AI in Physics-Based Product Performance Simulation: From Surrogates to Solvers
A Complimentary CIMdata Educational Webinar with Sandeepak Natu, Executive Consultant & Co-Director, Simulation-Driven Systems Development Consulting Practice, CIMdata & Diego Tamburini Ph.D., Executive Consultant & AI Practice Director, CIMdata
9 October 2025
11:00 EDT | 08:00 PDT | 17:00 CET
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Do these challenges sound familiar?
- Slow Workflows: Our traditional “stage gate” simulation workflows are too slow for agile product development, creating significant delays that keep us from innovating quickly.
- ROM/DOE Limitations: We’ve found that reduced order models (ROMs) and DOE techniques are faster than detailed 3D CAD-based simulations but often sacrifice accuracy or require manual setup.
- Expertise Bottleneck: Availability of simulation expertise within product design teams is often a design process limitation, and our efforts at “simulation democratization” have seen only limited adoption.
- Data Reuse Gap: Despite our widespread adoption of PDM/PLM, we as engineers struggle to reuse valuable legacy simulation data effectively, as it is still not part of our “core” data strategy.
- Integration Uncertainty: We lack clarity on how to integrate AI into our long-established simulation workflows, leaving us uncertain about where to start and how to validate the results vs. empirical data.
- Trust and Validation: As engineers and managers, we are concerned about whether AI-driven results can be trusted in our safety-critical industries (aerospace, automotive, energy), which is a major barrier to adoption.
Physics-based simulation and analytics are central to innovative product design processes and validation of performance requirements throughout the entire product lifecycle. Yet, high-fidelity simulation models often require days or weeks to develop and solve, not to mention the cost of high-performance computing.
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming this landscape. From physics-informed neural networks to generative physics models and foundation models trained on large data sets, AI now enables simulations that are 100X – 1000X faster while retaining engineering-level accuracy.
This webinar will examine how AI techniques are reshaping the simulation and analytics disciplines, highlight the role of startups and established solution providers, and discuss how NVIDIA’s software stack (PhysicsNeMo, Omniverse, CUDA/HPC SDK) is fueling this transformation from an industry analyst’s perspective.
This webinar will help you:
- Understand the emerging AI techniques in simulation: surrogates, PINNs, neural operators, and generative models.
- Learn how startups (BeyondMath, Emmi, Navier, PhysicsX, Neural Concept) and cloud-based simulation solutions (Luminary, Simscale, Rescale) are pushing simulation beyond traditional boundaries.
- Understand how established solution providers (Ansys, Siemens, Dassault, Cadence, Keysight, etc.) are integrating AI into their platforms.
- Gain insight into NVIDIA’s enabling role: PhysicsNeMo (formerly Modulus), Omniverse, and HPC stack.
- Discover how AI, through surrogate models and AI-driven design space exploration, enables generative design approaches that were previously impractical due to computational limits.
- Identify the advantages and limitations of AI vs. traditional ROM approaches.
- Learn about real-world applications across aerospace, automotive, energy, and robotics.
- Recognize the role of enterprise architecture and data management frameworks in enabling this transformation.
Who should attend?
This webinar is designed for anyone involved in systems engineering, product development, and simulation strategy and best practices implementation, including:
- Simulation & analysis engineers (CFD, FEA, multiphysics).
- R&D managers who are seeking faster design cycles and innovation.
- Digital twin and AI/ML specialists exploring hybrid models.
- IT/HPC decision-makers evaluating GPU or cloud deployment strategies.
- Executives assessing the impact of AI in simulation on competitiveness and ROI.
During the webinar, you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the topics discussed.