Coreform wins Department of Energy grant to improve tire tread simulation

Coreform wins Department of Energy grant to improve tire tread simulation

by | Apr 12, 2024 |

OREM, UTAH — Coreform LLC, the leading developer of commercial spline-based simulation software, recently received a $1M Department of Energy grant to investigate using isogeometric analysis on next-generation tire tread designs.

The Department of Energy has awarded a significant grant to Coreform, a three-time Inc. 5000 company, to develop computer simulation processes that will increase the use of simulation in the advanced tire industry. “Greater use of predictive simulation analysis for advanced tire tread designs will reduce the cost of product development and accelerate the adoption of both electric and self-driving cars,” notes Coreform Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Sederberg. “We anticipate this project will help the tire industry develop new and innovative tread patterns to reduce noise and improve energy efficiency.”

Tire wear currently accounts for as much as 4 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to experts. However, developing new tire designs has remained a problem. Innovative tire design improvements often include such small features that existing computer simulation software can take up to 8 weeks to complete a single analysis. Since tires require testing across a range of issues, from tread wear to noise production and temperature changes, these lengthy analyses are too expensive and time-consuming for frequent use. In today’s production pipelines, next-generation tire designers have to resort to physical testing of prototypes. All of this makes it take longer and cost more to improve tire designs for modern requirements.

Greg Vernon, Director of Engineering at Coreform, says Coreform’s approach will use isogeometric analysis to allow tire manufacturers to test new designs much more quickly. “This project will allow tire manufacturers to test new ideas more quickly. Down the road, that will mean fewer particulate emissions, longer life, and better energy efficiency for all of us.”

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Coreform Cubit 2024.3 released, featuring faster performance and improved Python interface

Coreform Cubit 2024.3 released, featuring faster performance and improved Python interface

by | Mar 4, 2024 |

OREM, UTAH — Coreform Cubit 2024.3 is now available, featuring faster performance on critical commands, an improved Python interface, and numerous feature enhancements and bugfixes. Additionally, the documentation of the DAGMC neutronics workflow supported by Coreform Cubit is significantly improved.

Coreform Cubit 2024.3 is now available, featuring faster performance on critical commands, an improved Python interface, and numerous feature enhancements and bugfixes. Additionally, the documentation of the DAGMC neutronics workflow supported by Coreform Cubit has been significantly improved.

2x – 10x faster imprint performance

The imprint and merge functionality is one of Coreform Cubit’s most-used features, as it allows for the creation of conformal meshes across volumes. In this release, we have significantly improved the speed of the imprint and merge workflow by replacing multiple O(n^2) operations with O(n) operations (n being the number of bodies), yielding speed-ups between 2X and 10X on several benchmarks, such as those shown below. Actual speed improvements will vary depending on the number and complexity of bodies being imprinted.

Coreform Cubit imprint speed improvements: ‘Advanced test reactor’ benchmark.

Coreform Cubit imprint speed improvements: ‘Stacked’ benchmark.

Coreform Cubit imprint speed improvements: ‘Array’ benchmark.

Improved Python interface

A single script file can now support both Python statements and Coreform Cubit commands. Additionally, the script windows in the user interface have been consolidated into one, and the console version of Coreform Cubit now supports Python. Batch processing with scripts can now be done using Python syntax, Coreform Cubit syntax, or both. The command window in Coreform Cubit can be switched between a Python or Coreform Cubit mode either by pushing a GUI button, or by issuing #!python or #!cubit statements. Using the console version of Coreform Cubit is now recommended when running scripts in non-interactive batch processes. The following image illustrates the new Command window containing both Python and Coreform Cubit syntax.

Support for Windows 11

Coreform Cubit is now tested and supported for Windows 11.

Improved DAGMC documentation

Direct Accelerated Geometry Monte Carlo (DAGMC) is a software package that allows users to perform Monte Carlo radiation transport directly on CAD models. The DAGMC community previously developed a Coreform Cubit plugin, which was integrated into Coreform Cubit in 2023.11. In connection with the release of Coreform Cubit 2024.3, Coreform has collaborated with the DAGMC developers to improve the DAGMC documentation, which is available at the following link: DAGMC documentation.

Improved machine learning geometry preparation capabilities

The reduce bolt patch command aids in the structural dynamics idealization of fasteners for simulation. It converts fasteners into circular patches and corresponding sidesets centered on the bolt axis. In the 2024.3 release of Coreform Cubit, the command was enhanced on several fronts, including hole specification, explicit surface identification, radius factor, surface patch naming, incremental ID with start ID, and robustness improvements.

Additionally, several enhancements have been added to make J2G bolt reduction more robust, including capabilities for handling through-holes in the lower bolt hole volume, allowing splines in bolt holes curve specification, and allowing multiple curves in bolt hole loops.

Finally, hole feature recognition has been improved to find more cases. More accurate identification will assist in rapidly finding holes and removing them.

A full list of additional improvements and bug fixes is available on the 2024.3 release notes page

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Neutronics on exact CAD geometry: advances in the Coreform Cubit DAGMC workflow

Neutronics on exact CAD geometry: advances in the Coreform Cubit DAGMC workflow

by | Feb 29, 2024 |

OREM, UTAH — The lastest release of Coreform Cubit, 2024.3, includes improvements that improve the neutronics simulation workflow with Coreform Cubit and OpenMC.

The offical release of Coreform Cubit 2024.3 can now be downloaded at Coreform.com. The complete release notes can be found on our website. A free webinar is available to demonstrate the new DAGMC integration.

Introducing improvements to neutronics workflow

Coreform is pleased to announce Coreform Cubit 2024.3, which features many new capabilities and improvements for nuclear energy users. In 2023, Coreform Cubit introduced neutronics on CAD for the first time in any commercial software package. The Coreform Cubit neutronics workflow is based on the DAGMC workflow developed by Dr. Paul Wilson’s team at the University of Wisconsin as a long-time Cubit plugin. The new release includes significant speed and documentation improvements for enhanced ease of use and a more straightforward user experience.

The Coreform Cubit 2024.3 release includes other significant improvements for nuclear energy users. These include improved machine learning geometry preparation, support for Windows 11, and a greatly improved Python interface. 2024.3 also includes 2x-10x speed improvements in the imprint and merge workflow, one of the most-used features in Coreform Cubit.

Free webinar

Coreform is offering a free webinar to demonstrate the new features. Coreform Cubit 2024.3 includes speed and documentation improvements to neutronics workflows that leverage the Direct Accelerated Geometry Monte Carlo (DAGMC) functionality that allows for neutronics simulation directly on CAD data. The Coreform Cubit imprint command, used to ensure that DAGMC meshes are watertight, is now 2-10x faster on complex parts. The DAGMC documentation is also greatly improved.

In this webinar, Dr. Patrick Shriwise will introduce the newly documented DAGMC workflow and show how to quickly set up a model for neutronics in Coreform Cubit and run it in OpenMC.

Dr. Shriwise is a computational scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. He develops and performs research with OpenMC, an open-source continuous energy Monte Carlo particle transport code and DAGMC, an open-source toolkit for performing particle transport on CAD-based tessellation geometry.

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Coreform is a gold sponsor of the NAFEMS ASSESS Congress 2024

Coreform is a gold sponsor of the NAFEMS ASSESS Congress 2024

by | Feb 15, 2024 |

The conference aims to lead every aspect of engineering simulation toward a more valuable and accessible future, leveraging the expertise and knowledge of top-level figures in industry, government, and academia.

As the International Association for the Engineering, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Community, NAFEMS is widely recognized as the leading independent source of information and training for engineering analysts and designers of all levels. The ASSESS Congress 2024 will bring together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies in an open forum to share experiences, discuss relevant trends, discover common themes, and explore future issues. Register here.

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From NAFEMS: Top-level figures in industry, government, and academia will come together for this interactive leadership summit in Atlanta, Georgia, between March 4th and 6th 2024. This opportunity for leaders in engineering analysis and simulation to come together will guide and shape the direction of the industry for years to come.

N​o other meeting brings top-level thought-leaders together to discuss the real issues in industry, and look at the bigger picture. You’ll find key players from the consulting world, cutting-edge software development, global industrial users, government agencies, and elite academia. The community of model-based analysis, simulation and systems engineering looks to NAFEMS through initiatives like ASSESS to lead the industry toward the future – and the ASSESS Summit will deliver that guidance.

Places at the Summit are limited. The meeting will cover all of the main ASSESS Themes during interactive workshops, reporting findings and recommendations to the plenary and, ultimately, the simulation world.

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About Coreform LLC
Coreform develops next-generation computer-aided engineering software. Among Coreform’s founders are authorities in isogeometric analysis and widely cited researchers in the computer science field. The Coreform IGA solver is based on smooth CAD spline geometry, offering greater accuracy than the faceted meshes used in legacy CAE software. Coreform is also the exclusive commercial distributor of the Cubit meshing software. Coreform was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Utah, USA.

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Coreform wins grant to develop simulation software for fusion energy

Coreform wins grant to develop simulation software for fusion energy

by | Jan 17, 2024 |

OREM, UTAH — Coreform LLC, developer of next-generation computer-aided engineering software, has won a competitive grant to develop a method for simulating complex fusion generator parts.

* Featured image courtesy of R. Juarez. et al.,
“A full and heterogeneous model of the ITER tokamak
for comprehensive nuclear analyses“, Nature Energy 6 (2021) 150-157

The US Department of Energy has announced Coreform’s receipt of a competitive SBIR grant to facilitate the design of fusion energy reactors. The funded project will allow for more efficient simulation of fusion reactor parts than is possible with existing software.

Recent breakthroughs in fusion energy production fusion have focused public attention on the potential for viable, clean, fusion energy. However, many significant fusion engineering challenges remain unsolved. The ability to evaluate designs via engineering simulation will help overcome those challenges and further the development of fusion energy.

In this project, Coreform will transition the third-party Direct Accelerated Geometry Monte Carlo (DAGMC) model-export plugin for Coreform Cubit from research code into a fully supported and documented workflow in Coreform Cubit. Additionally, they will develop workflows in Coreform Cubit to enable a comprehensive preprocessing workflow for OpenMC, supporting not only DAGMC but also CSG geometry creation, as well as utilities to troubleshoot simulation setup.

If successful, this project will radically streamline and simplify the fusion reactor development process by enabling neutronics simulation to be performed directly on CAD geometry. Fusion reactor energy promises to be safe, environmentally friendly, and sustainable to a degree unmatched by any other potential energy source.

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Coreform wins grant to develop simulation software for Giga cast parts

Coreform wins grant to develop simulation software for Giga cast parts

by | Jan 17, 2024 |

OREM, UTAH — Coreform LLC, developer of next-generation computer-aided engineering software, has won a competitive grant to develop a method for simulating Giga cast parts.

The US Department of Energy has announced Coreform’s receipt of a competitive SBIR grant to improve modern car manufacturing. The funded project will develop software to allow engineering simulation of auto parts manufactured with modern Giga casting techniques.

Giga-casting refers to using a large aluminum die-casts part to replace complicated sheet-metal assemblies composed of dozens of individual parts. The process of giga-casting saves automotive manufacturers significant time and money, but existing engineering simulation software is unable to handle crash simulation for cars with giga-cast parts. Coreform’s proprietary isogeometric analysis software has the potential to solve this problem and allow for crash simulation of giga-cast parts.

Potential benefits of this project include improved automotive safety, accelerated time to market for new automobiles, and improved energy efficiency through lighter-weight cars. The developed technology will also help safer products get to market faster across other industries including aerospace, nuclear energy, and defense.

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Webinar: Using Coreform Cubit scripting capabilities to study the geodynamics of a planetary satellite

Webinar: Using Coreform Cubit scripting capabilities to study the geodynamics of a planetary satellite

by | Dec 12, 2023 |

The recording of this webinar is available now.

Our most recent webinar is now available for viewing.

Doctoral candidate Alexander Berne uses Coreform Cubit at the California Institute of Technology to study the geodynamics of the planetary satellite Enceladus. In this webinar, he demonstrated how he uses Coreform Cubit’s powerful scripting tools in his research and showed how Coreform Cubit can be used for geodynamics.

The recording is available here.

The journal file demonstrated in the webinar is available on our forum.

For more details about using Coreform Cubit scripting for geodynamics, watch the webinar here.

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Coreform develops next-generation computer-aided engineering software. Among Coreform’s founders are authorities in isogeometric analysis and widely cited researchers in the computer science field. The Coreform IGA solver is based on smooth CAD spline geometry, offering greater accuracy than the faceted meshes used in legacy CAE software. Coreform is also the exclusive commercial distributor of the Cubit meshing software. Coreform was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Utah, USA.

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Webinar: OpenMC neutronics simulations of CAD-based geometry using DAGMC and Coreform Cubit

Webinar: OpenMC neutronics simulations of CAD-based geometry using DAGMC and Coreform Cubit

by | Nov 13, 2023 |

A tutorial webinar demonstrating how to use the new DAGMC functionality in Coeform Cubit 2023.11.

Our most recent webinar is now available for viewing.

In this webinar, Dr. Patrick Shriwise demonstrated how to setup and run OpenMC simulations based on CAD using the Direct Accelerated Geometry Monte Carlo (DAGMC) functionality available in Coreform Cubit 2023.11. Dr. Shriwise showed example geometries from both nuclear fission and fusion and walked through how to use Coreform Cubit with OpenMC and MCNP.

A full transcript of the webinar Q&A, including questions that were asked but not answered during the webinar, is available here.

Previously available as a plugin to Coreform Cubit, DAGMC functionality is now natively available in Coreform Cubit, with improved meshing and export capabilities. DAGMC can be used to set up CAD-based neutronics simulations in OpenMC, MCNP, and other Monte Carlo solvers.

For more details about using the native DAGMC integration with Coreform Cubit watch the webinar here.

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Three webinars introducing new features in Coreform Cubit

Three webinars introducing new features in Coreform Cubit

by | Nov 11, 2023 |

Our latest Coreform Cubit release introduces significant new functionality. We are pleased to announce three free webinars to walk you through them.

The first webinar, IGA model preparation in Coreform Cubit, will be hosted at 9:00 AM (MT) November 18, 2021. Coreform Director of Product Development Greg Vernon will show how to create U-spline IGA models in Coreform Cubit and prepare them for simulation in IGA-enabled solvers such as LS-DYNA and Coreform IGA. Additionally, he will show how to use U-splines to generate smooth, geometry-compliant lattice structures for 3D printing and slicing.

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The second webinar, Coreform Lattice GC: Precise Lattice Creation for 3D Printing, will be hosted at 9:00 AM (MT) December 2, 2021. In this webinar, Coreform Director of Product Management Greg Vernon will introduce the Coreform Lattice GC module and demonstrate its unique features, including: meshing-driven lattice control, unlimited lattice types, unique smoothness, and super-fast slicing.

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The third webinar, U-splines for IGA model prep in Coreform Cubit, will be hosted at 9:00 AM (MT) December 9, 2021. In this webinar, Coreform Director of Product Management Greg Vernon will introduce U-splines, show how to generate U-spline surface and solid models using Cubit’s meshing schemes, and demonstrate how to export U-spline models for use in LS-DYNA and Coreform IGA.

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Neutronics on exact CAD geometry: advances in the Coreform Cubit DAGMC workflow

2023.11 Coreform Cubit release includes improved support for nuclear energy applications

by | Nov 2, 2023 |

OREM, UTAH — Coreform is offering a webinar on OpenMC neutronics simulations of CAD-based geometry using DAGMC and Coreform Cubit.

The offical release of Coreform Cubit 2023.11 can now be downloaded at Coreform.com. The complete release notes can be found on our website. A free webinar is available to demonstrate the new DAGMC integration.

Introducing DAGMC integration

Coreform is pleased to announce Coreform Cubit 2023.11, which features many new capabilities and improvements improving support for nuclear energy applications. Enhancements include an exporter to the DAGMC radiation transport code, improvements to the ABAQUS export to support the MCNP radiation transport code, as well as an MCNP importer that reconstructs MCNP models within Coreform Cubit. A new coarse trimesher setting was added to support producing meshes for radiation transport codes used within the nuclear energy industry.

Previously available as a plugin to Coreform Cubit, DAGMC functionality is now natively available in Coreform Cubit, with improved meshing and export capabilities. DAGMC can be used to set up CAD-based neutronics simulations in OpenMC, MCNP, and other Monte Carlo solvers.

Free webinar

Coreform is sponsoring a free webinar in which Dr. Patrick Shriwise will demonstrate how to set up and run OpenMC simulations based on CAD using the Direct Accelerated Geometry Monte Carlo (DAGMC) functionality now available in Coreform Cubit 2023.11. Dr. Shriwise will show example geometries from both nuclear fission and fusion.

Dr. Shriwise is a computational scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. He develops and performs research with OpenMC, an open-source continuous energy Monte Carlo particle transport code and DAGMC, an open-source toolkit for performing particle transport on CAD-based tessellation geometry.

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