There is a lot of research going on to further improve the efficiency of ships by lowering the overall energy consumption. Besides the optimization of the operational profile of the ships (speed, trim, loading etc.), there are many things you…
EUM 2017: Final Agenda
Done! The final agenda for the CAESES® European Users’s Meeting 2017 has been released today! The lineup is really amazing, and we also have a great set of sponsors and partner companies that add further expertise to this major event.…
Quick Guide: Geometry Scripting
Geometry scripting is really a cool thing! It allows you to create highly customized geometry parts – parts that are often impossible to create with the typical capabilities of a graphical user interface (GUI).
CAESES European Users’ Meeting: Agenda
We are happy to announce that the preliminary agenda of the CAESES® European Users’s Meeting 2017 has been released today! Several leading companies will be participating to present their CAESES®-related work: SIEMENS VOITH KSB ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Caterpillar Propulsion And many…
Turbocharger Turbine Wheel Optimization
We have published a new case study “Turbine Blade Optimization including Scallops for a Turbocharger” that briefly describes the robust and variable geometry design of a turbine wheel. The purpose of this specific CAESES® model is to be able to…
Users’ Meeting Registrations: Fantastic Response!
Many leading engineering and software companies have already registered and confirmed their participation at the CAESES® European Users’ Meeting in September 2017! There is also an updated preliminary agenda which gives you a list of the confirmed presenters.
CFD Flow Domain for Ship Hulls from NAPA IGES Files
From time to time we receive NAPA IGES files from our maritime customers which are basically an assembly of often hundreds of single surface patches. The question is then: How can we quickly create a watertight, box-like flow domain for…
Introduction to PFF (Propeller Free Format)
For the exchange of propeller geometry data, CAESES® offers the possibility to import and export files using a format that is called PFF (Propeller Free Format). We support the PFF format since these files are widely used by ship and…
License Server Temporarily Down
Friday 30-06-2017, 9 am CEST There have been extreme rain falls here in the Berlin/Potsdam area, where streets and houses got flooded. Unfortunately, our CAESES license server system was also effected so that float license users cannot start CAESES at…
How To Create a Response Surface in 4 Easy Steps
Response surfaces, also known as surrogate models or meta models, are nowadays often used whenever the evaluation of a function is not directly possible or simply too expensive. In the context of engineering and simulation, a typical application is the…