Case Studies

I.S.M. Conseil needed a professional simulation tool that offered compute power for complex simulations without prohibitive licensing and hardware costs. Using OnScale Solve, a single engineer successfully ran 18 FEA simulations in less than 30 minutes, producing results 400% faster than competitive products. This paved the way for the successful and swift completion of the project.

The Pelton Wheel’s bucket design and shape greatly influence the efficiency and productivity of a power station.  Pienergies did not have the design plans for the buckets in their existing Pelton Wheels. To improve their efficiency, they needed to capture and analyze their current design, optimize it, and then manufacture a new and improved Pelton wheel.

By coupling MSC Apex with the DFC software from Accentus Aero, engineers were able to build a link between CAD designs and certification-ready stress reports.  MSC Apex emerged as the core tool for preparing analysis jobs for MSC Nastran. It provides a GUI to assign structural properties such as joint data and material, and to extract loads. DFC software was then used to generate the calculation files, analyze structures, and interpret results.

Original spreadsheets have been replaced by the “single source of truth,” the digital thread in the Aras platform that covers the engineering data for vehicle dynamics performance. The variant-design-simulation relationships are managed within this system-centric digital thread regardless of where the system and design details are authored.

The project included calculation and manufacture of vertical vessels of the VEE or VEP type (GOST 9931-85) (20 units). All vessels are of the same type, but of different sizes.

PASS software helped to significantly reduce time spent on calculations. PASS Software helped to complete vessel analysis within 1 working day, while manual calculations could have taken at least two weeks.

The drive towards full electrification of the car is an opportunity but also a challenge. Certain elements of the drivetrain will disappear, such as exhaust systems. On their turn, components such as the battery are now becoming prevalent.

Aerojet Rocketdyne engineers optimized a key component of their Reaction Control System (RCS) quad thruster using additive manufacturing. Not only is the new space engine part 67% lighter, but it also contributes to the reduction of the overall production cost of the thruster by 66% enabling fast, economical, and sustainable lunar exploration.

The choice of the proper CFD software is of paramount importance. WR Digital Ltd. adopted ANSA of BETA CAE Systems as the standard pre-processing tool for CFD in order to excel and offer to its clients and partners a leading position.

The production of a blast chamber and associated components is extensive and so testing of multiple design iterations is not very feasible. The simulation is highly complex due to several factors. The speed of the event requires very small-time steps. The interaction between the solid, liquid, and gas regions is difficult to capture.

Orbital Stack, the CFD tool created by global leaders in wind engineering and microclimate analysis, RWDI, partnered with Engineering Intelligence firm, Neural Concept, in order to add the power of AI to their App for structural engineers. Orbital Stack makes climate-informed design easy, affordable, and understandable.

With Aras, Nissan has realized the benefits of integrating with the alliance partner in a short period of time, and the construction of a digital thread is becoming a reality.

This project scope included steam generation systems design and analysis for the Noor Energy1, 950MW hybrid solar power project in Dubai, the today world largest CSP plant, able to produce electrical power 24/7.

The project included calculation and manufacture of vertical vessels of the VEE or VEP type (GOST 9931-85) (20 units). All vessels are of the same type, but of different sizes.

When Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) – one of the world’s largest banks – wanted to accelerate their AI development practice, they evaluated thousands of vendors and short listed the best ones.

TechSAT simulated the natural frequency-induced modes of interest and excited those with a worst-case scenario of 10g acceleration to predict component structural limits. This would then show them how much physical displacement or deflection might be in the PCB contained within the electronics housing.

PMR uses cloud-native engineering simulation to design & develop specialist cooling systems, including radiators & intercoolers, maximizing the intake temperatures & airflow using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and then verifying the performance of these components before costly in-house fabrication.

Hyde Marine, the world leader in ballast water treatment systems, were looking for a way to enhance their customers’ ability to access and utilize a critical Hyde Marine product.

Air International, a leading supplier of heating, ventilation and air conditioning units, needed to increase the value of their CAE assets while ensuring expert knowledge and design rules were incorporated into the process.

LeasePlan, the world leader in vehicle fleet management, needed to improve the management of critical spreadsheets.

GE Energy Wind Energy division needed to greatly improve the efficiency and speed of developing proposals to respond to sales inquiries.

Veryst used CFD (computational fluid dynamics) to simulate ventilation in the hospital room, heat-induced natural convection, and the dispersion of suspended particles.

Veryst Engineering developed a nonlinear, explicit dynamic finite element (FE) model to determine the performance of a battery pack dropped to the ground.

With support from Ansys’ channel partner CADFEM, KTM, a large European motorcycle manufacturer, used simulation to find out just how far it could push the boundaries of e-bike performance and innovation of its street and off-road models in an eco-friendly electric motor and traction battery design.

Tampere Formula Student is a motorsport designing team comprised of student members at Tampere Universities. In 2022, they competed in four different competitions and have recovered from their 6-week competition trip and are now ready for more challenges in 2023.

MMM Group asked SimuTech Group to simulate the fluid dynamics and heat distribution in the Temple.  In addition, monitoring the effects relating to the proposed HVAC system.

CPU overheating can damage the processor and cause instability in the computer. An efficient CPU cooling system ensures the best experience for the PC’s performance. A 3D-printed custom heat sink can offer the ideal heatsink to keep the components within permissible operating temperature limits.

Tata Steel Nederland (TSN) scrapped a “trial-and-error” approach to production for a more reliable one based on digital technologies. Ansys is an important partner in this process.

Coreform Cubit’s advanced meshing capabilities enable the California Institute of Technology to explore short-period crustal geodynamics on planetary satellites with complex 3D structures.

Using Simpack multibody simulation software, Tadano Ltd.  was able to simulate large-scale 3D vehicle models to significantly reduce their manufacturing prototype costs and time for rework.