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  • My Life at SimScale: Edoardo, Meshing Software Developer

    At SimScale, our engineering team consists of 36 talented individuals from all over the world. In this installment of “My Life at SimScale”, we want to introduce to you Edoardo, who is originally from Italy and works as a Meshing Software Developer in the Munich office! In this article, Edo shares some insights into what…

  • Predicting the Performance of an Industrial Blower With CFD

    This project shows how CFD can predict the performance of an industrial blower extraction system design, aiding the overall iterative design process. The system to be simulated includes a Ø0.57 m, 8-blade impeller industrial blower, which takes air from a 10×4 m room through 5 extractors. The extraction of air should be evenly distributed across…

  • The Evolution of Evaluating Thermal Management: SimScale Customer Spotlight

    Here at SimScale, we write a lot about the importance of thermal management, or more specifically, electronics cooling, for all kinds of applications. From electric vehicles and lighting solutions, to PCBs and enclosures. We have many articles explaining the disastrous outcomes that can become a reality if thermal management is not achieved (especially in regards…

  • Brunel Unmanned Aerial Systems Student Success Story

    Unfortunately, the Brunel UAS team is no longer active. We’re keeping this post public for informational purposes due to the project being interesting. We wish the team all the best for the future. Brunel Unmanned Aerial Systems recently formed a student-led team, focusing on design, development, manufacture, and eventual demonstration of a novel unmanned aerial…

  • SimScale’s Summer Product Update

    While the temperature has been heating up this summer, so are things on the SimScale Platform! Since our last product update announcement, we’ve been working hard to implement what our users are asking for, to make SimScale the very best it can be. In this release blog post, we will cover seven updates users can…

  • LED Cooling: Liquid Cooling Thermal Management

    When thinking about the life of traditional lighting technology such as incandescent lamps, engineers can easily picture a catastrophic failure when the filament suddenly burns out, and the lamp bulb no longer emits any light. Light-emitting diodes (LED), as a more recent lighting solution, don’t fail in such a way if they employ a proper…

  • Cloud-Based Battery Thermal Management for Electric Vehicles

    As the proud owner of an electric scooter myself, I can personally attest to the engineering brilliance that has gone into the creation of electric vehicles. In my personal experience, I charge my scooter battery for 1-2 hours, and I have a 50 km range! Which, living in a large European city, just about gets…

  • How to Modernize Your Thermal Comfort Evaluation Process

    Thermal comfort is a seemingly ambiguous term, referring to each and every individual’s satisfaction when it comes to indoor environments. In layman terms, thermal comfort evaluation assesses whether or not the majority of persons in a given space feel comfortable with the temperature, air quality, and more. You see, the human body can be perceived…

  • Battery Cooling: Challenges & Solutions

    Used across a wide range of applications such as electric vehicles, portable devices, and power storage, battery cells often are the bottleneck when it comes to the performance of a whole system.  Both the power and energy density that these components carry will determine paramount system characteristics, such as the power/mass ratio or the available…

  • On-Premises vs. SaaS CAE Simulation: A Comparative Look

    Today, desktop-based and on-premises computer-aided engineering (CAE), or more specifically, CAE simulation software, still remains to have the largest hold on the market for each respective facet of engineering. This can be credited to its 30+ years of development, allowing this kind of software to adapt and offer features that boast high accuracy for specific…

  • 7 Ways to Accelerate Time to Market in the Global Electronics Industry

    The electronics sector includes general electronics, electric utilities, and consumer electronics, with the latter category driving most of the growth. Characterized by constant innovations and a need to accelerate time to market, the global electronics industry generated US$997 billion in revenues worldwide in 2018 [1] and is predicted to grow at a compound annual growth…

  • 3 Things to Consider as Your Engineering Team Grows

    In today’s economic landscape, the pressure to stay competitive has pushed engineering teams and individual engineering team members to evolve their complex workflows as well as grow and scale their staff. The EU mechanical engineering sector is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 3.8% over the coming 10 years, while the engineering…