AltaSim Technologies guides engineers through multiphysics simulations so they can bring their products to market more rapidly, at a lower cost and with an optimized design. To help see how working with AtlaSim impacts our clients, we have put together brief case studies of how our simulation gurus provided a unique solution in recent projects.
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Design of New Gas Reactor for Energy Industry
AltaSim’s client was developing a new gas reactor. To improve their design, the client’s engineers conducted experiments combined with simulation. But, because the simulations were developed by a graduate student at a university, the simulation development progressed slowly and simulation results did not compare well with the experiments......
Wireless Charging of Medical Devices
One of AltaSim’s clients was developing a new wireless implantable medical device that needed to be recharged wirelessly through the skin. Our client’s engineers were concerned about meeting FDA requirements for tissue heating during recharging......
Heat Transfer in Large-Scale Manufacturing
One of AltaSim’s clients produces bulk materials used by high-tech industries, where heat treatment represents a critical step in their process. AltaSim’s client produces electrical components using electroplating processes. The heat treatment of our client’s designs could not maintain the needed material temperature and resulted in an 80% scrap rate....
Electroplating of Electrical Components
AltaSim’s client produces electrical components using electroplating processes. They struggled to develop an electroplating process for a new product and were rapidly approaching their production launch deadline. Due to the lack of a qualified electroplating process, they had missed multiple milestones......
Electronics Cooling
AltaSim's client, who has significant experience using COMSOL Multiphysics simulations to design acoustic components, needed to include a high-power electronics component for a new product line. The client’s engineers were unsure how to simulate the heat transfer. Needing to finalize the design within six weeks, the engineering team became frustrated by their lack of progress.....
Geothermal Energy System
The engineering group of one of AltaSim's clients wanted to quickly explore the design space of a new geothermal energy plant with simulation, without very limited experience......
Heat Transfer in HVAC Ducts
A client of AltaSim’s was challenged with delivering a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning solution for a mission-critical system in the desert with precise specifications in a shorter than typical time frame....
Muffler Acoustics
A client of AltaSim designs and produces muffler products and wanted to reduce exhaust noise by modifying the muffler design without impacting the performance of the engine...
FDA Submission for Medical Device Design
One of AltaSim’s clients is developing a breakthrough medical device for the assessment of orthopedic implants. As with most medical devices, this requires approval by the Food and Drug Administration....
Energy Recovery Ventilators
A client of AltaSim’s needed to develop a new design for an energy recovery ventilator to meet LEED standards for green buildings....
Thermally Driven Structural Deformations
A client of AltaSim’s experienced unplanned plant downtime due to excessive deformation of a mission-critical structure in their chemical processing facility.
Wireless Charging for Medical Devices
A client of AltaSim’s was developing a rapidly charging wireless system for implanted medical devices. The engineers designing this system needed to balance induced current and the health of the patient....
Wellhead Sensor Design
A client of AltaSim’s was using electromagnetic fields to develop a new sensor design to measure the oil, water and gas in a fluid flowing through a wellhead. Understanding that the oil and gas industry needed better measurement capabilities....
Electromagnetic Sensor Design
A client of AltaSim’s was developing a new sensor design using electromagnetic fields to measure the conductivity of sea water.....
Molten Salt Pump for Green Energy
A client of AltaSim’s was developing a pump design for molten salt. Molten salt provides an excellent energy source capacity for solar power plants.....
Radio Frequency Heart Catheter
A client of AltaSim’s was developing a new heart catheter device to treat atrial fibrillation. The device uses many electrodes to ablate tissue.....
Manufacturing Machine Design
A client of AltaSim’s is developing machinery for a novel manufacturing method they’re implementing that includes operating at high temperatures.....
Communication Satellites
A client of AltaSim’s designs and manufactures products that are used in communication satellites. Molten salt provides an excellent energy source capacity for solar power plants....
Catalytic Reactor Simulation
A client of AltaSim’s designs and manufactures systems that convert gas into multiple products through a catalytic reactor. The reactor produces a synthesis reaction from gas flowing through a porous catalytic media......
Air Treatment Systems
One of AltaSim’s clients designs and manufactures automated continuous UV-C air treatment systems. The company’s systems treat contaminated air that is an invisible threat to patients......
Designing Gas Cylinders
One of AltaSim’s clients designs and manufactures cylinders that contain high pressure gases. Their cylinders are manufactured to the highest safety and quality standards while maintaining portability. Our client was in the middle of a cylinder design project when a regulatory agency introduced.....
Transformers
One of AltaSim’s clients designs and manufactures transformers, inductors and power supplies for industrial applications. The company has extensive experience in developing their products for military, electrostatic precipitators and oil & gas applications. Many of their products generate significant heat....
Wafer Manufacturing
One of AltaSim’s clients supplies process control equipment for the manufacturing of electronics components that are used in everyday products like personal computers, cell phone and hybrid cars. They were working with one of their customers to develop a new manufacturing process for electronics packaging. The process included heating the packaging.........
Acoustics
One of AltaSim’s recent clients struggled to develop unique transportation solutions for urban environments. The product includes an array of acoustic sensors to assess the surrounding urban conditions to safely navigate on city streets. The physical prototypes did not provide the expected response, and our client had a short time-window to develop an improved design for field testing.....
Factory Heat
One of AltaSim's recent clients is a manufacturer that uses heat treatment in their factory. The outdoor air temperature can reach 100 ⁰F in the summer. The indoor air temperature often exceeds 120 ⁰F during these months. The plant manager has spent approximately $500,000 improving the HVAC system for the factory without much success in decreasing the air temperature....
Manufacturing BNNTs
Epic Advanced Materials (Epic), one of AltaSim's clients, is developing manufacturing methods to produce Boron Nitride Nanotubes (BNNTs) in significantly greater volume and a much lower cost than current manufacturing methods can produce. The manufacturing method is complex, with many input parameters, and Epic desired to develop a better understanding of the effects of these parameters on the manufacturing process...
Electronics Cooling and Processor Placement
One of AltaSim's recent clients develops electronics components with high-speed processors. They are developing a new version of an existing product that has a smaller form factor. To accommodate this change in geometry, our client needed to move the processor to a new location within the component, that could reduce the air flow around the processor...
Optimizing Manufacturing Processes
One of AltaSim's recent clients develops optical devices that include a thin film coating on a glass lens. This coating modifies the element's reflection and /or transmission to change the optical performance of the component. During manufacturing, our client experienced high cracking rates and excessive distortion in some lenses...
Simulating Sensor Arrays
One of AltaSim's recent clients develops sensor arrays for locating resources in a complex background environment. Recent experiments showed that combining multiple sensor arrays operating on different physics significantly improved the accuracy of the sensor arrays...
Manufacturing Ovens
One of AltaSim's recent clients manufactures lithium-ion batteries components used in automobiles. Our client is increasing its manufacturing capabilities by adding additional ovens. They were unsure about the cooling rate in the last stage of the ovens...
Electromagnetic Component Prototype
One of AltaSim's recent clients designs and manufactures components for high-conductivity electrical power applications. The customer required a custom product design that met or exceeded a stringent requirement on inductance...
Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations by AltaSim
One of AltaSim's recent clients is designing a hydraulic actuator pumping system. The system has many moving parts and the flow depends on the interaction and deformation of these parts...
Radio Frequency Simulations for Long Distance Communications
One of AltaSim’s recent clients is designing a device that floats in the ocean and communicates with ships located kilometers away. The client wanted to be confident their antenna design would enable transmission even when the buoy was in rough seas...
CFD Simulation to Demonstrate Advantages of Client’s Product
One of AltaSim’s recent clients is working to develop technology to flow a unique fluid through a piping system. They are seeking to expand their market share and need accurate data to present to their customers...
