PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Using the
newly released ANSYS® (NASDAQ: ANSS) 16.2,
engineers can now create virtual prototypes of complete systems,
enabling them to make significant strides in innovation and to
unleash next-generation products within their industries.
As products – from automobiles to smartphones to wearable
technology – become more complex and development times continue to
shrink, the need to simulate whole systems grows. Through
simulation, engineers can take full advantage of the growing number
of opportunities presented by the rapid innovation of materials,
electronics and processes. While some manufacturers have optimized
the design of components or smaller sub-systems, until today's
ANSYS release, no comprehensive solution has existed for simulating
complete systems. The complexity within systems arises from the
challenges of connecting the individual pieces to ensure they work
together as designed. By developing complete virtual prototypes,
leading companies can jump-start their innovation and leapfrog the
competition.
"ANSYS customers are already solving component and sub-system
problems using the most advanced software available. But with
today's release of ANSYS 16.2, they expand to the system level,"
said Jim Cashman, ANSYS president
and CEO. "We're offering engineers the most advanced engineering
solution technologies on the market to predict real-world product
performance using accurate, fast and reliable simulation. By
leveraging these new capabilities, enterprises will gain
competitive advantage in a competitive market."
"Understanding how the whole system works is critical to
developing an optimized design in minimal time," said Jim Shaikh, founder of yoomi, which creates
self-warming baby bottle products. "We perform a series of design
studies using the simulation software and utilize the results to
build a simpler analytical model to crunch through thousands of
possible geometric alternatives."
Part of this new simulation approach is made possible by
enhancements to ANSYS®
Simplorer®, a comprehensive platform for
multidisciplinary systems modeling. In this new release, Simplorer
can now assemble and simulate electrical, electronic, thermo-fluid,
mechanical and embedded software components. The methodology offers
advanced 3-D precision when needed, as well as reduced-order
modeling for verifying multi-domain system performance
interaction.
"The systems enhancements made in ANSYS 16.2 will elevate our
product development process with its new 3-D simulation
capabilities," said Steve Franceschini, director of
engineering at Meggitt OECO, which develops power generation and
conversion products. "With the ability to virtually build, test and
validate our prototypes with ANSYS 16.2, we will have the ability
to further innovate our reliable products faster."
AIM Advancements Expand Multiphysics Reach of Systems
Engineering
ANSYS 16.2 offers significant advancements in
systems engineering through ANSYS®
AIM®, the first integrated and
comprehensive multiphysics simulation environment designed for
engineers, which was introduced earlier this year. AIM has rapidly
developed and ANSYS 16.2 represents its next step forward. Among
the many new multiphysics and systems capabilities are heat
transfer and thermal-stress, gas flows, and structural deformation
and stress.
Optimizing heat transfer and thermal-stress is a critical design
issue for many types of industry applications, such as heat
exchangers, thermal mixing valves, engine components and electronic
devices. In such applications, an accurate prediction of the
temperature and heat transfer in both the fluid and solid regions
is essential to accurately predict the thermal and thermal-stress
performance of the design. AIM now includes new features to support
a comprehensive conjugate heat transfer analysis and one-way
fluid-structure interaction to compute thermal-stress.
Predicting the correct flow field for compressible gas flows in
the subsonic and transonic range is a critical design issue for
many different applications. Industry applications include - high
speed flow over airfoils or nacelles, and high-pressure flows in
natural gas pipelines and valves. AIM now supports an accurate
prediction of the flow field, variation of the gas density and
thermal behavior for all compressible flow applications, which is
critical for predicting the performance of a design.
In a range of structural applications, nonlinear contact is
required to accurately predict deformation and stress in assemblies
where multiple components are connected by interference fits,
bolts, welds or are otherwise joined together. AIM includes robust
nonlinear contact simulation using advanced solver technology for
surface-to-surface contact combined with automatic contact surface
detection and automatic nonlinear solution control.
AIM makes all of these simulation applications available to
experts within one physics domain, as well as product designers who
need to span multiple domains, making simulation more broadly
applicable across different engineering disciplines.
Customization Critical in Systems Engineering
Due to the complexity of systems engineering, workflow and
automation are critical. ANSYS 16.2 automates the overall approach
to developing embedded software systems for avionics. A new systems
development product, ANSYS® SCADE System
Avionics Package™, simplifies systems design
capabilities for the aerospace and defense industries. It delivers
out-of-the-box templates for compliant design systems that are
compliant with standard avionics protocols and operating systems,
including: ARINC 653, ARINC 429 and AFDX configurations.
To accommodate the needs of a wide varieties of industries that
require more customized workflows, ANSYS has added new capabilities
in the Workbench platform and ANSYS Customization Toolkit (ACT) to
customize simulation tools to accelerate the overall design process
and workflows. ACT wizards provide customized simulation
instructions and user interfaces to integrate any application in
Workbench. These wizards span workflows across applications
and guide the user through a single set of instructions.
Custom templates, as a part of the ACT enhancements, are also
available in AIM to provide an authoring tool for highly automated
and detailed simulation processes. These templates span the entire
AIM workflow from geometry to results, as well as across all
physics that may be a part of the simulation process. This critical
capability enables multi-disciplinary teams to work effectively
together and to deliver innovative advances across all disciplines
of product design.
About ANSYS, Inc.
ANSYS brings clarity and insight to customers' most complex
design challenges through fast, accurate and reliable engineering
simulation. Our technology enables organizations ― no matter their
industry ― to predict with confidence that their products will
thrive in the real world. Customers trust our software to help
ensure product integrity and drive business success through
innovation. Founded in 1970, ANSYS employs over 2750 professionals,
many of them experts in engineering fields such as finite element
analysis, computational fluid dynamics, electronics and
electromagnetics, embedded software, system simulation and design
optimization. Headquartered south of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., ANSYS has more than 75 strategic sales
locations throughout the world with a network of channel partners
in 40+ countries. Visit www.ansys.com for more information.
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