A New Era of Air Mobility: VTOL achieves new heights with a digital twin approach

This webinar goes into specific detail about how to address certification challenges, including: Structural loads and performance, Flutter, Landing and take-off, Structural occupant protection, High frequency electromagnetic simulation, Noise and vibration, and Electric drive.

Vehicle Electrification Lunch and Simulate Webinar Series

This series of four webinars offers solutions to the challenges of next-gen electromechanical design.

How to Rapidly and Simultaneously Update Multiple Structural Dynamic Models

Simcenter 3D FE Model Update helps improve the fidelity of simulations. By adjusting the model’s material and physical properties parameters (called Design Variables), it is possible to produce a close match to actual product performance.

Assessing thermal-mechanical performance takes more than looking at the individual components separately. You must consider whole engine. How do you go about doing that as efficiently as possible? Hint: one engineer working alone to develop a whole engine model won’t cut it. A better approach to accelerating performance engineering is to divide the workload into sub-assemblies and combine models in assembly FEMs.

Powering Up Complexity: Parameterized Missions and Realistic Turbomachinery Models

This post explores how to assess thermo-mechanical performance and behavior in the context of the different missions the final product will undertake.

Powering Up Complexity: Engineering High-Efficiency Turbomachinery

This series of posts looks at the thermo-mechanical performance engineering needed to ensure systems and components remain safe and achieve the best performance, even under high stresses and temperatures. These posts also explore how to ensure the design and development process is as seamless, collaborative and efficient as possible to reduce error, cost and development time.

DE247 Design & Simulation Summit

For the one-day Design & Simulation Summit in October 2021, Digital Engineering put together a stellar lineup of knowledgeable speakers and informative presentations, to help you identify the right tools for your job and avoid the common pitfalls. Here are some highlights from the tracks.

6SigmaET

6SigmaET is a leading electronics thermal simulation software with state-of-the-art intelligence, automation, and accuracy.

Modeling and Simulation Validation Hierarchies: a tool for creating Shared Meaning

ASSESS (October 2021) Webinar Recording: Modeling and Simulation Validation Hierarchies: a tool for creating Shared Meaning

Human Digital Twin: Is it possible?

ASSESS (November 2021) Webinar Recording: Human Digital Twin: Is it possible?

Digitize CAE Results to Eliminate Human Errors

Digitize CAE results processing/reporting and develop "Digital CAE Reports” to eliminate the danger of human errors and enable faster and more informed design decisions.

Dassault Systèmes and NTT Communications Team Up for Smart City Development

Collaboration, virtual twin technology and big data will drive projects on buildings, districts and cities.

Open Your Mind with Simulation

Are we living in a simulated reality? That’s a question many people have asked with varying degrees of seriousness since the first installment of The Matrix series of movies made its debut 22 years ago. With the fourth installment premiering later this month, it's bound to renew the topic of debate among barstool philosophers, serious academics, and perhaps at least one multi-billionaire technology innovator.

Accelerate package thermal modeling in electronics cooling design

This webinar focuses on thermal modeling of electronics packages to predict component temperature in system-level electronics cooling simulations during development.

Design and Simulation Workstation Review Roundup

Digital Engineering Magazine has compiled the workstation reviews from the past year, along with some feature content relevant to evaluating new design and simulation workstations.

System-Level Electromagnetic Simulation

Fully coupled EM simulation of the largest and most complex systems with the new HFSS Mesh Fusion technology in Ansys HFSS 2021 provides best-in-class parallel meshing technology, enabling fast simulation of large electromagnetic systems. You can learn more about how the solution works in this video.

Remote Displacement: Test Real World Situations with Simulations

Remote Displacements allow for a more granular control of the displacement applied, by controlling the position and direction of the displacement as if it was coming from one unique remote location.

Collaboration environment for design and simulation

BETA CAE Systems DEEN is a desktop application that can open data from most post-processors holding models, simulation results, and additional data.

SRAM Rethinks the Bicycle Crankarm with Generative Design

Bicycle component manufacturer, SRAM, used additive manufacturing and generative design in Autodesk Fusion 360 to create a new type of bicycle crankarm.

Power Integrity Analysis

Cadence product management and engineering teams present a webinar about transient thermal analysis tools, adding an enclosure onto the design to see the thermal impact in 3D, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to visualize air flow and the latest improvements in the Sigrity™ and Celsius™ technology

Cadence is Funding Research on Adaptive Meshes for High-Speed Flows

This past summer, Cadence began funding research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) on a topic of significant current interest to the aerospace CFD community: mesh adaptation for high-speed flows.

Automated Meshing and Adaptive Re-Meshing at Bombardier

Discover how engineers at Bombardier developed the Meshing & Adaptive Re-meshing Server (MARS) with Cadence Pointwise’s Glyph scripting to create over 250,000 high-quality CFD meshes since 2017. MARS automates the meshing process, reduces meshing time, and ensures consistent user-agnostic meshes across geometry variations. In this presentation, learn how to: • Create high-quality meshes to resolve flows with reasonable cost • Use Glyph scripting to automate meshing for consistency, quality, and fast turn-around times • Encapsulate company best practices with templates for any geometry

Paper: Simulating Turbomachinery Designs 10x Faster

Design and test high-performance rotating machinery components with engineering simulation on the cloud.

Paper: Electronics Cooling Multiphysics Simulation

Design and test electronics cooling and thermal management strategies with engineering simulation in the cloud.

Paper: Multiphysics Engineering Simulation in the Cloud

Design better products, faster, by investigating structural, thermal, and fluid flow behavior with engineering simulation in the cloud.

Using Ventilation Simulation to Increase the Performance of HVAC Systems

For the first time, HVAC engineers are able to explore the full design space for HVAC product designs, not just at the component level but the spatial (room) level where the products are installed. This reduces cost and time by avoiding the trial-and-error characteristics typically seen in physical prototyping.

Rotating Equipment Design Powered by the Cloud

Rotating equipment design and analysis is quite complex, with very stringent requirements on reliability, durability, and efficiency. Additionally, the emerging focus on developing equipment and processes that are more sustainable, economical, and globally accessible has led rotating machinery designers and engineers back to the drawing board to answer a variety of questions.

Revit® Workflow for Microclimate Simulation

A dedicated Revit workflow now minimizes time spent in CAD simplification and accelerates early-stage design decisions.

CFD Simulation for Cooling Data Center Hardware

Cooling data center buildings is critical, as they consume large amounts of energy and are considered a carbon-intensive industry. This is set to continue as the global trends of digitalization and cloud computing further accelerate.

Electronics Design Challenges: Solved with Simulation

Accurately predicting temperature distribution used to be considered a time-consuming and costly exercise that resulted in poorly understood thermal response in electronics products. This Blog post walks through the most common challenges faced by electronics designers and demonstrate how access to simulation at the early design stages is essential to achieving the required design performance, reducing physical prototyping costs, and increasing confidence in overall quality.

Digital Testing is real, this time!

While physical testing has provided manufacturers with confidence in their product’s ability to perform as planned, it also presents challenges in terms of time and cost. Physical testing is an expensive and time-consuming process which places additional strains on today’s global competitive pressures.

A Drone and its Digital Thread

The United States Air Force’s Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and their innovation partner, The Wright Brothers Institute (WBI), joined forces this past summer to sponsor an internship program, The Summer of Innovation – Digital Drone. The idea for this program stemmed from the AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate’s desire to develop a program that could be used to train the directorate’s engineers in one of the Air Force’s major digital transformation initiatives.

On-Line Training

Beta CAE offers a wide variety of training courses that lead to a certification according to the course level and type.

Electrification – Battery modeling

Modeling battery systems and improving performance with simulation and optimization. This webinar explores the complex problem of battery systems design, testing and analysis for electric vehicles.

Data Center Solutions: Helping Financial Enterprises Maximize Performance

Financial enterprises are embracing digitalization and new high-density equipment to empower split-second decision-making and transactions. What steps will enterprise organizations need to take to extend the life of existing facilities given these growing demands? Future Facilities and Black & Veatch present Data Center Solutions: Helping Financial Enterprises Maximize Performance, an eBook revealing the success of one leading global organization in the financial industry.

eBook: Optimizing wind turbine design and engineering

How Computer-Aided Engineering simulation and inspection ensures performance, improves reliability and confirms quality.

Whitepaper: Data science and artificial intelligence applied in the field of materials & ICME

This paper unleashes the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science (DS) in the field of Materials and Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME). It develops leading edge applications, such as how to accelerate the generation of material data, enrich material databases, optimize manufacturing & design, among many other innovations that are now made possible with DS/AI.

Webinar Series: Accelerate Wind Energy Revolution with CAE

In this webinar series you will learn how Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence solutions can help the wind energy industry overcome performance, reliability and lifecycle barriers with our comprehensive set of solutions spanning design & engineering simulation, manufacturing production & inspection, all the way to lifetime scanning & damage tracking.

What is CAE?

In this article, PTC's Dave Martin examines the origin of Computer-Aided Engineering as the process of applying computer-assisted math-based analysis and simulation techniques to the product development process.

What is Computer-Aided Engineering?

CAE or Computer-Aided Engineering is a term used to describe the procedure of the entire product engineering process, from design and virtual testing with sophisticated analytical algorithms to the planning of manufacturing.

Connect the Digital Thread with Hybrid Digital Twins, AI-Enabled Simulation, and Cloud Computing

Digital convergence is enabling industries to make the most of the data they collect to inform decisions at every stage of the product life cycle, connect information technology (IT) with operational technology (OT), and capitalize on new business models. Where does simulation engineering fit in the broader digital convergence discussion?

Pillars of Innovation: Ansys CTO Talks Digital Twins, Vertical Health Care, and More at IEEE

Leading its second day of panels at IEEE, Prith Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer at Ansys, delivered a keynote presentation that featured Ansys’ long-term strategies to enable simulation-based product innovation across industries.

Whitepaper: Certification of eVTOL Aircraft

Download this whitepaper to find out how engineering simulation software tools are used in the new aircraft certification process. MSC Software is committed to helping companies and engineers meet airworthiness certification in a timely fashion while delivering high performance aircraft.

How to Validate Machines With Virtual Simulation and Commissioning

The need for high-level customization with superior machine complexity drives manufacturers to support a global machine design to implement manufacturing strategies.

Comparing Finite Volume & Particle CFD Simulation Methods for Understanding Lubrication in Automotive Transmissions & Axles

Paper: A two-year study by Jin Xu and William W. Liou, PhD, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering / Computational Engineering Physics Lab, Western Michigan University and Yang Yang, Cook Research Incorporated

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an aspect of multiphysics system analysis that undertakes simulating the behavior of fluids and their thermodynamic properties using numerical models.

Increased Flexibility for Simulation-Driven Design

Enhancements and new features focus on increased flexibility for various simulation-driven design workflows.

Digital Twins and Monitoring

This blog post explores how Digital Twins and Monitoring Systems Work Together.

Digital Twins and DCIM

It is a common misconception that digital twin software and DCIM are competitors. This post examines instead how digital twins and DCIM are complementary toolsets.

Dispelling Uncertainties and Misconceptions Surrounding EMI Simulation for PCB Designs

Electronics must pass FCC compliance testing to avoid adverse impacts on other devices, the environment and end users. For printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturers, that has made electromagnetic interference (EMI) simulation and testing even more critical—but many of these companies may not recognize just how important simulation has become.

Digital Twins Evolve in Manufacturing

Simulation, modeling, visualization and sensor-based data converge to close the design-to-manufacture loop.

Research Report: The Status and Future of Engineering Design and CAE Technologies

This Engineering.com report uncovers: If advanced design and CAE tools are accessible. How engineers incorporate these tools into their practice. Top design and CAE technologies for today and the future. Reasons why engineers and designers avoid these tools. Simulation practices. And more.

3D Digital CAE Slides to Circumvent the Problem with 2D static slides

For many years, simulation engineers and design engineers alike have circumvented the problem with large CAE result file sizes by using 2D slide presentations. The idea is to take screenshots of crucial results and paste them onto the slides. The resulting presentation can then be emailed and shared to all most anyone in the company.

Cloud HPC Rising to Meet New Workplace Demands

With many organizations redefining the future of work and collaboration, cloud-enabled teams and tools are increasingly the lifeblood of business continuity.

Paper: The Occupant Injury Criteria Tool

Using the Occupant Injury Criteria tool, combined with the rest of the available functionality of the META post-processor, simulation engineers can easily, extract occupant injuries from ATDs and HBMs along with their Restraint Systems' results, compare simulations with physical tests, and generate reports according to a wide range of regulations and consumer ratings.

Better Rotating Equipment with Cloud-Native Engineering Simulation

SimScale is committed to making engineering simulation more accessible to all engineers, especially those working in industries that have not traditionally leveraged simulation in their design processes.

Modular Run Management Methodology

Modular Run Management is a new methodology for the preparation and management of complex structures, key results, and reports. It combines established practices with state-of-the-art methodologies for model composition, loadcase set-up and model integrity checking, and facilitates storage and data sharing via inbuilt data management functionality. Learn more by reading BETA CAE System’s recent White Paper on Modular Run Management methodology.

Creo Simulation Live

This ground-breaking technology performs structural, thermal, and modal analysis on 3D CAD designs in seconds. No more back and forth; no separate environments. Created especially for design engineers, the analysis updates dynamically in real-time as you edit, create new features, or change properties.

Creo Ansys Simulation

Creo Ansys Simulation seamlessly integrates the power of Ansys, the leader in engineering simulation, directly into Creo. Built specifically for designers and engineers, this easy-to-use, fully-featured, high-fidelity simulation tool leverages Ansys’ capabilities for thermal, structural, and modal analyses.

Empowering Design Engineers

Learn more about the value of using real-time guidance as you sign by downloading this infographic.

Simulation Software in Product Development Drives Digital Transformation at Lightspeed

PTC’s Brian Thompson and Ansys’ Mark Hindsbo delve into the finding of a three-year Ansys-sponsored study quantifying the return on Investment in Simulation-Led Design Exploration and explore the role of simulation software in the product development process to drive and quicken digital transformation. View this white paper to learn more.

Simulation Buyer’s Guide for Design Engineers

This buyer’s guide discusses the top 10 most value criteria to consider when selecting a simulation solution for design engineers. Download this buyer’s guide from Tech-Clarity to learn more.

Deploying Real-Time Simulation Across the Enterprise

Best Practices Guide: Using Simulation During the Design Process By Incorporating simulation into the product design workflow, you can improve your efficiency. Performing design and analysis together reduces the number of iterations and loops, getting your products to market sooner. In this eBook you will learn about: Formatting Structural study results for clear communication, How to support thermal analysis finding with testing, and How to embrace Computation Fluid Dynamics.

Reworking your Workflow for Better Product Design

Rethinking the way we design and incorporating a few work flow changes can enable design engineers to iterate faster and pass on their best work to analysts with greater confidence. But how do we get there? Dave Martin, a product designer will take you through his approach to design and the new addition to his design workflow that greatly impacts the design process.

Solver-Based Meshing: How to Maintain a High-Quality Mesh

Geometries can easily deform and distort like children playing with clay.

Simulation Improves 3D Print Quality

New simulation and optimization tools (leveraging GPU acceleration) are improving 3D printing performance and predictability.

An Interview with: Monica Schnitger

In this Rev-Sim interview, Schnitger Corporation Founder & President, Monica Schnitger shares her insight on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for users and vendors throughout the engineering simulation industry.

Planning for Simulation Governance and Management

Ensuring that simulation is an asset - not a liability.

Why are simulation jobs exploding in complexity and size, and perhaps more importantly, what can you do about it?

In a recent panel discussion in the DE Hot Seat webcast series, Gabriel F. Dambaugh, owner and principle engineer of FEA Services; and Donald Tolle, Director of Simulation-Driven Systems Development Practice, CIMdata, discuss the rise of multiphysics simulation driving the use of simulation, the software developers' efforts to make their solvers run faster, and the pros and cons of the emerging cloud-hosted solutions.

Generative Design: Shifting the paradigm in 3D metal printing

Generative Design employs computational algorithms along with artificial intelligence and machine learning to mimic nature’s evolutionary processes. It offers new high-performance design iterations that optimise a product’s mechanical performance. Engineers can also explore design possibilities according to part constraints and requirements to deliver a first-time-right additive manufacturing solution.

Simulation-Driven Optimization of 5G RF MEMS Filters

This whitepaper discusses how RF MEMS acoustic resonator-based filters can be efficiently and effectively designed, thereby reducing cost, risk, and time to market.

Simulation of Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Testing of Composite Materials

This white paper discusses how ultrasonic non-destructive testing (NDT) can be efficiently and effectively optimized, thus reducing costs and risks, with the use of accurate engineering simulations.

Digitalizing the CAE Post Processing & Reporting

What is VCollab exactly?

Democratize Simulation for Your Design Engineers

In this webinar replay you will explore with TriStar’s Simulation Expert, Thiagu Palaniappan: Democratizing Simulation for Your Design Engineers.

Democratize Simulation with Automation

With enhanced integration between Ansys optiSLang and Minerva, democratization of simulation automation is just a few clicks away, enabling experts and nonexperts to reap the benefits of simulation.

Learn Pipe Stress Analysis from the Experts (Free Webinar Recordings & Presentations)

To support the launch of that new significant version of the modern pipe stress analysis software PASS/START-PROF 4.84, PASS Team held a series of industry-related webinars. The webinars covered the main features and supported codes of PASS/START-PROF for a specific industry as well as the presentation of new software options. In this article, we will learn the stress analysis basics directly from the developers of the oldest piping stress analysis software.

Stiffness Method vs Flexibility Method for Pipe Stress Analysis

Widely used pipe stress analysis software PASS/START-PROF uses the structural mechanics methods for beam structures. The piping system is considered as consisting of straight and curved beams. Straight beams are pipes, rigid elements and valves, while curved beams are the bends.

What is a Siemens Executable Digital Twin?

Welcome to the future of engineering. Let us show you how Siemens Simcenter executable digital twins (xDTs) do what we thought impossible. This short video shows smart virtual sensors, a type of xDT, created with the help of the Simcenter portfolio. These sensors let you create models that can update themselves as you use them (often in real-time) to predict previously not measurable quantities.

Digital Twins and Monitoring

How Do Digital Twins and Monitoring Systems Work Together? In the data center industry, it’s a given that having the right data is essential for making sound decisions throughout design and operations. But agreeing on how best to get that data is a different story.

Democratization Of Engineering Simulation

Democratization of Engineering Simulation comes in many forms of implementation. While there are many common characteristics, issues and opportunities across them all, there are also critical differences that need to be identified and elucidated, to enable a path to achievable solutions.

‘Democratization’ of simulation handing powerful tools to all engineers

Simulation software, such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and finite element analysis, are powerful tools to predict how real-world forces will affect the behavior of parts, assemblies and products.

Generative Design: Making the Impossible a Reality

While engineers and designers can provide the best starting points, design exploration can quickly build on those parameters and generate the most effective and refined alternatives that we may never have thought possible. The engineering simulation community is now embracing this technology more than ever before.

Debunking the 5 myths of multi-body Dynamics – Myth 1: MBD simulation is motion analysis

In this blog series Hexagon / MSC debunks 5 myths of multi-body dynamics. This first blog addresses the myth that MBD simulation is motion analysis.

This Week in CFD

Read John Chawner's "Another Fine Mesh" blog on all things CFD. This from the week of July 30, 2021.

Integrating Systems Modeling with Simulation Helps Ensure Robust Space Debris Removal Mission

The European Space Agency (ESA) is studying an active debris removal mission called e.deorbit which is intended to capture an ESA-owned derelict satellite in low orbit and safely crash it on Earth.

Improved Simulation Management

BETA CAE Systems introduces version 22.0.0 of its comprehensive software suite for engineering simulation. The company—one of the oldest in the simulation software business—says this update improves all elements of simulation workflow and management.

Beam Section Optimization Tool: A BiW Optimization Case

A new tool automatically simplifies a detailed Finite Element model to a beam-panel model assembly. Then, a Beam Cross section Optimization is performed on the simplified model. The optimum solution is automatically applied on the detailed model using mesh morphing methods, producing an updated detailed model used to verify the analysis’ accuracy.

Whitepaper: Advanced Heat Exchanger Design & Simulation with nTopology & ANSYS CFX

This report documents the design process of a Fuel Cooled Oil Cooler (FCOC) from initial design in CAD, process steps in nTopology, and final Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis steps in ANSYS CFX. This document should serve as a reference for nTopology users to perform similar simulations on their own designs.

Rigor at the Speed of Relevance – The Symbolic Relationship of Model-Based Engineering & Simulation

This presentation discusses the advantages of using automated validation to generate a descriptive system model with synchronized structure and behavior and illustrate ways in which this information can be transformed to support modeling and simulation. The use of models for failure analysis, sprint planning, and classification/data rights management is also presented.

How to Meet the Top 5 Simulation Process and Data Management Challenges

A typical day in the life of a simulation engineer involves data gathering data, referencing historical data, pre-processing the models, solving the simulation problem either locally or via high-performance computing (HPC), post-processing the results, generating reports and archiving data. The process and the level of interaction quickly get complex as more tools, physics and multiple teams are involved.

Stochastics, Robust Design and Systems Engineering to Support Simulation Driven Design

This talk will discuss the application of automated design and simulation processes, robust design techniques, probabilistic and stochastic methods for real-world design tasks in the area of advanced gas turbines. The talk will close with a discussion of the challenges in the area of simulation-driven design.

CAASE 21 Presentations

View presentations from CAASE 21. Topics include: Implementing Autonomous Technologies, Simulation-Driven Design, Verification & Validation, Building a Broad-Based Additive Manufacturing Infrastructure, Business Strategies & Challenges.

What is the Role of a Data Center Digital Twin in a Changing Landscape?

Creating a Digital Twin or virtual copy of the data center is the surest way to navigate the changes your data center faces. This blog will walk you through where and how a Digital Twin fits into the constantly changing landscape that is the data center industry.

Generative Engineering in the Early Concept Phase

Simcenter™ Studio software is a cloud-native application that allows engineers and data scientists to find the best designs for complex systems as quickly as possible. Using artificial intelligence and system simulation, the software delivers specific systems architectures to help you make the right engineering decisions!

Fluid Dynamic Simulations Advance Appliance Designs

Tighter environmental regulations coupled with more sophisticated user experience requirements pushes the designs into territories where subtle physical behavior starts to play a more prominent role.

Win-win: Model-Based System Testing

Efficient collaboration between simulation and test.

App Development Platforms

Remi Duquette, Maya HTT’s VP of Innovation and Industrial AI, recently spoke with Dave Weinand, Chief Customer Officer for Incisiv, about application development platforms (ADPs). The discussion covered topics from the most important functionalities to look for when choosing and ADP to what you need to get started, and how Maya HTT leverages Mendix for cloud-native application development to deliver the best value.

Democratizing Simulation at Organizations via Applications

In this archived webinar, industry panelists discuss how simulation applications can benefit organizations. Guest speakers Nagi Elabbasi of Veryst Engineering, Kyle Koppenhoefer of AltaSim Technologies, and Gary Long of GLL share ways in which applications can make companies more efficient.

What is Democratization of Simulation and Model Deployment?

“Democratization” is a bit more than just “deployment”. We can “deploy” a spreadsheet calculator or MATLAB model simply by emailing it to a group of recipients, or putting it on a network drive or a portal such as SharePoint. That is NOT the same as “democratizing” – ensuring SAFE and SECURE access, plus the ability for users to run the model, WITHOUT deep knowledge of the underlying technology, and WITHOUT making mistakes.

Designing a Gyroid-Based Radiator: Bringing Together CAD and nTopology in a Single Workflow

In this webinar, Professor Olaf Diegel presents a workflow for designing a gyroid-based radiator, a type of air-to-liquid heat exchanger, in nTopology.