Just a few weeks ago, one of our colleagues started a comprehensive optimization of an automotive engine component with CAESES®. More detailed, he had been investigating a piston bowl design. For the CFD analysis he used the simulation software CONVERGE…
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…
Some time ago, one of our customers visited us in Potsdam. We were talking about our joint efforts to optimize various automotive components, when he came up with the wish of optimizing their gear pump designs. Well, frankly, our expertise…
We have noticed that some of our users are not really aware of the possibility to check the log files (input/output/error) of optimization runs. For automated studies, you can e.g. make use of the method set of Dakota for which…
In this short blog post, we want to focus on the design of piston bowls for diesel engines – from a geometrical point of view … as we usually do as Upfront CAD enthusiasts. In our recent powertrain-related projects (here…
With version 4.1.1, CAESES® supports some kind of “colored” IGES and STEP exports. The idea is to detect groups of patches with unique names in meshing software which is particularly important for automated processes (i.e. design studies and shape optimizations).…
If you want to share a cool screenshot of your latest work in CAESES® with your friends and followers on Twitter, you can now use a new single-click solution for this. Our 3D windows have a new button for instant…
When it comes to the optimization of e.g. diesel engines, we have another interesting component for you: the fuel injector! Basically, this component takes care that the fuel is optimally sprayed into the combustion chamber. This pretty sophisticated product is…
The design of engine components for cars is a tricky task, because there are so many constraints involved. An example is the duct that is located right before the catalytic converter. This component is often bent quite heavily due to space constraints. As a result, this makes it a tough challenge to design it in a way that the flow distribution is sufficiently uniform. In other words, bad flow characteristics in the catalytic converter lead to poor performance, and possibly higher emissions.
In one of our last posts we briefly touched the topic of writing a custom export in CAESES®, e.g. to make use of proprietary export formats. Our customers use a variety of export formats, and even “standard” formats are often…