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  • Axolot Solutions – Reducing Overhead Costs with Cloud CFD

    The Challenge Axolot works with water flow processes, therefore turbulence and flow speed are key factors they need to understand in order to execute an efficient water treatment system. When Axolot Solutions came to SimScale, they were in an extensive period of product development, and wanted to design system components and test processes digitally rather…

  • Schwartze id.vt and AVEREM – Speeding Up Flow Installation Design

    The Challenge They wanted to focus on supporting a range of smaller projects, to ultimately improve engineering without requiring a large budget for it. Yet, the high license cost of traditional, on-premises CFD software made profitability seemingly difficult. This was until they discovered the SimScale platform. Because SimScale is cloud-based, traditional cost barriers such as…

  • GM Flow – Predicting Discharge Coefficient and Velocity

    The Challenge Within the oil and gas sector, there are many challenges to overcome before products are deemed safe for sale. For instance, flow measurement devices must be designed to withstand the pressures and flows generated by the production and extraction of hydrocarbons without failing. At the same time, these devices must give optimal measurements…

  • Orbital Marine Power – Optimizing a Floating Tidal Turbine

    The Challenge The incorporation of computer-aided engineering (CAE) at Orbital Marine Power was driven by two main reasons. The first one was to model the turbine leg and nacelle to optimise the hydrodynamic performance and reduce the impact of the shadow effect. This would result in an increased performance of the turbine. Although it is…

  • Furnace Fixers – 40% Better Performance with CFD

    The Challenge The construction of industrial ovens is an extremely complex task that requires innovative and dedicated solutions for end-customer applications. Furnace Fixers’ products allow meeting quality specifications for heat treatment such as AMS-2750E or CQI-9 . Specifically, the ovens used to make parts need to provide a uniform temperature within a plus or minus…

  • CRYO Science – Improving Chamber Thermal Efficiency

    The Challenge The project which required simulations was a whole-body, single-person cryo chamber. The individual stays inside the cryo chamber for 1 – 3 minutes and during this time is exposed to cold dry air at the temperature of -140°C (varying based on the treatment type). The subzero temperature is achieved through the use of…

  • Designcraft – Reducing Turbine Size by 30%

    The Challenge DeepRiver AS needed to test the energy efficiency of its turbine design called the Pilot Turbine to determine which design solutions would improve its product. The physical prototype was based on an old water wheel concept, which was full-scale tested in Klapeida, Lithuania. The project then moved to a critical stage, where modifications…

  • 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…

  • EJ Consulting – Resizing a Valve in Hours with CFD

    The Challenge EJ Consulting’s team had an existing valve that they needed to change the size of. Testing a valve physically would have been a difficult process—pumping 200-1000 GPM and accurately measuring the pressure drop, flows, and forces is not practical. The team knew that if they did not use computer-aided engineering (CAE), they would…

  • Anderson CNC – Optimizing Smoke Extraction on a Plasma Table

    The Challenge The company’s first machines used water as a filter for the smoke and gases generated during the cutting process. The water was placed beneath the metal plate, and as the smoke exited it, it was captured in the water. It soon became clear that the water filtration system created other problems: small parts…

  • Meccanica – Optimizing a Cryogenic Vacuum Vessel

    The Challenge During his previous research work, Robert Boz—Meccanica’s CEO—noticed many shortcomings of on-premises simulation software. One big issue is the limitation of computing power. The local workstation is basically useless during a simulation run, which can take up to 16 hours per calculation. Although the analytical formulation of any problem gives a fast general…