SimScale

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About SimScale

SimScale is a cloud-native solution for fluid flow, structural, and thermal engineering simulation (CFD & FEA) that works end-to-end in a standard web browser. From CAD geometry upload and meshing to simulation setup and post-processing, the entire process for virtually testing a design happens online, with no installation or special hardware required.

Fluid flow (CFD) simulations allow for laminar and turbulent flow modeling, mass transport, and cavitation plus support for multi-phase, steady-state, and transient setups. Structural simulations (FEA) provide linear, nonlinear, static dynamic, modal, and frequency analysis for stress and deformations. Heat transfer analysis supports conduction, convection, and radiation to understand temperature and heat flux, plus thermal stress and conjugate heat transfer between fluids and structures.

Aside from its intuitive UI and modeling environment and rich graphical rendering, SimScale also provides collaboration tools enabling multiple designers and engineers to work on given projects regardless of their locations. SimScale also offers access to a wider public community where users can simulate and share within a user base of over 300,000 engineering professionals, leveraging existing public templates to create new simulation projects.


Key benefits of SimScale

No Special Hardware: Being a 100% cloud-native solution, SimScale can save you tens of thousands in cost compared to an on-premises hardware investment.
No Installation and No Maintenance Required: You only need a standard laptop or PC and internet connection to run complex, high-fidelity physics simulations. SimScale takes care of software updates and you are always using the most recent version.

Easy Setup and Use: On-premises simulation tools are usually complex and difficult to learn. SimScale focuses on ease of access and use. In addition, with the help of ready-to-use simulation templates in the Public Projects Library, you don't have to start an analysis from scratch.

Process Compression—From Weeks to Minutes: The benefits of cloud-native simulation include the ability to run multiple simulations at the same time, allowing parallel design exploration, with each simulation able to access up to 96-core machines.

Multiphysics in One: SimScale includes flow, thermal, and structural physics simulations all in one platform. Perform separate fluid flow or thermal physics simulations on one model, or analyze conjugate heat transfer or thermal stress.

Seamless Collaboration: Global teams can easily collaborate on their simulation projects in real-time, online.

World-class Support: The SimScale support team is considered one of the main factors that set it apart from the competition. Our experienced team of engineers is happy to answer any of your questions in real-time in the simulation platform, or via email, phone, or chat.


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Value for Money
4.5/5
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Ease of Use
4.3/5
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Siddhant
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

SimScale "all upto Scale"

Reviewed on 2022/11/28

Pros

The ability to create the flow region inside the software itself without extraction of it manually.

Cons

The 3D dynamic flow areas and the rotational area are a bit confusing to understand in the beginning with the reference content that is available.

Stewart
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  • Industry: Food Production
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Good for Thermal Mass Transfer and High Velocity Gas Flow Analysis

Reviewed on 2023/03/14

I have improved, explained, or discounted a number of my designs with the help of SimScale....

I have improved, explained, or discounted a number of my designs with the help of SimScale. SimScale's strength is in CFD and Thermal Analysis.

Pros

Good support, tutorials and worked examples. SimScale is quite good for the casual user and the mathematics is well hidden. The default Numerics seem to work most of the time.

Cons

In my opinion the software is still a work in progress, especially the interface, but this is good in a way because there are always new improvements appearing.If the CFD default Numerics do not work the settings can quickly confuse and without support from the Simscale Support team I would worry. To increase the user base of CFD someone has to come up with more obvious terms and explanations in this space, e.g. when is it best to use Gauss Linear Limited Corrected instead of Gauss Linear Corrected? This is true of most CFD tools that I have experienced.

Hank
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  • Industry: Research
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

2 week review

Reviewed on 2023/05/25

Pros

Easy of use and deployment. Was up and running under a week and was able to grasp most features well enough to get good data and improve on design.

Cons

Web program is slow on retrieving data and need more live log or progress bar for its background processes.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

All around support

Reviewed on 2019/08/02

Pros

It supports all types of 3D models and can be used from anywhere since it is cloud-based.

Cons

In the beginning, it is not very intuitive. Complicated simulations can become too much for the software.

Michael
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  • Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Easy to learn, even without previous FEA experience

Reviewed on 2019/07/26

I am an electrical engineer by training and don't routinely use FEA software in my current role....

I am an electrical engineer by training and don't routinely use FEA software in my current role. However, I had a problem that needed solving, no access to any other FEA packages, so I found SimScale. I probably won't be able to justify a fully licensed version, but the learning opportunity alone on the trial version is well worth your time investment.

The ease of use and how quickly I was able to run a basic simulation was amazing. Even importing geometry was easy.

Also very helpful is the ability to see how your solution is converging (or not). With that data you can make assessments about time step, mesh resolution, etc. It makes striking a balance between accuracy and computational intensity much easier to judge.

Pros

The online tutorials made this software very easy to gain a basic proficiency very quickly. The menu layout makes it easy to set simulation parameters and reduces the chance of missing something that will negatively impact the accuracy of your simulation.

Cons

So far I've found nothing that I don't like.

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SimScale FAQs

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SimScale offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$0.00
  • Pricing model: Free Version
  • Free Trial: Available

FREE trial available Price provided on demand Additional costs include SimScale Professional Training, Proof of Concept, SimScale Coaching and extra Core Hours.

SimScale has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

SimScale supports the following languages:

English

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SimScale integrates with the following applications:

Autodesk CFD, CFturbo, Onshape, RhinoCAM

SimScale offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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