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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 August 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 August 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 August 25, 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

Lawson wind comfort criteria: LDDC, 2001, and the original compared

Full threshold tables for the general Lawson, Lawson LDDC and Lawson 2001 wind comfort criteria, plus which variant applies to your site and why.

Peter Selmeczy September 4, 2026

AEC, CFD

How to design a data center cooling system for ASHRAE 90.4

ASHRAE 90.4-2025 explained: MLC and ELC limits, TC 9.9 temperature classes A1-A4 and H1, and how to verify data center cooling compliance with CFD before you build.

Peter Selmeczy September 1, 2026

AEC, CFD

What Is ISO 7730? The Thermal Comfort Standard Explained

ISO 7730 sets the PMV and PPD method for thermal comfort. Its scope, the clause structure, what changed in the 2025 edition, and how it differs from ASHRAE 55.

Jon Wilde September 1, 2026

AEC, CFD

What Is ASHRAE 55? Basics of Thermal Comfort

ASHRAE 55-2023 sets the thermal comfort criteria for indoor spaces. Learn the six factors, the comfort zone, PMV and PPD limits, and how to prove compliance.

Jon Wilde August 30, 2026

AEC, CFD

Design of experiments in engineering: how to run simulation DoE at scale

Design of experiments in engineering: how to plan a simulation DoE, run hundreds of variants in parallel in the cloud, and read the results. Free to start.

Alex Graham August 29, 2026

CFD, Product

HVAC duct design software: how to size, simulate, and validate ductwork

Compare duct design software by category, from ductulators and Manual D tools to online CFD. See what each does, what free tools miss, and how to validate.

David Heiny August 28, 2026

AEC, CFD

wind loads on buildings analysis with SimScale CFD

Wind load analysis: how to calculate wind loads on a building

Calculate wind loads on buildings with the ASCE 7 and Eurocode procedures, a worked example, and CFD for shapes the code methods cannot cover.

Peter Selmeczy August 26, 2026

AEC, CFD

computational wind engineering simulation

Wind engineering: the discipline and what its guidelines prescribe

What wind engineering is, what a wind engineer does, and what COST 732 and the AIJ guidelines actually prescribe for CFD domain size, mesh and turbulence models.

Guillermo Giraldo August 25, 2026

AEC, CFD

building aerodynamics and pedestrian wind comfort blog

Wind effects around buildings: how to tell which one you have

The seven named wind effects around buildings, how to tell which one is causing a problem on your site, and how to read a wind rose and a comfort map.

Peter Selmeczy August 24, 2026

AEC, CFD