Category Archives: Simulation

Embraer Selects Dassault’s Simulation Tech

VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France, Mar 15, 2024 – Dassault Systèmes and Embraer announced that Dassault Systèmes’ simulation technology has been utilized to simulate, analyze and test virtually Eve Air Mobility’s electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA PowerFLOW application has provided robust and industry-proven fluid dynamics simulation to predict real-world operating conditions, allowing Embraer and Eve’s engineers to evaluate how the aircraft flies and test its sound emission.

“One of the main advantages of eVTOL aircraft is that they are electrically powered and a more sustainable option than combustion-powered aircraft. However, they are meant to operate in urban areas, making noise reduction a key driver in their design. SIMULIA fluid dynamics applications will enable Embraer and Eve to experience and optimize the most critical parts of their eVTOL aircraft in a virtual environment,” said David Ziegler, vice president, aerospace & defense industry, Dassault Systèmes.

Embraer and Eve have been working in collaborative efforts with global partners in line with the commitment to safely provide more reliable, affordable, sustainable, integrated and human-centric Urban Air Mobility (UAM) solutions.

“Numerical validated models have demonstrated accuracy when compared with experimental results and have helped accelerate product definition,” said Micael Gianini, interiors, noise and vibration senior manager at Embraer. “The human-centered design ensures the safety, accessibility, and comfort of passengers, the pilot, and the community by minimizing noise.”

In July 2023, Embraer and Eve announced that Eve’s first eVTOL production facility will be located in the city of Taubaté, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The company has begun assembly of its first full-scale eVTOL prototype, which will be followed by a test campaign in 2024. Eve’s eVTOL is scheduled to begin deliveries and enter into service in 2026.

About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE company, is a catalyst for human progress. They provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating virtual twin experiences of the real world with their 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, their customers can redefine the creation, production and life-cycle-management processes of their offer and thus have a meaningful impact to make the world more sustainable. The beauty of the Experience Economy is that it is a human-centered economy for the benefit of all – consumers, patients and citizens. Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 300,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 150 countries.

For more information, visit www.3ds.com.

Ansys, Mars Partner for Digital Transformation

PITTSBURGH, PA, Mar 14, 2024 – Mars has announced a new collaboration with engineering software giant, Ansys, that will see the multinational manufacturer adopt simulation software primed to reimagine the packaging innovation process at Mars through digital technology.

Mars, the maker of household brand names including M&M’S, ROYAL CANIN and SNICKERS, is set to leverage the new simulation approach to perform virtual testing and prototyping on new packaging innovation, initially across its Snacking portfolio.

The groundbreaking multi-physics simulation technology minimizes the need for extensive physical testing during the packaging development process and provides in-depth insights into various aspects of the complex production phases, including wrapping, drop tests and failure scenarios.

Together, Mars and Ansys build on the CPG giant’s heritage of innovation that dates back over a century and illustrates the company’s aim and investments to supercharge efforts to achieve its ultimate aim of using 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging for its products.

The implementation of simulation software is set to facilitate a more nimble, digital-first development environment at Mars, spanning from design to manufacturing, making the process easier and more efficient for its team of R&D experts as the company looks to expedite the pace of progress across its packaging ecosystem.

Researchers at Mars have already reported reductions in development time of up to 40% through computer modeling and in the quantity of plastic purchased by Mars for testing by approximately 246 tons.

The food and pet care provider has said that it is working to redesign more than 12,000 packaging types across its portfolio to fit with the recycling infrastructure that either exists today or is likely to exist in the future, making it easier for consumers to recycle their packaging.

“In the world we want tomorrow, no packaging becomes waste,” said Qing Qi, VP R&D global innovation, Mars Snacking. “This vision is at the heart of our multi-billion dollar Sustainable in a Generation plan and will only become a reality by taking unconstrained strides, leveraging breakthrough science, innovative thinking and partnerships to push the boundaries of what’s possible.”

“We continue to see the impact and potential of simulation and digital engineering in progressing sustainability initiatives throughout the world,” said Walt Hearn, senior vice president of worldwide sales and customer excellence at Ansys. “Mars has successfully implemented the pervasive insights of Ansys simulation to optimize its design and packaging processes. Mars’ more sustainable approach to development sets a terrific example for other manufacturers to adopt new solutions that move us all toward a cleaner planet.”

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. 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.

About Mars, Inc.

Mars, Inc. is driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how they do business today. As a global, family-owned business, Mars is transforming, innovating, and evolving to make a positive impact on the world. With more than $47 billion in annual sales, they produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including Ben’s Original, CESAR, Cocoavia, DOVE, EXTRA, KIND, M&M’s, SNICKERS, PEDIGREE, ROYAL CANIN, and WHISKAS.

CoreTech Releases Moldex3D 2024

HSINCHU, Taiwan, Mar 13, 2024 – With the pursuit of low-carbon and circular economy as the future development goals, the plastic industry is entering a new era of competition. Compared to traditional metal materials, plastics are more adaptable to industry demands, including lightweight design, energy conservation, environmental protection, low manufacturing costs, design flexibility, and performance standards. Moldex3D 2024 emerges in response to these needs, committed to providing advanced simulation solutions to easily handle various complex processes. With the support of the Moldiverse cloud platform services, optimization of production processes begins at the design stage, making it an essential tool for innovation and efficiency.

The important updates and highlights of Moldex3D 2024 are as follows:

Continuous Improvement of Molding Efficiency to Achieve Energy-Saving and Carbon Reduction Goals

Proper utilization of CAE software allows for the identification of potential design problems and optimal solutions during new product design, achieving advantages in low manufacturing costs, design flexibility, lightweight design, and improved safety. Moldex3D 2024 Compression Molding can accurately simulate the mold temperature changes during the mold movement process, achieving more accurate compression molding results.

The Moldex3D Resin Transfer Molding Module facilitates evaluation and selection of suitable production conditions through filling and curing analysis. It provides intelligent wizard tools and post-processors, supports complete RTM model preprocessing, and facilitates early defect diagnosis and design modifications. Additionally, Moldex3D introduces model comparison, multi-group comparison report functions, and result display lists to optimize result output, save file storage space, and provide a superior user experience.

Addressing Challenges in Electronic Encapsulation Processes to Improve IC Packaging Quality and Performance

In the era of strong development in AI intelligence, IC packaging is heading towards two directions of high reliability and high performance, each with different design and manufacturing requirements. To meet strict product standards, the use of molding analysis can quickly solve production defects and accelerate time-to-market.

Moldex3D 2024 continues to enhance IC packaging simulation capabilities. In addition to basic flow filling and curing process simulations, the newly added wire bonding further expands the application scope. It not only helps improve product quality and effectively prevents potential defects but also optimizes designs through simulation to reduce manufacturing costs and cycle time.

Furthermore, we also launched the industry’s first electronic potting simulation. Using convenient modeling tools and setting interfaces, a variety of process designs can be replicated, providing users with more realistic and detailed visualization of dispensing head paths and feeding. Leveraging complete physical models to simulate surface tension-induced phenomena achieves more comprehensive electronic encapsulation simulation.

Facilitating Plastic Component Design to Enhance Quality and Efficiency

With technological advancements and evolving demands, plastic products have found more innovative applications. In addition to meeting comfort and aesthetic requirements, they must also possess functionality and safety. Moldex3D 2024 enhances the simulation accuracy and speed of large components, assisting users in efficiently obtaining optimal production parameters when designing products such as bumpers, thereby improving quality and increasing production output. The addition of the Dual Nakamura model enables more realistic simulation of warpage, and exporting warpage deformation results as STEP models allows users to consider the degree of warpage for mold compensation adjustments, effectively eliminating the impact of product deformation.

Moldex3D 2024 also continues to enhance insight into the appearance of plastic components, optimizing welding line calculation efficiency, and supporting bilinear isotropic hardening models. We strengthen shrinkage prediction capabilities in injection molding and foam molding, considering the effect of trapped air, thus enabling various defects to be addressed at the design stage, reducing the significant time and cost of mold reworking.

Comprehensive Support for Plastic Molding Cloud Services, Leading the New Trend of Digital Transformation

Moldex3D 2024 continues to improve its various support services in plastic molding. The Moldex3D iSLM data management platform introduces Personal Mode for individual use and Server Mode for cross-team collaboration, providing more flexible usage modes. It also enhances IC-related data organization, optimizes model comparison functions, supports more CAD file types, and provides carbon footprint calculation functions to assist users in meeting the strictest carbon emission standards.

Moldex3D 2024 also brings more innovative services through the Moldiverse cloud platform, including the MHC Material Cloud, iMolding Hub, and University. With these services, users can quickly evaluate and select various plastic materials, acquire and establish in-house machine databases, and access the latest plastic industry information and selected seminars anytime, anywhere. With highly flexible and convenient services, product performance can be verified at the design stage, expanding the support scope of Moldex3D.

For more information about the new features of Moldex3D 2024, please visit: https://www.moldex3d.com/products/moldex3d-2024

About CoreTech System (Moldex3D)

CoreTech System Co., Ltd. (Moldex3D) has been providing the professional CAE analysis solution ‘Moldex’ series for the plastic injection molding industry since 1995, and the current product ‘Moldex3D’ is marketed worldwide. Committed to providing advanced technologies and solutions to meet industrial demands, CoreTech System has extended its sales and service network to provide local, immediate, and professional service. CoreTech System presents innovative technology, which helps customers troubleshoot from product design to development, optimize design patterns, shorten time-to-market, and maximize product return on investment (ROI).

More information can be found at Moldex3D Website.

Noesis Launches AI-Powered Modeling Tool nvision

LEUVEN, Belgium, Mar 7, 2024 – Noesis Solutions, a trusted digital engineering transformation partner, announced the launch of nvision, an AI-powered surrogate modelling tool, that enables engineers to perform almost real-time predictive analysis of their designs, powered by the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. nvision is an open, solver-agnostic modeling tool, that drastically reduces design time by performing real-time ‘what-if’ studies and it enables access to simulation data to cross-functional experts through its intuitive interfaces and processes.

Real-time predictions with the power of AI

Designing complex engineering systems often requires many iterations of engineering simulations that are computationally expensive to run. Solvers and parameters must often be tuned individually for each system to be studied. In today’s volatile market environment, where time is money, engineers are consistently seeking ways to improve productivity without sacrificing the accuracy and the quality of new product designs, with an imperative of shorter time-to-market. With nvision’s AI and physics-agnostic machine learning technologies, engineers can easily build and train a high-fidelity, parameterized surrogate model and predict the performance of their products almost instantaneously.

“Our customers across industries are becoming more reliant on new methods to accelerate their design processes. This increased demand to shorten design process time along with the power of AI – infused into the design process along with simulation, enables the engineers to redefine and gain more value out of existing data. This opens a world of possibilities for organizations across industries to develop competitive products with inherent time and cost saving benefits.” commented Georgios Papantonakis, chief product officer, Noesis Solutions, about the conceptualization of nvision.

“With nvision, our goal is to work alongside our partners accelerate their research and development processes, shorten product development cycles, and promote innovation with the power of data – both historic and new, enabling expansive design exploration opportunities,” he added.

Convert historic data into insights for tomorrow

Modern engineering companies have embraced simulation technologies to design and test their new products, thereby reducing the need for manual testing. Recycling the dormant know-how data from past simulations data, that has already consumed time and resources, to train surrogate models with, serve for a safer and a more competitive product with a shorter time-to-market and less usage of resources. This will enable engineers and designers to make more educated designs at the inception of their projects with the integration of reduced order modelling, exemplified by nvision.

“With nvision, engineers can not only expedite their design processes, but also reuse their historic simulation data to gain new insights from them, ultimately redefining the perception of what is possible. By recycling the wealth of knowledge encapsulated in previous and recent simulations, nvision provides a multidimensional map for their designers to navigate, allowing them to anticipate potential failure points in the future projects,” said Ceyhun Sahin, product owner – nvision, Noesis Solutions.

nvision is an open, solver-agnostic modeling tool that enables simulation engineers, designers and product owners to reduce design time by leveraging existing knowledge from simulation studies, perform real time what-if studies and decision making and speed up product development without spending time and effort with unnecessary simulation iterations.

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. Their continuously evolving product portfolio, state-of-the-art technology, and unmatched customer services enable customers transform the way they build their products in a much faster and an efficient manner.

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.

Maplesoft Releases Maple 2024

WATERLOO, Canada, Mar 7, 2024 – Maplesoft announced a major new release of its flagship product, Maple, the powerful and easy to use mathematical software. Maple is used by mathematicians, educators, students, engineers, and scientists to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve math problems. The new release, Maple 2024, leverages powerful AI technology to help customers be more efficient, in addition to a range of improvements that expand problem solving capabilities, enhance usability, and increase support for teaching and learning.

Maple is math software that combines the world’s most powerful math engine with an interface that makes it extremely easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems.

Usability and Power

“For more than 35 years, Maple has been a world-leader in offering smart math tools that help customers accomplish their tasks more easily, and we are excited to continue the tradition with the introduction of AI-powered features in Maple 2024,” says Karishma Punwani, director of product management at Maplesoft. “Not only will customers finish their work faster with a new AI Formula Assistant, but we are already starting to see creative uses of a programming link that lets users build their own AI-powered tools inside Maple. We’re really looking forward to seeing what our customers will do with it!”

With Maple, you aren’t forced to choose between mathematical power and usability, and the improvements in Maple 2024 continue to strengthen both aspects of the software. Key enhancements include:

  • Advanced AI technology provides customers with formulas, equations, explanations, and Maple commands to shorten time spent on tasks and gives them the opportunity to explore the use of AI inside Maple on their own.
  • New cutting-edge algorithms in multivariate polynomial systems, integral equations, summation, matroid theory, and many others mean Maple 2024 can solve even more problems, more quickly.
  • Usability improvements mean customers can call even unfamiliar commands correctly on the first try, without consulting the help pages, with the help of automatic command and argument completion features.
  • The ground-breaking Check My Work feature, which analyses each step of a student’s fully worked solution and helps them identify where they went wrong, has been expanded to cover even more types of problems.
  • The extensive support for units, which allows customers to work with real-world data in a natural way while painlessly keeping track of their units, has been further expanded with built-in units handling in more computations, increased efficiency, and support for new systems of units.

Empowering the minds of today and tomorrow

Maple is used by more than 8000 educational institutions, research labs, and companies, in over 90 countries. The Maple math engine also lies at the heart of other Maplesoft products, including solutions for education and research, system simulation, calculation management, and systems engineering. Each one provides access to the world’s most powerful mathematics engine through an easy-to-use interface that is designed to suit the needs of the task. Maple, and products powered by Maple, can be used to solve difficult math problems, learn or teach a mathematical concept, perform engineering design calculations, create virtual prototypes, develop new algorithms, and much more.

For more information about new features in Maple 2024, visit www.maplesoft.com/products/maple/new_features.

For more information about the Maplesoft Technology Suite for Education, visit www.maplesoft.com/suite.

For more information about Maplesoft Solutions for Engineering, visit www.maplesoft.com/Engineering/.

About Maplesoft

Maplesoft provides powerful technology to explore, derive, capture, solve and disseminate mathematical problems and their applications, and to make math easier to learn, understand, and use.

For more information, visit website.

Altair Names Analytium Channel Partner for UK, Ireland

TROY, MI, Mar 6, 2024 – Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence, announced that Analytium Ltd. has joined Altair’s growing channel partner network and will offer the full suite of Altair’s data analytics and AI solutions, Altair RapidMiner. Analytium is an agile technology firm focused on data analytics and data management and provides full software lifecycle support, from design and production support to training.

“The collaboration between Altair and Analytium heralds a new era of AI excellence. This partnership is a pledge to drive transformative technological advancements,” said Kimon Afsaridis, managing director of Eastern Europe and vice president of indirect EMEA sales, Altair. “Our synergy with Analytium underscores our unwavering commitment to shaping the future of technology, marking a significant milestone in our aggressive global market expansion.”

“We’re excited to broaden the array of software options available to our clients by adding Altair’s top-tier and best-in-class solutions,” said Vasilij Nevlev, director, Analytium. “Proudly partnering with a global technology innovator like Altair enables us to enhance our offering with world-class innovation and expertise, ensuring our customers have access to the very best tools for data-driven decision-making.”

Analytium Group was founded in 2016 in London with offices there and elsewhere in Europe. Analytium is a boutique data consultancy that stands out in the data analytics sector for its comprehensive lifecycle support for customers, encompassing deployment, optimization, and hosting. Specializing in the SAS language, and a certified AI partner of Microsoft, Analytium offers a wealth of independent advice to ensure clients have access to a broad range of solutions tailored to their specific needs. Its commitment to covering every aspect of the data management process allows clients to benefit from seamless, integrated services designed to maximize efficiency and drive data-driven decision-making.

Altair works with a global network of channel and technology partners. To learn more or to become a partner, visit https://www.altair.com/partners/.

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.

Cadence to Acquire BETA CAE

SAN JOSE, CA, Mar 6, 2024 – Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BETA CAE Systems International AG, a leading system analysis platform provider of multi-domain, engineering simulation solutions. The addition of BETA CAE’s proven technologies and talent will accelerate Cadence’s Intelligent System Design strategy by expanding its multiphysics system analysis portfolio and enabling entry into the structural analysis segment, unlocking a multi-billion-dollar incremental TAM opportunity. Under the terms of the definitive agreement, Cadence will pay approximately $1.24 billion for the transaction, with 60 percent of the consideration to be paid in cash and 40 percent to be paid through the issuance of Cadence common stock to current BETA CAE shareholders. In conjunction with the transaction, Cadence expects to obtain new debt financing to fund a portion of the cash component of the purchase price. Cadence plans to use free cash flow generated by its existing operations to rapidly pay down debt incurred to fund the transaction, while also maintaining share repurchases.

Increasing system complexity and time-to-market pressures from accelerating mechanical and electrical hyperconvergence, along with the digital transformation in multiple industries, are driving the need for multiphysics simulations early in the design cycle. Over the past few years, Cadence has expanded its system analysis portfolio to build out a comprehensive multiphysics platform including electromagnetics (EM), electrothermal (ET) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions, and with BETA CAE, Cadence will enter structural analysis, the largest system analysis segment.

BETA CAE is a highly respected industry leader, well-known for its groundbreaking, innovative, high-performance simulation software and best-in-class services. BETA CAE’s portfolio includes its flagship pre- and post-processing products, which are the industry gold standard, mechanical and structural simulation and multiphysics analysis, and simulation, process, data, and resources management (SPDRM) solutions, among others. BETA CAE has a very strong footprint in the automotive vertical sector, delivering solutions to the top 10 global automobile manufacturers and most Formula One racing teams, as well as leading customers in the aerospace, industrial and healthcare industries. BETA CAE customers include marquee names such as Honda Motor Company Ltd., General Motors Company, Stellantis, Renault Group, Volvo Cars and Lockheed Martin Corporation, among others.

“Cadence entered the multiphysics space several years ago through organic innovation and acquisitions. This strategic acquisition reaffirms our commitment to continued growth in this critical domain,” said Dr. Anirudh Devgan, president and CEO, Cadence. “Combining our computational software expertise with BETA CAE’s rich technology and talent will enable us to offer a more comprehensive portfolio to customers, while opening significant new opportunities for Cadence by tapping into the structural analysis segment. These solutions are particularly important in automotive, where convergence of electrical and mechanical designs is further driven by an increasing shift towards electric vehicles, requiring deeper design team collaboration in integrated workflows.”

“For more than two decades we’ve led the evolution of engineering simulation, first by establishing our reputation in the land mobility sector, and then successfully expanding to broad deployments across aerospace, defense, biomechanics, electronics, energy and other industries,” said Panagiotis Kouvrakis, chairman of BETA CAE. “We are very excited to join the Cadence team and are looking forward to advancing success through our shared values and passion for innovation and engineering, and our unwavering commitment to customers and partners.”

BETA CAE provides a complete platform that accommodates the entire simulation and analysis flow for multiphysics system simulations, spanning mechanical/structural, CFD and EM. Its flagship products include ANSA, an advanced, multidisciplinary computer-aided engineering (CAE) pre-processor that encompasses all necessary functionality for full-model build up in a single, cohesive, integrated environment, and META, an advanced, multidisciplinary CAE post-processor for optimally visualizing data and simulation results and creating reports, powered with state-of-the-art augmented reality capabilities. Additionally, BETA CAE’s EPILYSIS and FATIQ solvers enable customers to efficiently solve structural analysis and optimization problems. The SPDRM tool addresses the integrated orchestration of data, processes and resources by providing a simple and intuitive way to capture, deploy, manage and improve CAE processes. BETA CAE’s products are very complementary to Cadence’s multiphysics system analysis portfolio, which includes Clarity, Celsius, Sigrity, Voltus, Fidelity and the recently announced Millennium M1 multiphysics platform, addressing the EM, thermal, signal and power integrity, and CFD domains.

Headquartered in Lucerne, Switzerland, BETA CAE has a primary R&D center in Thessaloniki, Greece and 13 additional offices worldwide.

The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2024, subject to receipt of regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. BETA CAE has annual revenue of about $90 million, and Cadence expects BETA CAE to contribute approximately $40 million to 2024 revenue. Cadence expects the transaction to be approximately 12 cents dilutive to its 2024 earnings per share and to become accretive in 2025 (in each case, on a non-GAAP basis), based on Cadence’s debt repayment and share repurchase plans.

About Cadence

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic systems design, building upon more than 35 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality. Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary products from chips to boards to complete systems for the most dynamic market applications, including hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, mobile, aerospace, consumer, industrial and healthcare. For nine years in a row, Fortune magazine has named Cadence one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.

Learn more at www.cadence.com.

Oracle Red Bull Racing, Ansys Renew Partnership

PITTSBURGH, PA, Mar 1, 2024 – Oracle Red Bull Racing renewed its partnership with Ansys for three years to remain the most competitive Formula 1 (F1) team in the world. Oracle Red Bull Racing will continue harnessing the power of Ansys technology to improve aerodynamics, manage material data, and ensure structural safety of its cars in the 2024 season and beyond.

Oracle Red Bull Racing’s newest car, RB20

Ansys simulation solutions helped Oracle Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen make history in 2023, winning 21 out of 23 races and leading 1003 laps. He secured the Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships with a massive 413-point margin, leading Oracle Red Bull Racing’s team to the most dominant season yet.

Oracle Red Bull Racing faced new challenges as it prepared for the 2024 season due to spending caps and wind tunnel testing time limits. Because they topped the championship last year, the team was allotted 4200 hours of testing — 300 hours less than the second-place team — for car upgrades throughout the season or to develop next year’s car. To maximize testing, Oracle Red Bull Racing relies on the predictive accuracy and speed of Ansys Fluent to achieve the optimal downforce and car aerodynamics, which are key considerations for difficult cornering on circuits like Monaco, where it triumphed in 2022 and 2023.

The endurance of Oracle Red Bull Racing will also be tested in 2024, which is set to be the longest season in Formula 1 history. The additional races demand a more reliable car. To achieve this, the team uses Ansys Granta MI to manage material data and study how different materials performed in previous seasons to enhance the car’s shape and design. They also use Ansys LS-DYNA to conduct impact testing and assess the car’s safety.

“Ansys simulation software helped Oracle Red Bull Racing quickly adapt to the new F1 design guidelines last year and positioned us to maintain our technical leadership in a dramatically altered engineering landscape,” said Craig Skinner, chief designer, at Oracle Red Bull Racing. “To stay ahead of the curve, we need tools that adapt to changing regulations. Ansys is flexible and keeps pace with industry needs, and we are looking forward to continuing our partnership and utilizing enhanced offerings like Ansys Granta MI AI+, which will boost our material insights and help us develop the fastest and most reliable cars possible.”

The 2024 season begins on February 29 at the Bahrain Grand Prix and will feature Oracle Red Bull Racing’s newest car, RB20.

“Ansys and Oracle Red Bull Racing demonstrate year after year that a combined commitment to engineering excellence translates to the racetrack,” said Shane Emswiler, senior vice president of products at Ansys. “Developing the RB20 in such a short time frame is a testament to the high fidelity and speed of Ansys simulation solutions. We look forward to seeing the car in action for another fantastic season.”

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. 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.

For more information, visit www.ansys.com.