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Greetings,
HEEDS has been making headlines as a powerful solution for design
exploration. Our customers have been using its technology to win
contracts and discover better designs, faster. Below are a few recent
stories. Keep reading to learn more about exciting HEEDS
happenings.
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Endress+Hauser Drives Innovation
 Endress+Hauser,
a global leader in flow measurement technology recently used
SHERPA, Red Cedar's hybrid-adaptive design search algorithm, to
discover an innovative new design for a flow conditioner for
turbulent flows. Vivek Kumar, the engineer who conducted the CFD
simulation and design exploration work, was awarded his company's
Process Innovation Award. Endress+Hauser has a patent pending on
the new design. Congratulations to Endress+Hauser! Their findings
were presented at the MDX seminar in Zurich last month.
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UTC Improves Thrust Reverser
Performance
 Typical
commercial aircraft with high bypass engines feature cascade type
reversers to safely slow the aircraft during landing. The design of
these complex devices is usually performed manually using lengthy
CFD analyses complemented by expensive scale model and full scale
testing during which more than a dozen parameters are iteratively
optimized over the course of several years. A novel approach was
presented at the 2015 STAR Conference using design exploration on a
2D axisymmetric CFD model. SHERPA was applied to automatically
iterate on the key design parameters to identify high performing
designs. This process eliminates the need for lengthy CAD design
manual interaction, and is anticipated to significantly reduce the
length and cost of the design and test process. See
upcoming webinar on this approach.
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HEEDS Drives Electric Motor Design
 HEEDS
is being used more and more to improve the performance of DC motors
by automatically identifying best choices for the myriad design
parameters. This eliminates the tedious trial & error work
performed in the past and allows engineers to squeeze maximum power
out of smaller, less expensive motors for consumer products,
hybrid-electric vehicles, and military applications. Recent
customer successes have included HEEDS linked with both SPEED from
CD-adapco and JMAG from JSOL. For more information, see
the recording of the recent webinar on optimizing vehicle drive
cycle performance.
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HEEDS MDO 2015.04 Now Available
A new version of HEEDS MDO was officially released on 4/27/2014. To
download a copy, please login to our Customer
Portal with your credentials and choose HEEDS MDO 2015.04 from
the Software and Documentation window. This release includes new
portals to third-party software as well as enhancements to
facilitate process automation, scalable computation, efficient
search, and results interpretation (i.e., data mining). For further
information regarding this release, please view the Release
Notes.
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 Redeveloped Calculator
The calculator functionality in HEEDS MDO has been redeveloped
using Python. The new calculator implementation provides
significant enhancements over the previous releases. These new
enhancements allow you to setup complex formulas with ease without
requiring use of an external script or tool. Read
more...
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 Logic in Process
Definition
The process definition now provides support for the use of logic to
drive the flow in the analysis process. One or more conditions can
be defined at the analysis level to control whether an analysis
will be attempted. Several scenarios that would have required
specialized external scripts to capture the desired process
behavior are now easily handled with this feature. Read
more...
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 Ron
Averill is one of the founders of Red Cedar Technology and a
continuing contributor to our training programs. Ron takes the time
to provide some thought-provoking ideas on expanding the usage of
design exploration.
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Optimizing the Number and Location of
Design Features
Recent advances in process automation and optimization search
technology have made it easier than ever to perform automated design
studies and discover innovative solutions. But we still have to
define the problem we want to solve and then decide how to represent
that problem in our models. These two tasks are sometimes
challenging, and they rely heavily on experience and intuition. In
this article as well as some future ones, we will share some of our
experience in defining and representing various types of optimization
problems. Hopefully you will find some of these techniques useful in
your applications. Read
more...
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Discover Better Designs, Faster
Workshop
6/18: Newark, CA
More info
Webinar: Improving Thrust Reverser Performance Through Design
Exploration
6/18: Online
More info
Webinar: Better Products Faster through Multidisciplinary Design
Exploration
6/25: Online
More info
MSC 2015 Ground Vehicle & Heavy Machinery Industry
Conference
9/16-17: Troy, MI
More
info
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Tapping into the Unknowns Using
HEEDS and Cloud Computing
Did you miss the
webinar on how to perform large CFD design exploration? Trek
Bicycle is creating a disruptive shift in a traditional product
development approach with integration of HEEDS, STAR-CCM+ and
Rescale. Trek engineers are identifying high performing design
concepts with cutting edge exploration techniques while gaining new
analytic insights at an unprecedented pace. Watch
now!
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We look forward to our
continued relationship on helping you discover better designs, faster with HEEDS.
 Sincerely,
Val Townsend
Marketing Manager
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