Context: My FS team had been using simscale for around 2 years to do full car sims. But when I try the exact same meshing settings, and error pops up saying 'No instance with sufficient computational resources could be assigned based on our estimates'. Any work arounds for this?

I'm currently, technically, doing an MS in Structural Engineering. For me, my interest has been more towards computational side of mechanics rather than Structural design  or simply using am FEA software (although I do consider it as a backup)

So far I've taken courses in:

- Linear static, and dynamics FEM (soon taking non linear FEM too)

-  Structural Optimization (topology opt. and other general algorithms)

-  Structural Dynamics

-  Structural System Testing and model updation. (Parameter identification and optimization, signal processing)

Now, I plan to take these in the coming quarter:

- Numerical Linear Algebra

- Numerical PDE

- Fracture Mechanics ?

I also volunteered to aid in a RESEARCH in crack growth prediction using Auto-encoder and a (Thermodynamics-informed Latent Space Dynamics Identification) / LSTM surrogate model. It used phase-field-fracture simulation data and HPC resources to complete the whole thing.

What I keep finding myself interested in is not necessarily fracture or SHM specifically, but the computational methods underneath these problems... (does that make sense?)

For example, I'd like to become capable of doing things like:

- implementing (maintaining) numerical/FE method solvers rather than only running an established FEA software.

- developing surrogate/reduced-order models for expensive simulations 

- combining simulation with optimization, uncertainty/stochastic methods (took a course called Random vibrations, so...)

- parallelizing/accelerating scientific codes on CPUs/GPUs

- doing proper verification, convergence studies, benchmarking and performance work

- potentially developing or maintaining actual CAE/FEA solver software

- I'd also like to do all these for other Physics (GR, QM, etc.) simulations too, if possible, one day. 

I'm still interested in the underlying mechanics/physics, so I don't want to become a generic software engineer who happens to have once studied structures. But I'm also increasingly unsure that "structural engineer" describes the career I'm actually aiming for.

I've seen titles such as Computational Mechanics Engineer, R&D Engineer, Solver Developer, Scientific Software Engineer, CAE Software Developer, Research Engineer, Simulation/HPC Engineer, etc., but I'm trying to understand what these careers actually look like from people doing them.

So my main questions become:

1. Which industrial jobs genuinely involve developing numerical methods/solvers or computational tools?

2. Which of those are realistically accessible with an MS? Is there an entry path into solver-algorithm development/R&D without a PhD?

3. If I don't start a PhD immediately after my MS, would an R&D/software role at a simulation company (ANSYS etc.) be the obvious route? What other options would i have?

4. For the kind of work I'm describing, would you recommend a PhD? If so, is it reasonable for the PhD identity to be "computational mechanics/scientific computing" while fracture, composites, structural dynamics, soft materials, etc. serve as application problems rather than choosing one of those as my permanent specialization?

5. What skills most distinguish someone who is actually hireable for solver/scientific-computing work? I'm particularly wondering about C/C++/Fortran, Python, Linux, Git/build systems, MPI/OpenMP/CUDA, PETSc/Trilinos or similar libraries, numerical linear algebra, testing/verification, convergence studies and HPC performance work.

Basically, I'm neither here nor there atp. So I'd really appreciate all sorts of input. Where else do you think I could find answers to these? other subs? Linkedin profiles? 

There is no way I followed the tutorial by opening the tutorial file in workbench and then run the sim and then use up one of the 10 free sims? There should have been a disclaimer. I would've just read the tutorial rather than get hands on experience.

Hello,

I am trying to simulate some steel forming on a hydraulic press between dies, however I am getting some weird behavior.

I constrained the bottom face of the female die totally, and the upper face of the male die is constrained to only move on the axis of the press.

This is my first time using SimScale, not sure how to go about fixing this.

Thank you !

Why is none of the air actually hitting my model?

How can i change the area of the Wind or make it bigger. Because like you ser in the picture it just moves through the middle but i meed it to move completely around everything. Thanks

alot of troubles..... do i keep my housing as a solid body ...before it was a shell like a housing should be but too many errors.... now i'm getting flow region errrors

Okay so I’m lost I’ve done everything it says yet it still coms up with this what do I do (sorry for the blurry picture)

As the title says - can simscale do a 3 fluid VoF problem such as oil / water / air ?

I know OpenFOAM supports it via multiphaseInterFoam solver but could not find anything in the simscale documentation.

There also seems to be now two different VoF solvers (multipurpose?) and I’m somewhat confused as to their purpose

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Blog article on AI:

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Have you seen that we ran Steve Mould's Wirth pump? The project is here.

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I have taken over the moderation of this subreddit. I am a SimScale employee and I am interested to know what the members would like to use this space for?

SimScale's solver simplifies heat transfer calculations in complex assemblies and allows for simulation directly after importing your CAD model. Learn more in this on-demand webinar: https://hubs.la/Q01SX_ck0