A Year of Engineering Insights: Our Top 7 Blogs You Shouldn’t Miss

From smarter thermal systems and next-generation batteries to digital twins, fuel cells, and advanced air mobility, we explored how engineering simulation is reshaping engineering decisions across industries. If you’re working at the intersection of innovation, performance, and efficiency, these seven blogs capture the most impactful ideas we shared in 2025, each addressing real-world engineering challenges with a simulation-first approach to help you kick-start an innovative year ahead.

Here’s a quick tour of our most-read and most-relevant blogs from the year.

Simulation for the HVACR Industry: How to Leverage Machine Learning 

This blog explores how machine learning metamodels can be integrated into system-level HVACR simulations to accelerate decision-making. Using an EV thermal system as a case study, it compares physics-based models with ML-based approaches, showing how engineers can achieve faster simulations while maintaining temperature prediction accuracy, especially valuable during early design and control strategy development.

Digital Twin Simulation: Engineering Smarter, Faster, and More Reliable Products

A practical, step-by-step introduction to digital twin development, this blog explains why digital twins are no longer optional. It breaks down how virtual replicas help teams predict behavior, reduce risk, and improve product reliability, while shortening development cycles across industries.

Perfecting PEM Fuel Cell Water Management Strategies

Water management remains one of the most critical challenges in PEM fuel cell design. This blog dives into stack- and system-level strategies, highlighting how simulation helps engineers balance dry-out and flooding, reduce dependence on expensive physical testing, and optimize performance through integrated component and control modeling.

Solid-State Batteries: Why Virtual Modeling Is the Only Way Forward

As solid-state batteries gain momentum, this blog explains what’s driving the shift away from conventional lithium-ion technology and why simulation is essential. It highlights the complexities of interfacial behavior, ion transport, and mechanical degradation, showing how virtual modeling enables safer, faster, and more informed development of next-generation batteries.

Simulating Series Hybrid Tilt-Rotor Aircraft in GT-SUITE

Focused on the growing Urban Air Mobility (UAM) sector, this blog introduces series hybrid tilt-rotor architectures and explains how they combine VTOL capability with efficient forward flight. It walks through the modeling workflow for VTOL powertrains, helping engineers evaluate performance, range, and energy management early in development.

Data Center Solutions: A Strategic Imperative for Competitive Advantage

With rising energy demands and reliability expectations, this blog explains why data centers have become mission-critical infrastructure. It outlines how system-level simulation supports better cooling strategies, energy efficiency, and resilience the key factors in maintaining uptime and long-term competitiveness.

Introduction to Virtual Calibration: A Smarter Approach to Powertrain Development

This blog challenges traditional powertrain calibration approaches that rely heavily on physical testing. It shows how virtual calibration enables engineers to reduce cost, time, and risk by moving repetitive testing into simulation environments while still integrating physical tests where they add the most value.

🔍 Ready to Explore Deeper?

Each of these blogs offers a focused perspective on how simulation is transforming engineering workflows—across energy, mobility, thermal systems, and digital product development.

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Happy New Year and best wishes for an innovative year ahead!