ANANKE ENGINES

Computational engines built on necessity

Ananke Engines develops deep technology where mathematics, physics and computation meet: systems whose behaviour follows from their constraints.

Flagship Emergent, domain-agnostic FEM solver Describe the test. The solver determines the physics.
See the solver Validation programme

Mission

Engines that find what a problem necessarily implies.

Vision

We are working toward computation in which the model follows from the problem itself.

First principles

We start from what must hold: conservation laws, constraints, the rules of the system. Everything else is derived from them, not borrowed by analogy or picked from a catalogue.

  1. iBegin with what cannot be otherwise.
  2. iiDerive the rest; assume nothing that can be derived.
  3. iiiTrust a result only if it traces back to its principles.
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    Order

    One rule, repeated: circles at a fixed spacing.

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    Interaction

    A second system enters, offset from the first. Neither rule changes.

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    Complexity

    The overlap produces a pattern that neither system contains.

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    Emergence

    The pattern is lawful. Each fringe is a hyperbola with its foci at the two centres, a consequence of rules that never mention it.

Today the principle drives a simulation engine. The same principle extends to swarms, to search, and to the languages machines are written in.

Engines

One centre, engines in orbit.

Drag to turn the system. Each planet grows as its engine matures. The centre and FEM open now.

Technology

  1. 01 Flagship TRL 4

    Emergent, domain-agnostic FEM solver

    Make engineering simulation trustworthy for equipment that cannot be tested to destruction.

    Large transformers, primary steel structures and other critical equipment are built once. Their design rests on simulation, and every simulation rests on a modelling choice made by hand before the first calculation. The solver makes that choice explicit, checkable and repeatable.

    Deterministic
    The same problem gives the same result, every time.
    Traceable
    Every modelling decision can be explained and defended.
    Domain-agnostic
    One solver for mechanics, heat, flow, electromagnetics and their couplings.
    AI as operator
    AI can run the platform. It never decides the result.

    How it works

    The engineer describes the test: geometry, materials, loads and boundary conditions. The platform determines which physical phenomena matter and how they interact, solves them with standard numerical methods and records the reason for every choice.

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      Problem specification

      Geometry, materials, loads, boundary conditions. No equations.

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      Physics determined

      The platform decides which phenomena matter and how they couple.

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      Solution

      Standard numerical methods solve the description.

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      Traceable result

      Every choice along the way can be explained.

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    State
    Waiting
    Illustration, not solver output: a potential relaxing between two fixed boundaries. Drag a boundary and watch the field settle again.
    Maturity
    TRL 4 today. Components integrated and tested in the laboratory.
    Target
    TRL 6 with validation partners. Demonstration in a relevant environment.
    Verification
    NAFEMS linear-elastic and thermal benchmark suites.
    Scope
    Mechanics, heat, flow, electromagnetics and their combinations.
    Results
    Deterministic and reproducible. No statistical model decides an answer.

Validation

Help us validate the solver against equipment that has already been measured.

Benchmarks show that equations are solved correctly. Only measurements on real equipment show that the physical description is right. That step needs partners with measured data.

Propose a validation case Request the programme brief
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Today: TRL 4. Integrated components, laboratory tests Target: TRL 6, with partners. Demonstration in a relevant environment

How a blind validation works

Typical duration 3–6 months per case. Historical test results are ideal: no new measurements, no cost, no risk to production.

Joint

Agree

NDA and data-sharing agreement.

Joint

Select

One case. Acceptance criteria fixed in advance.

Partner

Share inputs

Design inputs only. Measurements stay with you.

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Predict

We submit predictions before seeing any results.

Partner

Compare

You reveal the measurements and compare.

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Report

We write the validation report and hand it over to you.

Where we are looking for partners

  • Energy

    Power and distribution transformers, HV equipment, switchgear.

    Typical validationTemperature rise, short-circuit forces, electromagnetic fields.

  • Materials research

    Laboratories and institutes characterising material behaviour.

    Typical validationElastic–plastic response, temperature dependence, material model selection.

  • Steel structures

    Bridges, halls, towers, connections, pressure equipment.

    Typical validationLarge deformation, plasticity, buckling, load tests.

  • Other safety-critical fields

    Equipment that is built once and must work the first time.

    Typical validationYour measured case; we assess the fit together.

What we need

Paired design and test data for one object or specimen.

  • Geometry, drawings or CAD
  • Materials and their properties
  • Loads, operating and boundary conditions
  • Measured results, test protocol and uncertainty

What you get

  • Extra predictions for your cases at no cost
  • An independent check of your own models
  • Early-adopter terms in your field
  • Co-authored publications, if you wish
  • Future joint projects

Your data stays yours

  • Mutual NDA before any data is exchanged
  • Used only for the agreed validation
  • Anonymised or normalised inputs accepted
  • Deleted after the project, confirmed in writing

Contact

Tell us what you are working on.

If you have measured data, a hard simulation problem or a research question in one of our directions, write to us. Technical questions get technical answers.

Email contact@anankeengines.com
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Company Ananke Engines s.r.o., Czech Republic.