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Featured Published September 28, 2026

Webinar highlights: hands-on with the SimScale AI agent

See the SimScale AI agent set up a battery pack cooling simulation live, and learn how Community users can try it for free on the same project.

Alex Graham Senior Product Marketing Manager

Last updated October 5, 2026

Featured Published July 27, 2026

Why Simulation Engineers Are Switching to Cloud-Native Tools

Desktop CAE bolts AI on the side of a fixed tool. Cloud-native weaves it through the data, compute, and workflow. Here is why simulation engineers are switching.

Alex Graham Senior Product Marketing Manager

Last updated September 25, 2026

Featured Published July 24, 2026

Webinar highlights: how the fastest robotics teams validate designs with AI-native simulation

Robotics teams are under the same pressure as everyone else building hardware right now: less time to prove a design

Alex Graham Senior Product Marketing Manager

Last updated August 25, 2026

Featured Published June 16, 2026

Webinar highlights: SimScale summer 2026 product updates

At SimScale, our mission is to empower engineering teams everywhere to innovate faster by exploring thousands of engineering decisions in

Alex Graham Senior Product Marketing Manager

Last updated September 25, 2026

Featured Published June 12, 2026

Multi-agent workflows: key takeaways from Design & Simulation Week 2026

What happens when a design review agent and a simulation agent can actually coordinate across platforms? That’s what Jon Wilde,

Alex Graham Senior Product Marketing Manager

Last updated September 11, 2026

Featured Published June 20, 2025

Engineer the Irreplaceable — Why This Idea Matters So Much to Me

One of the great privileges of the last 10 years at SimScale has been listening to — and learning from

David Heiny SimScale Co-founder and CEO

Last updated September 16, 2025

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FEA basics: How to learn finite element analysis as a beginner

Learn the basics of FEA: how it works, stress and strain, use cases, and the books, courses, and validation cases to learn finite element analysis.

Guillermo Giraldo October 3, 2026

FEA

What Is FEM? The Finite Element Method and FEA Explained

FEM (finite element method) splits a part into small elements to solve the equations of physics. How it works, its uses, and how FEM differs from FEA.

Peter Selmeczy October 2, 2026

FEA

Agentic Unlocks recap: 6 lessons from companies putting AI agents to work

Highlights from Agentic Unlocks: how Capgemini, Siemens, NVIDIA, Convion and more are moving engineering AI from pilot to production. Watch all 13 sessions.

Alex Graham October 1, 2026

Engineering AI, Product

Bring Your Own CAD Model: Hands on with the SimScale AI Agent

Engineering AI, explained

Engineering AI is an agent inside the SimScale platform that sets up, runs and reports on simulations from a plain-language

Alex Graham September 30, 2026

Engineering AI

What’s new in SimScale: autumn 2026

The Engineering AI agent is now free on every plan. Plus Marc thermo-mechanical, circuit coupling, and CAD repair. Register for the 8 October walkthrough.

Alex Graham September 29, 2026

Engineering AI, Product

Pedestrian Wind Comfort: What It Is and How to Assess It

Pedestrian wind comfort explained: what causes strong wind at street level, how a pedestrian wind assessment works, and two CFD case studies.

Alexander Fischer September 28, 2026

AEC, CFD

Webinar highlights: hands-on with the SimScale AI agent

See the SimScale AI agent set up a battery pack cooling simulation live, and learn how Community users can try it for free on the same project.

Alex Graham September 28, 2026

Engineering AI, Featured

Pedestrian wind comfort simulation of Central London around the 20 Fenchurch Street building using NEN 8100 comfort criteria

NEN 8100: the Dutch wind comfort and wind danger criteria explained

NEN 8100 grades a site by how often the hourly mean wind exceeds 5 m/s. Full comfort and danger tables, the calculation behind them, and where the standard applies.

Guillermo Giraldo September 25, 2026

AEC, CFD

ASCE 7-22: What the Standard Requires for Wind Loads, and Where CFD Fits

What ASCE 7 is, what changed in ASCE 7-22 for wind, which procedure applies to your building, and where CFD fits alongside code and wind tunnel testing.

Guillermo Giraldo September 23, 2026

AEC, CFD