One of the biggest challenges in predicting fatigue failure is characterizing the load over the lifetime of a part. Using simulation solutions, like ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS nCode DesignLife, engineers can run numerous load and design variations to ensure their products meet fatigue specifications and will continue to perform beyond the warranty period. Better yet, they can perform simulations and optimizations before building the product. In this way, engineers can make improvements early in the development cycle and utilize optimization algorithms to further streamline the design process. In this webinar, participants will learn the difference between material fatigue and high- and low-cycle fatigue failure, plus how to account for fatigue in design using simulation.
Say goodbye to complicated user-defined functions (UDF) and hello to expressions. With no deep knowledge of programming, you can easily enter an expression, either directly in the field where it will be applied or as a named expression that can be reused at multiple locations. Attend this webinar to learn how to simplify the specification of complex boundary and cell zone conditions with a wide range of powerful expressions, including: Positional variables Field variables Solution variables Reduction operations
Learn about the new look, features and enhancements that will improve your Ansys Fluent user experience. Start right from the Fluent launcher to choose your starting mode and access recent files and parallel processing for meshing and solving. This webinar will cover the new appearance of the software interface, graphics, display colors and shortcuts; productivity tips within the text user interface; drag and drop features and other behavior changes.
In this webinar, learn more about Ansys SpaceClaim updates that support concept modeling and model prep for simulation, including: block recording and bidirectional CAD interfaces to allow replay of modeling operations on modified CAD geometry; constraint-based sketching that makes it easier to create complex sketches for 3D design; and autoskinning of topology optimization results from Ansys Mechanical for automated geometry reconstruction.
Ansys 2020 R1 empowers Ansys Mechanical users to go further than ever before with enhancements to improve the handling of complex, highly nonlinear and massively large models. Sign up to learn more about the enhancements in Ansys 2020 R1!
Ansys Fluent has been enhanced to organize the process for running simulations with a task-based workflow that guides you through the simulation process, reduces the options to only those that are relevant at each point in the process and provides best practices as defaults. This workflow presents you with the right choices to lead you to an accurate solution, making it possible to develop a better product in less time. Read this white paper to see how the new workflow can be can be utilized to reduce the time and software skill required to mesh watertight CAD geometry.
Combustors are complex geometries that have detailed features including fuel atomizers, swirlers, effusion and dilution orifices. Because of the complex nature of the combustor, the meshing process can result in long turnaround times and high costs. Ansys Fluent accelerates the meshing of large, complex geometries, like those of combustors, giving users complete control to generate a high-quality mesh that will yield robust, accurate results. This paper discusses the five best practices for meshing gas turbine combustion processes using Ansys Fluent’s patent pending mosaic meshing, which produces a hexahedral dominant mesh in the core and mosaic polyhedral cells that extend to the inflation layers of the wall. These best practices involve: 1. Watertight Geometry Workflow 2. Mosaic Poly-Hexcore Meshing with Parallel Scalability 3. Inflation Layers 4. Mesh Resolution Per Part 5. Target quality metrics
The sound of a product will directly affect the user experience, making acoustic engineering a hot topic ― especially for transportation and consumer goods companies. Sound can be pleasant or unpleasant, a product benefit or an annoyance. It can also create a strong emotion and reinforce the brand identity of a product. But it can be difficult to quantify and predict the quality of a product’s sound in advance. Today, Ansys VRXPERIENCE Sound offers designers the powerful capability to listen to a simulation of their products’ sounds, based on a virtual prototype.
Ansys SCADE software solutions support an efficient, model-based process for designing and verifying software at the very earliest stages of automated driving development.
Engineering simulation needs all the computer power it can get — and more. FEA and CFD users have complex problems with millions of elements, and generative design — built on simulation — will run simulations many times for each of the thousand solutions it generates. Most engineers are still trying to do all this on ageing workstations. What should you look for in a new workstation? We examine processors, CPUs and GPUs, memory and the latest storage technology. But will even the fastest workstation be enough? Many users find high-performance computing (HPC) to be the next logical step after exhausting the capabilities of workstations. HPC provides surprisingly quick solutions, allowing users to do more simulation iterations as well as more complex simulations. This report discusses introductory level HPCs and what you can expect. We also researched getting HPC as a service, which allows users to draw from an almost limitless amount of computer power that is not only affordable by consultants and small firms, but is also as easy to access as signing up for an account. In this report, we examine the options available for engineering hardware for simulation: The state of the art in engineering workstations. When do you need to jump to HPC? How much faster is HPC over workstations? What to look for in HPC hardware. Affordability of HPC. Is it better to rent HPC when you need it?
Designing 5G wireless systems is a huge undertaking. Antenna beamforming and beamsteering in 5G are key to improve the capacity and data rates for wireless applications. Massive MIMO, for instance, requires phased array antennas to be designed carefully to optimize the gain and ensure targeted coverage. Ansys tools are ideal for designing and simulating antennas, antenna-to-antenna coupling and environmental effects on signal propagation. Ansys solutions can enable successful deployment of V2X and V2V systems to improve the safety of self-driving cars that are expected to hit the road in 5G. Read this whitepaper to learn more.
