Creating a Manual Variant

As you may already know, CAESES® is an engi­neer­ing software for creating and assess­ing new design can­di­dates. Compared to other solu­tions in the market, CAESES® is the only one that really spe­cial­izes in smoothly bringing together CAD and variant man­age­ment for CFD engi­neers. Most of our videos and tuto­ri­als describe how to run fully auto­mated design studies and formal opti­miza­tions — since this is really the fun part and the main purpose of CAESES®. However, you can also imme­di­ately create a new manual design variant which gets based on a current design. There is a menu entry for this task in the CAESES® user interface:

Once you have created a new design variant, you can start mod­i­fy­ing it. Switch­ing between the dif­fer­ent designs is simply achieved by a double-click on the cor­re­spond­ing design in the opti­miza­tion tree. Fur­ther­more, you can create a variant from another variant and so forth. CAESES® takes care of the entire geometry man­age­ment. CFD results for each variant can also be gen­er­ated and auto­mat­i­cally assessed for a variant. Finally, you can compare a variant to other designs, which is briefly shown in the next screenshot:

Tutorial Video

To give you a better picture, we created the fol­low­ing short video. As an example, a new design variant of an axial fan gets created and modified. Switch­ing back to the baseline design is also part of it. Lean back and enjoy! 

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Check out our section for video tuto­ri­als where you can find all kinds of inter­est­ing things you can do with CAESES®. 

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