TriVista’s Newhaven

From 1 November 2017, TriVista relocated to the Newhaven Enterprise centre located on Denton Island and adjacent to the Newhaven town centre. TriVista Engineering Limited started as a new company in the Sussex Innovation Centre located on the University of Sussex campus in December 2001 and were based there for the last 16 years. During…

Building ventilation and fire / smoke CFD analyses:

The recent Grenfell Tower fire tragedy has highlighted the importance of fire safety engineering in modern building design. TriVista has recently performed an interesting CFD analysis project predicting both internal building ventilation under specified operating conditions and also smoke contamination in a worst-case fire scenario. The ventilation section of this study had the objective of…

IMechE – Simulation and Modelling 2017 event

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is hosting a Simulation and Modelling 2017 event from 12th-13th September in Birmingham. On looking over the agenda, this event looks very interesting covering the latest simulation techniques and insights with regards to computer aided and virtual engineering. Topics being presented include: advances being made in optimisation; the usage…

TriVista assisted WPL with FEA on Miranda RBC product

WPL Ltd is an internationally recognised leader in the design, manufacture and supply of standardised and bespoke environmental sewage and wastewater management process solutions. TriVista was requested by WPL Ltd to perform Finite Element Analysis (FEA) on their next generation Miranda Rotating Biological Contactor (RBC) product. This highly efficient Miranda RBC is an advancement on…

FE and CFD result 3D printed colour models:

TriVista’s engineers are very familiar with using the powerful graphical post-processing capabilities of ANSYS for both FE and CFD analysis results that assist in both identifying problem regions and providing a greater understanding of the product. These tools enable distributions and localised peaks to be readily visualised in 3D therefore enabling decisions to be made…

ANSYS 2017 user conference

  An Ansys user conference was held on 17 May 2017 in Warwick at which ANSYS Inc presented: their latest company news; emerging trends in the CAE industry; details of fluids (CFD) product suite improvements at release 18; Structures (Mechanical) product suite enhancements in latest release 18; Advanced and emerging simulation capabilities and details of…

Sussex Chamber – Manufacturing Forum

  TriVista Engineering Director, Mr Xuefeng Wu, attended the manufacturing Forum of the Sussex Chamber of Commerce on 23 May 2017 in Burgess Hill. Highlights of the forum were a presentation by Mr Ian Ratcliff the Chief Executive of HPC Precision Engineering on their manufacture capabilities and a tour of the HPC site. Xuefeng said Ian…