Freeform Defor­ma­tion: Preview

Coming up soon: With the next major release, FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS will provide the first version of its freeform defor­ma­tion, greatly com­ple­ment­ing the existing shift trans­for­ma­tions of CAESES. This new func­tion­al­ity allows users of CAESES to easily deform imported CAD geome­tries and CAE data such as volume meshes. Nat­u­rally, the design vari­ables of such a user-defined trans­for­ma­tion can be con­trolled by the vari­a­tion and opti­miza­tion engines of CAESES, for con­duct­ing fully-auto­mated shape studies.

Defor­ma­tions can addi­tion­ally be used in con­junc­tion with adjoint sen­si­tiv­i­ties, in order to find the most impor­tant defor­ma­tion vari­ables. Check out this case study which is related to mapping geometry para­me­ters to adjoint sensitivities.