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CFD software development with a little help from my friends

Being engineers, our customers are great at spotting ways to improve products, including ours. With their inputs and suggestions, the task of designing and implementing enhancements becomes a lot easier. Guidance from the customer community has played a huge role in shaping Simcenter STAR-CCM+ into the product it is today and that process is set to continue on the Simcenter Community site.

Digital Debunking: Has the Motivational Iceberg Poster Been Lying to Us?

Only about 10 percent of an iceberg is typically visible above the water. This fun fact has been coopted widely as a visual analogy of the observable

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Setup an effective and accurate virtual shaker sine base excitation test

Read below how you can use Simcenter 3D to setup a Sine Base Event for Simcenter Nastran and accurately and efficiently do virtual shaker testing.

Electric vehicle tire NVH: Solving the supplier-OEM puzzle

Learn how to overcome tire NVH challenges by utilizing a novel conceptual tire model that is easily interchangeable between auto OEMs and tire suppliers.

Happy World Oceans Day

Happy World Oceans Day! To celebrate, I thought I would share a little marine industry story about how two engineers used some of our software to help design better performing moon pools.

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MBST: Simulation Model Validation with Simcenter Testlab 2021.1

Use Model-based system testing to perform simulation model validation with Simcenter Testlab 2021.1, including Simcenter Amesim models.

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Introducing Simcenter Femap 2021: The next evolution in our high-performance FEA simulation tool

The next evolution in Simcenter Femap is here! In case you missed it, we announced the launch of Simcenter Femap 2021 earlier today with a YouTube live premier. During this live event, we unveiled the many exciting new features and enhancements included in the latest release of our high-performance FEA simulation tool.

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Mitigating the Carbuncle effect for hypersonic CFD simulations

“If you can’t fly em, you go design em” – Every CFD engineer who dreamed of becoming an astronaut Some…

Are e-bikes loud?

Is e-bike noise an issue? Quit whining!

E-bikes become quite popular these days. Besides the operating range, also the generated noise is an important quality aspect for the user.