PITTSBURGH, May 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Engineers can create
next-generation products quicker and easier with today's release of
ANSYS® 18.1. ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) continues to build
upon the digital exploration and digital prototyping capabilities
released in ANSYS 18 – enabling organizations to simulate more
upfront, limit costly late-stage design changes, and bring their
innovative products to market faster and easier.
"Products are becoming smarter and organizations are adopting
simulation across the entire lifecycle to digitally gain insight
into product choices at every stage of the process – a growing
trend we call pervasive engineering simulation. Our customers,
large and small, are developing the products of tomorrow and they
know that simulation is the only way to gain the engineering
insight they need to make those products a reality," said Mark
Hindsbo, ANSYS general manager. "This latest release continues the
tradition of having the most complete and accurate solution
portfolio in the industry, so our customers can trust the
simulation results to conquer the toughest design challenges and
accelerate product innovation. And to bring these capabilities to
more and more users, enabling every engineer to use simulation in
their product development."
Highlights of the release include:
Faster, Higher Fidelity for Large-scale Fluid
Simulations
In the fluids suite, ANSYS 18.1 delivers faster, higher fidelity
– enabling users to simulate more quickly and accurately. Users
will benefit from greater flexibility setting up periodic
boundaries to deliver high fidelity results up to 9 times faster
for in-cylinder diesel simulations. Turbomachinery designers can
now reduce problem size and time to convergence radial
turbomachinery simulations when they apply complex vibrational
modes from a cyclic modal analysis to CFX flutter analysis. ANSYS
18.1 also provides further improvements to workflow and meshing
that enables novice users to quickly become productive while
providing new opportunities for experienced users to excel.
Ease of Use and Workflow Enhancements for Optimized
Structural Designs
In the structures suite, ANSYS 18.1 has added new capabilities
within its topology optimization technology to analyze complex
materials and optimize designs making it easier for organizations
to manufacture products. Users can now combine load cases from
modal and static structural analysis to look at designs that meet
frequency and structural requirements. Designers will benefit from
the new optimization constraint capabilities, giving them more
control over manufacturing constraints to help ensure the most
optimized designs are built. ANSYS 18.1 offers new functionality to
increase the value simulation brings to organizations. Improved
high-performance computing capabilities enable users to design
products smarter and faster early on in the design process.
Faster, Easier Analysis for Electromagnetic Product
Design
Designers will benefit from new significant capabilities in the
electromagnetics suite. ANSYS 18.1 expands its
noise-vibration-harshness (NVH) analysis to include both
magnetostriction and induced magnetostriction effects. That
greatly enhances the accuracy of NVH studies of electrical machines
and transformers. NVH is an important analysis required by
manufacturers of electric motors used in hybrid electric vehicles,
appliances and commercial transformers and other application where
quiet operation of the machine is an essential design parameter.
Also, ANSYS 18.1 is enhanced with new a characteristic mode
analysis solver. This new capability enables electronics designers
to study antenna placement and antenna synthesis for devices such
as a smart watch, mobile phones and Internet of Things devices. The
characteristic mode analysis accurately predicts the fundamental
resonance characteristics of an antenna or the platform to which
they are mounted, allowing engineers to choose the optimal location
for the antenna on the device and synthesize the desired antenna
pattern.
ANSYS AIM pushes digital exploration capabilities with
enhancements across all physics
ANSYS® AIM® further expands the landscape
for digital exploration in ANSYS 18.1 with enhancements across all
physics. Built for design engineers on ANSYS' proven solver
technology, AIM now supports fluid simulations through porous
media, such as filters, perforated plates, packed beds and flow
distributors. Engineers can now explore more fluid designs under a
wide variety of circumstances, all while not sacrificing speed and
ease of use simulations. Support for bi-linear isotropic hardening
plasticity enables users to achieve more accurate results in
designs where material yield overloading is a concern. Users will
benefit from AIM's one-way thermal-magnetic coupling to create
accurate designs for electromechanical products operating at
elevated temperatures easier.
ANSYS SpaceClaim continues to streamline modeling tasks for
faster, easier optimization
ANSYS® SpaceClaim® continues to build upon
its powerful optimization tools for additive manufacturing in ANSYS
18.1. Enhanced infill structures capabilities enable users to
increase design strength without sacrificing weight in their
product design. This latest release also brings the powerful
scripting functionality and interactive features to the SpaceClaim
user interface. Now designers can create scripts and provide inputs
at various stages of the design process. Improvements have also
been made to the shared topology method giving users a more robust
transferring of connections between components – saving them time
in the design process.
For more details about the release, please visit
http://www.ansys.com/Products/Release-Highlights. Current customers
can now download ANSYS 18.1 from the Download Center on the
ANSYS customer portal.
About ANSYS, Inc.
If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane,
driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a
bridge, or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a
product where ANSYS software played a critical role in its
creation. ANSYS is the global leader in engineering simulation. We
help the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better
products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest
portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve
the most complex design challenges and create products limited only
by imagination. Founded in 1970, ANSYS employs thousands of
professionals, many of whom are expert M.S. and Ph.D.-level
engineers in finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics,
electronics, semiconductors, embedded software and design
optimization. Headquartered south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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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