The workshop “CAESES and OpenFOAM” was a great and successful event with 11 participants. Sebastian Weickgenannt from FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS introduced all details that are important to quickly integrate OpenFOAM into the design process with CAESES. As a result of this…

FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS has released a new version of CAESES/FRIENDSHIP-Framework (FFW) which can be downloaded here. Highlights New Design Viewer Easily compare your design variants with customized screenshot collections and interactive 3D-geometries of each variant – all in a single window.…

Majority of winners at TRA-Visions Competition 2014 used CAESES/FFW: Of the five teams receiving prizes, three used CAESES/FFW in their projects, including the winning team from the University of Bremen, who performed a study of SWATH ships for offshore operations.…

The optimization of a vertical axis wind turbine conducted by FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS’ Carsten Fütterer using Pointwise, OpenFOAM, and CAESES / FRIENDSHIP-Framework was recently posted on the well-known CFD Blog “Another Fine Mesh”. Check out what they had to say…

Around 20 students who are taking part in the European Masters Course in Integrated Ship Design (EMship) joined a “Ship Optimization” lecture and workshop given by Mattia Brenner and Dr. Stefan Harries at Ecole Centrale de Nantes in June 2014.…

Today FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS gives a presentation at this year’s STAR Global Conference (SGC 14) in Vienna, Austria: “Shape Optimization of a Top Entry Mixer – A Case Study using CAESES / STAR-CCM+” The case study is that of a top…

FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS is pleased to announce a technology partnership with the makers of XFlow. XFlow is a state-of-the-art CFD solution that uses proprietary Lattice Boltzmann technology. Of particular relevance is XFlow’s approach to CFD which simplifies the workflow by minimizing…