Enhanced e-Motor Cooling Solutions – Altair Tools Optimized for NVIDIA® GPUs Achieve More Accurate Results 20x Faster
Schaeffler Group, a leader in motion technology, sought to enhance the cooling efficiency of their e-motors to prevent overheating and maintain reliability. Using Altair® nanoFluidX® running on NVIDIA GPUs, Schaeffler achieved highly accurate simulation results that matched physical tests while significantly reducing solve times from five days to under six hours. This solution not only cut…
Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing: How to Innovate with Speed
One of the challenges manufacturers face today is accelerating design and engineering processes while maintaining accuracy and efficiency throughout the product life cycle. From aerospace and defense to food and beverage production and beyond, it’s common for manufacturers to face high production goals and tight timelines. However, solutions to these problems often require too much money; and navigating…
Extend Your Range with Digital Twins for Thermal Battery Management
Laptops, smartphones, electric vehicles, power tools, or your toothbrush: mobile applications like this need stored mobile energy to fulfill their tasks. For larger systems, like battery electric vehicles, the mobile energy requirements grow profoundly, and energy storage capacity plays the starring role in broad acceptance of e-mobility. But what is so special about batteries in mobile…
International Paper Implements Altair AI
Using Altair AI Studio, International Paper built and deployed numerous prescriptive models that provide guidance on equipment settings for machine operators and predictive models to optimize consumption of raw materials, improve paper quality, and enhance the effectiveness of wastewater treatment processes. Read more
Altair Acquires Research in Flight, Forging a New Path for Aerodynamic Analysis
Altair 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. Read more
Acquisition expands Altair’s data analytics and AI offerings
Bringing together Cambridge Semantics’ transformational knowledge graph technology with Altair’s leading tools for data analytics and data science offers organizations a solid foundation for building advanced analytics ecosystems that inject artificial intelligence (AI) into day-to-day business operations. Read more
Breaking the Billion-Particle Simulation Barrier with Altair EDEM
Simulating how bulk and granular materials interact with equipment, containers, and one another is a critical capability for industrial, manufacturing, and life science organizations. The larger these simulations, the more accurate they become, decreasing the time and expense companies must spend iterating designs and prototypes. Altair and Google Cloud recently collaborated to see how large a…
Altair SimSolid Transforms Simulation for Electronics Industry
“As the electronics industry pushes the boundaries of complexity and miniaturization, engineers have struggled with simulations that often compromise on detail for expediency. Altair SimSolid will empower engineers to capture the intricate complexities of PCBs and ICs without simplification,” said James R. Scapa, founder and chief executive officer, Altair. “Traditional simulation methods often require approximations when…
Accelerating Custom Semiconductor Design with Best-in-Class Debugging Tools
Until recently, manufacturing semiconductors was the domain of dedicated chip companies. However, over the past fifteen years or so, technology giants – led by the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta – have established in-house silicon design teams and taken advantage of contract fabrication facilities to produce chips tailored to their requirements. What’s more, the appeal of the so-called…
Improving Motorcycle Aerodynamics: Find a Fairing with Low Aerodynamic Drag
Fairings are an essential component of many motorcycles and designed to improve aerodynamics and stability of a bike. For a student diploma project on the aerodynamics of a motorcycle fairing, the project team, consisting of KTM employees Martin Herzog, Alexander Hladik, and Christian Fernsebner, worked closely with Altair, specifically Altair’s Student Ambassador at the TU Munich,…