Willi Bruckbauer, founder of BORA Lüftungstechnik GmbH, has significantly influenced modern kitchen design through his novel cooktop extractor systems. BORA leverages advanced design and simulation tools to provide innovative cooking ventilation solutions that accommodate sophisticated kitchen aesthetics.

After a successful Proof of Concept (PoC) to evaluate PowerFLOW’s efficacy in simulating aeroacoustic behavior compared with their traditional [physical] experimental methods, BORA adopted SIMULIA PowerFLOW. The team recognized the software’s capability to enhance their understanding of complex fluid interactions within their products, which traditional experimental approaches could not achieve. The visual insights and detailed data provided by PowerFLOW facilitated a deeper understanding of the acoustic and aerodynamic performance of BORA’s designs.

BORA also utilizes the SIMULIA Cloud, which offers browser-based access to the software. This cuts costs and accelerates the process, enabling complex simulations to be completed within hours.

BORA has repeatedly expressed the benefits of visually inspecting internal system dynamics with PowerFLOW, which informs their decision-making processes and design improvements. This capability has been instrumental in their latest developments, including aerodynamically optimizing their products solely using PowerFLOW simulations, thereby eliminating the need for physical prototypes. 

A deeper aerodynamic analysis provided meaningful insights of the flow paths through the cooktop extractor. This analysis highlighted regions of high velocity and vorticity concentration, possibly leading to noise source generation and subsequent propagation

"SIMULIA helps us to push the efficiency of our products to the limits of what is physically possible."

-Dr. Johannes Eben, Head of Technology, BORA