BMW ORACLE Racing Designs World’s Biggest Wing with Computational Field Dynamics

This February, in the picturesque Spanish port of Valencia, BMW ORACLE Racing’s skipper Russell Coutts will take the helm of one of the most technologically advanced – and hopefully fastest – boats ever built, in a bid to capture the 33rd America’s Cup. The most remarkable feature of the trimaran – named “USA”... [Read more]

High-performance Computing Revs up Simulations like FEA, CFD

Gaining a foothold today in automotive and aerospace simulations, high-performance computing (HPC) offers low-cost high-speed engineering analysis in many industries. HPC, the engineering application of cluster-based computing in complex, non-linear events, is poised to assist the auto industry by accelerating speed to market, decreasing costs and... [Read more]

NEi Fusion 2.0 Reaches out to “in-CAD” FEA Users

Features advanced capabilities for contact, impact, optimization, composites The developer of Nastran Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software is introducing NEi Fusion 2.0, a combination of Nastran FEA solvers and 3D modeler powered by SolidWorks.  The upgrade adds several types of advanced modal and heat transfer analyses, new element types, new load... [Read more]

CFdesign Motion Module Reduces Process Time from 200 Hours to Just 2

Cornell Pump Co. experienced a 100x speed-up of a full transient system-level simulation and performance curve generation using the new CFdesign Motion and high performance computing (HPC) Modules from Blue Ridge Numerics.  Cornell engineers performed transient simulations to evaluate a centrifugal pump design in only 2 hr, down from 200 hr, significantly... [Read more]