Recently, we had a request from an engineering company that uses a standard parametric CAD software to design their product. They gave us a call because they wanted to run automated shape optimization along with some simulation tools, but they had…
Simulation-Driven Design of a Race Car Rear Wing
In the last years, we have been supporting student racing teams, such as the FaSTTUBe and the Ryerson Formula Racing Team in Canada. For the Formula Student Germany (FSG) competition, Carolina Cura recently worked on the design and shape optimization of a…
Design and Optimization of Ventricular Assist Devices
The design of ventricular assist devices is quite literally a matter close to our hearts. A ventricular assist device (or VAD) is an electromechanical pump for assisting cardiac circulation, which is used to partially replace the function of a weakened or…
efoil Flying Rodeo
Have you ever come across an efoil? Actually, that’s a pretty cool sort of surfboard which almost makes you fly above the water. One of our CAESES® users, David Vukovic, recently approached us in the context of the propeller design for…
Design Exploration and Optimization: Is Your CAD Tool Really up to the Task?
If you have been browsing the information on our website, you might have seen that our tool CAESES® brings along several different components, such as a CAD modeling environment, process automation, design exploration and optimization methods. Out of these it…
Shape Optimization in ANSYS with CAESES
CAESES® allows you to access and control the robust CAESES® geometry models within the ANSYS Workbench, to conduct simulation-driven shape optimization. New CAESES App There is a new CAESES®-ANSYS app that allows you to plug any CAESES® geometry model into the user interface…
Polymer Injection Molding: Shape Optimization with CFD
Klaus Straka is one of our absolutely amazing CAESES® users, who is active in the field of polymer injection molding. In the context of fully-automated shape optimization with CFD (fluid flow simulation), he creates incredible parametric geometries with CAESES® that are…
Optimization of Airborne Optical Sensor
In a recent work, we optimized an airborne optical sensor, which is typically built into an impressive device for sensing data remotely, e.g. from helicopters. The mirror blanks for the optical sensor are made from glass ceramics with an extremely…
Creating Lighter and More Efficient Radial Turbines
In our research project GAMMA we closely work together with MTU Friedrichshafen to optimize components of large turbochargers. Nicolas Lachenmaier, one of the leading aerodynamics engineers at MTU, uses CAESES® for the design of the turbine components. He provides a…
Intake Port Design
Intake ports are the final part of an engine’s air induction system. They connect the intake manifold with the combustion chamber and are opened and closed with the intake valves. This blog post gives you a short introduction of the relevant intake port design capabilities within CAESES®. In addition, a recent project is outlined where CAESES® and STAR-CCM+ were coupled to fully automate the shape optimization of an intake port.