CAENexus Value
Reducing Development Time and Cost
CAENexus reduces design to market time by significantly reducing pre-processing efforts for various types of simulations. This enables CAENexus users to perform more simulations, consider more design alternatives resulting in better quality products.
Ensuring Consistent Results and Process Robustness
Best practices are captured in “Abstract Models”, ready for re-use even by non-simulation specialists.
Automatic, consistent meshing and consistent use of boundary conditions deliver comparable analysis results independent of who initiates the simulation.
Knowledge capture enables preservation of valuable corporate know-how.
Improving Analysts’ Productivity
CAENexus reliably automates pre-processing, considered to take about 70% of analysts’ time when working conventionally. This relieves Analysts from time consuming routine tasks while enabling “Analysts and Designers” to closer collaborate on product improvements.
Democratizing CAE Simulations
CAENexus captures “Analysts” knowledge in relatively tiny Abstract Models (<< 1 MB size) which can be re-used to automate the CAD to solver input process. Abstract Models therefore enable CAD designers to start dependable simulations always delivering comparable results even on vastly different geometries.
CAENexus Product Family
CAENexus
CAENexus is a novel CAE pre-processor based on unique abstract modeling technology intended to reliably automate CAE workflows and facilitate simulation based design (SBD). CAENexus is a product suite which contains different sub-products under it. These are as below.
- FluidNexus supporting CFD solvers
- FEANexus supporting structural/FEA solvers
FluidNexus
FluidNexus and it's predecessor FluidConnection were the initial offering from Novus Nexus and have been successfully used for over ten years. FluidNexus relieves CFD analysts from routine, time-wasting tasks through robust and efficient automated pre-processing.
FluidNexus supports CFD solvers such as Acusolve, Fluent, OpenFOAM etc.
FEANexus
FEANexus has recently been added to the Novus Nexus solution suite as a novel FEA/structural pre-processor intended, like FkuidNexus, to facilitate efficient, automated simulation-based design (SBD) processes delivering reliable results for decision making.
FEANexus supports structural/FEA solvers such as Abaqus, Ansys Mechanical, OptiStruct, and MSC Nastran.
CAENexus Basic Concepts
- CAENexus avoids geometry conversion and clean-up efforts by using CAD system functionality to create the finite element mesh directly from the CAD model.
- The mesh is always created automatically, which accelerates this step in the simulation process.
- Finally, CAENexus employs geometry-independent, re-usable Abstract Models to define a structural or CFD simulation model. When combined with a CAD model, Abstract Models behave like a recipe (or a simulation app) to automatically execute the type of simulation they have been created for. Thanks to the automated process, they always create the same accuracy, comparable results, whether used by simulation specialists or product designers without simulation knowledge. Hence, CAE verifications can be performed when needed and not only when an analyst is available
