{"id":7063,"date":"2015-05-04T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Simcenter-Blog\/The-Importance-of-Simulation-for-Solar-Impulse\/ba-p\/298978"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:59:36","slug":"the-importance-of-simulation-for-solar-impulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/the-importance-of-simulation-for-solar-impulse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Simulation for Solar Impulse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Watch Gian Luca Sacco, Siemens marketing director, explain the importance of simulation in the design of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarimpulse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solar Impulse<\/A> \u2013 the world\u2019s first solar powered aircraft.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<div class=\"lia-vid-container video-embed-center\">\n<div id=\"lia-vid-kwdzV2dDpWFXkmhVMb2PWU_V1DwLhmVxw400h300r47\" class=\"lia-video-ooyala-player-container\"><\/div>\n<p><script>LITHIUM.OoyalaPlayer.addVideo('https:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/static\/v4\/production\/', 'lia-vid-kwdzV2dDpWFXkmhVMb2PWU_V1DwLhmVxw400h300r47', 'kwdzV2dDpWFXkmhVMb2PWU_V1DwLhmVx', {\"pcode\":\"sxdjkxOluLl_gSQrV57FiGraFE2-\",\"playerBrandingId\":\"ODI0MmQ3NjNhYWVjODliZTgzY2ZkMDdi\",\"width\":\"400px\",\"height\":\"300px\"});<\/script><a class=\"video-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/video\/gallerypage\/video-id\/kwdzV2dDpWFXkmhVMb2PWU_V1DwLhmVx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(view in My Videos)<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Solar Impulse uses Femap with NX Nastran for their simulation needs, and works with Siemens partner&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerofem.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">AeroFEM<\/A> to fulfil their analysis requirements.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/13030iFC23C4A32A3C7F74\/image-size\/large?v=1.0&amp;px=999\" alt=\"Solar Impulse Femap FE Model\" title=\"Solar Impulse Femap FE Model\" \/><\/span>\ufeff<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Gian Luca Sacco, Siemens marketing director, explain the importance of simulation in the design of&nbsp;Solar Impulse \u2013 the world\u2019s first solar powered aircraft.<br \/>\n &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> &nbsp;<br \/>\n Solar &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[174,1],"tags":[5],"industry":[],"product":[501],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-success-story","category-news","tag-cae-simulation","product-simcenter-femap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7065,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions\/7065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}