ANSYS Advantage - Volume IX, Issue 1, 2015

FOCUS ON HEALTHCARE
Innovation in healthcare is not just a question of business; often it is a matter of life and death. Medical and pharmaceutical companies must turn a profit, but they also have an ethical duty to improve lives. Healthcare organizations, therefore, face the dilemma of how to minimize cost and maximize efficiency. Simulation is an effective answer to this problem. In this issue of ANSYS Advantage, leading healthcare companies show how simulation has assisted them in reaching their bottom line goals while delivering safe and reliable products.
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EDITORIAL
Entering the In Silico Era
The healthcare industry needs solutions now. The world requires rapid-fire innovation to treat an aging population, reduce healthcare costs and ensure the reliability of treatments. Medical and pharmaceutical leaders are widely adopting engineering simulation to create significant opportunities from these challenges. -
NEWS
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BEST PRACTICES
In Vivo, In Vitro, In Silico!
Four best practices help ensure a smooth technology shift to computer modeling and simulation for medical device and pharmaceutical organizations. -
OPHTHALMOLOGY
A Perfect Vision
To dramatically improve vision through customized patient-specific surgery, Optimeyes employs structural simulation in clinical ophthalmology. -
WEARABLE DEVICES
Charged Up
Medtronic ensures the safety of recharging subcutaneous medical devices through simulation. -
HEARING AIDS
I Hear You
Simulation improves hearing aid performance while saving time and money by quickly iterating through design alternatives. -
HEALTHCARE REGULATION
Simulation for Regulation
The Medical Device Innovation Consortium advances the use of simulation in the development and regulation of medical devices. -
CARDIOLOGY
Decision Under Pressure
A non-invasive computational method for determining pressure drop across an arterial blockage could help cardiologists make more-objective and accurate treatment decisions. -
PHARMACEUTICAL
The Right Mix
CFD simulation saves time and money by validating the ability of a single-use mixer design to scale to 5,000 liters. -
CONSTRUCTION
Energy-Efficient Tunnel Ventilation
A leading ventilation company develops jet fans that are smaller and up to 30 percent more energy efficient -
FLUID–MECHANICAL SYSTEMS SIMULATION
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FLUID–MECHANICAL SYSTEMS SIMULATION
Knowing the Score
Analyzing a World Cup stadium with ANSYS multiphysics tools takes one-tenth the time of wind-tunnel testing. -
ACADEMIC
Developing Reliable Small Antennas for Smartphones
A team of researchers used ANSYS technology to design a small multiband internal antenna to successfully operate across eight different frequency bands. -
ACADEMIC
Magnetic Nanoparticle Simulation
Research using simulation will help to develop biomagnetic beads for disease treatment. -
ANALYSIS TOOLS
Accelerating ANSYS Fluent Simulations with NVIDIA GPUs
ANSYS Fluent supports GPUs so engineers can meet project schedules and get robust products to market faster.