About Anvil Sim.
I am Ray Qin, an AI engineer building Anvil Sim from the Bay Area. I want engineering simulation software where AI helps engineers set up, run, inspect, and improve FEA, CFD, thermal, electronics, and geometry workflows.
AI-first engineering simulation, grounded in evidence.
Anvil Sim combines solver kernels, geometry and mesh intake, benchmark gauntlets, native Mac visualization,.anvilprov provenance, and reviewer packets. Meaningful physical claims should connect to inputs, boundary conditions, material assumptions, solver output, benchmark/reference comparison, convergence evidence, and validation steps.
Why evidence packets matter
Evidence packets are how the roadmap stays concrete. Each packet shows the capability Anvil needs to strengthen next: source geometry, mesh quality, solver path, reference comparison, visual replay, or the next benchmark row.
Structural, modal, and FRF
strongest todayKeep expanding the trust wall from cantilever, static elasticity, modal, and harmonic-response fixtures into reviewed bracket and robotics workflows.
Geometry, source faces, and meshing
validation focusEvery load, constraint, and material assumption must bind back to source geometry and survive remeshing before stronger robotics claims are allowed.
CFD validation ladder
highest leverage buildPass simple and canonical flows first: conservation, grid sensitivity, Poiseuille/Couette, cavity, cylinder, Taylor-Green, Sod, then NASA-style public benchmark rungs.
Flagship visuals
evidence-routed onlyBoomerang, flame, Saturn V, and robotics scenes are valuable when viewers can click down into solver inputs, benchmark evidence, and validation steps.
What I am building toward
- AI-native setup, critique, and orchestration for FEA, CFD, thermal, modal, and coupled workflows.
- Native Mac evidence surfaces where visuals stay connected to solver evidence.
- Benchmark-first solver development where flagship scenes earn credibility through smaller passed rungs.
- Reusable evidence packets that make simulation reviewable by skeptical engineers and investors.
- An agentic engineering system that turns deep research into executable build specs, tests, and benchmark closures.
Brand boundaries
- AI-first means solver-grounded. Solvers, benchmarks, and tests carry the claim.
- Visual demos are allowed to be beautiful. They must also route to evidence and validation steps.
- Decision support first. Certification workflows require dedicated evidence packages.
- Narrow workflows compound. The path is benchmark closure and evidence packets that grow into broader parity.
- Benchmarks are product work. Passing more of them is how Anvil becomes more serious.
Contact
- Email: qinjianxyz@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/qinjianxyz
- Pilot access: contact for current demos, reviewer packets, and engineering workflow fit.
Anvil Sim is local-first and native-Mac-first today. The product ambition is much larger: AI-first engineering simulation with computational-physics benchmark evidence, validation roadmap, and evidence-routed visual replay.