OBELICS: European consortium to innovate on electrical vehicle design

As global warming is becoming a reality and transportation emissions affect public health in a visible way, while conventional fossil-fueled vehicles face major difficulties in reducing their environ…

Efficiency through simulation for high temperature processes

discover how CFD can help to optimize combustion and high temperature processes.

Run! – for your life

Internal Combustion Engines are doomed to die? Well, imagine yourself when suddenly you are being told that you had only one hour to live! What would you do? Good news – at least – you are …

Colorful Fluid Dynamics? Say it again, I dare you…

“Colorful Fluid Dynamics”, an old pun on the Computational Fluid Dynamics acronym, CFD, can be divisive. Doug McLean, Boeing Technical Fellow (retired), offered the following perspective from his exc…

Simcenter STAR-CCM+2019.1: What’s New?

STAR-CCM+ v2019.1 includes a host of new features that increase both the realism of your simulations and your ability to automate them. 
 

 
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ has a hard…

Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2019.1: the Automation Awards

Multidisciplinary design space exploration relies on a robust and automatable framework, capable of seamlessly orchestrating parametric changes, swapping old geometry with new assemblies, and executi…

Blinded by the Obvious

We can all be blinded by the obvious.  T he number of Dilbert cartoons on the topic is great evidence for how often it happens to all of us.
 

 
This has been on m…

STAR-CCM+ v12.04: Two mouse clicks? Hold that thought!

Please note: Original publication date 06-29-2017 
 
Just one numerical simulation contains a wealth of information – we can gain a lot of insight on how a device performs, and from tha…

Why focusing on ICE thermal management to reach emission regulation targets?

“The European automotive industry invests more than €50 billion in R&D annually, a large percentage of which goes towards fuel-efficiency technologies, to meet EU CO2 emission reduction targets t…