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Aerodynamics of a Simcenter FLOEFD cow – A social media phenomenon

September 3, 2025

Humour often emerges when two things that don’t normally belong together suddenly meet. Here it’s your standard cow meeting the rarefied world of airflow simulation, a perfectly ludicrous pairing.

By Robin Bornoff

4 MIN READ

The Boston Tea Party

May 16, 2025

Holiday themed simulation blogs are very de rigueur of late so I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon for both…

By Robin Bornoff

4 MIN READ

Embeddable BCI-ROMs, Taking Electronic Thermal Simulation to the Next Level, a Personal Perspective

November 9, 2023

Innovations in the thermal simulation of packaged semiconductor devices can be traced back over 30 years. The recent release of…

By Robin Bornoff

10 MIN READ

What’s the Fastest Way to Dry Your Hands? Simcenter FLOEFD Explains…

September 27, 2023

Find out the fastest way to dry your hands using insights gained from Simcenter FLOEFD.

By Robin Bornoff

3 MIN READ

Demystifying Electromagnetics, Part 9 – Skin Effect

October 13, 2021

A conductor carrying an AC current will tend to have the current bunched up at its periphery. Why and why is this a problem?

By Robin Bornoff

7 MIN READ

Demystifying Electromagnetics, Part 8 – Losses

September 8, 2021

All the energy we utilise day to day originates from the sun. The fusion processes in our local star result…

By Robin Bornoff

8 MIN READ

Demystifying Electromagnetics, Part 7 – Solenoids

July 15, 2021

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein, March 11, 1952. Inspired by the great man himself, I was curious if the nail solenoid was powerful enough to pierce, say, a grape (it was a slow day).

By Robin Bornoff

6 MIN READ

Demystifying Electromagnetics, Part 6 – Relays

June 28, 2021

Over the last 5 blogs in this series we’ve introduced a set of EM building blocks, fundamental behaviours that hopefully have been demystified by the use of analogy. At last, and not before time, we can get on to an actual application – Relays.

By Robin Bornoff

6 MIN READ