SimScale, DIY Drones, Dronecode offer free drone-design workshop

Drone manufacturers and software providers are constantly developing technologies such as collision avoidance and geo-fencing to increase the safeness of their products and respect the new government regulations. Drone design is one of the fastest growing sectors at the moment and to keep innovating and develop a high-end, safe product, engineers and manufacturers need to test, create dozens of prototypes, and keep iterating.

But what if there is a way physical testing can be reduced? It is not a secret that large product manufacturers, from automotive and aerospace to consumer goods, have been using engineering simulation to virtually test their designs and optimize them early in the development process even before creating the first physical prototype.

Engineering simulation, also known as computer-aided engineering (CAE), is the usage of computer software to aid in engineering analysis tasks. Primarily including computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA), and thermal simulation, CAE allows an accurate prediction of fluids and structures behavior, reliability, and durability, based on physical equations.

Inspired by the growing community of private DIY Drone designers and manufacturers, SimScale is organizing a workshop series in partnership with DIY Drones and Dronecode to help designers get access to and learn about CAE technology to test and optimize their designs. The series is directed to designers, makers, and drone enthusiasts who want to learn how to modify and optimize their own drone design.

Participants will receive a hands-on, interactive introduction to the application of engineering simulation in DIY drone design and will learn from top experts how to leverage the free, cloud-based SimScale platform for their own projects and designs.

The Drone Design Workshop will consist of a series of three one-hour webinar sessions. Every webinar session comes with an optional simulation homework assignment, and submitting all will qualify attendees for certification and prizes. There is no prior knowledge or software required to join this webinar series. All participants will get free access to SimScale with all the required simulation features.

The live, online sessions will take place on Thursdays at 5:00 p.m. Central European Time, with the first session starting on May 11. Sessions include

• “Aerodynamics & Propeller Design,”
• “Structural Simulation,” and
• “Drop Analysis.”

For those in a different time zone or who cannot make it to the live webinars, the organizing are sending all the recordings.

Participants will also get the chance to receive a Certificate of Completion by submitting all three simulation homework assignments.

Register here.

See related article “Four tools to help you customize your drone designs” by Anna Flessner, community manager at SimScale.