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Designing the Ultimate High-Performance Bike Wheel
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Hunt Bike Wheels creates high-performance wheel and bicycle products for its customers and pushes the limits of wheel aerodynamics, mechanical design, and materials engineering by using the latest engineering simulation features in SimScale.
Hunt uses SimScale to design its Enduro-wide and Trail-wide alloy mountain bike wheels. SimScale FEA analysis allows the company to optimize the design of its wheels for durability and strength and to reduce their weight, in a way that had previously been impossible for Hunt.
The team at Hunt has also used SimScale CFD to create the SUB50 Limitless wheels, the world’s fastest wheels under 50 mm deep. As a result of using SimScale, they have been able to shorten their product development cycle from two years to six months and have saved £30,000 in R&D costs due to less reliance on wind tunnel testing.
Our experts also showcased the latest features in SimScale and how you can get started in a few simple steps.
Design Engineer
Paddy is a Design Engineer at Hunt Bike Wheels, his background is mechanical engineering (M Eng) with his final year studies centring around simulating intake and exhaust air flow. This, conbined with subject matter expertise from having worked in the bike industry for 4 years and competed in national level bike races for over a decade, aids in Hunt’s development of the fastest bicycle wheels on the market.
Solution Engineer
Ioannis is a Solution Engineer at SimScale with 5+ years of engineering simulation experience in a broad range of physics. He is a Mechanical engineer and holds an MSc in Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft.
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SimScale is the world’s first cloud-native SaaS engineering simulation platform, giving engineers and designers immediate access to digital prototyping early in the design stage, throughout the entire R&D cycle, and across the entire enterprise. By providing instant access to a single fluid, thermal, and structural simulation tool built on the latest cloud computing technology, SimScale has moved high-fidelity physics simulation technology from a complex and cost-prohibitive desktop application to a user-friendly web application, accessible to any designer and engineer in the world.
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