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AI/ML will help us narrow the gap between the ideal world (where time, effort, efficiency and results are perfectly balanced), and what happens in real life. It will enable us to make simulation productivity, ease of use and accuracy a little less of a trade-off.
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A small number of organizations have been developing AI models based on extremely large deep neural networks. We've found many important applications for these models, particularly in language processing and image analysis. But it could be that the most important applications over the coming decade will be in problems relevant to the simulation of complex physical systems.
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In this webinar SimuTech Group expert engineers discuss the current state and expanding role of using computational modeling for medical devices.
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This 60-minute technical presentation explores the capabilities of Ansys in performing coupled electro-thermal solutions, studying thermal runaway, and generating Reduced ORder Models (ROMs).
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This recorded webinar shows how to use Diabatix ColdStream and Ansys Fluent for thermal simulations.
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Increasing scope of PyAnsys enables automation, democratization, and interoperability.
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Cadaveric gait simulation allows researchers to directly investigate biomechanical consequences of surgeries using invasive measurement techniques. Researchers must access foot and ankle kinematics produced in a cadaveric gait simulator during the stance phase of gait in a set of five cadaveric feet.
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By using Ansys’ explicit dynamics simulation program, LS-DYNA, the KOLLIDE team was able to simulate various impacts, quickly and more efficiently than with physical testing alone. Each piece of the helmet, from the liner to the exterior of the helmet, needed to be stimulated to ensure the team was achieving the ideal safety results.
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Because simulation reduces the need for wind tunnels, flight tests, and other types of expensive, time-consuming physical validation, it allows aircraft designers to reduce the risk of discovering failures late in the design process, relying on simulation to do what once took months or even years to achieve.
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Engineers can expect more spacecraft design, API and thermal tools coming to the portfolio.
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It isn’t necessary to be an authority on the underlying technology to take advantage of the benefits that simulation software offers. That’s what democratization is about: making software accessible in such a way that all users can run it successfully without deep knowledge.
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Data is like the steam power that drove the first Industrial Revolution, the successor to the electrical connections that drove the second one, and the byproduct of the computers that brought about the Digital Revolution.
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Simulation-Led Design (SLD) is advancing innovation by empowering designers with the ability to explore many more design options without adding time or cost.
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Smart manufacturing relies on supply chain, factory, system, and equipment data. To monitor and analyze constantly changing information in their production process, manufacturers exploring industry 4.0 applications use the real-time data power of digital twins.
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Physics-based optical simulation solutions can help speed up the process of bringing Adaptive Driving Beam Headlights (ADB) technology to market and help avoid costly manufacturing mistakes.
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The holistic and intuitive use of engineering simulation, virtual prototyping and digital twins can help make the net-zero air mobility revolution a reality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Using Ansys Maxwell, users can define arbitrary magnet assemblies and evaluate magnetic fields in 3D space.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Ansys launched a research survey last year to find out how engineering organizations are using HPC resources for engineering simulation.
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3D electromagnetic problems become more complex in multiphysics simulations such as noise-vibration and harshness (NVH).
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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.
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Renowned researcher Bert Blocken, Ph.D., was recently recognized by Engineering.com alongside other pioneering minds, such as Elon Musk and Ansys CEO Ajei Gopal, for his groundbreaking academic research activities in computational fluid dynamics, wall function development and analysis of basic flow phenomena.
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On page 40 is the second part of an article presenting a selection of case studies dealing with engineering simulation in the cloud using ANSYS software LS-DYNA, HFSS, and ANSYS Discovery
Live; the first part appeared in the previous edition of the EnginSoft magazine and presented case studies based on ANSYS CFX and Fluent.
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In this article (page 35), the first in a series, UberCloud presents a series of case studies of cloud-based services for engineering-specific applications and use cases that objectively demonstrate the progress of cloud computing in this sector over the past seven years.
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Liberty University Professor of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Wayne Strasser was recently asked by a company focused on the development of respiratory therapy products to aid them in their research on the spread of COVID-19. The team used Ansys simulation solutions to study the exhale of atomized droplets of saliva and mucus during respiratory therapy in a hospital room.
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By modeling how inhalers deliver medication to the lungs, simulation helps medical device companies improve inhaler design and helps physicians train their patients on how to use the inhalers for greatest effect. Modeling done by Dr. Yu Feng's Computational Biofluidics and Biomechanics Laboratory at Oklahoma State University.
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The medical device industry uses simulation to optimize the design of ventilators. Physics-based simulation is the most effective method to accelerate product development and ensure these devices reach those in need as quickly as possible. Modeling work performed by ARELabs.
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Once a vaccine has been identified, one of the biggest challenges facing the biopharma industry is scaling up the production of the vaccine from laboratory to industrial scale. By using simulation in a virtual environment, drug companies can increase their chances of getting the scale-up process right the first time.
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Decontaminating rooms and facilities – whether in preparation for patients or in places where the virus has been identified – helps contain the spread of the virus and protect the health of the vulnerable. Simulations performed by Ansys partner InSilicoTrials Technologies optimizes the decontamination process to ensure clean rooms.
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Negative pressure rooms (NPRs) can help to reduce healthcare staff's exposure to the virus while attending patients. Simulation demonstrates different room designs of NPRs and enables teams to optimize the room design, inlet vent placement and blower capacity to avoid oral and nasal plumes from recirculating in the room.
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Wearing a face mask correctly for an extended period can be uncomfortable and cause irritation, however, it is necessary to ensure the effectiveness of the mask.
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Masks can reduce the risk of contaminating others by up to 6 times. Adjustments can be made to ensure masks are sealed properly to reduce the risk of possible exposure.
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Standard social distancing guidelines are insufficient when exercising outside. Analysis by Ansys partners Bert Blocken and Fabio Malizia at TUe & KU Leuven has revealed that substantially more space is required to avoid droplets from the runner or cyclist in front of you.
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Viral droplets spread quickly throughout the air. The droplets from a cough will spread to the face, neck and clothing of someone one meter away. At two meters, the risk decreases significantly because gravity pulls the carrier droplets to the ground.
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Watch this video to get an overview of how ANSYS simulation is helping medical device and pharmaceutical companies save lives by using in silico tests to safely develop innovative devices and treatment methods in virtual human laboratories. Learn how simulation leads to an incredibly high return on investment for these companies, and how regulatory agencies like the FDA are starting to allow simulation data to be used as part of a faster approval process.
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ANSYS Discovery Live is a groundbreaking approach to design, allowing anyone to incorporate engineering simulation earlier into product development. Watch this video to see simulation results in real time demonstrating the design of stents, skis, wireless battery charging systems and control board covers for airplanes — a few of the unlimited applications of Discovery Live.
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nTop engineers designed, analyzed and printed a fuel-cooled oil cooler using nTop Platform, ANSYS CFX and a new additive aluminum alloy developed by HRL Laboratories. This blog takes you from start to finish in the series that began in late 2019.
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Engineers can now use additive manufacturing, topology optimization and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to build, shape, optimize and evaluate designs that were previously impossible to produce.
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“We believe that simulation is crucial to developing tomorrow's next generation products, and that better data and process management of simulations are needed to enable the digital processes of the future that will support these products,” Peter Schroer . "We see ANSYS and the Aras partnership as a potential game changer to connect simulation to technical processes for traceability, access and reuse throughout the product lifecycle. "
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“Collaborating with ANSYS to create an advanced IoT digital twins framework provides our customers with an unprecedented understanding of their deployed assets’ performance by leveraging physics and simulation-based analytics.” — Sam George, corporate vice president of Azure IoT, Microsoft
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Coupling in-house Finite Element code with Ansys Fluent
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Configurable safety relays help prevent injuries and damage in factory automation systems by cutting off electrical power in response to data received from sensors. When a safety relay fails, the production line must be halted until the relay can be repaired or replaced, resulting in expensive downtime.
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Modelon’s hydraulics and pneumatics capabilities are now available within ANSYS Twin Builder. Learn more about the Fluid Power Library.
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ANSYS Cloud delivers on-demand cloud HPC access within the ANSYS portfolio to democratize simulation.
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Rev-Sim Coffee Break Series: Democratizing High Performance Computing – Air Bag Simulation with ANSYS LS-DYNA
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Discovery Live, powered by NVIDIA GPU, can simulate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations much faster than traditional simulation software.
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A RevSim virtual coffee break short video highlighting the virtual modeling and simulation of pharmaceutical production tank mixers by ANSYS.
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The democratization of design software is a trend that makes engineering tools accessible to new users through improved user interfaces (UI) and access.
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ANSYS is changing the game for Rossignol
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Discovery Live Paves the Way for Rapid Simulation Results
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Interactive simulation tool provides near real-time feedback.
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ANSYS white paper: Anticipating the Next Revolution in Engineering Simulation
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The user experience also must be as easy as Minecraft or Excel™. Thanks to the ANSYS Discovery SpaceClaim direct modeling technology and more than 45 years of encapsulating smart choices into the simulation experience, Discovery Live can meet this challenge.
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Understanding the value of conducting analysis during concept and detailed design.
