My name is Daniel Ament. I’m an spatial designer with a background in architecture and engineering, but mainly work in the cultural/art field. On the side I’m playing around with renewable energy concepts trying to come up with ideas that are as passive as possible. For example, I want to test and dimension a solar glass wall in which the air gets heated by the sun. I want to explore the thermodynamics, or stack-effect in the wall of the hot air going up on the sunny side and the cold air going down at the back and for that I’m wondering if that would be possible to simulate and test with SimScale.
Can anyone tell me if this should be possible at all in SimScale?
My name is Zenzo Sibanda, I am a Master of science student in Water Engineering, at the PAU in Algeria.
My bachelors degree was civil engineering, completed in 2014. I joined the FEA Master class solely on the passion I have for design and simulations. I enjoyed the first seminar, and look forward eagerly to the next one.
I am Auday, a technology enthusiast, Mechanical Engineer, and coach for new engineers; I love everything i am doing, i love my work and helping and guiding newcomers, teach and learn, and taking daily challenge. I am working now in oil and gas in maintenance, and out of the work I used AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks, Ansys/Fluent, Fusion 360, and now learning SimScale.
My name is Dr. Lim Chin Haw, Senior Research Fellow from Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), National University of Malaysia. My research area is in Passive and Low Energy Architecture with emphasis in Natural Ventilation. My current research is on Wind induced Ventilation Tower to improve indoor air quality of building.
Hello there, xD
I am Febriyan from Indonesia. currently I am Aerospace Engineering student in Konkuk Univ. Seoul.
nice to meet you all
I want to explore many CFD simulation here and id like to share question, ideas and knowledge each other within this forum.
my specific interest is on Lagrangian fluid and composites
I am Nikhil from India and currently pursuing my masters in Germany. I am doing my masters at RWTH Aachen University in computer aided production in mechanical engineering.
I am very much interested in working in field of Simulations of efficient manufacturing processes and effects of different process variants on Machine Tool elements.
Hi,
I’m John, a mechanical engineer from Canada. I’ve worked in paper-mills, consulting engineers, manufacturers and optical equipment design companies. I am now teaching building topics at a community college. I may include some SimScale topics next year in HVAC and strength of materials.
I am fascinated by the simulation process. It allows me to answer my biggest physical question “Why?”.
I am also very interested in the business model. It seems SimScale is using free training to expand the market for simulation.
In my leisure time I ride a 690 KTM in the woods and other adventures. I enjoy car repair, woodworking, photography, Italian food and good movies.
My name is Abdullah Karimi and I work as CFD engineer in Buildings and Construction industry in United States. I am an experienced user of CFD with over 7 years of experience at varying levels of expertise.
In past, at one of the companies (Siemens Corporate Research) I worked at, I had a chance to use OpenFOAM-based in-house code for gas turbine application for around 4 months.
I have used most of the popular commercial CFD codes for extended periods of time and therefore am sometimes very particular about the shortcomings of certain code compared to other.
I registered at SimScale several months back for my personal and hobby CFD works but never got a chance to use it much. I look forward to test the platform for some of the personal simulations projects I have done in OpenFOAM.
Having said all that, I like the idea of SimScale and wish great success for the company.
Glad to have you at SimScale! Really enjoying your posts on LinkedIn and I am very excited about your input here in our community! I am sure a lot of users will benefit from your expertise.
Enjoy your stay here Abdullah and feel free to contact me whenever you like!
Absolutely no problem! SimScale is the right place for you. One of our main goals is to break the “knowledge-barrier” a lot of engineers but also people without an engineering background are struggling with.
If you need any help or have questions, please feel free to contact me privately or post your question in one of the existing threads.
Hi simscale community,
I am Deiwid Decker, I study Materials Engineering at Brasil and I am a beginner in simulation at all.
. I work with some Auxetic materials in impact resistance and I am interested in CFD and FEM analysis.
My main interest is to learn with and participate in projects regarding the aerospatial industry, mainly on new technology, like an individual flying vehicle.
Hope to learn and interact with the community.
I am a recent laid-off/retired Electrical Engineer who has previously done some minor things in SolidWorks in the course of a career in automated machine controls design for manufacturing. Although I do have a side business, it is probably more likely that I will be using this tools for hobby use and Makerspace use rather than professional use. A couple of designs that have prompted me to look at simulation are for an interest in both kinetic art and clock making.
One particular clock that I would like to try is a ‘Marble Clock’. This uses on the order of 30 marbles that roll around the structure to indicate the time and chime the hours. Due to the complexity of the design, I thought it might be well worth my time to try to simulate the operation rather than use trial and error in a build process. However not being very familiar with what this simulation might be capable of, I think I am now learning that this tool is not really for an application of multiple objects interacting with an assembly due to an applied motor/spring force while they experience the effect of gravity. SimScale looks like it could do this some day since it seem like it handles ‘particles’ of air or a fluid moving around structures with ease. Would this be something for the future?
The kinetic art structures I am interested in have several forces that they experience. Magnets are used to attract pieces together if the force is present long enough, springs are used to provide a driving force on gears, and centrifugal force and gravity are all key players in creating motion. Like what I described on the marble clock, I am not thinking that I am seeing how this can be simulated with SimScale at this time. Please correct me if I am wrong on this point and if there is an example of how this can be done, that would be fantastic.
Congrats to the designers of this tool, it does look like an amazing engineered interface for all the capability that it does have.
Hello, by the way, from western New York State along Lake Ontario which happens to be spilling over its banks both in the United States and Canada.
If I get you right you would like to simulate the mechanism altogether. Even if it would be possible it would require a lot of time to correctly define such a complex system than a lot of computaional effort to run the simulation. (I’m not sure that magnets are supported in SimScale.)
CAE - Computer Aided Engineering - is primarily on quantitive results of simplified models (stresses, deflections, temperature, pressure distribution etc.) rather than visualization of sophisticated complex systems.
If you are to design such a clock I’m sure that you will find SimScale a handy tool to check and optimize components by the way!
I suggest to check the Public Projects page first to have a feeling what is possible plus there are a lot of other resources on this site too. Of course feel free to ask any questions you have on the forum.
