modeFRONTIER

Advea is the Australian agency for the ESTECO software product modeFRONTIER.

modeFRONTIER is a multi-objective optimization and design environment, written to allow easy coupling to almost any computer aided engineering (CAE) tool whether commercial or in-house.

As the name suggests, modeFRONTIER provides an environment which allows product engineers and designers to integrate their various CAE tools, such as CAD, Finite Element Structural Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software.

Using a variety of state-of-the-art optimization techniques, ranging from gradient-based methods to genetic algorithms, the process or design of interest can be optimized by specifying objectives and defining variables which affect factors such as geometric shape and operating conditions.

modeFRONTIER in effect becomes a wrapper around the CAE tool, performing the optimization by modifying the value assigned to the input variables, and monitoring the outputs.

Process integration

Running an analysis tool within the modeFRONTIER framework is extremely straightforward. There are no extra interfaces to license; rather just one generic interface which can be used for virtually any CAE tool. There are also direct interfaces for Excel, Matlab and Simulink; these programs can be used in their own right to perform an analysis, or to control another tool.

The same process integration techniques can be used to link different CAE applications; for example, modeFRONTIER has been used to perform a fluid-structure interaction analysis, where a CFD program and a non-linear FEM program were coupled.

modeFRONTIER has been successfully run with a large number of commercial CAE and in-house tools, ranging from CAD software to FEM and CFD programs.

Data importation

Importing many file formats (XLS, TXT, CSV..), in a few easy steps modeFRONTIER can be used to carry out statistical studies, such as sensitivity analyses, training for response surface modeling or creating charts and plots.

For more information about how modeFRONTIER can help streamline your CAE/CAD processes, see the ESTECO website.