Since the first FEA solver, Nastran, was developed for NASA in the 1960s, the simulation software industry has contended with a number of hurdles. For one, while the software (FEA, CFD, CEM) is ...

David Wheeler is often credited with the following aphorism: “All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." Too often, Wheeler is misquoted, and software engineers ...

There’s nothing new about testing and analyzing product prototypes virtually. Finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), collectively CAE, have been around for years.

Nvidia announced that Nvidia Blackwell hardware will accelerate by 50 times the big computer-aided software engineering firms’ software for digital twins. The vendors include Ansys, Altair, Cadence, ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. In a world of ever-fast-changing cloud-based applications, an augmented approach to application ...

Swiss artificial intelligence startup Neural Concept SA said today it has raised $100 million in funding to rethink how products are designed and engineered with computer-aided design software tools.

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...