Design & Verify Complete Systems

Dear Desktop Engineering Reader:

ANSYS recently released version 16.2 of its simulation tool portfolio. At the other end of today’s Check it Out link, you’ll find a complete resource with the granular details and then some. Here are some highlights to start your exploration.

One word summarizes ANSYS 16.2: Systems. Version 16.2 offers you all kinds of capabilities for designing and verifying virtual prototypes of complete systems. What this boils down to is that the ANSYS coding teams have amplified the level of integration across the ANSYS portfolio. This means you can analyze the combined interaction of almost any physics on your design, which should return a truer idea of how it will behave under real-world conditions. Two 16.2 updates and a new product illustrate the practical importance of this for you.

First, the ANSYS Simplorer platform for modeling, simulating and analyzing virtual system prototypes can now assemble and simulate electrical, electronic, thermo-fluid, mechanical and embedded software components simultaneously. With it, you can assemble your physical components, systems and software models then test your system as a whole. A neat thing about Simplorer is that it provides high-fidelity 3D precision on-demand.

Second, the ANSYS AIM integrated 3D multiphysics simulation environment for designers and analysts, sees many new capabilities. For example, to compute thermal-stress, it now supports conjugate heat transfer analyses and one-way fluid-structure interaction. AIM also now supports predictions of flow fields, variation of gas density and thermal behavior for compressible flow applications. Additionally, ANSYS AIM 16.2 debuts some advanced ANSYS solver technology for surface-to-surface contact that’s combined with automatic contact surface detection and automatic nonlinear solution control.

New to the ANSYS portfolio with 16.2 is the ANSYS SCADE Systems Avionics package. This is for automating embedded software systems development for avionics. This package delivers out-of-the-box templates for designing systems compliant with standard avionic protocols and operating systems like ARINC 653, ARINC 429 and AFDX configurations.

This ANSYS AIM screenshot shows a conjugate heat transfer calculation and a thermal stress calculation in showing the contours of equivalent stress shown on an exhaust header. Image courtesy of ANSYS Inc. and PRNewsFoto.

You’ll find in-depth details on these and many other ANSYS 16.2 enhancements at the other end of today’s Check it Out link. When you arrive, you’ll see an array of tabs: Systems, Multiphysics, Electronics, Fluids, Structures and Cloud. Clicking on any option brings up a robust set of dedicated resources built around a well-illustrated presentation on the topic. Depending on the subject, you could have white papers, on-demand webinars, brochures and articles. All areas have some neat imagery and an assortment of interesting videos.

Thanks, Pal. – Lockwood

Anthony J. Lockwood

Editor at Large, Desktop Engineering

Access the ANSYS 16.2 Web Resource here.