Democratizing Simulation Resources at Revolution in Simulation

What Is the Role of AI in Simulation?

The term “AI” has been freighted with meanings in the popular imagination long before realizing practical uses. Now that AI is finally showing its value, we can examine what it means in manufacturing and engineering, specifically for uses in simulation.

AI Roadmap: Engineering Success with Data and Strategy

AI is no longer the stuff of science fiction. It offers concrete benefits in all areas of engineering, manufacturing, and operations. Artificial intelligence (AI) has an enormous potential to advance industries and change the way we work, live, and create.

Data Analytics & AI Services for Manufacturing

A lot of companies have slowly become “data rich” but they are still “wisdom poor,” as much of their collected data goes unused and un-managed. How can manufacturers move ahead with AI projects efficiently and successfully? This post covers a few of the key concepts for industrial AI in engineering and manufacturing.

Benefits and Challenges of Electrification & Digitalization

Electrification and digitalization are omnipresent in all aspects of modern life –from how we drink coffee to how our food is produced and to the complex behind-the-scenes processes of how we manufacture products.

Constant Change: An Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Perspective

Change Notice, a weekly video podcast hosted by Instrumental Inc., seeks to address the topic in conversation with product design engineering leaders. In a recent episode, Maya HTT’s Remi Duquette joined host Anna-Katrina Shedletsky for a deep dive into the changes he’s seen over the last 10+ years.

AI-Readiness Assessment: Find out what the next step is towards your successful AI journey!

Answer this survey to understand your AI maturity level, and equally important, get the resulting report to ensure you take the right next step towards successful AI operations. Typical Stakeholder: VP, Director, Manager for Maintenance, Operations, Plant, Fleet, and Service management

AI Discussions: Transformative quality and productivity

How can discrete and continuous manufacturing take full advantage of rising digital technologies? Will the deployment of machine learning succeed, even in “dirty” industrial environments?

Tackling Design Complexity with Simplified Modelling Processes

Design engineers face daily challenges. These typically include slow CAE analysis, having to set up an analysis model for each new design iteration, siloed simulations that differ from real world product performance, and delays in moving from CAD to CAE.

Set Up and Run Multiphysics CFD Simulations Faster with Simcenter STAR-CCM+’s Latest Release

STAR-CCM+ can now serve your innovation team better than ever with its new 2022.1 release.

Introducing nTopology’s New Latticing Technology

Read more about nTopology’s 3rd generation latticing technology.

Role of Digital Twin in the age of Industry 4.0

While the concept of a digital twin has been around since 2002, it’s only thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) that it has become cost-effective to implement.

Digital Twin Software for Data Centers

Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) as well as historical and real-time data, 6SigmaDCX creates a dynamic data center digital twin, or the 6Sigma Digital Twin.

CFD News from CadenceLIVE

In this Blog, John Chawner of Cadence shares his observations about CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2022. This is the first return to an in-person format in a couple of years for the event and the first time ever for in-person CFD involvement.

Simulation-Led Design: Democratizing the Power of Simulation

What if there were a way to democratize the use of simulation empowering designers and other non-CAE experts to validate models and ensure that requirements will be met? Such a step would accelerate development while allowing many more design alternatives to be evaluated. This is the driving force behind Simulation-Led Design (SLD).

Best Practices Guide for Real-Time Simulation

This blog posts explores the 2 sets of best practices related to simulation and analysis: Those related to the functionality side of the software; and the thinking and work you need to do before launching the software.

Data Center Change in Healthcare Enterprise Operations

The healthcare enterprise used the 6Sigma Digital Twin to create digital replicas of its data centers for ongoing use in day-to-day operations, so they could virtually plan effective cooling of the new units whilst avoiding any knock-on cooling issues that might affect existing IT.

Reimagine Your Automotive Data Center Design and Operations

This blog shines a light on one of Europe’s largest automotive manufacturers and how they improved cooling across all data center halls to minimize risk and maximize energy efficiency using the 6Sigma Digital Twin, and in doing so, they yielded greater benefits for the long-term.

Research Report: The State of Simulation, Prototyping, and Validation

As products get smarter, design cycles get shorter and the pressure to cut costs and satisfy regulations increases. Simulation can help in all respects. Read this research report on how engineers are doing simulation and how often. engineering.com surveyed 268 engineers who told them how they are doing simulation and how often. Download the report to learn more.

Generate 3D CAE Reports Regardless of the CAE Solver You’re Using

Today’s products are designed, reviewed, shared, released, evaluated, tested, and printed – all in 3D. Yet for many, the crucial process of understanding and reporting simulation results is reliant on tools that are decades-old and not designed for today’s digital environment.

How to Prepare for Product Recalls with a Digital Thread

Product Identification & Unique Device Identification capabilities like those found in Aras Innovator help companies to easily obtain customer details for communication purposes should a product recall be needed.

Simulating a Rigid Body in OnScale Solve

This blog investigates how rigid bodies are defined in OnScale Solve and how they can be used effectively.

How to create a CFD Study in 15 minutes

nstead of repetitive prototyping, CFD can significantly reduce design costs and save a lot of time. OnScale Solve provides a top tier CFD Solver that is simple to use and highly parallelizable, allowing you to run fast simulations to any CAD.

A Smarter Way to Look at Simulation Results?

With VCollab, you don’t have to dumb your reports down to 2D.

Engineering Design, Simulation, and Shape Optimization

In this whitepaper, specialists from Onshape®, SimScale®, and ESTECO cover the implementation of a modern design-simulate-optimize workflow in the product development cycle.

Sharing Simulation Results

What's the best way to share simulation results? In this video, Chad Jackson of Lifecycle Insights, takes a closer look at VCollab software.

What is VCollab, Exactly

This short video provides an overview of VCollab technology.

Manufacturing is finally ready for digital transformation

With high-performance computing in the cloud, manufacturers get unbridled compute power to support engineering simulations and complex workflows.

3 design features that result in optimal liquid cooling

How can you recognize efficient cooling? In this lecture, Joris expounds on a heat sink for an IGBT, an electronic component. He highlights 3 features of Diabatix’s heat sink designs which result in high performance cooling.

RTX Power for Laptops, Digital Twin Innovations Highlight GTC 2022

New workstation GPUs and NVIDIA Omniverse updates lead the announcements at the NVIDIA GTC 2022 Spring virtual conference.

Nonlinear Static Analysis: Snap-Fit Assembly

This article analyzes the structural performance and integrity of a casing snap-fit assembly using cloud-native nonlinear static analysis. The focus of this analysis was to detect the peak stress regions, and therefore better understand the likelihood of permanent deformations.

Ventilation Strategies: Tested with Simulation

This Blog posts highlights two case studies that demonstrate rapid ventilation design assessments. These techniques enable architects and engineers to quickly and accurately predict air movement and air quality, determine HVAC sizing, and assess ventilation strategies.

CAE Productivity and Effective Engineering Design Collaboration are Critical to Digital Transformation

A market survey conducted by CIMdata in conjunction with VCollab and the ASSESS Initiative explored the role of current collaboration techniques and their impact in the participating organizations, with a view of adoption from both the management level as well as at the engineer and CAE technologist levels.

Podcast: Transforming the Process of Simulation

With VCollab, 3D Digital CAE Reports can be created no matter what major CAE solver a company is using.

Paper: Reduce Failure and Achieve Meaningful Results in Cardiovascular Devices Prior to Prototype

With more than 30% of all deaths attributed to cardiovascular disease, the healthcare industry invests massively in disease prevention, treatment, and efforts to shorten the recovery period. But the extensive in vitro and in vivo testing required to ensure patient safety inevitably slows down cardiovascular device innovation.

Cloud-Native Transient Analysis for Rotating Equipment

Flow through rotating equipment is inherently unsteady. For example, pumps and compressors in HVAC and oil and gas applications experience pressure surges during start-up, shut-down, valve closures, and power fluctuations. Rotating machinery is regularly subjected to unsteady and destabilizing effects resulting from rotor-stator interactions, vortex shedding, and shock formations.

Tackling Challenges in the NFL with Simulation

With a growing concern to prevent head injuries, an initiative was launched to create helmets better equipped to sustain impact from varying angles. Rising to the task, a Canadian-based group of innovators formed KOLLIDE to meet this challenge using Ansys’ industry-leading simulation solutions.

Development of Electronic Devices Using Electromagnetic Simulation

Learn more about high and low frequency electromagnetics simulation for reliable product development. Several example applications are shown covering transformers and power loss, antenna performance, EMC analysis within an electronics enclosure, through to considerations in wire harness in power electronics for vehicles.

Modeling and Simulation for Compliance

This webinar provides insights about how modeling and simulation contribute to the certification process. Learn about an interesting use case and how UL helps to facilitate innovation.

6SigmaDCX Release 16 Drives Performance for Enterprise Data Centers

Future Facilities 6SigmaDCX product suite creates a 6Sigma Digital Twin of your data center that simulates its physical behavior under any operating scenario. Understanding your organization’s crucial performance metrics, including capacity utilization, power, airflow, and cooling, from a science-based simulation perspective enables effective capacity planning and smooth operations.

Survey: The State of Thermal 2022

The State of Thermal Survey 2022 is now live! Take part in this year's short survey to share your views on the current state of thermal simulation and you'll be entered to win a Sonos Sound System as a prize for completing the survey. The survey answers will be anonymized. Start the short survey now!

Podcast: Simulate Early and Often

Broad access to simulation: it’s a matter of survival for engineering teams. SimScale is making it happen —now.

Enabling Faster Ansys Discovery GPU Simulation on Ansys Cloud Thanks to NVIDIA and Microsoft Azure

The ability to do more faster and better with a GPU solver, can increase your resources by 10x. Imagine going fast and then the turbo kicks in; that’s what the cloud can do.

5G and Aircraft Safety: How Simulation Can Help to Ensure Passenger Safety

Aircraft radar altimeters can be sensitive to interference. This makes it possible for an altimeter to issue erroneous readings. In addition, these systems are coupled to automated landing and takeoff systems which can cause flight controls to engage automatic safety actions that may endanger passenger safety. Read how simulation is being used to address these issues.

Opening Distortion Fingerprint (ODF)

The Opening Distortion Fingerprint (ODF) is a method to evaluate the opening stiffness on vehicle body using dynamic results instead of static loads. It can be used to limit the distortion in the closure openings and enable a deeper analysis of the dynamic forces acting on the body.

Cultivating Innovation with the Siemens Xcelerator Portfolio

Turning a dream into reality is a challenge for any organization, especially when the dream is growing food underwater. To do this, Nemo’s Garden has embraced digitalization and has implemented Siemens software to enhance, test, optimize, and scale production of their game-changing underwater biospheres that have the potential to change how and where our food is produced.

PLM Cloud and SaaS Adoption – Understanding the Customer’s Viewpoint

As an extension of CIMdata’s Cloud-SaaS PLM Adoption survey, executives from Aras and CIMdata joined together to analyze the study’s findings. Mark Reisig from Aras joined Stan Przybylinski of CIMdata to examine the voice of the customer and add their own insights to the findings of the study. Don’t miss this informative discussion between these two leading experts in the PLM domain.

Cloud-Native Simulation for Structural Mechanics

Some products operate in environments and under conditions that are impossible and/or extremely difficult and expensive to recreate for testing purposes but can be modeled inside simulation tools at less cost and risk. For example, medical applications that require extensive and invasive human testing such as the nonlinear stress analysis of cardiovascular stents can now be easily simulated.

Multiphysics Simulation of an EV Inverter

As engineers strive for the optimal design solution, a multiphysics approach is essential to fully capture the real-world interactions between different physical phenomena. Physical prototyping can amount to a huge investment in time and cost, meaning running analyses across multiple physics earlier in the design process is key.

Design Space Exploration and Performance Optimization in the Cloud

Performing a design space and performance optimization with desktop-centric tools comes with significant barriers to entry that prevents design studies from taking place across many applications. By leveraging the power of end-to-end shape optimization completely in the cloud, the cost of expensive hardware and software maintenance fees are eliminated.

Developing an Ecosystem of Cloud-Native Tools for Human-Centric Design

Human-centric design is a multi-faceted approach to design thinking that accounts for environmental, physiological, and psychological aspects of human performance. It aims to capture the impacts of all three aspects by using an evidence- and science-based approach to modifying the indoor and outdoor environment. This way, people living and working in homes, schools, offices, and outdoor spaces can be safe, comfortable, and productive in the most sustainable way possible.

HVAC Components: Increased Performance with CFD Simulation

To design and create heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) components with higher performance, analyzing them for aerodynamic and pressure-flow characteristics is critical. Most types of ventilation systems need to be designed to have maximum airflow through them while reducing the pressure losses across the unit.

Shaky business? Random base excitation simulation offers accuracy and efficiency

This white paper takes a deep, technical dive into the pitfalls of random base excitation simulation, offering solutions to help you obtain accurate results efficiently, with limited computation time. Discover the keys to improve your random analysis workflow while reducing costs.

Webinar: MULTIPHYSICS-FOCUSED CFD SOLUTIONS FOR HYPERSONIC VEHICLES

This webinar covers the current state of Hexagon CFD solution for hypersonic flow simulations with the release of Cradle CFD 2022, including: Predicting the aerothermodynamic flow field around various objects and showcasing validation cases, Fluid-Structure interaction for structural integrity, and Safe store separation predictions.

Systems Modelling and Simulation of the ESA e.Deorbit Space Debris Removal Mission

In the frame of the Architecture Definition phase, a highly integrated and collaborative MBSE process related to Systems Modeling and Simulation has been developed and applied for supporting the iterative generation and maturation of the system requirements, architectures and system budgets at phase B1 level. e.Deorbit is a compelling mission concept that addresses the most pressing debris challenge for Europe: the post-life disposal of ESA’s environmental satellite Envisat.

Multidisciplinary Optimization of an Electric Motor for an Automobile and Extension to a Model-Based Systems Engineering Approach

Designing a modern electric motor for an electrified automobile requires striking the perfect balance between cost, weight, and performance. From a modeling and simulation standpoint, predicting the overall performance of the motor requires multiple multi-disciplinary analyses, including electromagnetic, thermal, and stress analyses.

Webinar: Innovate swiftly and architect resilient cooling with HVAC CFD Software

Learn to optimize airflows with fast, easy-to-use and industry-proven HVAC CFD software that embeds directly in your native CAD environment.

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.

Powering Up Complexity: Whole-Engine Turbomachinery 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.

Simulation of the Deployment of a Flexible Roll-Up Solar Array Using Multi-Body Dynamics Software

This paper presents a dynamic simulation of the deployment of a roll-up solar array using multi-body dynamics modeling software. Additionally, the paper presents the development of a set of software tools that automate tedious tasks associated with developing models of these structures. The tools will aid in the development of future simulation of structures using roll-up boom technology.

Realize LIVE – Democratization of Simulation

In engineering, CAE simulation plays an increasingly powerful role in product design. But the factor limiting its more explosive growth is the reliance in many of the disciplines on experts and analysts. There is certainly a desire to be able to democratize at least a subset of the CAE simulation areas and broaden the pool of engineers that can effectively conduct these analyses and benefit from the more immediate performance feedback of their designs.

Democratizing Simulation: What Changes for Engineers?

Simulation is gaining significance across all phases of engineering. The software is all there, but what poses problems for manufacturing enterprises is how to manage the resulting reorganization of responsibilities and workflows across the product development process. This article offers some reflections on the phenomenon and explains why taking on this change is worthwhile.

Meshing in FEA, CFD & Manufacturing

Accurate mesh generation is a critical step of every engineering design workflow that involves FE analyses, CFD simulations, or Additive Manufacturing. Here, we give you practical tips and design considerations for meshing parts with complex geometries, like lattice structures, using nTopology’s powerful meshing capabilities.

NAFEMS Course: Why Do Engineering Simulation?

The course investigates engineering simulation using the 5W1H process and provides the basic reasons for its use, including real world case studies and examples. It describes the basic requirements that are needed, such as computers, software and engineering resources including some history and briefly outlines a few of the most common methods employed.

Data Centers: What is Engineering Simulation?

Engineering Simulation is used in many industries such as Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Automotive, Electronics Design to make critical decisions while saving money. For the Data Center industry, it predicts airflow and temperature distribution regardless of the status of the site.

Electric Machines: Simulating the Power to Win

To beat the competition in the electric vehicle market automakers are focused on ensuring EV powertrains are efficient to design, manufacture and operate. As they race forward with EV development, engineers are increasingly using simulation to leverage the potential of holistically optimizing the powertrain with a systems engineering approach.

Design Review Victory: Collaborating Analysts and Designers

As a design engineer, have you ever had a senior PHD level engineering analyst come in for an 11th-hour design change? What if you could have collaborated together every step of the way through from conception to form factor to simulation to a final product?

Women in Technology: Simulating Sensors to Advance Autonomous Automobiles

While autonomy represents an incredibly complex engineering challenge spanning multiple functions, perception systems play a foundational role. Automotive autonomy is only possible if the sensors mounted on the car accurately gather information about the surrounding environment and transmit that data to other systems — such as steering and braking — to trigger an appropriate, safe response.

How to Design High-Performance Filters for Additive Manufacturing

Filtering contaminants from high-temperature and high-pressure flows can often justify the use of additive manufacturing, especially when the performance enhancements provided by advanced design techniques are considered. This article demonstrates this through two design examples and describes how these techniques can apply to other applications, such as boosting reaction rates in catalytic processes.

Simulate How Permanent Magnets Impact Medical Implants

Using Ansys Maxwell, users can define arbitrary magnet assemblies and evaluate magnetic fields in 3D space.

Democratizing Simulation: A Progress Report

To better understand how and why the nonexperts are embracing the technology, Digital Engineering's Kenneth Wong spoke to various simulation software users on the frontier of the movement for democracy.

Why Medical Device Design Requires Material Information Management

Like other product design engineers, medical device engineers need to know the traditional mechanical properties of a material they plan to use to ensure it’s up to the task. But that’s not enough. They also need to know how the body will react to the device and how the device will react to the body.

Take Your Engineering Simulation Workflow to the Next Level

Working with the right data is critical to an efficient workflow, but with all the different stakeholders involved in product design and development, how do you know where the right data is?

The Fundamentals of FEA Meshing for Structural Analysis

To conduct a CAE simulation, there are three important steps to an analysis: pre-processing, solving and post-processing. This post discusses the FEA pre-processing step, specifically the importance of a good quality mesh.

How Partnerships Power Simulation

The old, siloed approach to product design and development is being replaced by streamlined workflows where an array of hardware and software needs to work together to foster innovation.

Simulation User Survey Results: Evolving Workflows Affect HPC Usage

Ansys launched a research survey last year to find out how engineering organizations are using HPC resources for engineering simulation.

Can simulation help professionals return to the office?

Many organizations are beginning to implement plans to return to the office. The COVID-19 pandemic has everyone rethinking office spaces, especially the all too common open-office space.

How to Model and Simulate Complex Electric Motors

3D electromagnetic problems become more complex in multiphysics simulations such as noise-vibration and harshness (NVH).

Earth Day 2021: Simulation Advances Sustainability

Engineers understand that the individual components they design and simulate are part of larger assemblies, which are part of larger systems, which are part of an ecosystem.

New Insights: Enabling New Data Center Technology with Simulation-Based Digital Twins

Simulation-based digital twins, especially when implementing new data center technology, streamline data center design and operations management.

Ingenuity is Taking Off

In his post, author Boris Marovic writes about the leading role of simulation in the Ingenuity 21 space program.

Accelerate Smart Manufacturing with CAE Simulation

Learn how engineers improve manufacturing procedures and minimize tooling and material costs on-demand.

The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence in CAE Simulation

The convergence of mechatronic and system-based engineering with advances in data management, artificial intelligence (AI), machine-learning (ML) and increasingly connected manufacturing is challenging traditional industrial product development and manufacturing processes.

6SigmaDCX Release 15: What’s New

The Digital Twin provides a collaborative framework and the necessary design tools to drive informed, real-time decisions regarding thermal risk and capacity utilization. 6SigmaDCX Release 15 streamlines data center design and management with new big data features, faster model creation and automation across the board.

Serving a perfect Guinness – the CFD way

Thanks to Simon Fischer, here’s the first ever Guinness served in perfection – by a CFD simulation tool. Hey, its five o-clock somewhere right?

Perseverance: What’s the weather on Mars?

One of the software tools used to design the weather station on the Perseverance rover was Simcenter FLOEFD.

Simulation-driven Design: Improving productivity with fast and accessible simulation for the design engineer

Webinar on out-of-the-box, CAD-integrated simulation.

Design by Experience or Data?

Can you create better designs based on experience or based on simulation data?

Data Center Digital Twins E-Book

This e-book outlines the necessity for unlocking your data center’s business potential.

The Data Center Digital Twin

Our vision is a world where all data centers can realize their business potential. To make this vision a reality, we are pioneering the concept of the Digital Twin for data center design and management.

Engineering Data Centers: A Case Study of a Modern Science-Based Design

You may not know it, but today data centers are crucial: they underpin daily life throughout society. Every time you use common tools on the Internet like Google, Facebook, or YouTube, a data center somewhere is involved in this process.

Smarter Simulation for the Design Engineer

Innovative manufacturers are taking advantage of advances in simulation technology and development processes to beat their competitors to market with higher quality, longer lasting products.

How to Build a Digital Twin to Improve Your Data Center

Deploying any change within your data center can seem daunting. But with a data center Digital Twin you can undertake virtual testing of those changes, using physics-based simulation, ensuring nothing goes into a live environment that hasn’t already been assessed for performance.

Simulation-driven Design: Increasing designers’ efficiency with intelligently automated simulation

Webinar on automated simulation processes for use by designers.

Answer Difficult Engineering Questions

Why CFD inside CAD is more than just pretty colors.

Simulation for Design Engineers using CATIA V5

Learn how design engineers using CATIA V5 can efficiently use Simcenter to understand their product's performance earlier.

Simulation Driven Design: Automate Simulation Processes

Using NX Open built into Simcenter 3D, users can use automate simulation processes called templates. These template are made up of all the simulation knowledge that is needed for the complex analysis to ensure that high quality products are created, even by less experienced users

Simulation for Design Engineers using Creo

See how Creo users can use simulation

Validate Designs for Life with 3DEXPERIENCE Works Simulation

A component’s fatigue life is affected by multiple factors such as material, geometry, stress range, load frequency, manufacturing process, and atmospheric conditions. It is a difficult question to figure out by hand, which makes it an ideal task for computational simulation.

ASSESS Webinar Series: How Manufacturing Companies Successfully Deploy Next-Generation Technologies to Turbocharge the Impact of Simulation

An online community for Next-Generation Simulation usage and expansion: Are you being left behind?