Simulation-driven Risk Engineering
Climate change and a shifting business landscape are creating risks that past experience can no longer explain. Aerota, Inc. uses advanced analytics built on aerospace-grade thermo-fluid simulation technology to reproduce floods, major fires and explosions, verify their impact, and support decisions grounded in evidence.
Challenges
Climate change is making windstorms and floods more frequent and severe, and a single major fire can be devastating. Losses on a scale never seen before are becoming common, and historical data alone can no longer tell you how bad the next one could be.
As disasters grow more frequent and severe, premiums keep climbing. Many companies can no longer secure the coverage they need and are left carrying the risk themselves.
Without a consistent way to compare risk across sites and assets, it is impossible to know where a limited budget will reduce losses the most.
Services
Physics-based analysis reproduces how losses actually occur, putting a monetary value on the risk at each of your sites.
Risk Assessment
We estimate scenario losses and probable maximum loss (PML) for your sites, buildings and equipment — including indirect losses from business interruption.
Risk Finance
Using quantified results, we help optimize limits, deductibles and program structure — and provide the technical evidence you need when negotiating with insurers and brokers.
Mitigation
We re-run the analysis with measures in place — flood barriers, elevated equipment, wind retrofits, fire compartments, sprinklers — and compare the loss reduction, prioritizing the most cost-effective options.
Technology
Thermo-fluid simulation is used at the frontier of engineering to design rockets and jet engines. Aerota, Inc. applies these physics-based methods to disaster risk, computing how water, wind, fire, smoke and toxic gases actually behave — and reflecting building geometry, equipment layout and surrounding terrain to reveal site-specific risks that statistics alone cannot.
Validated by experimentOur models are validated against experimental data, so every risk assessment rests on simulations proven to reproduce real-world phenomena with high accuracy.
Academic expertiseExperts engaged in academic research on combustion and two-layer flow analysis take part in developing and validating our analysis methods, bringing insight from the forefront of research to practical risk assessment.
Engineering frontier
Applied to
FLOOD
Starting from rainfall and river overflow, we calculate how floodwater spreads and how deep it gets, reflecting terrain and building geometry. We then reproduce water ingress into each site’s buildings to estimate damage to buildings, equipment and inventory — and the resulting downtime.
MAJOR FIRE
We simulate fire spread and smoke movement inside and around buildings over time. Taking fire compartments and suppression systems into account, we estimate the burned area and damage to equipment and inventory, and assess whether occupants can evacuate safely as smoke descends along escape routes.
EXPLOSION
We analyze gas and other explosions at plants and factories, computing how blast pressure travels through the building and equipment layout to estimate the impact loads on structures and the extent of damage.
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