The Open Source CAE tools employed and supported by Engys have been successfully applied to solve a variety of industrial scale engineering problems across multiple industrial sectors, such as: automotive, aerospace, power generation, oil & gas, built environments, consumer products, etc. We provide some example applications below:
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Applications
- External aerodynamics using RANS and DES methods: cars (with or without underhood), trains, helicopters, low speed aircraft, building structures.
- HVAC: human comfort, car/train/airplane cabins, ship/yacht compartments, cockpits, building interiors, city scale urban environments.
- Safety: fire and smoke propagation, CO2 and gas concentration, condensation/evaporation, ice accretion control, defrosting and defogging.
- Internal flows: pipe/duct flows, valves and fittings, pipe erosion, heat exchangers, conjugate heat transfer.
- Aero-acoustics: DES/LES noise source prediction, noise propagation methods, source-propagation coupling techniques.
- Multi-phase flows: hydrodynamics, bubbly flows, mixing flows, channel flows, non-Newtonian fluids, sprays, liquid film dynamics, cavitation, fluid-structure interaction and loading, waves, off-shore applications.
- Rotating machinery: fans, blowers, pumps, turbines, compressors, power generators, electrical motors, wind farms, power and windage losses.
- Adjoint solver for topology and shape optimisation: external aerodynamics/ hydrodynamics optimisation, pipes/ducts optimisation, manifold design.
Multi-disciplinary Optimisation (MDO) Applications
- Process integration: coupling with most CAE tools, Open Source, licensed software and in-house codes, CFD, FEM, 1D, multi-physics, multi-body, etc.
- Design of Experiments: statistical/sensitivity analysis, experiments planning.
- Multi-objective constrained optimisation: gradient-based algorithms, derivative-free techniques, advanced strategies.
- Parametric shape optimisation: CAD driven, mesh morphing.
- Model calibration: curve fitting, simulation model tuning to match experimental data, parameters estimation.
- Robust design optimisation: uncertainty quantification, Design for Six Sigma, tolerance design.
- Data mining: model creation for data analysis, prediction, regression and correlation.
Finite Element Modelling (FEM) Applications
- Linear static analysis: automotive components, hydraulic components, appliances, rotating machinery.
- Thermal structural analysis: automotive components, metallurgy, heat treatments, coupling to CFD.
- Modal and harmonic analysis: automotive components, rotating machinery.
