Independent consultants capable of developing FlexPDE models for various applications.
(These consultants are not employees of PDE Solutions. We make no attempt to evaluate them, and take no part or responsibility in any relationship established between consultants and clients.)
If you are a FlexPDE user and wish to be listed as a FlexPDE consultant, email us a brief statement of interest and a link to your website or your email address, and we will include your link here.
ELMAD UG
Email: info@elmad.de
Web: www.elmad.de
ELMAD UG is an association of several experts with many years of experience in the field of electrical machines and drives. We are happy to support you in your development projects in the field of electrical drive technology. For this purpose, we can provide you with highly accurate and multiply validated calculation software for the electromagnetic design of electrical machines. For this purpose, we have integrated FlexPDE into our calculation software for several years in order to solve electromagnetic problems. In addition, we are happy to advise you in the context of your development processes or can contribute to the success of your products with our own calculations and simulations.
Ex Mente - Advancing Through Insight
Email: info@ex-mente.co.za
Web: ex-mente.co.za
We are currently using FlexPDE for modelling of pyrometallurgical vessels, evaluating both thermal and mechanical loadings. We have extensive experience in the use of Partial Differential Equations to solve thermal, fluid flow, electromagnetic, mechanical and thermomechanical problems. Our team can assist in any multi-physics and process modelling and consists of Chemical, Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineers. We use FlexPDE extensively along with the following software:
- Python
- Factsage
- OLI
- OpenFOAM
- In-house developed process modelling software
We are available for consulting work across all industries but specialize in high-temperature processes and the encompassing equipment.
Craig Nelson
Email: craigmail@aol.com
Web: www.nelsonresearchinc.com
Phone: (206) 498-9447
I am a research engineer with many years experience solving difficult technical problems, both at the workbench and using numerical methods. I have used FlexPDE intensively for eight years and have produced well over a hundred models, some resulting in complex multi-physics full-field solutions. Here is a partial listing of my work:
Fluid dynamic electrochemical fuel cell electrodes; electromagnetic wave propagation in partially filled waveguides; acoustic wave propagation in solids and liquids; stress and deflection in piezo-pump diaphragms; two-phase fluid flow in fluidic channels; magnetic levitation forces on moving magnets; toothbrush induced fluid shear flow over teeth; gas-evolving chemical reactions in a micro-reactor; various fuel cell micro-fluidic situations; vibrational modes of complex ultrasound transducers; various heat flow situations; electric current flow in patterned thin film conductors; electric fields in various capacitve transducers; self focussing of a high intensity gaussian beam; self-convection of heated fluids; stress build-up in cooling adhesive bonds; tidal flow in a Mexican river estuary; pressure deflection of clamped thick plates; forces on a rising bubble; fluidic resistance of channel blockages; electro-magnetic wave propagation in doped porous silicon wafers.
I have a relatively well equipped acoustics, electronics, optics and microwave lab for determining and confirming numerical model parameters and am willing to travel to teach individuals and small groups the ins-and-outs of FEA, as practiced using FlexPDE.
Dr. Mike Moore
AetherMachines Inc.
Email: mikemoore@aethermachines.com
Web: www.aethermachines.com
My simulation experience prior to the use of FlexPDE was rotational mechanics and thermodynamics using Easy5x formerly from Boeing, as well as hardware in the loop state space turbine control system simulation and torpedo simulations. I have always wanted to augment some of this process/hardware simulation with more of a partial differential equation approach (as opposed to the cascade first order responses found in most real time/state space simulations) and FlexPDE is the perfect tool for such.
Currently, I use FlexPDE to augment the above systems, controls, and SPICE circuit simulations to provide detailed models of thermodynamics, electrostatics, and to some extent fluid subsystem responses in designs. For example, a heat sink or fluid heat transfer problem may be need to be accurately characterized to properly sweep temperature in a SPICE or control system simulation, and hence FlexPDE fits right in.
In addition to the "pure numerics" of FlexPDE, I also use Mathematica to validate and simulate the analytic assumptions and modeling constructs behind such systems, controls, and circuits for which FlexPDE gives the PDE modeling.
Dr. Víctor H. Cortínez
Associate Professor and Scientific Research Director,
Grupo de Análisis de Sistemas Mecánicos, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (FRBB).
Email: vcortine@frbb.utn.edu.ar
My simulation experience prior to the use of FlexPDE was rotational mechanics and thermodynamics using Easy5x formerly from Boeing, as well as hardware in the loop state space turbine control system simulation and torpedo simulations. I have always wanted to augment some of this process/hardware simulation with more of a partial differential equation approach (as opposed to the cascade first order responses found in most real time/state space simulations) and FlexPDE is the perfect tool for such.
Currently, I use FlexPDE to augment the above systems, controls, and SPICE circuit simulations to provide detailed models of thermodynamics, electrostatics, and to some extent fluid subsystem responses in designs. For example, a heat sink or fluid heat transfer problem may be need to be accurately characterized to properly sweep temperature in a SPICE or control system simulation, and hence FlexPDE fits right in.
In addition to the "pure numerics" of FlexPDE, I also use Mathematica to validate and simulate the analytic assumptions and modeling constructs behind such systems, controls, and circuits for which FlexPDE gives the PDE modeling.
Bill Jones
(Out of Date Information)
Consultant - System Modeling and Underlying Physical Science for Product Development, since 1983.
Phone: (954) 772-9567
Email: bill.jones@physicscorp.com or imdev@bellsouth.net
Website: www.physicscorp.com
My history is mostly that of internal consultant in physical science and mathematical modeling. A partial list: of products includes:
- Fishfinder (SONAR) transducers (modeling to identify superfluous expense)
- Blood cell counters (modeling several aspects, from materials behavior to cell behavior, see US patent #5452237)
- Device behavior (3-d) of various subcomponents (MOSFETs, BJTs, others) of several integrated circuit technologies, usually toward refining SPICE models.
- Stress limits in plastics (press-fit assemblies)
Most projects have been for startups later bought by such companies as Abbott Laboratories, Allied/Bendix, Schering-Plough, DataLinear (became Sipex) and Raytheon.
I've used FlexPDE to model heat transfer, acoustic behavior of materials and structures and fluid flow (water) around boat hulls.
I'm interested in finding a group of companies that need modeling capability but don't want to hire a full time person to do it. You can be in any geographic area, but I don't travel on a regular basis. A visit is fine, but we should do most work over the internet. If your operation is in South Florida within about 50 miles of Fort Lauderdale, even better. In particular, if you have a marine application.