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Australian team Lunar crowned 2025 STEM Racing World Champions in Singapore

Team Lunar has been competing in STEM Racing since 2022, and has become one of the most dominant Australian teams in the program. The team placed 3rd at the World Finals in Saudi Arabia in 2024, and won back-to-back Australian National Finals. From Brighton Grammar School in Melbourne, the team comprising of 5 year 11 students: Leo Jansen, Max Zylberman, Oliver Chernikeeff, Liam Jones and Max Zhou has become the eighth team from Australia to be crowned STEM Racing (formerly F1 in Schools) World Champions, supported with LEAP’s industry-standard simulation and 3D rendering software.

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Expert Insights: Materials Calibration for DEM modelling of Bulk Solids

This post summarises our recent live panel discussion on materials calibration for discrete element method (DEM) modelling of bulk solids where we had the privilege of hosting industry leaders Daniel Grasser, Consulting Engineer at Tundra Bulk Solids and Richard Elliott, Technical Director – Bulk Handling at Rockfield Technologies. They were joined by DEM specialists from LEAP: Angelo Christakakis, Application Engineer & Technical Lead – DEM as well as Josh Hately, Engineering Solutions Manager, who moderated the discussion.

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From Shark Skin to Heat Exchangers: Biomimicry + Simulation as an Engineering Framework

Dr. Aakash Shaun Hurry’s PhD research set out to answer a simple but powerful question: can inspiration from nature help us design more efficient heat exchangers? In this guest blog article, Dr Hurry describes how he used a combination of CFD simulation, additive manufacturing, and laboratory testing to explore how the microscopic scales of shark denticles could be applied to heat exchanger fins to improve heat transfer and overall performance.

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Creo Simulate Elite

Creo Simulate Elite features structural analysis tools that allow you to evaluate product integrity inside the design phase and within the familiar Creo environment, and is included in the latest Creo subscription bundles (Creo Design Essentials, Creo Design Advanced and Creo Design Advanced Professional). In this article which includes highlights from our recent webinar on the topic, we discuss Creo Simulate Elite’s capabilities, walk you through the installation process, explain the simulation workflow and finally, demonstrate Creo Simulate Elite in action.

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The Future of Rendering – Discover AI-Powered KeyShot 2025.2

In this blog we highlight the latest innovations featured in our recent webinar on KeyShot 2025.2, where we unveiled powerful AI-driven features designed to streamline your workflow, enhance visual quality and help your business achieve more in less time. From delivering faster, cleaner renders with minimal manual effort to suggesting intelligent materials and lighting that expedite design decisions, KeyShot 2025.2 offers the tools you need to gain a competitive edge with quicker turnarounds and higher-quality visuals.

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An Engineer’s Guide to Materials Calibration when Modelling Bulk Solids

Predicting the bulk solid’s behaviour and extracting information which cannot easily be measured experimentally are key benefits of Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations, such as Ansys Rocky DEM. However, the quality of the prediction depends on the calibration of the simulation. This guest blog by Dr Daniel Grasser, Consulting Engineer at TUNRA Bulk Solids, Newcastle (Australia) introduces guidelines for the Discrete Element Method calibration in the context of bulk solids handling and mining/minerals.

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Managing Your PTC Desktop Product Licenses

PTC has updated its desktop products license management system for applications like Creo, Mathcad, and more — covering both floating and node-locked licenses. In this article we have provided the key takeaways from a recent webinar delivered by Ben Muston, Senior Application Engineer at LEAP who walks through how license administrators can request, retrieve and manage licenses, including host changes, to help ensure an optimal setup for all users within your team.

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Expert Tips on tuning the GEKO turbulence model

This article answers the question, “What is special about the GEKO model compared with all other two equation RANS models?” The result of the decades of experience that Dr. Florian Menter has acquired through his vast experience of turbulence modelling at NASA and Ansys, the GEKO model is very much the culmination of a life’s work on improving turbulence models to make them what he calls “industrial strength”. Read on to learn more.

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Fluid-structure interaction simulation of wave overtopping flow and vegetation for coastal hazard mitigation

Climate change is increasing the exposure of communities to coastal hazards and traditional solutions, such as seawalls or revetments, can have a high financial, social and environmental cost. As a result, nature-based solutions are encouraged in coastal policy. This guest article by University of Auckland’s Joshua Bagg, Mark Battley, Colin Whittaker and Tom Shand describes their unique research aimed to investigate the interaction between salt marsh grass and wave overtopping flow using Ansys Fluent and Ansys Rocky to inform the design of nature-based solutions.

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