ANSYS Advantage - Volume X, Issue 1, 2016
THERMAL-MANAGEMENT
Designing cutting-edge products today often means ensuring operation under extreme conditions including temperatures. Failure to properly manage heat can be costly because it can lead to inefficiency in energy use, sub-optimal performance, and even equipment failure, with potential safety and health implications. This issue of ANSYS Advantage explores how companies across a wide range of industries are using simulation for thermal management early in the development process so that issues do not develop later.
Featured Stories
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Beat the Heat
All products and processes have a thermal comfort zone — a range of temperatures in which they work most efficiently. -
Full Steam Ahead
Startup Nebia is poised to transform the experience of taking a shower.
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Editorial
Designing Hot Products
When developing a new product, managing its thermal signature releases/absorbs in its operating environment — is important for aesthetic and economic reasons. Engineering simulation can help you to find this optimum value and create a long-lasting product that performs well. -
News
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Best Practices
Beat the Heat
All products and processes have a thermal comfort zone — a range of temperatures in which they work most efficiently. -
Consumer Goods
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Aerospace and Defense
Climate Control Gets Elevated
Extreme temperature and pressure differences outside the aircraft while in flight and on the ground must be accommodated to keep passengers comfortable and safe. -
High-Tech
Hot Flash
Using a reduced-order method, engineers at Fairchild Semiconductor have been able to decrease development time for electronic components for electric and hybrid electric vehicles. -
Turbomachinery
Weaving In and Out
Turbines need to run at very high temperatures to reduce fuel burn, but they require internal cooling to maintain structural integrity and meet service-life requirements. -
Automotive
Keeping the Block Cool
As cars become more complex, companies that manufacture the supporting electronic systems must make them reliable and safe. -
Automotive
Under the Hood
The electronics in modern automobiles must operate in a high-temperature, underhood environment without sacrificing performance or reliability. -
Consumer Goods
Lighting the Way
To manage heat removal for LED lights, DuPont engineers used ANSYS CFD simulation to accurately predict temperatures within their proprietary substrate – information that could not be gained without simulation. -
Energy
Powering a Home with Fuel Cells
Home-based electricity generation is possible using a fuel cell system. Panasonic Corporation applied simulation to help reduce the cost of these systems to make them more commercially feasible. -
Turbomachinery
Blown Away
The ANSYS integrated turbomachinery design platform enabled a rotating machinery company to design a centrifugal compressor with a potential for 2 to 5 percent energy savings during wastewater treatment operations. -
Construction
Ahead of the Curve
Simulation software flexibility drastically reduced the time to perform structural analysis of a railway station with complex curves. -
Healthcare
Hearing Gain
Oticon uses multiphysics simulation to advance the personalization of hearing aid performance. -
Solutions
Taking the Heat
A new approach to simplifying ECAD geometry makes it practical to predict warping and dynamics of PCBs under thermal loading. -
Web Exclusives - Healthcare
Boning Up
ANSYS software simulates stress and strain on bones of individual patients to study a new hip-implantation method. -
Web Exclusives - Healthcare
Joined at the Hip
ANSYS simulation helps to determine the hip implant position that will provide the best integration with bone. -
Web Exclusives - Art Conservation
Lightning Strikes More than Once
Multiphysics simulation can help predict where damage is likely to occur, and lightning rods can then be installed to protect the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro.
