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NablaWave Srl

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

SOLVE IT ONCE.
SOLVE IT RIGHT.

Turn complex problems into competitive advantage. Aerospace specialists, embedded in your process — faster and more hands-on than any research institution.

YOUR NEED.
OUR ANSWER.

YOUR NEED

WHAT BRINGS YOU HERE

WE DELIVER

WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH

01

Develop new products to stay competitive in the market

01

Highly original ideas — difficult for competitors to copy, defensible by patent.

02

Find a specialised technical partner able to propose new ideas and solve complex problems.

02

Confidence of obtaining feasible, validated solutions — not abstract concepts.

03

Get fast, reactive, high-quality research activity — without the lag of traditional institutions.

03

Measurable cost and timing reduction — campaigns in weeks, not quarters.

WHAT R&D MEANS HERE

Research and development here is not a department you send a problem to and then wait. We work inside your process: the engineers who run the simulations are the ones sitting in the design reviews. Taking a concept to a prototype takes four phases, and we can cover any one of them or all four — whichever your team is not set up to do itself.

01Design — the idea becomes preliminary calculations, sketches and 3D models — the point at which it stops being a conversation.
02Verification — CAE tools estimate what it will do: CFD and FEM analyses, coupled wherever the physics demands it, alongside in-house code written for the parts no commercial solver covers.
03Validation — experimental tests, in our own laboratory or with certified partners — where a predicted number becomes a measured one.
04Prototype — we build it and test it, with our own 3D printing and our supply chain.

OUR LABORATORY

We test both fluid-dynamic and mechanical components in house, which is what lets a simulation be checked rather than believed.

Tensile and flexural testing is run with certified partners, so a result that has to stand up to a customer's quality department does.

The acquisition and control software is our own, speaking CAN and MODBUS to the rig — so a bench can be instrumented for the question being asked instead of the question the hardware came with.

EQUIPMENT

  • •Wind tunnel, for the aerodynamics of small components
  • •3D printer — Bambu Lab H2D
  • •Pressure sensors (Keller)
  • •Flow meters for high- and low-pressure benches
  • •Thermocouples for thermal measurements
  • •Strain gauges
  • •Vacuum pump

LABORATORY TESTS

  • •Compressor operational curves
  • •Valve flow coefficients
  • •Pressure leak tests
  • •Vacuum tests, down to 5000 Pa
  • •Cold tests, down to −60°C
Test bench instrumented for a flow campaign
The NablaWave laboratory

R&D CASE STUDIES

AEROSPACE

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION INTEGRATION

Engine installation performance optimization

RENEWABLES

HORIZONTAL-AXIS WIND TURBINE

Composite configurations for optimal strength

TURBOMACHINERY

CENTRIFUGAL PUMP

Cooling pump for MotoGP engine — cavitation solved

RENEWABLES

VERTICAL-AXIS WIND TURBINE

Aerodynamic design for low-wind environments

MARITIME

MARINE PROPULSION

Axial pump design for naval propulsion

TURBOMACHINERY

NABLAPUMP

Screw pump geometry for viscous fluids

HVAC

NABLAHVAC

Semi-automated ventilation analysis in closed environments

HVAC

AIR PURIFICATION SYSTEM IN A SUBWAY

PM2.5 dispersion and abatement in underground stations

PIPING

CORRUGATED PIPE

Flow instability and vibration in flexible hose

HVAC

INDUSTRIAL AIR DESTRATIFIER

Removing thermal stratification from industrial sheds

HVAC

ADIABATIC EVAPORATIVE COOLING

ColdAir system performance in a real industrial shed

ELECTRONICS

ELECTRICAL COMPONENT COOLING

Fast thermal estimation for liquid-cooled components

HVAC

LIVESTOCK BUILDING VENTILATION

Air distribution in a heated building with recirculation fans

HVAC

VENTILATED FACADE

Thermo-fluid dynamic performance of a building envelope

RENEWABLES

EOS TURBOWIND

Design and industrialisation of an innovative wind turbine

HEALTH

NASAL CAVITY SIMULATION

Transient CFD of a complete human respiration cycle

HEALTH

EAR CLEANING DEVICE

FEM validation of a deformable silicone tip

FITNESS

SINTESI

The digital gym — product development for fitness equipment

GOT A PROBLEM THAT
DOES NOT FIT A CATALOGUE?

The projects above began as questions nobody had answered yet. Tell us yours and we will say plainly whether we have solved one like it.