InsightCAE – The Idea

In order to use open source software productive and efficient for everyday tasks, the analysis automation framework Insight CAE is provided by silentdynamics.

Insight CAE serves as a framework for the implementation of analysis procedures. The objective is to provide interfaces to the tools and simulation programs that are needed for a specific computing task.

• Client customized CFD/FEM workflow’s
• No license costs, benefit for many users and parallel processing
• For Windows / Linux systems
• HPC / Cloud support

Our additional services:

• Introduction to the use of the design software in the context of training
• Providing support and contact persons for the resolution of problems
• Implementation of application-specific extensions and automation solutions

Individual open source projects often meet only subtasks in analysis process. To automate repetitive computational tasks, a combination of several open source engineering software tools is often required.

• Common practice in numerical simulations is a manual workflow
  
  InsightCAE provides tools to automate simulation workflows:
  
• A best practice can be stored for reoccurring tasks
• The user only needs to provide a minimum number of parameters
• A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided to edit parameters and see the workflow documentation

We use these open source engineering programs:

OpenFOAM the most comprehensive free computational fluid dynamics program that is currently available.

It has all the features that are necessary for a successful application of computational fluid dynamics. On top of that the source code is completely open and it is entirely free of charge. In conjunction with the good parallel scalability, this opens up great potential for increasing productivity and design safety with simultaneous cost reduction.

The focus of OpenFOAM is on computational fluid dynamics. But through the open and modular architecture, the software is also ideal for solving other tasks, such as calculation of electric and magnetic fields. In particular, highly customized solutions can be developed excellently by the limitless customization possibilities of an open source software.

Code_Aster is the structural analysis program of Électricité de France (EDF). Since 2001, it is available under GPL license for free software.

Compared with other free FEM programs, Code_Aster stands out with its pretty complete functionality. In addition to the numerical solver which works both in serial and parallelized, there is the pre- and postprocessing Workbench „Salome“ for editing, meshing and visualizing the models and results.

Since Code_Aster is developed and used for the calculation of nuclear reactors, the code is subject to a comprehensive quality control, which is another unique property.

The special software architecture of Code_Aster enables extensive automation of all calculation processes

Please see our presentation for more details: