Used & Abused: The Life of an Airplane Seat.

Air Travel. What kind of thoughts comes to mind when you think of it? Luxury? Glamour? More often than not, these days it conjures up more stoic terms: endurance, perseverance. Well if that’s how you…

The Art of Engineering through Design Exploration

In 2017 my house turned 100 years old.  Over the course of that 100 years it has had a relatively interesting life.  Constructed in the lush, forested, Pacific Northwest at the turn of…

Simulation-Driven Design: Generate Completely New Design Concepts

Welcome back to the third part of our simulation-driven design blog series! If you haven’t read the previous posts, you can do so here:
 
Part 1: The Age of Simulation-Driven Design Part 2…

Virtually Simulate Vehicle Pass-by Noise in an Inherently Controlled Environment

Sirens. Before you see the ambulance, you hear them, right? And then it increases as the ambulance comes close, passes by, and then fades away as the ambulance moves away, that’s the instantly recogn…

Composites Curing: A Recipe for Success

The manufacture of thermoset composites (referred to as composites curing) has to-date followed a very similar artistic process, and the challenge is to find the right recipe.

Preview: Simcenter STAR-CCM+ v13.04

The latest release of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ will help you to engineer innovation.
 
 
 
Driven by the competing demands of evolving customer expectations and increased emis…

Stitch in time with Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Surface Repair

        Are you one of those CFD engineers always running up against time with too many finger-crossing moments? Are those moments most frequent at the geometry preparation and vo…

Efficient Rotor Dynamics for Multi-Stage Turbomachinery

The structural dynamics study of complex turbomachines, like jet engines or gas turbines, is a challenge today. The rotating parts of turbomachines are usually designed with different stages on …

Predict Noise Radiation with Acoustic Transfer Vectors

A couple weeks ago, I touched on some of the capabilities in our newest release of Simcenter 3D Acoustics. However, there’s more!
 
Our team has worked effortlessly to develop a solution for…