News – FIFTY2 Technology

Meet us at simpulseday!

March 18, 2019March 19, 2019
by Thomas Konrat

As part of this year’s Automotive CAE Grand Challenge, we will give a presentation at simpulseday on April 16 2019 in Hanau, Germany.

The simpulseday will give an overview about upcoming requirements and the latest technologies as well as best practice examples. The interactive session will derive methodological gaps as a basis for research and the development of new simulation methods.

We will demonstrate how to predict rain water flow in a vehicle with our implicit Lagrangian solver in PreonLab!

Interested? Come and join us now !

Events

AVL Hands-On Workshop: Virtual Watermanagement with PreonLab

March 13, 2019
by Thomas Konrat

AVL and FIFTY2 organize free Hands-On-Workshops about virtual water management with PreonLab.

Besides giving you an insight on the different, diverse applications used by our clients, we want to show you the intuitive handling of our software with a specific example:

Hands-On Use Case: Virtual Water Wading

Water wading is a demanding challenge for a simulation with traditional CFD methods. In this workshop you will not only learn how meshless simulations with PreonLab enable to cope with these tasks efficiently, but you will also be given the opportunity to generate such a simulation model yourself.
You will experience how the combination of efficient preprocessing and high performance gives you the opportunity to make ideal designing decisions.

Learn more about the innovative simulation solution PreonLab and gain insights in new fields of applications that our software gives you.

Attendees of the workshops will receive a test license, giving them the possibility to actively participate and subsequently explore the software independently.

Convince yourself how easy it is to receive significant results in next to no time! Grab your seat now, as the amount of participants in these free workshops is limited!

The workshops will take place in:

Stuttgart, March 26 2019

Munich, March 28 2019

Wolfsburg, April 4 2019

Events

Live AVL Webinar: February 14, 2019

February 6, 2019March 13, 2019
by Jens Cornelis

Accelerate your development through virtual water management

Efficient and safe water management is a critical aspect of the vehicle development process. Learn how virtual prototyping can greatly contribute in terms of design variations, shape optimization, and wetting prevention.

PreonLab Updates

PreonLab 3.2 Released

November 21, 2018March 22, 2019
by Marc Gissler

PreonLab 3.2 is here! Besides numerous smaller improvements, this release also includes major innovations that open up new applications and new workflows:

Implicit viscosity solver: The new (optional) solver is capable of simulating highly viscous fluids at large timesteps and superior performance.
Optimized post-processing: PreonLab 3.2 greatly reduces the system requirements for post-processing and improves overall responsiveness of the user interface for large scenes.
Keyframe spline interpolation: The new interpolation method significantly reduces the effort to generate smooth interpolation between keyframes and makes defining kinematics even easier than before.
Unified Area source with cone support: All two-dimensional fluid sources are now unified into one. The new versatile Area source also introduces a conical emission shape.

Read more “PreonLab 3.2 Released” →

PreonLab Updates

PreonLab 3.1 Released

August 7, 2018March 22, 2019
by Jens Cornelis

We are proud to anounce the release of PreonLab 3.1. Without further ado, here is why you want to update to PreonLab 3.1 as soon as possible:

New viscosity model: The new default viscosity model combines the strengths of the different previous models into one and delivers realistic results on all resolution scales.
New rigid body solver: The new experimental solver brings key ideas behind the PREON fluid solver to rigid body dynamics.
Improved renderer: Preon renderer now supports a wide range of materials like steel, rubber or glass.
Improved thermodynamics solver: Added MPI support, resolution-independent diffusion model and better free-surface handling.
Improved usability: PreonLab has never been more fun to use.

Please note that with PreonLab 3.1, we have updated our toolchain and now provide unified binaries for Linux distributions.
Read more “PreonLab 3.1 Released” →

PreonLab Updates

PreonLab 3.0 Released

April 27, 2018March 22, 2019
by Marc Gissler

PreonLab 3.0 released

Three years ago, FIFTY2 was founded under the premise to bring the revolutionary PREON® fluid solver from university to industry. Today, this dream has become reality – PreonLab has found adoption by engineers around the world. Now, it is time to look ahead and open up PreonLab for more applications. PreonLab 3.0 is by far the most transformative update yet and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you.

An extract from the extensive list of new features in PreonLab 3.0:

Distributed computation: PreonLab becomes MPI capable – use clusters for even faster simulation results.
Additional simulation capability: add thermodynamics and evaporation models to your simulation.
Improved water wading simulation: increased reliability by taking into account the vehicle suspension.
Improved workflow: an entirely redesigned Playback and Simulation control and improved connection editor improves the workflow.

Read more “PreonLab 3.0 Released” →

Events

Hands-on workshop Virtual Water Management

March 14, 2018March 14, 2018
by Jens Cornelis

AVL and FIFTY2 Technology invite for a free hands-on workshop in Munich.

Experience how fast and easy it is to get significant simulation results with PreonLab: Join our free hands-on workshop on Virtual Water Management on April 11 in Munich. Get insights into the application range of PreonLab and the various opportunities this simulation tool offers. Register now and be part of the simulation community: more info and registration

PreonLab Updates

PreonLab 2.3 Released

December 14, 2017March 22, 2019
by Marc Gissler

PreonLab 2.3 released

It has been a great year for PreonLab – what better way to celebrate than by releasing a new version? PreonLab 2.3 marks the final update before the next major version and brings more powerful post-processing, improved usability and many refinements, addressing some of your most pressing feedback. Some of the most prominent new features are:

Sensor mesh:: Measure fluid attributes on arbitrarily shaped surfaces.
Improved usability: A redesigned message area and cleaned-up on-screen-display.
Better rain source: Rain drops with randomly varying diameters.

Read more “PreonLab 2.3 Released” →

PreonLab Updates

PreonLab 2.2 Released

September 12, 2017March 22, 2019
by Marc Gissler

We are proud to announce the release of PreonLab 2.2. It introduces new post-processing and export capabilities that will allow you to get more information out of your simulations. Furthermore, we added a much-requested new type of fluid source and extended the Python interface for more versatile scripting. Finally, PreonLab 2.2 introduces many usability improvements as a direct result of your feedback.

Read more “PreonLab 2.2 Released” →

Events

Meet us at the AVL International Simulation Conference 2017

June 9, 2017June 9, 2017
by Jens Cornelis

FIFTY2 will be attending the AVL International Simulation Conference 2017. We cordially invite you to join us on June 27-29, 2017 in Graz, Austria. We will be part of the exhibition and we are happy that Daniel Wickert from TU Dresden (Institut für Kraftfahrzeugtechnik) will present the results of a benchmark sponsored by Daimler AG considering “Water path prediction in the automotive industry” that included PreonLab outperforming the competition.

The three day conference will revolve around the latest simulation methodologies applied to key development goals for clean and affordable mobility, such as real-driving emissions, powertrain efficiency, electrification, durability and NVH.

You can gather more information on the program and of course register here:
https://www.avl.com/-/avl-international-simulation-conference-2017

See you in Graz!