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And then there were three: Autodesk boosts its simulation powers by bringing NASTRAN into the fold

Posted by Al Dean - August 20, 2014

The 3D design giant, Autodesk, has had a history in simulation (for the purposes of design and manufacturing) for nearly…

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Composites: MSC Digimat v5.1.1 launched with new solutions for efficient modeling of materials

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 23, 2014

FE meshing, solution and post-processing have all been integrated Understanding composite material behaviour is an increasingly needed skill for designers…

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Composites: New computer model for testing aerospace materials to allow lightweight designs

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 24, 2014

Airbus has worked with Imperial College London to develop more accurate analysis models for its use of composites New computer…

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Ansys Fluent CFD software scaled to 36,000 cores

Posted by Greg Corke - November 19, 2014

Internal combustion engine modelled using Ansys Fluent Ansys and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have scaled Ansys Fluent,…

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Fujitsu Forum 2014: supporting 16 CAD users with a single workstation and HPC for SMEs

Posted by Greg Corke - November 25, 2014

The Fujitsu virtual Vespa From desktops and clusters to virtualisation and Vespas, the show floor at last week’s Fujitsu Forum…

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Ozen Engineering offers up free Cloud processing power demo

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 1, 2014

Want to test out Cloud compute power for Ansys? Here’s your chance for free For those intrigued by Cloud processor…

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Simulation

Simulation workshop #7: FEA + testing

Posted by Laurence Marks - February 27, 2015

Laurence Marks on making simulation work in reality

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Siemens FEA tools helped create the extremely lightweight Solar Impulse 2 plane

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 16, 2015

Femap with NX Nastran is being used to optimise and verify the structure of first plane to circumnavigate the earth…

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First look: Comsol Multiphysics 5.1 expands app capabilities

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 5, 2015

The new release makes it easier to create simulation apps and share them within your team A fully integrated environment…

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Altair investment in FluiDyna points to future for GPU-based CFD simulation technology

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 7, 2015

FluiDyna’s technology uses Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) as massively parallel processors Altair and German company FluiDyna, a developer of native…

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