FRIENDSHIP-Framework

Engineering software for the maritime and turbomachinery industry

The FRIENDSHIP-Framework is a computer aided engineering (CAE) software for the design of performance-optimized maritime products and turbomachinery.

It is the world's most advanced software for the simulation driven design of functional, flow-exposed surfaces like ship hulls; propeller blades; turbines; pumps; volutes; etc.

Providing a holistic design environment, the software allows you to  model, vary and select the optimal design from numerous alternatives.

This is being realized through both the software's own computer aided design (CAD) functionality  and integrated computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The smart set-up of consecutive design steps guides you to the most efficient, most suitable and best performing design for the task due.

Fittingly, the software translates the idea of simulation-driven design, a technology which is well established in automotive and aeronautical structural design, into a streamlined engineering solution for maritime and turbomachinery product development.

This leads to a significantly quicker, clearer and more effective design process. Most notably, it leads to better results, higher design quality and more sustainable, economically more viable  products.

While many design processes still follow the conventional sequence of modeling and subsequent analysis, the novel approach is based on a much tighter combination and integration of CAD and CFD. The new "driver" of the process is the numerical simulation as used to study and assess key performance characteristica, e.g. energy efficiency.

With its unique capability to work and serve as a coupling platform for external simulation programs, the FRIENDSHIP-Framework lives up to its name. It is a framework for the integration of CAD and CFD. Various market leading CFD solvers can be coupled to the software by virtue of several interfaces provided.

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