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for CFD and FEA

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„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-for-profit association focussing on the practical application of numerical engineering simulation techniques such as the Finite Element Method for Structural Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Multibody Simulation.


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

Marketing/Website




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DHCAE Tools is not responsible for the contents of any off-site pages referenced and points out that the user opens all links at his/her own risk.

For the benefit of our customers in France, DHCAE Tools is certified for the participation at the CIR-program:

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: 2022-2023-2024


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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-house use.

First software tool: CastNet GUI is launched on the market: First pre-processing tool for OpenFOAM for in-house use with meshing, CAD import and automation functionality

2014-2016

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

2016-2017

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)

2019-2022

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)   

2021-2023

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



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