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Fokker Biplane Aerodynamic Analysis

In an investigation into the use of alternate materials in the construction of structural wing components for a Fokker D-VII biplane design, Structural Design and Analysis (SDA) undertook a compariso…

STAR-CCM+ v12.04: Innovate faster with Design Manager!

I was sitting on a high speed train the other day, admiring the beauty of the countryside. We passed by a nuclear plant and a wind farm. Later on, while surfing on social networks, I came across an o…

Femap Tips & Tricks: Enveloping Results

With ever increasing model sizes, the amount of results data calculated and produced by the solver also increases in proportion. So with more and more results data to sift through, it becomes increas…

Durability testing

All about durability testing and engineering at your fingertips

Learn about durability testing and engineering from the basics. Understand fundamental behaviors of a system and its components to avoid product failure.

STAR-CCM+ v12.04 preview: Out with the old, in with the new

STAR-CCM+ v12.04 preview: Out with the old, in with the new

or,  how to be ridiculously effective with STAR-CCM+ 12.04
I have to say, if you haven’t yet taken a look at the latest release of STAR-CCM+, version 12.04, now is the time. Design Manager, …

Webinar – Optimizing vessel performance through virtual system prediction

The global fleet of oceangoing merchant vessels numbers over 51000 in January, 2016 and should keep growing in the coming decades to answer the demand due to globalization. In parallel, the mari…

Refresh your mind with some basic knowledge about hydraulic fluids

You would like to better understand how an excavator lifts a heavy load, how a bottle filling machine accurately fills several thousand containers, or how a crane digs a large quantity of ore? &…

Making history with the Siemens eAircraft project at Le Bourget

“Le Bourget” as the French call the Paris International Air Show is one of the grand dames of the European air show circuit. The world’s oldest, it started in 1909 as an exhibit dedicated to “aerial …

Webinars of the month – July 2017

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Introduction to Vehicle NVH and Acoustics
On-demand webinar
The pressures on NVH engineering are constantly increasing. While legislation and regulation tightens, the automotive indus…