ANSYS Advantage - Volume VIII, Issue 1, 2014
SPOTLIGHT ON ACADEMICS
ANSYS software has helped generations of students prepare to tackle real-world engineering challenges. It has assisted professors as they teach future engineers the tools that will be important in their careers and aided researchers in producing groundbreaking technical discoveries. This issue of ANSYS Advantage magazine features only a tiny portion of the academic leaders and future engineers who are changing the way we think about engineering education and the world around us.
Featured Stories
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Top of the Class
The University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering was an early adopter of engineering simulation, using ANSYS software for decades to train students in industry-standard practices — while also accelerating faculty research efforts. Swanson’s Dean Gerald Holder discusses the evolving role of technology in meeting future education and research challenges. -
In Your Blood
Patient-specific simulation helps improve endovascular aneurysm repair.
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EDITORIAL
Simulate or Perish
In today’s academic engineering departments, simulation has become a critical capability — not only for multidisciplinary research, but also for equipping students in the classroom with skills for career success. -
NEWS
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BEST PRACTICES
Making the GradeEngineers need advanced skills to tackle today’s complex, multidisciplinary problems. By partnering closely with engineering schools, ANSYS helps ensure that the next generation of engineers is competent to tackle real-world problems in the highest-impact manner. In addition, at labs around the world, ANSYS fuels groundbreaking academic research that has the potential to shape the future.
Web Exclusive Extras:
Green Energy Design at the University of Leeds -
THOUGHT LEADER
Top of the Class
The University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering was an early adopter of engineering simulation, using ANSYS software for decades to train students in industry-standard practices — while also accelerating faculty research efforts. Swanson’s Dean Gerald Holder discusses the evolving role of technology in meeting future education and research challenges. -
ACADEMIC
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ACADEMIC LICENSING
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FLUID–THERMAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Run Like the Wind
Computational fluid dynamics is used as a virtual wind tunnel to optimize the design of scramjet engines at up to Mach 6.5. -
ROBUST ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Live Wire
Researchers designed an unusually compact wearable antenna that covers the entire instrument, scientific and measurement band. -
ACADEMIC STUDENT COMPETITION
Competitions in Education: Learning and Making Engineering FunEvery year, students around the world use simulation in engineering competitions that are not only fun but prepare them for future careers.
Web Exclusive Extras:
Robust Race Car Design: Harbin Institute of TechnologyElectrifying the Competition: Politecnico di Torino
Conquering Rough Terrain: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
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AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE
Breaking the Code
Turbomeca reduces development time by using ANSYS SCADE Suite for helicopter engine control software development. -
BEST PRACTICES
Size Matters
The ANSYS Application Customization Toolkit is put to use to more accurately size welds by taking existing standards into account. -
ANALYSIS TOOLS
Drive For Excellence
The key to developing reliable electric drives is creating a best-practice workflow that incorporates model-based systems engineering and embedded software simulation -
AUTOMOTIVE
Breakthrough for Brake Design
TRW has validated a new method that uses ANSYS Mechanical software to establish the initial contact and compute sliding contact between pads and disc. This approach accounts for system contact conditions, enabling brake noise to be simulated and reducing the need for physical testing to tune the models. -
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Losing Contact
Instead of using standard gears, engineers are turning to harmonic drives to deliver the robust performance required in space applications, such as power transmission systems for lunar vehicles. Multiphysics simulation helps to improve design of a cryogenic noncontact harmonic drive. -
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Cooling Out
The next step in understanding the laws of nature: Thermal simulation helps to design a new generation of magnets for the Large Hadron Collider. -
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
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ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Free Passage
Researchers at Linköping University address diagnosis and treatment planning for aortic coarctation by using ANSYS CFX computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to simulate turbulent blood flow both before and after surgical intervention.
