While working on a project for a television program,
several-times-over Gadget Freak John Tindall started tinkering with a pulsejet
engine. Pulsejet engines were used by the Germans during WWII. The technology was
left behind by turbofan jets. But Tindall found the pulsejet well-suited to garage
- and Gadget Freak - tinkering. Apparently there is a wide community of
hobbyists playing with pulsejets at home. Tindall came up with a cyclonic-valve
radial design that makes for smoother airflow. He proved the concept with
plastic and aluminum valves - but the gadget backfired and blew up. Next step, a
steel model...
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Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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