As aerospace systems become increasingly advanced, their development is also becoming more complex. Yet the engineering process remains largely unchanged. In particular, design and simulation workflows remains inefficient. Despite accounting for up to 40% of total development costs and timelines, engineering teams still struggle significant challenges, including:

Limited design exploration

Slow simulations

Manual optimization workflows

To address the challenges above, FAERO integrates design and simulation workflows into one unified opitmization platform, the Ogawa Nexus (ON). The ON enables more efficient aerospace system development, reducing total costs and timelines by up to 25%, while advancing innovation.

It delivers value across three key areas of aerospace development: design exploration, simulation, and optimization. In an automated workflow, the ON can explore over 1,000 design variations from a single baseline design. Additionally, it significantly accelerates CFD simulations through its advanced metamodeling capabilities. Finally, it automatically generates optimized designs based on user-defined objectives and constraints.

Additionally, the ON platform is designed for seamless industry integration. It is compatible with leading computational solvers, including ANSYS Fluent and OpenFOAM. Once users define the design parameters and solver setup, the optimization workflow can be initiated with a single click of the Run button.

The ON operates through an automated six-step iterative optimization process:

• Design Definition: Users define the design parameters and solver setup
• Initial Simulations: Initial simulations generate training datasets
• Metamodeling: Deep learning models approximate simulation results
• Global Optimization: Optimization searches the best solutions in the design space
• Validation: High-fidelity simulations validate optimized solutions
• Evaluation: Engineers select the best-performing designs

In summary, the ON is a next-generation optimization platform that enables users to:

Explore1000+ design variations

Accelerate simulations and evaluations

Automate optimization workflow