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Author: Jousef Murad

  • Cloud-Native Simulation for the Next Generation of Electric Hypercars

    Inspired by the engineer, futurist, and fellow-Croatian Nikola Tesla, Mate Rimac founded Rimac Automobili in 2009. Rimac’s agile approach has delivered impressive progress in an incredibly short amount of time. Today, the company develops high-performance electric drivetrain and battery systems for many of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers. Its customers include Aston Martin, Porsche, Koenigsegg,…

  • SimScale Student Success Story: Raftar Formula Racing

    Raftar Formula Racing (RFR) is the Formula Student team from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The team competes in Formula Bharat which is an Indian Formula student-style competition. The competition consists of various static events (Cost, Business, and Design) and dynamic events (Acceleration, Skidpad, Autocross, Endurance, and Efficiency). RFR has been competing every year…

  • The 4 Biggest Myths About Thermal Management for Electronics

    As the possibilities offered to us by technological advances grow larger, our electronic devices continue to shrink in size. Increased performance requirements and functionalities in a smaller space generate more unwanted heat within the casing of electronic equipment. Now, more than ever, engineers are faced with a pressing need to develop effective thermal management solutions…

  • SimScale Student Success Story: Sheffield Formula Racing

    Sheffield Formula Racing (SFR) is the University of Sheffield’s Formula Student team. Formula Student is Europe’s most established engineering competition, which sees teams from over 100 universities across the world design, build, and race an open-wheel, single-seat race car. The competition is highly regarded by the motorsport industry as the transition for engineering students from…

  • Brunel Unmanned Aerial Systems Student Success Story

    Unfortunately, the Brunel UAS team is no longer active. We’re keeping this post public for informational purposes due to the project being interesting. We wish the team all the best for the future. Brunel Unmanned Aerial Systems recently formed a student-led team, focusing on design, development, manufacture, and eventual demonstration of a novel unmanned aerial…

  • SimScale Formula Student Success Story: Dynamis PRC

    Learn how Dynamis PRC used SimScale to test the aerodynamic properties of their new electric vehicle design, the DP12, for upcoming FSAE events.

  • Applying SimScale to the Nuclear Engineer’s Training Process

    Evgenii Varseev, a long-time SimScale platform Power User and Summer Breeze Contest 2019 finalist, recently conducted a training course in Indonesia dedicated to teaching computer simulation codes. This exclusive training course was conducted at the Indonesian State College of Nuclear Technology (STTN) under the National Nuclear Energy Agency (BATAN), Yogyakarta, and implemented practical training modules…

  • SimScale Student Success Story: Formula Manipal

    Learn how Formula Manipal used the SimScale simulation platform to make their race car more aerodynamic for future competitions.

  • Cardiff Racing Aerodynamic Design (CR15) with SimScale

    Learn how Cardiff Racing used SimScale to optimize the aerodynamic properties of their new CR15 design for Formula Student.

  • Orion Racing India Wins First Place at Formula Bharat

    Success story of the Orion Racing India team with SimScale and how they used cloud-based simulation to optimize their car and win Formula Bharat for the third time. Read more.

  • Errors in FEA and Understanding Singularities (Beginners’ Guide)

    In general, we can decompose errors in FEA—finite element analysis—in three main groups: Modeling errors due to simplifications (“We try to model the real world yet are not able to do it 100%.”) Discretization errors that arise from the creation of the mesh Numerical errors of the solution of the FEA equations Furthermore, it must be…