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Q3: What path did you take in your career to get to the point where you’re defining simulation analytics? Most engineers have a sense of what “business analytics” is and they know what parametric simulation analysis is, so it doesn’t take much for them to put those together for “simulation analytics.” It actually is a good conversation starter. This is especially true when that engineer has felt the pain of having to manage and analyze more than a dozen simulations at a time. We have found, however, that it only takes a few minutes for an engineer to understand simulation analytics when we give them a demonstration of Tecplot Chorus on a real data set.
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Mike: You are correct that the term “simulation analytics” requires some explanation it is a new term.
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John: So what’s it like to create an entirely new software category? Do you get tired of explaining what simulation analytics is? Tecplot Chorus, the first entrant in the nascent field of simulation analytics. Of course we have ongoing development of several related products: Tecplot RS, Tecplot 360. We have a large group of companies in our customer advisory council representing many of the large organizations in aerospace that are guiding the development of Chorus. Chorus is the first CFD simulation analytics tool. We launched a new product at the end of 2011 called Tecplot Chorus. Simulation Analytics refers to the tools and processes that help engineers manage and distill the information from the vast numbers of simulations into a content-rich set of information they can use to make decisions and retain for future use and to explore, discover, and quantify interesting features and anomalies to gain understanding.
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Mike: Tecplot (and I) have been focused on CFD Simulation Analytics. Q2: So how does this all pertain to what you’re currently working on? As democratization takes hold, engineers will need to have better defined processes for conducting CAE simulation studies. The process of design has been studied and defined over the years, but the process of CAE simulations has had little attention. Therefore, developing a process for CAE simulation needs to become part of the overall design process. It is a challenge to quickly analyze and interpret these results to make better engineering design decisions. Yesterday the results from a CFD study were a couple of numbers, today they are a large set of numbers – like an entire aerodatabase describing the forces and moments on an aircraft over a range of operating conditions. More CFD computing is being done (because of the ever-decreasing cost of CFD computing, the increasing demand for CFD results in modern design processes, and the improving performance and usability of CFD tools) and therefore managing the CFD results has become a problem. “Democratization” denotes the idea of power to the people and for CAE it suggests putting more capabilities in the hands of the generalist engineer. So let’s stick with “democratization” and understand that it isn’t a political system, but it really means CFD used by more people (proliferation) who are not experts (despecialization). Mike: Despecialization makes more sense to me, but the word thrown around the industry right now is “democratization”. John: Would despecialization be better than democratization? I actually don’t like the word “democratization”. Mike: The “democratization” of CFD or in other words the increase in application of CFD software (from grid generation, solver, post processing) by non-CFD-experts. Q1: What do you see are the biggest challenges facing CFD in the next 3 years? He holds the position of chairman at Tecplot, the CFD visualization software company he co-founded in 1981. He holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Oregon State University, as well as a Master’s degree and Engineer’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Mike Peery has more than 35 years of technical and managerial experience in the development of software products for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and scientific/engineering data visualization.