OnScale Solve

OnScale Solve is a cloud-native engineering simulation platform that claims to optimize product designs through complex multiphysics simulations. According to the vendor, it caters to companies of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises, and is utilized by mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, aerospace and defense professionals, automotive experts, and those in the medical device manufacturing industry.

Key Features

Local Mesh Refinement: According to the vendor, users can refine the mesh at regions of interest, such as stress concentration or areas of complex geometry, to potentially obtain more accurate results in specific areas of the model.

Array Inspections: OnScale Solve allows users to create arbitrary array configurations and input their own focal laws for sector scans, aiming to enable accurate simulation of various inspection methods like direct contact, immersion, angled wedge, and time-reversal inspections.

Message Passing Interface (MPI): By utilizing the Message Passing Interface (MPI), OnScale Solve claims to split complex simulation problems across thousands of compute nodes, potentially delivering high-performance computing capabilities to users' laptops and reducing simulation time.

Mode Conversion: According to the vendor, OnScale Solve accurately simulates mode conversion in inspections with complex geometries, aiming to improve the understanding of inspection outcomes by considering the fundamental elastodynamics of the test piece.

CAD Import: OnScale Solve has the ability to import CAD models in STEP and IGES formats directly, potentially allowing users to mesh structures in exceptional detail and accurately simulate complex structures.

Full Matrix Capture: OnScale Solve claims to support Full Matrix Capture (FMC), enabling the rapid and accurate recreation of FMC scans by running multiple simulations in parallel, aiming to capture comprehensive inspection data and improve imaging results.

Defect Interaction: OnScale Solve allows the meshing of complex defect structures in fine detail, potentially providing accurate imaging results and aiding in the interpretation of inspection outcomes, particularly for realistic defect geometries.

Heterogeneous Material: The vendor states that OnScale Solve handles the simulation of wave propagation through heterogeneous materials, considering effects such as wavefront scattering, refraction, and mode conversion, aiming to capture the behavior of components with varying material properties.

Anisotropic Materials: According to the vendor, OnScale Solve accurately simulates inspections on anisotropic materials, capturing directional dependency and beam distortion, aiming to help engineers better understand and optimize inspections on components with anisotropic behavior.

CFRP: OnScale Solve claims to predict how inspections will perform in Carbon Fibre Reinforced Composite (CFRP) components, aiming to optimize inspection parameters such as frequency and angle to account for the anisotropy and scattering effects during wave propagation in CFRP components.