industries aerospaceautomotiveenergylife sciencesmarineoil and gas global website en change this page to deutsch mdx english or deutsch menu you are herehome discover better designs faster . multidisciplinary design exploration to stay ahead in the innovation race engineers need to be able to quickly predict the outcome of design changes on the real world performance of their product . together multidisciplinary simulation and design exploration help engineers discover better designs faster . share this story read magazine introduction learn more infographic news videos & publications tradeshows & conferences in depth case study product overview share this chapter a toolset for all your mdx needs find out how our simulation tools are helping companies deploy multidisciplinary design exploration to discover better designs faster star ccm star ccm is a multidisciplinary simulation platform that allows you to represent all of the the real world physics your product will encounter . heeds heeds mdo automates the design exploration process allowing you to uncover new design concepts that improve products and significantly reduce development costs . star cd star cd offers the world s most comprehensive toolkit for simulating the performance and behavior of internal combustion engines from intake to after treatment . battery design studio battery design studio provides a complete simulation environment for the analysis and design of the electrochemical system and detailed geometry of individual battery cells . speed speed is a specialized analysis tool for the design of electric machines such as motors generators and alternators including the drive with inverters and their control . previous next contact us learn more share this chapter mdx fundamentals find out how multidisciplinary simulation and design exploration can help to solve the toughest challenges that the automotive industry has to offer . 100 % not all engineering simulation tools are created equal . in order to provide a constant stream of relevant engineering data simulation software must be able to meet certain key criteria . click on an icon to learn more . main previous next multidisciplinary simulation the solution of complex industrial problems requires simulation tools that span a multitude of physical phenomena which often can only be solved using techniques that cross several engineering disciplines . real world engineering problems do not separate themselves into convenient categories such as aerodynamics hydrodynamics heat transfer and solid mechanics . only multidisciplinary engineering simulation can capture all of the relevant physics and allow you to predict their influence on the real world performance of a product . download star ccm brochure previous next design exploration engineering simulation allows engineers to see into the future predicting the consequence of any design changes on the real world performance of their products . more than that simulation gives engineers the opportunity to glimpse all possible futures exploring the performance of a product over the full range of operating conditions that it is likely to face in its working life rather than just at a handful of carefully chosen design conditions . download heeds brochure previous next affordability used effectively engineering simulation consistently delivers a high return on investment roi . it provides far more in terms of reduced development costs and increased product revenue than it costs to implement . in order to be practical in a financial sense simulation software has to be based around a design exploration friendly model that allows engineers to deploy simulations on as many processors as they can lay their hands on without having to worry about artificial licensing limits imposed by their software vendor and their finance department . download licensing flyer previous next dedicated support in order to be successful an engineer should have ready access to a community of simulation experts and ideally an established relationship with a dedicated support engineer who not only understands the engineer s problems but can also access the right expert help whenever needed . visit the steve portal previous next backed by experts an uncomfortable truth about modern engineering is that there really are no easy problems left to solve . in order to design truly innovative products engineers are often pushing back the boundaries of the possible . this is something that is difficult to achieve in isolation and often requires the assistance of experts from outside of an individual engineer s immediate personal area of expertise . our software solutions are backed by an international engineering services team that can provide assistance in solving the most difficult problems industry has to offer . contact our engineering services team industry overview share this chapter solutions that span all industries learn how mdx solves the toughest problems in 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share this chapter multidisciplinary design exploration leads to improved product performance engineering is a process of continual improvement . engineers are required to improve products step by step by making incremental changes that are intended to make the product somehow better faster ; stronger ; lighter ; more efficient ; less expensive . every successful product is the result of many design iterations each of which improves the performance of the product in some manner . while the amount of improvement delivered by each design upgrade is often modest when stacked together over tens hundreds or even thousands of design iterations this process delivers products whose performance in the real world is significantly improved over the original design . however for every successfully implemented design improvement there are many more failed iterations that either delivered no improvement in product performance or somehow made it worse . for every hard won improvement in a product there are an almost infinite number of ways to break it . this is the challenge of engineering to navigate that infinite tree of potential design improvements making those choices that improve the product towards some final goal and rejecting the far more numerous wrong choices that would make it worse . historically those predictions came from hand calculations or from the experimental testing of physical prototypes . although these approaches delivered some of the greatest technological advances of the modern world they have some fundamental shortcomings . the first is that both approaches rely on a large degree of simplification as the engineer is forced to simplify the real world problem into a form that can easily be formulated or tested . the second is that the cost of physical testing limits its deployment to a small number of specially chosen design points that are not necessarily representative of the full range of operating conditions that the product will experience during its lifetime . thirdly experimental testing is usually time consuming and therefore deployed late in the design process often only as a confirmation of the final design . today engineering simulation provides the most reliable flow of information into the design process . it provides comprehensive predictions that are usually more accurate and always less expensive than experimental testing . deployed effectively engineering simulation can be used to improve a product by providing a stream of engineering data to drive the design through multiple iterations . engineering simulation allows engineers to see into the future predicting the consequence of any design changes on the real world performance of their products . more than that simulation gives engineers the opportunity to glimpse all possible futures exploring the performance of a product over the full range of operating conditions that it is likely to face in its working life rather than just at a handful of carefully chosen design conditions . with minimal effort from the engineer design exploration algorithms can be used to drive the design through a wide range of parametric design variables configurations and operating scenarios . specifically by employing numerical optimization technology the design exploration algorithm can intelligently choose the parameters that are most likely to lead to an improvement . ultimately this process results in higher quality and more robust products that exceed customer expectations . latest mdx blogs case studies share this chapter don t just simulate innovate see how our customers have been using mdx to generate design improvements and stay ahead of the innovation race . trek bicycle trek bicycle corporation optimizes bicycle aerodynamics and ride quality together multidisciplinary design exploration and cloud computing are letting trek s r & d processes take a giant leap forward . download full article the success of the becker mewis duct depends almost entirely on the cfd process used to define it . without accurate cfd we wouldn t be able to tune each duct to the specific flow conditions generated around each hull . steve leonard head of r & d ibmv the becker mewis duct guarantees fuel savings of over 4.5 % in six weeks saving a typical large vessel 500k per year download full article airbus operations gmbh deploys mdx with star ccm and optimate to optimize static air mixer significant improvement in temperature difference were achieved while meeting the pressure drop constraint and the full optimization was achieved within two weeks andreas ruch airbus operations gmbh watch video b & b agema uses star ccm and heeds to deliver blade cooling technology to kawasaki heavy industries for their next generation gas turbines star ccm with its high level of automation meshing capabilities and high solution accuracy is the best commercial cae tool to perform fast and accurate simulations of conjugate heat transfer . ren braun b & b agema download 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