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  • Model Thermal Bridging With Engineering Simulation in the Cloud

    Thermal bridging has a significant impact on the thermal and energy performance of buildings and structures.  Heat (and hence, energy) is conducted through solid elements of a buildings’ structure and is lost through the envelope. This is often unaccounted for in the original energy and thermal design calculations because it is difficult to predict and…

  • The Building Design Process: Simulation at Every Step

    Architects, engineers, and professionals in the construction industry face mounting pressure to achieve low-energy, low-carbon benchmarks while keeping costs consistent. Digital transformation is the only way forward. Optimal building design is best reached, quickly and cost-effectively, by leveraging new technologies. An emerging class of analytical tools, powered by high-performance cloud computing, building modeling, and simulation…

  • 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…

  • SimScale Launches Technical White Paper On Simulating Outdoor Thermal Comfort

    SimScale has enabled architects and engineers around the world to innovate faster with easy and accurate computational fluid dynamics, or CFD software, in the cloud. Since 2012, SimScale users have been capitalizing on the unique capabilities and various analysis types with the platform for modeling pedestrian wind comfort, building aerodynamics, air quality, and indoor thermal…

  • Step Outside of Your Thermal Comfort Zone With CFD

    In this article, we will explore the shift in anthropological habits paralleled by modern engineering developments for both indoor and outdoor spaces. As engineers worldwide are adjusting to and complying with pandemic measures, a sharper focus on improving and maintaining occupant and pedestrian safety has emerged; a step outside of the typical indoor thermal comfort…

  • How to Reduce the Product Costs of Electronics

    Consumer electronics can bear a hefty price tag. Today, the latest Bluetooth earphones from Apple can cost over $549. Meanwhile, smartphones like Samsung Galaxy Note 20 and iPhone 12 can have a market price of $1,200 and $999, respectively. According to an article by Slash Gear, these sky-high prices are primarily derived from the costs of…

  • Thornton Tomasetti Develops a Digital Wind Tunnel App for Early-Stage Design

    Thornton Tomasetti is a global engineering and design consultancy with over 1,500 architects, engineers, and professionals in fifty offices worldwide. They work on some of the most innovative and award-winning buildings, structures, and infrastructure projects globally.  At the heart of their unique set of skills is a CORE Studio team, who research and develop novel…

  • How to Optimize a CPU Cooling System with Simulation

    Electrical engineers and PC hobbyists alike know the critical value of a CPU cooling system. Without them, sensitive electronic components face a negative impact on performance or, at worse, permanent physical damage. As more and more computing power is expected from our devices, so too grows the need for effective electronics cooling. Cloud-based simulation equips…

  • A Day in the Life of Nevena, Senior CFD Software Developer at SimScale

    Are you curious to find out what a working day for one of our team members looks like? Continue reading as one of our Senior CFD Software Developers, Nevena, shares insights into a typical day at SimScale!  7:15 – 8:15 am – I usually get up around 7:15 am in the morning as I like…

  • Evaluating Design With BIM Modeling and Simulation

    BIM is a shared project that uses 3D modeling to combine all available data on a building or structures in one digital project. With so many separate but interrelated pieces of information pertaining to a building’s design —measurements, bills of quantities, building standards, etc— the BIM process coalesces these into a “single source of truth”…

  • Introducing CAD Editing in SimScale

    Engineering simulation is all about finding answers to your design questions as quickly and as accurately as possible, allowing you to iterate faster and cutting down time-to-market. That, at least, is the promise. In reality, it’s often not uncommon to spend a lot of time pre-processing, specifically preparing the CAD model for simulation. With detailed…

  • Net Zero Building Design & Cloud-Based Simulation

    There was a time when sustainability was regarded as an additional consideration in a business strategy, perhaps to lower operating costs or gain a reputational advantage. But today, sustainability is at the helm, driving architecture and engineering. With government commitments for a low-carbon future, regulations will ensure that net zero building design starts to dominate…