Several real-life industrial applications requires to discover some unknown material property or to find some tuning calculation parameter in order to match with experimental data.
This is the purpose of doing reverse engineering.

To successfully achieve this goal, with high accuracy and in short times, users can use the optimization software IOSO, by SigmaTech.
IOSO is a light software that works coupled with modern simulation or modeling tools, invoking these software automatically, analyzing the results given, and identifying what are the right physical parameters that matches with the experimental data.

IOSO can then be used for applications like:
    • finding unknown material properties in casting applications
    • finding unknown fluid properties or heat transfer coefficients
    • search for the right numerical tuning parameters that match with experimental data
    • search for quantities that minimize the difference between real-life results and numerical results

IOSO is a new generation optimization software, this because it use Indirect Optimization based on Self Organization algorithms: instead of specifying some well known optimization strategy before solving the task (requires knowledge and a fixed strategy), IOSO uses simultanously up to 7 different known optimization strategies, and adapting the surface response shape runtime.

Through numerical reverse engineering costs are also reduced: no more time lost in doing very expansive experimental analysis, using advanced thermo-cameras or optical devices, but a simple virtual process of optimizing one or more numerical parameters.

Optimization tools are usually coupled with virtual simulation software: if you are looking for a fully 3D fluid-dynamics simulation software then XC Engineering suggests to try FLOW-3D, by FlowScience Inc.