Leveraging several of Altair's state-of-the-art technologies from advanced meshing to high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulation, and designed with an intuitive, highly automated and ...

CFD simulations of offshore oil and gas platforms are used to predict the maximum wind loads acting on the structure of the platform topsides (the upper half of the platform, above sea level and ...

TROY (WWJ) --Altair today introduced HyperWorks Virtual Wind Tunnel, a streamlined and high quality vertical application designed to improve wind tunnel simulation for the automotive industry. The ...

At the 2013 Americas Altair Technology Conference last week in Garden Grove, Calif., Altair introduced an application designed to improve wind tunnel simulation for evaluating a vehicle's external ...

Simulating the real world is a tremendously complex problem if you want to do it at any useful level of fidelity. Traditional techniques are holding back design teams at vehicle and aerospace ...

Formula 1, which begins an era of budget caps in 2021, is looking at the high cost of wind tunnels as a possible place to save money. Teams would replace wind tunnel data with more CFD, or ...

Formula 1 teams live in a world where a single misjudged flick of carbon fiber can decide a championship. Aerodynamicists are ...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is used in Formula 1 to simulate how air flows around a car, helping teams optimise ...

Wind tunnels aren’t just for testing aircraft anymore. Climatic wind tunnels, a variation on traditional wind tunnels, have been used by a host of large-scale manufacturers to thoroughly test ...