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Industry: Aerospace & Defense

  • Outbound Aerospace – Validating a Blended Wing Body Airliner

    Challenge Validating aerodynamics of blended wing body (BWB) airliners, including the hull, engine installation, and flight control surfaces. Designing the structural integrity of retractable landing gear under worst-case loading conditions. Reducing development costs and shortening timelines in aircraft development. Validating critical aerodynamic and structural design decisions without relying on traditional wind tunnel testing. Results Up…

  • Turbulence Solutions – Suppressing 80% of In-Flight Turbulence

    Challenge To make atmospheric turbulence measurable and controllable for cancelling turbulence effects in flight. To scale up turbulence-reducing technology to commercial aircraft carriers. Validate in-flight data using CFD simulations. Results Strong validation of in-flight data with simulations. 80% of turbulence suppressed up to 0.5 g-load. 2% drag reduction. Successful proof-of-concept technology is now being deployed…

  • Tecnalia – CFD for UAV Design and Development

    The Innovative Air Mobility Team at Tecnalia Lucas Juan Bernácer Soriano (Lucas) is an aeronautical engineer in the Innovative Air Mobility department at Tecnalia. Lucas started working in the Innovative Air Mobility department of Tecnalia in 2022 and deals with computational fluid dynamics, mechanical design, finite element modeling, and aircraft dimensioning. Certified by Dassault Systèmes…

  • TechSAT – Structural Analysis for Airborne Equipment

    Engineering Innovation Using Structural Vibration Analysis Mar Sanchez, a mechanical engineer at TechSAT is part of the engineering design team looking at new components and products for innovative and safe designs. Physical prototyping in the aerospace industry is a very costly and heavily regulated activity with significant amounts of physical testing required to satisfy strict…

  • VTOL Technologies – Increasing Drone Lift by 20%

    The Challenge The main challenge VTOL Technologies’ team faced was to obtain reliable and accurate data on key aspects of their unmanned aerial vehicle. This included the aerodynamics, as well as the propulsion. SimScale allowed VTOL team to gather this data, better understand the aerodynamics and main characteristics of the drone for improving its performance…

  • Schübeler Technologies – Optimizing a Fan Blade Assembly

    The Challenge Sandro Pinent, managing partner at Schübeler Technologies, is in charge of numerical calculations (CFD and FEA) and project management. Although he and his team were getting reasonable results from conventional data analysis, they decided to go one step further with numerical analysis. For finite element analysis, his team first relied on Code_Aster, but…