PITTSBURGH, Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- From
innovative fluids meshing technology to improved workflows for
safety analysis to an innovative system coupling engine, the newly
released ANSYS® 19.2 enables customers to solve their
most difficult product development challenges faster than
ever.
With product lifecycles continuing to shrink and trends in
additive manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, electrification and 5G
connectivity rapidly evolving, the pressure for companies to
deliver innovative products is at an all-time high. This latest
release of ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) Pervasive Engineering Simulation
solutions empowers more users to accelerate the design process with
its new single window, efficient workflows and patent-pending
advanced meshing technology for computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
Users will greatly benefit from new processes for developing
embedded software for safety-critical applications, dramatic
computational speed and user experience improvements for solving
automotive radar scenarios, digital twins, 3D design exploration
and structural modeling.
"Our customers are faced with unrelenting pressure to reduce
costs, improve quality and lower cycle times all while producing
faster, smarter and more innovative products," said Shane Emswiler, vice president and general
manager for ANSYS electronics, fluids and mechanical business
units. "ANSYS 19.2 delivers product enhancements across our
industry-leading portfolio, enabling more companies to remove
design barriers and bring their innovative products to market
faster than ever without sacrificing quality."
Highlights of the 19.2 release include:
Accelerate CFD Models Faster and with More Accuracy. In
the fluids suite, ANSYS 19.2 delivers new features to
accelerate CFD simulations to boost productivity. The task-based
workflow for watertight geometries supports patent-pending Mosaic
meshing technology – empowering more engineers to get accurate
results faster and with less training. ANSYS®
Fluent® meshing now includes a fully automated,
patent-pending technology that delivers higher quality results at
faster speeds. This Mosaic technology automatically combines a
variety of boundary layer meshes using high-quality polyhedral
meshes for accurate flow resolution for fewer, better quality cells
and delivers solutions 2x faster.
"FLUENT Meshing in 19.2 has been extremely beneficial to us in
terms of turnaround times compared to the previous versions,
especially in handling large complex geometries," said Vidyanand Kesti, CFD specialist at Mann and
Hummel. "The resulting mesh also meets and exceeds our quality
requirements in every aspect. All of these put together has greatly
improved our productivity, while reducing manual efforts
required."
Increased Speed and Performance for Multiphysics Designs.
ANSYS 19.2 introduces System Coupling 2.0 for multiphysics
simulation. System Coupling 2.0 offers improved and consistent
performance for any scenario and is fully validated against the
original version of the engine. Users can take advantage of the
high-performance computing (HPC) resources for multiphysics
simulations and quickly map data. Also available in 19.2 is
improved text-driven workflows. Users will benefit from refined
text-driven workflows that will make it easier to start and restart
coupled fluid structure interaction analysis and leverage HPC
clusters.
Expanded Capabilities to perform Functional Safety Analysis
for Automotive Semiconductors. Engineers will benefit from the
new functionality to improve workflow and speed up the development
process for semiconductor manufacturers, specifically those used in
the automotive and autonomous vehicle industries with dedicated ISO
26262 support to meet safety regulations, through the newly
released medini analyze for semiconductors solutions.
"Through the use of task lists and libraries, medini analyze has
helped Allegro improve the quality and standardization of safety
analysis across business units, while at the same time increasing
efficiency through re-use," said Paul
Amons, functional safety manager, Allegro MicroSystems. "We
are currently working with a key customer to utilize the new
features in ANSYS 19.2 to export analysis adapted to the system
level. This is more efficient for the customer and protects our
detailed intellectual property."
Expanded systems simulation capabilities for autonomous and
electric vehicles. The ANSYS systems suite has new features and
functionalities that are essential for the development of digital
twins, autonomous and electric vehicles.
New capabilities in make it easier and faster to build, validate
and deploy digital twins. Now users can visualize 3D fields of
static ROMs and view simulation results, like velocity and flow
rate, on the 3D geometry.
With the recent acquisition of OPTIS, ANSYS is introducing ANSYS
VRXPERIENCE. This new solution takes predictive validation of
vehicle systems to the next level – meeting any virtual reality
simulation and validation need for autonomous vehicle simulation,
including complex systems such as intelligent headlamps, interior
and exterior lighting, autonomous vehicles controls and HMI
validation. VRXPERIENCE also enables users to fully and
realistically simulate autonomous vehicles using real-world
conditions, including various weather and road conditions, oncoming
vehicles, pedestrian scenarios and anticipating the vehicle's
reaction to any critical situation.
Ease of Use and Enhancements for Embedded Software
Designs. In the embedded software suite, new powerful
capabilities will make it easier and faster for engineers to design
their embedded system architecture and develop and verify
safety-critical embedded code. ANSYS® SCADE
Suite® has improvements to both the design verifier and
the Simulink® importer. ANSYS® SCADE
LifeCycle® now offers Jama from Jama Software to ANSYS'
supported requirements manageability tools. Now, users can export
SCADE artifacts as surrogate models in Jama, enabling bidirectional
generation of matrices.
Physics Simulation capabilities expanded to Optics and
Optoelectronics. ANSYS 19.2 also introduces a new product
bundle, ANSYS SPEOS, a complete solution for designing and
simulating illumination, interior and exterior lighting, cameras
and LiDARs and optical performance. ANSYS SPEOS helps users design
optical systems faster than ever. Now, designers can uniquely
simulate optical performance within a system and evaluate and test
the final illumination effect. These unparalleled capabilities
empower designers to perfect their optical product performance
while simultaneously reducing development time and costs.
Enhanced Design Exploration for Faster Insight. In the 3D
design suite, designers can confidently explore more concepts
faster than ever before. The Discovery family of products has been
enhanced to simplify and streamline 3D simulation.
ANSYS® Discovery Live™ now includes a parameter studies
capability, scripting and customization features – empowering users
to make complex design changes easier. The parameter studies
empower designers to test new ideas with minimal setup and run
time, learn more about simulation results and better understand the
trends and trade-offs between design goals. Enhancements to
ANSYS® Discovery™ AIM® include improved
physics-aware meshing that will empower designers to make critical,
upfront design choices faster.
More Simulation Options for Design Optimization. ANSYS
19.2 delivers advanced capabilities in the structural suite. New
enhanced inverse analysis, material designer and topology
optimization developments give engineers more simulation options
than ever before. New hot to cold, or inverse, analysis enables
engineers to calculate the cold, or unloaded, the shape of a
component to achieve the desired hot shape and performance during
operation. The new material designer feature can create detailed
models of sample materials and then calculate equivalent properties
for use in larger scale simulations, providing an efficient way of
incorporating complex materials without the overhead. ANSYS19.2
additive solutions provide improved robustness for both
ANSYS® Additive Print™ and ANSYS Workbench Additive.
Additive Suite now includes physics-driven lattice optimization. In
topology optimization, ANSYS 19.2 has additional loading
options; manufacturing constraints that are ideal for additive
manufacturing; and a unique lattice optimization capability.
"Topology optimization and additive manufacturing are critically
important in reducing weight while maintaining structural integrity
for our clients like Vins Motorcycles," said Davide
Mavillonio, technical manager, Asotech. "The advances in ANSYS 19.2
will streamline this process even further to enable our clients to
solve their toughest product development challenges."
Easy, Fast Simulation for Electronics Design.
Engineers will greatly benefit from the new analysis capabilities
in the electromagnetic suite. New advancements in
multi-channel radar system simulation include lightweight geometry
modeler that enables rapid meshing and efficient actor movement in
pulse-by-pulse road scene simulation resulting in 20x faster
processing than the previous release. ANSYS®
Icepak® adds the ability to compute thermal impact
from multiple electromagnetic loss connections. A new
stackup wizard has been added to ANSYS® SIwave™ that
allows for easy definition and exploration of printed circuit board
(PCB) stackup layers and impedances to evaluate PCB design
performance.
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. Through
our strategy of Pervasive 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 is headquartered south of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.,
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