Released CAESES 4.0

FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS has released version 4.0 of its upfront modeling and opti­miza­tion software CAESES® and CAESES Free. 

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Simple, Clear, Wonderful!

With version 4.0, ​“CAESES®/FRIENDSHIP-Framework” is now simply called CAESES®. Along with the new brand we also intro­duce new logos and new cor­po­rate colors, as well as a redesigned graph­i­cal user inter­face. We at FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS are sure that you will really love it! 

Make the Dif­fer­ence — Quick!

The new ​“Free Form Defor­ma­tion” capa­bil­i­ties of the pro edition of CAESES® allow you to quickly and intu­itively apply shape mod­i­fi­ca­tions to your existing geome­tries. You can choose from a set of various oper­a­tions that are applied to your geometry data (e.g. surfaces & volume meshes) in a user-defined 3D range that are spec­i­fied by flexible boxes. This per­fectly com­ple­ments the great para­met­ric modeling power of CAESES® and makes it the uni­ver­sal tool for any sim­u­la­tion-driven shape opti­miza­tion task. 

Hello Dakota!

Driven by several customer requests, CAESES® now comes with direct and seamless access to the free opti­miza­tion toolkit Dakota. You can choose from a set of pre-con­fig­ured methods such as sen­si­tiv­ity analysis and response surface based opti­miza­tions. Fur­ther­more, you can readily load your own cus­tomized Dakota input files into CAESES® to run Dakota with your pre­ferred strate­gies. The entire powerful method set of Dakota can be accessed and managed through CAESES® — what a nice sym­bio­sis… check out this short video. 

Amazing Charts!

For all our vari­a­tion and opti­miza­tion strate­gies (i.e. not only for Dakota) a new widget has been intro­duced that shows a dynamic matrix of charts for visu­al­iz­ing trends and cor­re­la­tions. With these new colorful charts, you imme­di­ately get a good overall picture of the effects of your design vari­ables and the status of your current run process. The charts are updated after each iter­a­tion, and designs can also be inter­ac­tively picked from the result­ing charts. 

Even Greater Blade Designs!

We really love blades! Hence, with version 4.0, we’ve spent a lot of energy to further improve the quality and the gen­er­a­tion time of your modeled blade shapes. The entire design process — starting with a smart para­met­ric profile, up to your fully para­met­ric and variable 3D blade shape — has been reviewed to give you the very best and most flexible blade design tool in the CFD com­mu­nity. Read more about cen­trifu­gal and axial blade design. 

Make the Best Out of Your Time!

Simply pause your studies and opti­miza­tion runs when closing a project — the run will now be con­tin­ued as soon as you open up the project again. Fur­ther­more, if you use the SSH resource manager of CAESES®, you can hand over the opti­miza­tion task to this manager and close your project. The resource manager then con­tin­ues the run and sends back all of the requested data when you open your project again. While the resource manager is taking care of every­thing, you can either work on other CAESES® projects, or simply dive into the weekend. There is also a first version of new noti­fi­ca­tions that can be auto­mat­i­cally sent from running design engines to your email address — or even to your mobile phone via push messages (check out this post here). 

What Else?

So many fan­tas­tic new things have happened in version 4.0! All details and changes can be found in our changes log:

Changes Log