Simulation

Simulation

Altair simulation-driven design changed product development forever, enabling engineers to reduce design iterations and prototype testing. Increasing scientific computing power expanded the opportunity to apply analysis, making large design studies possible within the timing constraints of a program. Now engineering adoption of AI is transforming product development again. The combination of physics-based simulation-driven design with machine learning, leveraging the latest in high-performance computing, enables teams to explore more and identify high-potential designs – while rejecting low-potential concepts – even earlier in development cycles.

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Converging Technology for a Smarter, More Connected World

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Structural Analysis and Optimization

Structural Analysis and Optimization

Altair offers industry-leading structural engineering analysis and optimization tools from simulation-driven design concepts to detailed virtual product validation, and simplified modeling workflows to advanced high-fidelity model building. Whether big or small, our customers trust their decision making to Altair, the pioneer of simulation-driven design and structural optimization technologies.

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Electronic System Design

Electronic System Design

Electronic system design has an increasingly greater influence on almost every type of product requiring new simulation tools to help achieve electronic, electrical, mechanical, thermal, and connectivity goals. Altair enables your team to collaborate across all aspects of device development from concept to manufacturing. Altair products streamline processes, eliminate design iterations, and reduce time-to-market.

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Fluid Dynamics & Thermal Management

Fluid Dynamics and Thermal Management

Whether you’re an analyst performing advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling or a design engineer who quickly needs to understand the thermal effects of a design proposal, Altair offers a complete line of tools to support your project. From detailed component analysis to full systems performance, Altair provides a range of scalable solvers and robust pre- and post-processing.

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Simulation-driven Design

When used early in the design process, simulation empowers a broad exploration of design solutions that are high-performing, manufacturable, and sustainable.

Altair® Inspire™

Accelerate simulation-driven design
When used early in the design process, Inspire empowers the users to create designs that achieve better performance and manufacturability by offering a single intuitive user experience to simulate, explore, develop, and optimize products. A unique set of simulation tools ensure production efficiency and optimize material usage for many manufacturing processes.

Altair® HyperWorks™

Driving more design with simulation
The new HyperWorks experience enables teams to move efficiently from physics to physics, domain to domain, and even create reports without leaving a model. It delivers the next generation of market-leading Altair® HyperMesh®, Altair® HyperGraph®, and Altair® HyperView® functionality to the analyst’s desktop.

Altair® SimLab™

Multiphysics workflows with CAD associativity
SimLab provides highly automated workflows to drastically reduce the time spent creating finite element models and interpreting results for product engineers across multiple physics including structural analysis, thermal management, and fluid dynamics.

Altair® SimSolid™

Structural analysis for rapid design iterations
SimSolid enables customers to accurately test more ideas during each design iteration by performing structural analysis on fully featured CAD assemblies within minutes. It delivers game-changing solution times while eliminating geometry preparation and meshing.

Altair Material Data Center, a high-fidelity material database for simulation

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A History of Solving the Most Challenging Problems

Altairians are compelled by curiosity and a deep desire to look beyond the horizon for new insights, ideas, and possibilities, to drive the engineering innovations of the future.​​

Altair® OptiStruct™

Optimization-enabled structural analysis
For more than two decades, OptiStruct topology optimization has driven the lightweight and structurally efficient designs of products you see and use every day. Introduced in 1994, OptiStruct solves both linear and nonlinear problems using an enhanced proprietary version of NASTRAN and a modern proprietary nonlinear formulation developed and maintained by Altair.

Altair® Radioss™

Product performance under dynamic loadings
For more than 30 years, Radioss has been an industry leader for automotive crash and safety, shock and impact analysis, drop test, terminal ballistic, blast and explosion effects, and high-velocity impacts. Radioss is a powerful multiphysics solver with optimization-ready integrations with other Altair tools and third-party solutions.

Altair® Feko®

Solving connectivity, compatibility, and radar challenges
Feko has been a leader in high-frequency electromagnetic simulation for more than 20 years and provides parallelized solvers to design products for an increasingly connected world, enabling teams to optimize wireless connectivity, including 5G, ensure electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), and perform radar cross section (RCS) and scattering analysis.

Altair® DesignAI™

Cloud native, transformative, AI- and simulation-driven design
Altair DesignAI transforms engineering decision-making by combining physics-based simulation-driven design and machine learning-based AI-powered design to create high-potential designs earlier in development cycles. Augment product development practices with AI technology to explore a broader population of customer pleasing, high performing, meaningful, and manufacturable new product design alternatives.

Meaningful Models

The right model, for the right decision, at the right time.

Relevant and timely models for concept design, product engineering, and detailed analysis need different levels of complexity and data. Altair understands the requirements of meaningful models throughout a program and across disciplines to increase decision-making confidence and speed by enabling product performance target exploration, trade-off evaluations, and ‘what if’ studies.

By combining computationally efficient reduced-order models and detailed CAE analysis with process automation of repetitive and tedious tasks, Altair provides workflows for early system models, to mixed-fidelity simulations and multiphysics validations, across domains including electrification or advanced manufacturing.

Physics-based simulation-driven design augmented with machine learning-based AI-powered design has the potential to create high-potential designs earlier in development cycles. Altair DesignAI enables organizations to scale existing expertise and realize the value of archived simulation data to solve the most challenging design and engineering problems faster.

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What is 5G and why are there so many new antennas?

There’s no questioning the hype around 5G. The buzz around a faster and more connected future is exciting, but for many product designers, the exact definition of the term 5G isn’t totally clear.

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Altair and Rolls-Royce Germany Join Forces to Converge Artificial Intelligence and Engineering

The Altair and Rolls-Royce Germany collaboration will address a wide variety of use cases, including applying data science to the vast amounts of engineering testing data, which can lead to a significantly reduced number of sensors needed.

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What is the Discrete Element Method (DEM)?

This eBook describes the theoretical background behind the Discrete Element Method (DEM) - a particle-scale numerical method for modeling the bulk behavior of granular materials and many geomaterials such as coal, ores, soil, rocks, aggregates, pellets, tablets and powders. The following topics are covered: - Modeling Approaches - DEM Background - Particle Motion Calculations - Time Steps - Interaction Models - Contact Detection - Particle Shapes - Material Calibration - Geometries in DEM - Coupling DEM with other CAE tools

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Designer Oriented Software - Is it Accurate?

Ian Symington of NAFEMS investigates the accuracy of Altair SimSolid through a series of eight analysis benchmarks. Article originally published in Benchmark Magazine by NAFEMS, the International Association for the Engineering Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Community. Find out more at nafems.org.

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