CAESES® comes with a set of CFD post-processing features, which are mainly used to quickly assess and compare the flow behavior of the generated design candidates. The visualization of 3D streamlines is a standard procedure of CFD engineers to get…
Quick Guide: Blade Geometry Export for ANSYS TurboGrid
Do you design turbomachinery blades in CAESES® and you want to make use of ANSYS TurboGrid for meshing the variable geometry? Then check out the following quick guide which shows you the export procedure. It’s super fast and easy! Such…
Runner System Optimization with FLOW-3D Cast
Our partner Flow Science recently published an interesting article about the runner system optimization with FLOW-3D Cast and CAESES®. This case study comes with a set of nice and illustrative pictures plus some details about the optimization results. For us,…
Water Pump Design: Geometry for a Shrouded Impeller
For the CFD-driven shape optimization of water pumps with shrouded impellers, it is crucial to have an efficient variable geometry model with a set of relevant parameters (“design variables”). Let’s briefly illustrate and outline the modeling process of a typical…
Variable Geometry for Endwall Contouring of Turbines and Compressors
CAESES allows turbomachinery designers to create efficient parametric geometry for endwall contouring, in order to optimize not only the blades but also the hub surfaces.
Geometry for the Design of Wageningen B-Series Propellers
Some time ago we had a request from a propeller designer to come up with an easy-to-use parametric geometry model in CAESES® for the Wageningen B-Series. There is a mathematical definition published for setting up such a marine ship propeller…
Released CAESES 4.2
We have released version 4.2 of our geometry modeling and optimization software CAESES®. All details about new features, changes and bug fixes can be found in our changes log. Check out some of the highlights below! Download Now …
FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS Partners with Simerics, Inc. to Announce Geometric Closed Loop Optimization for CFD
FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS and Simerics enable CFD users to analyze the effectivity of their designs. BELLEVUE, January 30 2017 – As the CFD industry grows, FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS and Simerics have combined 3D Optimization modeling software with CFD simulation software into one solution, Geometric…
Job Opening: Management and Sales Assistant
FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS AG is actively recruiting for the full-time position (40h per week, possibly slightly less) of a Management and Sales Assistant. The starting date would be as soon as possible. DETAILS
Automated Optimization using Adjoint Flow Solvers
Here at FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS, we recently carried out a case study for an automated optimization process based on the shape sensitivities computed by an adjoint CFD solver. The open-source optimization toolkit Dakota by Sandia National Labs, that is integrated in…