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for CFD and FEA
„Our vision is to combine the excellent open source technology for CFD with our customized proprietary systems to meet exactly the individual needs of our clients.“
Dr. Ulrich Heck
CEO DHCAE Tools GmbH
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DHCAE Tools is
NAFEMS member
NAFEMS is an independent not-
Within Nafems, we are active part of NAFEMS CFD Advisory Board (CAB) for Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). CAB supports and advises the NAFEMS DACH steering committee on CFD issues, e.g. seminars, regional conferences and other activities.
Who we are
Dr. Ulrich Heck
CEO DHCAE Tools GmbH
Martin Becker
Senior Software Engineer
Pouria Kamali
Student Assistant CFD
Sibylle Heck
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For the benefit of our customers in France, DHCAE Tools is certified for the participation at the CIR-
Le crédit d’impôt recherche (CIR) (reduction of taxes for research and development costs of companies) granted by the French Ministry for national and higher education and research aims to enable and enforce R&D efforts of companies to produce innovation and to support and education and science.
Renewed for the years: 2022-
Simmetrix: CastNet is based on SimModeler provided by Simmetrix Inc. This guarantees a reliable and professional CFD/FEA meshing based on CAD geometry for industrial applications.
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Ulrich Heck
Martin B ecker
Before 2009: |
Performance of CFD calculation services with Fluent, ADINA (FSI) and OpenFOAM by Dr. Ulrich Heck as a freelancer |
2009 |
Foundation of DHCAE Tools GmbH for software sales and focus on software development and services for OpenFOAM, whereby the simulation services provided continue to represent the entry point for many companies for later in- First software tool: CastNet GUI is launched on the market: First pre- |
2014- |
Participation in the EU project: CloudSME: Development of an interface to our OpenFOAM monitoring software for the use of computing resources in the cloud (e.g. AWS) |
2016 |
Extensive OpenFOAM extension for filtration applications to be presented at Filtech exhibition and conference |
2016- |
Participation in the EU project: CloudFlow: Development of a digital twin in the cloud for extrusion tools, FSI application (coupling CFD/FEM for the expansion of slot dies) |
2019- |
Research Project atomisation of liquid melts: Development of atomisation tool |
2022 |
Presentation of a comprehensive tool for atomization modeling with OpenFOAM (transition from VoF to Lagrange modeling) |
2021- |
BMWK lightweight construction project: Development of an automated workflow for cooling titanium components with subsequent creep modeling |
2024 |
Launch of new website www.cfdtools.com with focus on automated CFD design tools |
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Excerpt from our company history with important milestones in the area of our OpenFOAM extensions and tools for OpneFOAM:
Completely new service
CFD simply simple:
Our new automated CFD tools with cloud connection and browser interface