https://www.dhcae-tools.com/news.html 2026-09-01T13:34:56+02:00 weekly 0.8 https://www.dhcae-tools.com/news-media/castnet-meshing.jpg Hybrid meshing vs. snappyHexMesh in CastNet — when to use which? Two meshing approaches in CastNet for OpenFOAM — hybrid hex-core (Simmetrix) and snappyHexMesh — and when each is the right choice, shown on a spiral mandrel die. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vo9vFoegQqs 2026-09-01T08:00:00+02:00 yes no https://www.dhcae-tools.com/news-media/castnet.jpg New CastNet release: OpenFOAM now runs natively on Windows — incl. CalculiX and preCICE New release with native Windows installers for OpenFOAM, CalculiX and preCICE — a complete CAE workflow, incl. CHT shown on a heat exchanger. https://www.youtube.com/embed/wl0kzAEWrwY 2026-08-05T08:00:00+02:00 yes no https://www.dhcae-tools.com/news-media/spray-atomisation.jpg Spray simulation: bridging the time-scale gap in atomization How the fast primary breakup and the much slower downstream processes of an atomization can be cleanly coupled via a sampling plane. https://www.youtube.com/embed/EU0X5xxB1e4 2026-07-15T08:00:00+02:00 yes no https://www.dhcae-tools.com/news-media/membrane-vof.jpg Elastic membranes as an integrated FSI solution in OpenFOAM's RBM — now for VoF applications Third example of our membrane-FSI solver in OpenFOAM's RBM — now for free surfaces (VoF), demonstrated on a floating box. https://www.youtube.com/embed/rJ5290f049c 2026-07-07T08:00:00+02:00 yes no https://www.dhcae-tools.com/news-media/membrane-mok.jpg Membrane as the outer flow boundary — fully inside OpenFOAM (Mok benchmark) The classic Mok benchmark: an elastic membrane as the outer flow boundary — in excellent agreement with the reference. https://www.youtube.com/embed/4ygxM4xPUPY 2026-06-22T08:00:00+02:00 yes no https://www.dhcae-tools.com/news-media/membrane-fsi.jpg OpenFOAM × FSI: solving membrane motion directly inside the CFD solver Membrane structural mechanics solved directly inside the OpenFOAM solver — no external coupling, with built-in stabilization techniques. https://www.youtube.com/embed/FlOFdIVeutU 2026-06-10T08:00:00+02:00 yes no https://www.dhcae-tools.com/news-media/spray-amr.jpg AMR in the Lagrangian spray: resolving the gas phase in the spray cone Adaptive mesh refinement reaching into the Lagrangian spray cone to resolve the gas phase where the particle source terms act. https://www.youtube.com/embed/v_fOhRNuMmc 2026-05-19T08:00:00+02:00 yes no https://www.dhcae-tools.com/news-media/filtration.jpg Full loading cycle of a bag filter — CFD with Lagrangian particle tracking Full loading cycle of a 16-bag filter house with Lagrangian particles and a load-dependent filter resistance. https://www.youtube.com/embed/tO74Cw2pcp4 2026-04-22T08:00:00+02:00 yes no