GRAZ, Austria and MILTON KEYNES, UK, May 2, 2024 – Mobility technology company AVL is partnering with Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the high-performance arm of Red Bull Racing Group, to develop the next generation of ultra-high-power density fuel cell technology. This collaboration combines AVL’s industry leading portfolio of PEM fuel cell technology and Red Bull’s winning technologies and novel methodologies in lightweight design, construction, and aerodynamics. This project is expected to deliver a fuel cell system for high performance application that exceeds those currently available globally. Joint investigations indicate that upon successful completion, dramatic improvements in gravimetric power density can be achieved with values towards 6kW/kg on stack level and 2kW/kg on fuel cell system level. This technology has the potential to result in the world’s highest gravimetric power density PEM fuel cell system.

The solutions to be achieved will be a significant milestone in net-zero carbon technology innovation, enabling sectors such as aerospace, future motorsport series, and a multitude of other maximum payload applications to have the power density figures required in hydrogen mobility.

Rob Gray, technical director, Red Bull Advanced Technologies: “We are delighted to be working with AVL on this collaboration to increase fuel cell power density and thus improve performance. It goes to show how beneficial the application of cutting edge F1 inspired engineering can be with solving real-world problems.”

Jürgen Rechberger, vice president, AVL: “We are very proud to be working closely with Red Bull. This partnership will combine the knowledge and experience of our experts, allowing us to improve the gravimetric power density of our fuel cell technology by a factor of three and hence meet the requirements of high-performance applications like aviation and racing.”

About AVL

With more than 12,200 employees, AVL is one of the world’s leading mobility technology companies for development, simulation, and testing in the automotive industry and in other sectors such as rail, marine, and energy. Based on extensive in-house research activities, AVL delivers concepts, technology solutions, methodologies, and development tools for a greener, safer, and better world of mobility and beyond.

AVL supports international partners and customers in their sustainable and digital transformation. The focus lies on the areas of electrification, software, AI and automation. In addition, AVL supports companies in energy-intensive sectors on their way to a greener and more efficient energy generation and supply.

Innovation is AVL’s passion. Together with an international network of experts at more than 90 locations and 45 Tech and Engineering Centers worldwide, AVL is driving the future of mobility. In 2023, the company generated a turnover of 2.05 billion Euros, of which 10 % are invested in R&D activities.

For more information, visit www.avl.com.

About Red Bull Advanced Technologies

Red Bull Advanced Technologies was formed in 2014 with the remit to apply aspects of F1 technology to other challenges, both in motorsport and the wider world. With an aim to position Red Bull Advanced Technologies as the leading competitor in technology solutions, they bring exceptional engineering, design, technology, simulation and production capabilities to a hugely diverse set of industries, helping to create a smarter, better future. From human powered machines to hypercars and everything in between including submersibles, flying machines and future mobility solutions, with Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the possibilities are limitless.

TROY, MI, May 2, 2024 – Altair a global leader in computational intelligence, announced it has acquired Research in Flight, maker of FlightStream, which provides computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software with a large footprint in the aerospace and defense sector and a growing presence in marine, energy, turbomachinery, and automotive applications.

FlightStream is a user-friendly, yet powerful flow solver that bridges the gap between high-fidelity CFD simulations and the needs of engineers and designers. Its exceptionally fast computational speeds and low hardware footprint, coupled with a streamlined user interface and robust aerodynamic solver, make it an invaluable tool for early-stage rapid design iterations and in-depth aerodynamic studies for aerospace and defense applications and beyond. FlightStream can capture subsonic to supersonic flows, including compressible effects and a unique surface vorticity capability. It leverages the strengths of panel method flow solvers and enhances them with modern computational techniques to provide a fast solver capable of handling complex aerodynamic phenomena.

“Our growth in the aerospace, defense, and surrounding industries has accelerated in recent years through our best-in-class computational intelligence solutions,” said James R. Scapa, founder and chief executive officer, Altair. “The integration of FlightStream into our portfolio will enhance our offering with its specialized, modern, and efficient approach to meet the increasingly complex customer demands in these industries, including the urban air mobility and eVTOL sectors.”

FlightStream allows for the rapid analysis of unconventional aircraft using a unique surface vorticity, flow-separation, and viscous analysis capability for both powered and unpowered configurations. It is augmented with integral boundary layer modeling, enabling users to capture viscous effects with a level of detail that is uncommon in traditional panel method applications. This integration facilitates a more comprehensive analysis of aerodynamic performance, providing insights that are crucial for design optimization.

“We are proud to be a standard tool in the aircraft designer’s toolbox,” said Vivek Ahuja, co-founder, Research in Flight. “Joining Altair will allow us to scale and reach countless engineers seeking best-in-class, powerful, and specialized tools for faster design iterations.”

In addition to Ahuja, Research in Flight was co-founded by Roy Hartfield who has dedicated more than 30 years to the study of aerodynamics, propulsion, statistical analysis of air vehicles, and aircraft research. Hartfield is an aerospace engineering professor at the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University.

FlightStream is a United States Air Force network-approved software and is also used at NASA Ames and Langley Research Centers, as well as by the US Army. It will be integrated into the Altair HyperWorks design and simulation platform and be available via Altair Units.

About Altair

Altair is a global leader in computational intelligence that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair enables organizations across all industries to compete more effectively and drive smarter decisions in an increasingly connected world – all while creating a greener, more sustainable future.

To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.

PITTSBURGH, PA, May 2, 2024 – Ansys announced financial results for the first quarter of 2024. Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023 was $466.6M, 42% down compared to $805.1M for the fourth quarter of 2023. GAAP net income was $34.7M.

Comparative analysis based on Ansys’s financial results in the last 12 quarters (Result source Ansys website)

Comparative analysis based on Ansys’s financial results in the last 12 quarters (Result source Ansys website)

A complete chart of the financial results is available here.

About Ansys

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. Founded in 1970, Ansys is headquartered south of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

Visit www.ansys.com for more information.

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LEUVEN, Belgium, May 1, 2024 – Noesis Solutions, a trusted digital engineering innovation partner, announced the launch of Noesis AI Assistant, an AI virtual assistant of Noesis Solutions, that helps its users with instant, accurate information, and support on utilizing Optimus, an automation and optimization tool by Noesis Solutions, along with the release of Optimus 2024.1. Noesis AI Assistant is a multilingual, conversational, AI virtual assistant developed using state-of-the-art ChatGPT technology. It has a deep understanding of Optimus covering all its latest features and functions, to the best practices and troubleshooting techniques of the tool. The Noesis AI Assistant will be expanded to cover the entire product portfolio of Noesis Solutions in the future.

Noesis AI Assistant helps the Optimus users by providing them with 24/7 support for queries regarding Optimus, through a secure, easy-to-use interface through which engineers and designers can receive real-time response about topics related to automation and optimization of their engineering workflows with Optimus and browse relevant topics.

Figure 1- An example of a query and response from the Noesis AI Assistant

“By enabling our users with an AI-powered language model like Noesis AI Assistant, Noesis Solutions aims to deliver unmatched customer support with expertise and training, empowering them to derive more value from Optimus. The Noesis AI Assistant retrieves information from various Optimus documentations that are enriched with knowledge from training manuals, real customer support cases, FAQs, user manuals etc. The user queries and answers are also logged anonymously which enables the team to improve Noesis AI Assistant and enable it to create responses based on learned patterns and generating fresh responses as needed. We are confident that it will add great value and seamless support for our users.” said Christine Schwarz, product owner – Optimus.

Noesis AI Assistant excels in Optimus-related topics through its sophisticated use of retrieval-assisted generation approach, which combines the strengths of two strategies: retrieval-based methods, which fetch relevant information from a predefined knowledge base, and generative models, which create responses based on learned patterns. By blending these approaches, the assistant can access knowledge stored in the Optimus documentation, that is updated consistently with the user queries that are logged anonymously, to efficiently improve for future queries.

Along with the launch of Noesis AI Assistant, Optimus 2024.1 has updated its usability features by introducing a visual project selection window and enriched its openness by adding more interfaces to 3^rd party software.

About Noesis Solutions

Established in 2003, Noesis Solutions, a trusted digital engineering innovation partner, has empowered customers to adopt a transformational strategy that resolves their toughest multidisciplinary engineering challenges of today.

Noesis Solutions is a majority-owned subsidiary of Cybernet Systems, a leading provider of multi-domain CAE solutions covering a vast range of engineering problems. Headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, Noesis Solutions operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locations around the world.

For more information, please visit www.noesissolutions.com.