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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

Latest Articles

Thermal management for electronics: cooling methods and simulation

Thermal management keeps electronics below their temperature limits. Compare cooling methods, fan curves and CHT simulation, with worked examples.

Nur Ozturk October 19, 2026

Electronics & High Tech, Thermal Simulation

Heat pump simulation software: system models vs 3D CFD

Heat pump simulation software models seasonal performance but assumes ambient air at the coil. See where 3D CFD fits and how to set up a siting study.

Kanchan Garg October 16, 2026

AEC, CFD, Energy, Thermal Simulation

Stirred tank simulation setup showing the liquid volume, MRF rotating zone around the impeller, wall baffles, slip wall at the liquid surface, rotating shaft wall and probe points

Mixing tank simulation: how to set up a stirred tank CFD model in 8 steps

Set up a stirred tank CFD model in 8 steps, from the rotating zone and mesh to power number and blend time checks, with multiphase and jet-mixed tanks.

Alexander Fischer October 14, 2026

CFD, Machinery & Industrial Equipment

Drop test simulation setup showing initial velocity, gravity, gap, physical contact and a fixed support under the floor block

Drop test simulation: how to set up a virtual drop test in 8 steps

Set up a drop test simulation in 8 steps: drop height, contact, materials, mesh and time step, plus the drop test standards behind each case.

Jon Wilde October 13, 2026

Consumer Products, FEA

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