Automotive
Webinar Series

Learn how Ansys tools can model the physics governing the behavior of synchronous machines and assist developers in optimizing tuning parameters, e.g., geometry, material selection and the machine’s feeding.

Speaker: Daniel Bachinski Pinhal, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys

Researchers worldwide are trying to develop a better battery to replace Li-ion technology. For now, optimizing the configuration of Li-ion batteries is the best method of increasing battery performance, but batteries are complex systems that are difficult to model and test using physical prototypes.

Application Field: Electrification

Speakers: Rolf Reinelt, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys | Samuel Talvy, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys

This 20-minute webinar shows how Ansys Motor-CAD can be used with Ansys optiSLang to provide multi-objective optimization, using multiphysics analysis to evaluate each candidate design against the full specification.

Application Field: Electrification

Speaker: Nicolas Riviere, Senior E-Motor Designer, Motor Design Ltd.

Power electronics is a part of just about every market that involves electrification of systems: cell phones, computers, consumer electronics, automobiles, ships, aircraft, spacecraft and everything in between. This includes all types of power conditioning such as rectifiers (AC to DC), converters (DC to DC) and inverters (DC to AC). It is vital to be able to evaluate the power electronics in the overall power system.

These types of systems require a suite of design, modeling and analysis tools (for magnetics, power device characterization, cabling, bus bars, PCB parasitics, EMI/EMC, thermal, etc). This webinar highlights Ansys solutions to address all these aspects of power electronics and power systems.

Application Field: Electrification

Speaker: Steve Chwirka, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys

This webinar shows a range of options for modeling a motor in a systems simulation environment, using an Ansys Motor-CAD model. A range of electromagnetic, loss, thermal and control models are demonstrated with different levels of fidelity and computation speeds.

Application Field: Electrification

Speaker: Jonathan Godbehere, Motor Design Ltd.

A simulation platform solution for electric machines encompasses design and analysis of multiphysics and system modeling approaches to address electromagnetic, thermal, acoustic and drive performance. This webinar provides an overview of simulation solutions available for the initial design of machines, efficiency maps, and temperature-dependent demagnetization. It also illustrates a multiphysics coupled workflow to predict the thermal performance and acoustic signature of the machine. Furthermore, techniques to extract an equivalent circuit model from FEA for a system-level analysis that includes the electric drive and controller will be discussed.

Application Field: Electrification

Speaker: Pavani Gottipati, Lead Application Engineer, Ansys

Design and optimization of high-performance electric machines (e.g., motors and generators) require a multistage process to account for three major performance metrics: electromagnetic, structural/acoustic and thermal. Traditionally, designs were based on a single physics and were conducted by separate engineering groups. Now, by using a multiphysics and system platform, you can consider all critical design goals simultaneously without compromising solution accuracy. In this webinar, we’ll discuss accurate CFD/thermal solutions that enable faster, more reliable and more efficient electric machine designs.

Application Field: Electrification

Speaker: Davide Frigerio, Lead Application Engineer, Ansys

This webinar covers the Ansys Digital Twin Solutions for electric drive systems, which range from multiphysics libraries to high-fidelity simulations using reduced-order models (ROMs). This webinar also covers industrial application examples for electric drive systems.

Speakers: Christophe Petre, Manager Product Specialist & Jose-Luis Gonzalez, Application Engineer II, Ansys

Learn how to model the efficiency and dynamic behavior of a light, electric-powered delivery truck in an urban route using Ansys Twin Builder.

Learn how to use the Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA) toolkit in Ansys Twin Builder to make parametric sweeps by simulating failure in constituent components to identify failures and failure modes.

Speakers: Manzoor Ttiwana, Lead Product Manager & Matt Adams, Senior Product Specialist, Ansys

Learn how integrated simulation methods can combine transformer and circuit response to achieve optimal converter performance in high-density power electronics.

Electrification will drive future mobility and providers are pivoting to invest heavily in electric vehicles (EVs). Join this webinar to learn how engineers design each of the four “pillars” of electrification: battery, power electronics, electric motors and electric powertrain integration.

Speaker: Devin Crawford, Director Application Engineering, Ansys

Optimization is a vital part in the design of high-performance electric machines. A variety of applications with different performance requirements may be improved by selecting optimum geometry dimensions, material properties and excitations. This requires powerful tools to reduce the optimization time and shorten time to market for electric machines.

Speaker: Arash Hassanpour, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys

Multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) radar enables “4D imaging” for driver-assistance and automated driving systems. 

This webinar will describe the application of HFSS SBR+ to accurately model the physical interaction of radar with dynamic objects to predict radar performance and capture the micro-Doppler effect. We will describe how to create and modify dynamic objects exhibiting motion within the local frame of reference and provide an outlook on the application of machine learning for target classification.

Application Field: ADAS and Autonomous Driving

Speaker: Hen Leibovich, Application Engineer II, Ansys

Autonomous vehicles must perform flawlessly in every situation, including hazardous weather conditions (rain, fog, snow) to reach Level 5 autonomy. Simulation is needed to test sensor performance and reliability in all conditions, including edge cases.

In this webinar, we present the capabilities of Ansys Speos to simulate weather conditions and analyze the performance of sensors like lidar, optical cameras and thermal cameras from FLIR Systems.

Application Field: ADAS and Autonomous Driving

Speaker: Sandra Gely, Manager Application Engineering, Ansys

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) have recently been thrust into the spotlight in the automotive industry as car makers and technology companies pursue effective active safety systems and fully autonomous vehicles. Radar has emerged as the primary sensor technology for active/passive safety in advanced driver assistance systems. Physically building and testing radar systems to demonstrate reliability is an expensive and time-consuming process. Simulation is the most practical solution to designing and testing radar systems. This webinar provides a complete, full physics simulation workflow for automotive radar using finite element method and asymptotic ray tracing electromagnetic solvers. The design and optimization of both transmitter and receiver antennas is presented. Antenna interaction with vehicle bumper and fascia is also investigated.

Application Field: ADAS and Autonomous Driving

Speaker: Amazir Moknache, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys

This live stream webinar highlights physics-based real-time radar simulation applied to a reinforcement learning model for performing longitudinal vehicle control. The Real Time Radar (RTR) simulation introduces a new paradigm for sensor development by leveraging GPU acceleration and new algorithms to accelerate simulation by orders of magnitude without compromising accuracy.

We will demonstrate how to use the open-source driving simulator CARLA and RTR technology integrated via the standardized open simulation interface (OSI).

Application Field: ADAS and Autonomous Driving

This webinar demonstrates how VRXPERIENCE Sensors helps to mitigate the risk that real-world tests pose to other drivers and pedestrians, enabling you to measure the limits of sensor performance and customize your drive tests with a variety of scenarios and road conditions to provide a safer drive. 

Speaker: Kishor Ramaswamy, Manager Application Engineering, Ansys

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are at the core of automotive safety and will serve as the enabling technologies for autonomous vehicles. In this webinar we explore a high-resolution MIMO radar system simulation in realistic driving scenarios. A full physics-based radar scene corner case is modeled to obtain high-fidelity range-Doppler maps. We investigate the effects of inclined roads on late pedestrian detection as well as the effects of construction metal plate radar-returns on false target identification. The radar returns will be processed into Range-Doppler and Angle of Arrival maps. Additionally, micro-Doppler signatures by vehicles and pedestrians will be studied using full-physics simulation.

Application Field: ADAS and Autonomous Driving

Speaker: Amazir Moknache, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys

This webinar explores how Ansys Fluent performed CFD simulations of vehicles in rainy conditions. Rain drop data was exported to Ansys Speos for camera and lidar simulations. Speos results were analyzed with an open source perception algorithm software to determine bounding boxes and confidence levels in identifying various objects on the road.

Speaker: Sandra Gely, Manager Application Engineering, Ansys

Using an automotive head-up display (HUD) imaging system as an example, we will show how to quickly automate the design of a HUD and windshield using Ansys Speos and Ansys optiSLang. See how automated processes help to drastically improve the system's quality during development by identifying potential issues early in the design, including complex boundary conditions. Improve your design quality with robust optical simulations using Ansys Speos and Ansys optiSLang.

Speakers: Stefan Thoene, Senior Application Engineer & Sabrina Niemeier, Application Engineer, Ansys

Cameras are one of the keys to autonomous technology. In this webinar, discover how to increase the accuracy of ADAS/AD simulations using the extended camera sensor simulation capabilities available in Ansys Speos. In addition, learn how a new lens importer now enables you to import any imaging systems into Speos to perform optical analyses while protecting the original system’s intellectual property.

Watch this webinar to learn how to:

• Go further in the modeling of your camera systems, including EPP, 2D distortion, focus distance, DoF and more
• Convert a Speos or ZEMAX Opticstudio design into a simplified model for camera simulation
• Visualize key optical characteristics of a lens system
• Create a new collaborative workflow from lens design to camera simulation

Application Field: Best practices - Speos

Speaker: Petr Fomin, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys

Physics-based simulation is critical for developing power electronic systems, optimizing energy efficiency, increasing reliability, and complying with EMC standards. Save your seat for this upcoming webinar to power your electronic projects.

Physics-based simulation is critical for developing power electronic systems, optimizing energy efficiency, increasing reliability, and complying with EMC standards. Save your seat for this upcoming webinar to power your electronic projects.

This webinar spotlights Ansys 2021 R1’s new capabilities for coupling accurate loss density calculations to thermal solvers for predicting temperature in bus bars. This workflow leverages Ansys Maxwell’s new A-Phi transient analysis to obtain accurate ohmic loss distribution and then uses mapped loss to Ansys Icepak for thermal analysis. With AC proximity and skin-depth losses included, the A-Phi transient solver provides the most accurate power loss calculation for general busbar excitations. 

Learn how integrated simulation methods can combine transformer and circuit response to achieve optimal converter performance in high-density power electronics.

Power electronics is a part of just about every market that involves electrification of systems: cell phones, computers, consumer electronics, automobiles, ships, aircraft, spacecraft and everything in between. This includes all types of power conditioning such as rectifiers (AC to DC), converters (DC to DC) and inverters (DC to AC). It is vital to be able to evaluate the power electronics in the overall power system.

These types of systems require a suite of design, modeling and analysis tools (for magnetics, power device characterization, cabling, bus bars, PCB parasitics, EMI/EMC, thermal, etc). This webinar highlights Ansys solutions to address all these aspects of power electronics and power systems.

Application Field: Electrification

Speaker: Steve Chwirka, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys

This webinar illustrates an Ansys SCADE architectural driven flow that enables model-based end-to-end requirements refinement and implementation from system to software level for ISO26262 ASIL-D Fail Operational + AUTOSAR systems. 

Speakers: Lothar Pfeifer, Manager Application Engineering, Ansys, Tim Puls, Lead Application Engineer, Ansys

Learn about the best practices and tools to help you optimize functional safety processes, safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF) and cybersecurity for automotive electronics.

Speakers: John Birch (HORIBA MIRA), Smitta Balasubramanian (Ansys), Mario Winkler (Ansys), David Henderson (Ansys)

This webinar shows how to manage the complexity related to functional safety, reliability, and cybersecurity in an integrated digital environment. It demonstrates the use of medini analyze and provides insights into a holistic functional safety solution. We will also demonstrate an easy synchronization between medini and codebeamer Application Lifecycle Management.

Learn how to use the Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA) toolkit in Ansys Twin Builder to make parametric sweeps by simulating failure in constituent components to identify failures and failure modes.

Speakers: Manzoor Ttiwana, Lead Product Manager & Matt Adams, Senior Product Specialist, Ansys

Optimization is a vital part in the design of high-performance electric machines. A variety of applications with different performance requirements may be improved by selecting optimum geometry dimensions, material properties and excitations. This requires powerful tools to reduce the optimization time and shorten time to market for electric machines.

Speaker: Arash Hassanpour, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys

Learn the basics as well as the implementation of automation and democratization of CAE workflows for the automotive industry with Ansys optiSLang and Ansys Minerva.

Speakers: Stefan Marth, Manager Application Engineering & Roger Schlegel, Senior Manager Application Engineering, Ansys

This webinar spotlights how Ansys optiSlang’s parametric optimization application helps automotive customers identify and vary key design parameters to identify optimal solutions that meet one or multiple design goals.

Application Field: Parametric Optimization 

Speaker: Johannes Einzinger, Lead Application Engineer, Ansys

This webinar showcases how combining the flexibility of Ansys Additive Suite’s additive manufacturing techniques with the power of Ansys Motion’s topological optimization enables customers to design and manufacture highly efficient and optimized parts to meet all constraints and maximize performance.

Speaker: Sebastian Stahn, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys

This webinar will showcase how numerical simulation can help investigate the behaviour of new plastics and elastomers to reduce design time and accelerate the manufacturing process.

Simulation of sheet metal forming is a common application of Ansys LS-DYNA. In this webinar, we will present a typical simulation setup for this process and introduce some special applications of LS-DYNA.

Speaker: Mikael Schill

This webinar examines how Ansys Fluent and Ansys OptiSLang can drive virtual product development and robust design optimization to support significant improvement in passenger thermal comfort.

In particular, we will go through the main tasks of the simulation workflow such as: the creation and parametrization of an accurate fluid simulation of a generic SUV HVAC cabin starting from unconnected STL format surfaces, the analysis of the parameters fields to optimize performance and the creation of a reduced order model for faster exploration of the design space.

Application Field: Automotive

Speakers: Pedro Afonso, Lead Application Engineer, Ansys | Yann Ravel, Lead Application Engineer, Ansys

Simplify and speed up the design of interior automotive optical elements, such as light guides for mood lighting, by learning how to use Ansys Speos’ dedicated workflow for creating an opto-mechanical system. Based on generative optical design, this workflow dramatically increases your productivity and reduces engineering development time while improving style convergence.

Watch this webinar to learn how to:

• Use Boolean operators optimally
• Perform ideal geometry cutting
• Use TBM efficiently
• Application Field: Best practices - Speos

Application Field: Best practices - Speos

Speaker: Sen Zhang, Application Engineer II, Ansys

Using an automotive head-up display (HUD) imaging system as an example, we will show how to quickly automate the design of a HUD and windshield using Ansys Speos and Ansys optiSLang. See how automated processes help to drastically improve the system's quality during development by identifying potential issues early in the design, including complex boundary conditions. Improve your design quality with robust optical simulations using Ansys Speos and Ansys optiSLang.

Speakers: Stefan Thoene, Senior Application Engineer & Sabrina Niemeier, Application Engineer, Ansys

Car vehicle interiors have evolved since the dawn of automotive. As time passed, a variety of functions and electronics changed the feel of car interiors and the cockpits of the future will be dominated by displays.

This webinar showcases how Ferrari Competizioni GT engineers collaborate with Ferrari’s HMI engineering department and leverage Ansys Speos and Ansys VRXPERIENCE HMI software to efficiently optimize the driving experience and evaluate new driving strategies for track drivers.

Application Field: ADAS and Autonomous Driving

Speaker: Thomas Martineau – Ansys Application Engineer II

This webinar showcases how combining the flexibility of Ansys Additive Suite’s additive manufacturing techniques with the power of Ansys Motion’s topological optimization enables customers to design and manufacture highly efficient and optimized parts to meet all constraints and maximize performance.

Speaker: Sebastian Stahn, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys