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Almatech Goes Hunting for Planets with Femap

Almatech is a Swiss aerospace company currently working with the European Space Agency with the development of a new space telescope to help identify and characterize exoplanets – worlds outside our …

Realistic Combustion Simulation with STAR-CCM+ v12.06

When I started in this field more than 12 years ago, combustion CFD simulations were typically done using CPU inexpensive approaches such as eddy break-up or flamelet combustion models with RANS. The…

High fidelity combustion simulations drive down emissions

Here in the UK, we are not known for large amounts of sunshine but this summer was the greenest ever for energy, largely driven by the huge growth in the number of solar and wind farms.  Between…

Spotlight on – Jérémy Leboi, product manager

Let’s take a few minutes to meet Jérémy Leboi, product manager Simcenter Amesim

Strategies to deliver lighter, stronger and more durable vehicles

The pop band Queen knew it already in the late eighties, when they released the song “I want it all”. The next 20 years proved them right. We do want it all, and this also applies for the vehicles we…

Femto Engineering determines nature of crane failure using Femap

In the wake of Hurricane Irma the number of construction crane accidents in Florida has refueled the safety debate. Several construction cranes were damaged with the high winds snapping off crane arm…

How Purdue University teach future engineers with system simulation?

Getting the best qualified engineers can be a lever for businesses to stay competitive. This is why engineering students must learn and develop their technical skills to prepare for labor market chal…

As smooth as gliding: glider flutter testing in practice

Recently, my colleague Al narrated how the Simcenter software was used for prediction of the flutter behavior of the innovative Perlan 2 glider. With Simcenter, truthful prediction of flutter behavio…

Femap Tips & Tricks: Using Interpolation Elements

One of the inherent characteristics of finite element modeling is that often loads and constraints are applied to the model at node points. This technique can bring about stress concentrations, as th…