WHERE WE WORK
INDUSTRIES
The same methods, in sectors that share almost nothing else: aerospace, energy, maritime, pumps and turbomachinery, building climate, sports equipment, electronics, piping, composite materials and medical devices.
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AEROSPACE
Where the methods come from. Engine installation and intake design, propulsion integration, turboshaft and rotor performance, and the hybrid-electric scenarios that will decide what regional aviation looks like after 2035.
It is also the discipline that sets the standard for everything else we do: a component expected to work the first time, with no spare prototype to learn on.
AEROSPACE
NABLAFOIL
Real-time airfoil aerodynamic performance prediction
AEROSPACE
AIRCRAFT PROPULSION INTEGRATION
Engine installation performance optimization
AEROSPACE
EUROHAPS
The pressurisation system for a stratospheric platform
AEROSPACE
METASTARS
OCMC inlet design for hypersonic atmospheric re-entry
AEROSPACE
AMULET
A ceramic matrix composite fan for service above 800°C
02
ENERGY
Wind turbines, horizontal and vertical axis, taken as a coupled problem rather than two: the aerodynamics that sets the power curve and the structure that has to survive it, optimised together.
The work runs from blade geometry and composite layup to gust response and fatigue, and into hydropower where a reversible turbine has to behave during load rejection as well as at its best point.
RENEWABLES
NABLAWIND
Preliminary wind turbine design, aerodynamics to cost
RENEWABLES
HORIZONTAL-AXIS WIND TURBINE
Composite configurations for optimal strength
RENEWABLES
VERTICAL-AXIS WIND TURBINE
Aerodynamic design for low-wind environments
RENEWABLES
EOS TURBOWIND
Design and industrialisation of an innovative wind turbine
03
MARITIME
Propulsion for fast vessels: waterjets and their inlets, ducted and rim-driven propellers, and the pumps behind them. Aeronautical methods transfer almost directly here, which is how a marine propulsor gets designed with the tools built for an aircraft intake.
Cavitation, thrust and efficiency are the quantities that decide the design, and all three are simulated before anything is cast.
MARITIME
MARINE PROPULSION
Axial pump design for naval propulsion
MARITIME
PROMESEO
Advanced research for the marine propulsion of the future
04
PUMPS & TURBOMACHINERY
Centrifugal, axial and volumetric machines, from the hydraulic design of the impeller to the characteristic curve the customer is promised. Performance, cavitation margin and noise are computed, then checked against a bench.
The same optimisation loops apply to compressor cascades and to the food-grade twin-screw pumps at the other end of the scale.
TURBOMACHINERY
NABLASTEAM
Steam turbine multiphase CFD on open-source libraries
TURBOMACHINERY
CENTRIFUGAL PUMP
Cooling pump for MotoGP engine — cavitation solved
TURBOMACHINERY
NABLAPUMP
Screw pump geometry for viscous fluids
05
HVAC
Ventilation and air conditioning treated as a flow problem: where the air actually goes in a room, a duct or a station, rather than what the sizing table says it should do.
It covers building climate, thermal comfort and energy demand, and extends to air purification in enclosed public spaces, where the quantity that matters is what a passenger breathes.
HVAC
SYSTEM DIGITAL TWIN
Every component of a machine modelled, validated and tracked
HVAC
NABLAFARM
Livestock building climate, designed rather than guessed
HVAC
NABLAHVAC
Semi-automated ventilation analysis in closed environments
HVAC
AIR PURIFICATION SYSTEM IN A SUBWAY
PM2.5 dispersion and abatement in underground stations
HVAC
INDUSTRIAL AIR DESTRATIFIER
Removing thermal stratification from industrial sheds
HVAC
ADIABATIC EVAPORATIVE COOLING
ColdAir system performance in a real industrial shed
HVAC
LIVESTOCK BUILDING VENTILATION
Air distribution in a heated building with recirculation fans
HVAC
VENTILATED FACADE
Thermo-fluid dynamic performance of a building envelope
06
FITNESS
Sports equipment is an unusual place for aerospace methods and a good test of them: a machine that has to be safe, repeatable and pleasant to use, built to a cost, in a market that iterates fast.
Simulation replaces part of the prototype cycle, which is what makes a small team able to ship a new machine at all.
FITNESS
SINTESI
The digital gym — product development for fitness equipment
07
ELECTRONICS
Power electronics and electrical machines fail thermally before they fail electrically, so the design question is where the heat goes. Liquid-cooled components, transformer windings and the circuits that carry the coolant are sized on computed temperatures rather than on a margin taken from a previous product.
Full CFD answers this accurately and slowly; the tools we build answer it in minutes, which is what makes it possible to compare configurations while the design is still open.
ELECTRONICS
NABLAHEAT
Heat transfer inside a transformer, in minutes
ELECTRONICS
ELECTRICAL COMPONENT COOLING
Fast thermal estimation for liquid-cooled components
08
PIPING
Fluid distribution, from the routing of a plant to the behaviour of a single hose. Automatic 3D routing turns a layout that used to take weeks of draughting into a geometry generated from the constraints, and the pressure drop comes out with it.
At the other end of the scale sits the flow inside the pipe: separation, oscillation and the vibration that shortens a component’s life, which are unsteady problems and have to be simulated as such.
PIPING
NABLADUCT
Automatic 3D routing for piping systems
PIPING
CORRUGATED PIPE
Flow instability and vibration in flexible hose
09
MATERIALS
Composites behave differently in every direction, and a laminate has more design parameters than a metal part has dimensions: material, fibre orientation, volume fraction, resin, layup and thickness, each one changing what the others do.
Classical Lamination Theory answers the early questions in seconds where finite elements would take days, and the predictions are checked against flexural tests run in our own laboratory with a certified partner.
MATERIALS
NABLACOMP
Composite laminate behaviour without running FEM
AEROSPACE
AMULET
A ceramic matrix composite fan for service above 800°C
10
HEALTH
Medical and personal-care devices bring a particular difficulty: the part that matters is often soft. Silicone and elastomers deform non-linearly, contact changes as they do, and the component has to keep working across the whole spread of manufacturing tolerance.
Non-linear FEM with hyperelastic material models answers that before a mould is cut — which is what turns an idea for a device into a project that can be industrialised.
HEALTH
NASAL CAVITY SIMULATION
Transient CFD of a complete human respiration cycle
HEALTH
EAR CLEANING DEVICE
FEM validation of a deformable silicone tip
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