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  • Five Ways to Improve Your Design Process

    In the 1970s, before the widespread adoption of computers, long before anyone could differentiate the cloud from an ordinary cloud in the sky, and the term cloud collaboration was nonexistent, something pretty incredible happened in the way of product development and design process optimization. During this time, the automotive industry was booming, with Ford Motors…

  • DarkAero 1 and SimScale: Evaluating Wing Stall Characteristics

    DarkAero was founded in 2017 when three brothers—Keegan, River, and Ryley Karl—left their engineering careers to pursue their shared dream of creating the best kit aircraft known to man. To this day, the Karl brothers’ ultimate mission is to engineer the ‘fastest, longest range aircraft you can build in your garage,’ which is displayed proudly…

  • SimScale Enables Compliance with City of London Wind Microclimate Guidelines for New Developments

    Urban microclimates affect more than the hustle and bustle of busy high streets. They can dictate everything from building energy performance and the implementation of renewable energy technologies to necessary safety precautions for pedestrians and cyclists. Last year, the City of London reassessed and reclassified their acceptable microclimate conditions, in an effort to prevent future…

  • SimScale’s Approach to International Recruiting

    At SimScale, where our team consists of talent from all over the world and cultural diversity is the company norm, finding new team members means searching internationally. Our international company vision and values make up the heart of our organization, with every new employee adding to the cultural diversity, flexibility, and dynamics of our journey. …

  • 5 Unique Ways to Keep Remote Workers Engaged

    Employee engagement goes beyond the responsiveness of emails, meeting attendance, and maintaining relationships with other colleagues; it’s a two-way relationship of emotional commitment between the organization and each employee. With this mutual commitment defined, the definition of engagement can be interpreted differently depending on the nature of the business environment. Why Is Employee Engagement Important? …

  • Applying SimScale to the Nuclear Engineer’s Training Process

    Evgenii Varseev, a long-time SimScale platform Power User and Summer Breeze Contest 2019 finalist, recently conducted a training course in Indonesia dedicated to teaching computer simulation codes. This exclusive training course was conducted at the Indonesian State College of Nuclear Technology (STTN) under the National Nuclear Energy Agency (BATAN), Yogyakarta, and implemented practical training modules…

  • How to Model Different Types of Trees with Porous Media

    In the next 30 years, it is predicted by the UN that 68% of the world’s population will live in urban environments. In 2018, it was already calculated that 55% of the global population lived in cities and surrounding urban areas. This means that cities around the globe must undergo major innovative growth, and adopt…

  • SimScale Announces Cloud-Based Collaboration Features

    Since 2012, SimScale has been hard at work to democratize the CAE industry by providing a cloud-based simulation tool, educational hub, and collaborative community for and made of innovators across the globe. While we’ve delivered on what we’ve set out to achieve, as well as are constantly improving to support more customers and users than…

  • March 2020 Product Update From SimScale

    If you’ve been keeping up with SimScale this year, you know that our goal is to release more new features and to make more updates to existing platform functionalities than ever before. Last month, we released 8 updates that you can read all about in this blog. Since then, March has already brought an array…

  • 8 Superb Reasons to Work at SimScale

    At SimScale, we do not only dream of a better world and a future where engineers can optimize their designs better and faster. Behind our innovative product stands a motivated and passionate team. Our employees are ambitious and hardworking, but also truly love being part of the SimScale family. In this article, we will unveil…

  • How to Use Cloud-Based CAD & CFD to Optimize Your Design

    The momentum-gaining movement towards cloud-based CAE tools like OnShape and SimScale aims to let engineers do what they do best, and leave the hardware, IT issues, and collectively slow and time-consuming processes in the past.  OnShape is a 3D CAD software and engineering platform, that ultimately aids and allows users to develop products in real-time.…

  • How to Assess Building Aerodynamics and Wind Effects on Pedestrian Comfort

    Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is increasingly being used for the prediction and assessment of building aerodynamics, wind effects, and ground-level pedestrian comfort. The results from CFD simulations are now seen as reliable sources of qualitative and qualitative data, frequently utilized in important design decisions, and long before the production of the first physical prototype. In…