometry for enhanced aerodynamic performance and refining deformed wing geometry to improve external load distribution accuracy.

Traditionally, these tasks involve repetitive manual calculations, including geometry preparation, simulation execution, and result extraction, all of which are time-consuming and subject to human error. By implementing workflows in pSeven Enterprise, we will show how these processes can be facilitated, allowing users to input the initial geometry file and validate the final results, thereby reducing complexity and minimizing the potential for error.

As part of a project with an aircraft turbine manufacturer, the proposed paper focuses on an innovative solution for building and democratizing the use of automated engineering workflows at scale based on the history of compressor performance maps evaluation.

The compressor map allows to easily review and analyze its efficiency, pressure ratio and surge limit across the operating range. Its construction is based on a set of standard CFD simulations. However, combining these simulations to reconstruct the map requires custom logic, including automatic refinement and additional evaluations to explore specific areas of the map. The complex logic behind it remains a fixed and repetitive process. Only domain experts can support and are allowed to alter it.

Democratization becomes a must as there is a large proportion of non-experts who need to use the described methodology frequently. To achieve this, the engineering process behind it must be assembled in a simple form to remain accessible. In addition, multiple competitive runs from different users and massive heavy CFD evaluations require a powerful resource management process.

The presentation shows how compressor performance map construction can be scaled with a single author and multiple users, and efficiently managed through user interfaces and applications. The same process can be applied to typical late-stage and even inter-project design changes. Efficiency gains through reduced effort in repetitive tasks and centralized management of the methodology are emphasized.

Based on pSeven Enterprise, ARENA has been developed to answer TechnipFMC's needs to perform the design of offshore lines in the framework of an engineering study for offshore field developments. This digital platform allows to build workflows including pre-processing, run and post-processing of analyses using Abaqus (FEA Software) and Orcaflex (Time Domain Software).

This presentation will detail the scope of work, provide a quick overview of the tool and highlight the achievements of ARENA in terms of deployment and users feedbacks.

By combining a parametric multiphysics model with an optimization algorithm, the performance of electrodynamic converters is being improved. To do this, the optimization strategy varies the geometric parameters of the loudspeaker, whose target functions are recalculated in the multiphysics FEA model.

The optimizer processes each FEA solution of a variation and thus builds a surrogate model, which is successively trained by comparison. The optimizer controls the parameter variations for fast convergence. The result is a significant improvement in the nonlinear parameters that affect sound quality, i.e. the nonlinear distortion, that characterizes the large-signal behaviour of the speaker.

Lavet motor was invented in 1936 and introduced in wristwatches in the 1970s – with little evolution since then –, i.e. long before numerical simulation was commonly used to design it and, even more so, to predict the influence of manufacturing and assembly variabilities on its performance.

We will see how a numerical electromagnetic model coupled with sensitivity analysis can help the watchmaking industry better understand its products and make them more robust. A pSeven workflow has been developed for this purpose, using a specifically implemented Comsol Multiphysics User Block linked to a parameterized 3D CAD.