Coming up soon: With the next major release, FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS will provide the first version of its freeform deformation, greatly complementing the existing shift transformations of CAESES. This new functionality allows users of CAESES to easily deform imported CAD geometries…
Today, Pointwise Inc. and FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS have signed a software sharing agreement. Pointwise’s meshing software generates structured, unstructured, and hybrid meshes; interfaces with ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CD, ANSYS CFX and OpenFOAM as well as many neutral formats such as CGNS; runs…
Today, former FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS team member and EMship (European Masters Course in Integrated Advanced Ship Design) student Hélio Bailly Guimaraes presented a paper about “Retrofitting Vessels for Optimized Fuel Consumption” at the 2nd International Symposium on Naval Architecture and Maritime,…
With our new website we also want to focus on our brand “CAESES”: The pro edition of our software is called “CAESES / FRIENDSHIP-Framework” (short: CAESES/FFW). It has been formerly known as “FRIENDSHIP-Framework” only. Our free edition is tagged “CAESES…
We have launched our new website! With these new pages, we now want to give our users and all interested visitors easier access to our product information. We hope you’ll enjoy it! Your FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS team.
We have released a new maintenance version of CAESES/FFW which can be downloaded here. More detailed version information is given in the changes log.
The workshop “CAESES and OpenFOAM” was a great and successful event with 11 participants. Sebastian Weickgenannt from FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS introduced all details that are important to quickly integrate OpenFOAM into the design process with CAESES. As a result of this…
FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS has released a new version of CAESES/FRIENDSHIP-Framework (FFW) which can be downloaded here. Highlights New Design Viewer Easily compare your design variants with customized screenshot collections and interactive 3D-geometries of each variant – all in a single window.…
Majority of winners at TRA-Visions Competition 2014 used CAESES/FFW: Of the five teams receiving prizes, three used CAESES/FFW in their projects, including the winning team from the University of Bremen, who performed a study of SWATH ships for offshore operations.…
The optimization of a vertical axis wind turbine conducted by FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS’ Carsten Fütterer using Pointwise, OpenFOAM, and CAESES / FRIENDSHIP-Framework was recently posted on the well-known CFD Blog “Another Fine Mesh”. Check out what they had to say…