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Engineering Simulation in Sports

Tokyo, competitors will increasingly be supplementing hard work and training with engineering simulation…


Towel Day: The Aerodynamics of Freefalling Sperm Whale

To celebrate Towel Day I recreated the final moments of the Magrathean Sperm Whale from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy as it plummets to its death using Simcenter STAR-CCM+


35 Years Since Chernobyl: The Radioactive Elephant in the Room

It’s 35 years since the Chernobyl disaster. I visited the site of the accident, to answer the question “how safe is nuclear power?” and “how can the digital twin make it even safer?”


The New Science of Digital Materials

As engineers, we tend to take materials for granted. In most engineering projects materials are “a given”, defined at the start of the design process, and rarely changed throughout it. We are prepared to tweak every single geometric parameter in the search for optimal engineering solutions, but materials are treated as a constraint rather than a degree of freedom. The recent development of “digital materials” that can be designed, analyzed and optimized via simulation changes this paradigm forever and unlocks endless possibilities for technological and cultural development.


Foot on the Siemens Xcelerator: Simcenter helps Hendrick Motorsports win the NASCAR Cup

Find out how Simcenter helped Chase Elliott claim Hendirck Motorsports’ 13th NASCAR Championship


The Five Crucial Trends that will dominate Simulation and Test in 2021

At this time every year, I use the agenda of the Simcenter Conferences (which this year is part of Realize Live) to judge the state of the simulation market.


The Signal and the Noise: Lessons for the Simulation Community from Failed US Presidential Election Prediction

What lessons can engineers can learn from the failure of political election prediction? How can those lessons be applied to the Digital Twin?


Helmet design: would you risk your skull on a helmet designed with simulation alone?

Simulation and test work best in combination, would you trust a helmet designed only with simulation?


Hydrogen-powered gas turbines are key to a low-carbon energy future

Discover how B&B-AGEMA are using CFD to design combustors, optimize monitoring equipment, and gain understanding into hydrogen combustion.