Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Updated Ansys 18.1 digital prototyping software enables organizations to simulate more upfront, limit costly late-stage design changes, and bring products to market faster and easier.
In the fluids suite, ANSYS 18.1 delivers faster, higher fidelity – enabling users to simulate more quickly and accurately. Users will benefit from greater flexibility setting up periodic boundaries to deliver high fidelity results up to 9x faster for in-cylinder diesel simulations.
Turbomachinery designers can reduce problem size and time to convergence radial turbomachinery simulations when they apply complex vibrational modes from a cyclic modal analysis to CFX flutter analysis.
ANSYS 18.1 also provides further improvements to workflow and meshing that enables novice users to quickly become productive while providing new opportunities for experienced users to excel.
In the structures suite, ANSYS 18.1 has added new capabilities within its topology optimization technology to analyze complex materials and optimize designs making it easier for organizations to manufacture products.
Users can combine load cases from modal and static structural analysis to look at designs that meet frequency and structural requirements. Designers will benefit from the new optimization constraint capabilities, giving them more control over manufacturing constraints to help ensure the most optimized designs are built.
In the electromagnetics suite, ANSYS 18.1 expands its noise-vibration-harshness (NVH) analysis to include magnetostriction and induced magnetostriction effects. That greatly enhances the accuracy of NVH studies of electrical machines and transformers. NVH is an important analysis required by manufacturers of electric motors used in hybrid electric vehicles, appliances, and commercial transformers and other application where quiet operation of the machine is an essential design parameter.
Also, ANSYS 18.1 is enhanced with new a characteristic mode analysis solver. This capability enables electronics designers to study antenna placement and antenna synthesis for devices such as a smart watch, mobile phones and Internet of Things devices. The characteristic mode analysis accurately predicts the fundamental resonance characteristics of an antenna or the platform to which they are mounted, allowing engineers to choose the optimal location for the antenna on the device and synthesize the desired antenna pattern.
Amsys Aim adds enhancements across all physics. Aim now supports fluid simulations through porous media, such as filters, perforated plates, packed beds, and flow distributors. Engineers can explore more fluid designs under a wide variety of circumstances without sacrificing speed and ease of use simulations.
Support for bi-linear isotropic hardening plasticity enables users to achieve more accurate results in designs where material yield overloading is a concern. Aim's one-way thermal-magnetic coupling can create accurate designs for electromechanical products operating at elevated temperatures easier.
Ansys SpaceClaim builds upon optimization tools for additive manufacturing in ANSYS 18.1. Enhanced infill structures capabilities enable users to increase design strength without sacrificing weight in their product design. This latest release also brings scripting functionality and interactive features to the SpaceClaim user interface. Designers can create scripts and provide inputs at various stages of the design process.