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Ansys 2023 Product Releases & Updates

Ansys 2023 R1 expands Discovery’s astonishing live physics, innovative user experience, and robust modeling tools, making it a critical piece of the Ansys digital simulation thread and the best place to start simulation for every engineer and analyst. 

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In 2023 R1, Ansys Sound updates include new enhancements to the Sound Analysis & Specification (SAS) module, allowing users to access integration & differentiation tools to convert, display and analyze (time, spectrum, spectrogram) vibration signals. Updates to the Virtual Reality Sound (VRS) module include the ability for users to accurately play multichannel sound files on multiple speaker setups for any configuration, making the sound comparison as easy as possible. Finally, updates to the Active Sound Design for Electric Vehicles (ASDforEV) module includes access to a new sound design method called Granular Synthesis to rapidly sketch and tune active sounds from a single sound sample.

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Ansys 2023 R1 continues expanding toolsets for Additive Manufacturing users, streamlining design, simulation, and manufacturing workflows. Adding new wizards for distortion compensation and scan pattern-based calibration automates the simulation setup process, reducing the need for lengthy manual setup.

Automated optimization for the first-time-right printing

An enhanced and automated Distortion Compensation wizard within Ansys Mechanical reduces setup time by 50% by eliminating time-consuming manual processes for optimized geometry to print for metal AM. An optimized loop removes the need to run iterations manually by enabling users to set tolerance ranges, allowing the algorithm to provide an optimized geometry.

Increased fidelity

Boost the fidelity of simulations by simulating the exact laser paths used for Laser Powderbed Fusion (LPBF) by integrating the Build File Reader into Mechanical. Loading the identical scan paths enhances print success and process understanding by removing the need to ignore the anisotropic deformation of a part or estimate a generic laser path.

Simplification of the calibration process

Using the new Scan Pattern-based Calibration Wizard in Mechanical simplifies the calibration process for anisotropic simulation. Leverage the increased fidelity with Scan Pattern and Build File-based simulations without increasing the manual effort to establish valid calibration criteria.

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From customized data labeling, improvements in the accuracy of Radar & Lidar sensor outputs, backend distributed & controlled processing, to an effortless handshake with the driving simulator – 2023 R1 updates are sure to impress AVxcelerate users.

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Ansys 2023 R1 builds on the capabilities of materials, SPDM, optimization, and MBSE to amplify simulation benefits by improving engineering efficiency, supporting collaboration, and accelerating innovation. The Ansys Connect collection boasts UX improvements, new integrations, and ease-of-use features to connect the latest processes, tools, and data readily for different engineering teams.

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The latest release of STK continues to expand and enhance integration across Ansys multiphysics solvers, boosting confidence in early concept system design, improving decision-making, and improving the efficiency of the engineering process.

• Enhanced Radar Clutter Modeling
• Integrated EOIR Thermal Model Loading from Aviator
• Cislunar Support

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In 2023 R1, Ansys Twin Builder continues to innovate and provide our customers with the right technology, increasing their digital twin prediction.

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In the 2023 R1 release, Ansys Electronics demonstrates technology leadership in computational electromagnetics. Improvements in simulation performance, meshing, integrations with other Ansys tools, automated workflows, and modeling capabilities extend our leadership in electromagnetic simulation and computational multiphysics for designing high-speed PCBs, electric machines, antennae, radar, and other electronic systems.

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Ansys 2023 R1 strengthens the interoperability in A&D with ARINC 661, software architecture & FACE, and Automotive (AUTOSAR). Cloud availability through Ansys Gateway powered by AWS brings greater flexibility in deploying SCADE products. In addition, test generation assistance improvements speed up the software V&V workflow.

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• Unleash the power of multiple GPUs for a broad spectrum of applications with the full release of the multi-GPU solverin Ansys Fluent
• Address sustainability challenges with accurate hydrogen modeling throughout its value chainin Ansys Fluent
• Automate workflows and craft customized solutions efficiently with an embedded PyConsolein Ansys Fluent
• Major advancements for aerospace applications for all flight regimes in Fluent Aero, a Virtual Blade Model,and a built-in Aero-Optical workflowin Ansys Fluent
• Automatically create a high-fidelity CAD for an extended set of blade features in TurboGrid
• More accurate IC enginesimulations with Arc Channel Tracking (ACT) spark model in Ansys Forte
• DEM-SPH workflow enhancementsand extended Fluent two-way couplingin Ansys Rocky

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Enhanced UX

Ansys 2023 R1 brings a more configurable, adaptable, and localized authoritative source of truth for materials with features like the new CAD connector to guarantee traceability between CAD material records and simulation models.

Proactive Sustainability: now on the cloud

The latest eco data and Eco Audit tool help explore and iterate rapidly–now available with Granta Selectoron Ansys Gateway powered by AWS.

Help Simulation Accuracy with Materials

The latest metals, polymers, PCB, and electromagnetic absorbing data support automotive and high-tech innovation with applications from AV to 5G.

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Easily create and toleratecomplex surfaces in sequential mode, trace single rays in nonsequential mode, simulate and optimize complex 2D gratings, and maintain lens surface equations in stored optical parts.

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• Modernized CAD view in FDTD
• Learn and use Ansys Lumerical RCWA easier with anew GUI
• Access all optics examples from the new Ansys Optics Launcher
• Experience the power of the cloud via the new Ansys Gateway powered by AWS
• Accurately simulate your macroscopic optics design coupled to its nano-scale building blocks via new streamlined workflows between Ansys Lumerical, Zemax, and Speos
• Predict the behavior of active devices via the new self-consistent Ansys Lumerical MQW and Ansys Lumerical CHARGE simulations
• Verify PIC designs via layout-driven workflows in KLayout using the new streamlined layout import feature for component-level design
• Speed up your electro-optical co-simulation of photonic circuits by 5X
• New INTERCONNECT solver models quantum behavior in photonic integrated circuits

For details, please see our release notes. 

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• MTTF (Mean Time to Failure) and MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) values in both FTAs and RBDs
• Beta version of CFT with integrated component fault tree editing in SysML and quantitative evaluation support
• The extended HARA risk graph with the ASIL none value for automotive

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In 2023 R1, the Structures Product Line delivers new features and capabilities that allow our users to perform more accurate, efficient, and customizable simulation analyses, including:

• An AI/ML Resource Prediction feature to provide estimates on expected solve time and memory usage required to solve an Ansys Mechanical simulation.
• Efficiently modify a CAD model without losing the associativity of the model’s features after setup, using geometry-based re-associativity with the Scoping Wizard that detects and reestablishes scoping in Mechanical.
• Improvements to LS-DYNA Incompressible Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (ISPH) for improved data processing, better visualization, data transfer to Mechanical and Fluent, and more.
• Comprehensive battery safety workflow in LS-DYNA simulates thermal runaway following thermal and mechanical abuse. Predict the combined structural, electrical, electrochemical, and thermal (EET) responses of automotive batteries – validated through experiments.
• Enhancements to the Ansys Sherlock parts library include over 400,000 new parts added, allowing users to build more accurate models for analysis. Additionally, improved integrations between Sherlock, Mechanical & Icepak can handle multiple PCB assemblies for motherboard or daughter board applications.

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Customers in aerospace and defense, electronics, and the automotive industry will reach simulation through accelerated associative workflows for bolted connections, the addition of porous media modeling in Live Physics, and the availability of high-frequency electromagnetics within Discovery.

In addition, more analysts can now benefit from Ansys Discovery’s geometry preprocessing workflows, award-winning Live physics, and interactive user experience.   

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A new update in the Ansys Sound ASD for EV module allows users to export an entire Sound project, improving communication and hand-offs between manufacturers and suppliers to facilitate in-vehicle infotainment integration. In addition, the Ansys Sound VRS module has enhanced sound quality for helicopter flight training simulators, enabling new sound sources to be achieved at known control points. Finally, updates to the Sound SAS module provide new representations and calculations for Power Spectral Density (PSD) and linear RMS values.

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Every Ansys Mechanical User can now identify and minimize the risk for build errors and ensure high-quality parts through process simulation for Metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF), Directed Energy Deposition (DED), and Metal Binder Jet (MBJ).

• Workflow Improvements - Automatic Distortion Compensation is the ability to optimize a distortion compensated model within a simple automated workflow, which improves first-time print success.  

• Accuracy Enhancements - Consolidating additive technologies include Laser Power Bed Fusion (LPBF) scan pattern effects in Workbench Additive. With the consolidation of additive technologies, all users can rapidly increase simulation fidelity, capturing localized strain variations in each deposition layer. 

• Speed Performance - Introducing a Machine Learning (ML) model for predicting thermal strain can result in 10X time savings. Users can now easily explore the benefits of varying process setup parameters such as power, speed, and scan vector.   

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With your choice’s driving simulation tool, you can quickly and easily verify and validate your ADAS/AV features, including sensor (radar, LiDAR, and camera) perception. And AVxcelerate can generate reliable, synthetic training data enriched with ground truth information for all sensor types; this data is essential for AI/ML-based perception algorithm training and validation. 

With Ansys 2022 R2, Ansys AVxcelerate continues to enhance and accelerate the development of safe autonomous driving with industry-leading capabilities for simulation-based radar, camera, and LiDAR sensor verification and validation, along with massive data creation utilizing AI capabilities. New NCAP functionality enables OEMs to reduce physical testing to achieve 5-star NCAP ratings. 

Co-simulation capabilities with IPG Automotive CarMaker enhance international traffic sign management to allow OEMs and automotive suppliers to ensure the safety of ADAS features. For example, Traffic Sign recognition or Intelligent Speed Assist by validating the perception algorithms using Ansys physics-based sensors simulation. 

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Highlights include:

• Ansys ModelCenter’s Behavior Execution Engine (BEE) ensures that system design meets behavioral requirements early in the development lifecycle.

• Ansys Minerva’s new ECAD viewer streamlines PCB design and analysis workflows providing designers and engineers a common interface to better collaborate in the design and analysis stages of the lifecycle.

• Ansys optiSLang Pro license option allows simulation analysts using Ansys Workbench and Ansys Electronics Desktop to run parametric design studies using state of the art AI/ML algorithms directly within their analysis. 

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As part of Hybrid Analytics, Fusion Modeling capability allows users to accurately model the residual between model and prediction, allowing users to capture and include any remaining or missing physics into the digital twin.

The new release also includes powerful enhancements in ROM building process to better predict the accuracy of the ROMs with absolute and relative error estimates during the build process of Dynamic ROMs. 

The new library Toshiba ACCU-ROM Toolkit makes designing Electric Power Steering (EPS) system easier, that enables fast simulation for both the electronic circuits and mechanical components.

Several enhancements to the Modelica UI are available in this new release, such as automatic connector sizing for array connections, support for Dialog and Final Annotation, and graphics improvements. 

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Improvements to the Coverage Analysis Assistant further speed-up complex and time-consuming model and code coverage analysis activities.

• New CERT C compliance report: analysis of the SCADE Suite KCG high-quality generated code which ensures compliance CERT C / Safe & Secure Code Generation

• Coverage Analysis Assistant Improvements

• 3D Rendering for Embedded Displays

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• Substantially reduce simulation solve time and power consumption using the multi-GPU solver in Fluent with added support for transient flows including scale resolving simulation (SRS), non-confromal interfaces (NCI), and moving reference frames (MRF)
• Automate processes, build custom workflows and craft customized solutions with PyFluent, opensource access to Fluent via Python.
• Simulate production and consumption of hydrogen with a new proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysis model and validated hydrogen combustion models.
• TurboGrid's automated hybrid meshing technology now supports complex blade tips, end-wall contouring and large blade root blends.
• Model cavitation, phase change and leakage modeling in liquid pump and valve simulations using Forte.
• Performance enhancements using Rocky's particle assembly feature.

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Users of Ansys Mechanical can use the new Ansys Material Calibration app available in Granta MI™ to generate accurate material models from experimental data, to help drive simulation accuracy with materials across the simulation team. 

With material now exportable from any Ansys Granta product to any Ansys flagship solver and a supercharged version of Granta MI Pro, we’re making it easier to take the first step to achieving Material Intelligence. 

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Speed design and boost accuracy with the latest Ansys Speos release. The 2022 R2 release delivers powerful capabilities that speed time to result, improve simulation accuracy, and expand interoperability with other Ansys products. Link powerfully with CAD data thanks to a bi-directional link that eases the end user’s workflow by shortening the design iteration cycle.

2022 R2 brings the launch of Ansys Zemax OpticStudio, providing everything you need to simulate, optimize, and tolerance your optical designs. Design high-confidence virtual prototypes that you can thoroughly analyze before manufacturing.

With Ansys Zemax OpticsBuilder, design exceptional products efficiently and confidently deliver them to manufacturing. Empower engineers to work together on a single, shared file across optical and mechanical teams. Analyze the performance of optomechanical packaging and create optical drawings with a single click.

The 2022 R2 release of Ansys Lumerical introduces powerful new capabilities to extend usability, accuracy, performance, and functionality. These new features enhance modeling capabilities for electro-optical devices, from SPADs to microLEDs and lasers, and empower photonic integrated circuit (PIC) designers with capabilities for process-aware design and electronic-photonic design automation (EPDA).

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• Developments to optical solver cores and HPC performances

• New workflows for modeling a variety of sub-wavelength structures in Lumerical optical solvers and then optimizing the macro-scale design in Zemax to see how it looks to a human using Speos  

• Improved simulation workflows for EAMs and LEDs with multi-quantum wells, as well as for single-photon avalanche photodetectors

• Streamlined design of photonic devices and circuits by using the new capabilities in our process-aware custom component design flow and EPDA flow 

• Advancements to INTERCONNECT and Photonic Verilog-A models generated by CML Compiler.

• New INTERCONNECT solver for modeling quantum behavior in photonic integrated circuits 

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Our A&D customers benefit from improved quantitative fault tree analysis at the highest performance level. Furthermore, with Ansys 2022 R2 we offer componentized fault-tree logic embedded in design models with Component Fault Trees. This significantly reduces the effort of defining fault-trees for huge modular designs while at the same time increasing consistency and quality of such fault trees. 

In the Automotive domain, we have extended the FMEA capabilities to support hybrid-failure nets as required by the VDA-AIAG FMEA standard. The integration with design models has also been extended to increase reusability in the design process. 

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• Enhanced thermal integrity flow for sub-5nm and 3D-IC designs, including new hierarchical Chip Thermal Models (CTM)
• Incremental fixing of IR-drop with the new IR-ECO flow that integrates RedHawk-SC signoff analysis with popular implementation tools for physical ECOs
• Introducing PathFinder-SC, built on the cloud-optimized SeaScape platform, delivers 4x speed and 3x memory reduction essential for electrostatic discharge (ESD) analysis
• Achieve up to 2x speed with RaptorX distributed processing, essential for on-die electromagnetic analyses of high-speed signals

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In this release, significant updates include:

• Access multipurpose workflows quickly and efficiently with a new intuitively designed and customizable toolbar for Ansys Mechanical. The toolbar includes 14 add-ons, including the NVH Toolkit, DesignLife Fatigue, and Bolt Tools.

• New functionality within Ansys Sherlock enables users to export PCB thermal results from Ansys Icepak and structural results from Ansys LS-DYNA into Sherlock for component lifetime predictions, enabling a more advanced closed-loop reliability workflow. 

• An automated co-simulation workflow with Ansys Motion and Ansys Maxwell solves the details of electromagnetic fields and kinematics associated with moving magnets for advanced magnetic latching capabilities. 

   

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