Huygens Engineers performs contract calculations and contract simulations
During the process of development, design, and engineering, we perform advanced calculations and simulations in the following areas:
- Mechanics, including finite element analysis (FEA)
- Heat transfer (thermal simulations)
- Fluid dynamics (Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD)
- Electromagnetism
Building interfaces between different software programs, advanced postprocessing, and programming are regular parts of our work.
Paradoxically, all advanced modelling starts with analytical insight. This gives us a starting point for a design, an expected result from advanced methods, and helps us understand what drives a design. For more detailed insights that require more work and yield more accurate results, we perform numerous calculations and simulations. The extent of this varies per project.
In addition, we carry out contract calculations and contract simulations directly for clients.
Our expertise
- One of the largest ANSYS Mechanical Enterprise CFD Maxwell 3D licenses in the Netherlands: This allows us to perform coupled simulations in the fields of mechanics, fluid dynamics, and electromagnetics.
- Our own Windows compute cluster: With 384 GB RAM and 36 cores for computationally intensive simulations.
Software commonly used for calculations and simulations:
- Altair Fluxmotor
- Altair Embed
- ANSYS Mechanical Enterpise & Pro
- ANSYS CFD (Fluent, CFX, ICEM)
- ANSYS Maxwell 3D
- Kisssoft
- MathCad
- MatLab
- Phase to phase Vision
- Python
- SolidWorks Simulate & Motion
Configuration software
For mature designs we develop software to help engineers validate applications in the areas of service life, strength, and heat dissipation. This software is typically designed to run autonomously using languages like Python or .NET. The core of the software may utilize analytical methods or be based on custom 2D FEM simulations.
OUR SIMULATIONS
Mechanical
- Strength, stress and strain
- Fatigue calculations and damage calculations with complex loads
- Buckling analysis
- Modal analysis and harmonic response
- Geometry optimization
- Effect of tolerance spread on component-performance
- Body dynamics
- Writing software for cases that cannot be solved in standard simulation environments
Heat and fluid-dynamic
- Flow modeling and flow calculations
- Optimizing cooling and heating
- Acoustic numerical simulations
Electromagnetic
- Magnetic brake
- Reluctance motors and effect of moving electromagnets on toothed geometry
- Topology comparison for electromagnetic actuation
- Design of motors, actuators and generators
