Tools for Naval Architects
Robust Commercial Ships: Altair® OptiStruct®, includes an enhanced proprietary version of NASTRAN that is used in virtually every industry. OptiStruct provides solvers for linear, nonlinear, vibrations, acoustics, fatigue, heat transfer, and multiphysics analyses. Building upon the solver capabilities of OptiStruct, Altair® HyperLife® provides a comprehensive and easy to use durability analysis workflow directly interfacing with major finite element analysis result files. OptiStruct is the original topology optimization structural design tool.
Ready Military Vessels: Altair® Radioss® multiphysics capabilities accurately simulate complex physics problems, such as collision, sloshing, slamming and underwater explosions. Altair® Feko® is considered as the global market leader for antenna placement analysis. It is widely used in naval engineering for most electromagnetic issues, like radiation pattern analysis of communication antennas, the placement of antennas, antenna coupling or interference, and near-field radiation hazards.
Faster Recreational Boats: Based on the Finite Element Method, Altair CFD™ is a robust and scalable general-purpose CFD solver that empowers users by providing unparalleled accuracy on fully unstructured meshes. OptiStruct is widely used at the world’s most innovative companies for the design and optimization of laminate composites . It delivers optimal ply shapes, the optimal number of plies, and the optimal stacking sequence, all while observing manufacturing constraints.