Your design team will make informed decisions about the products they create when they bring detailed simulations up front in the development cycle.
The 19.2 release of ANSYS Discovery AIM facilitates the need of early simulations.
It does this by streamlining templates for physics-aware meshing and rapid results.
High-Fidelity Simulation Through Physics-Aware Meshing
Discovery AIM user interface with a solution fidelity slide bar (top left), area of interest marking tool (left, middle), manual mesh controls (bottom, center) and a switch to turn the mesh display on and off (right, top).
Analysts have likely told your design team about the importance of a quality mesh to achieve accurate simulation results.
Creating high quality meshes takes time and specialized training. Your design team doesn’t likely have the time or patience to learn this art.
To account for this, Discovery AIM automatically incorporates physics-aware meshing behind the scenes. In fact, your design team doesn’t even need to see the mesh creation process to complete the simulation.
This workflow employs several meshing best practices analysts typically use. The tool even accounts for areas that require mesh refinements based on the physics being assessed.
For instance, areas with a sliding contact gain a finer mesh so the sliding behavior can be accurately simulated. Additionally, areas near the walls of fluid-solid interfaces are also refined to ensure this interaction is properly captured. Physics-aware meshing ensures small features and areas of interests won’t get lost in your design team’s simulation.
The simplified meshing workflow also lets your design team choose their desired solution fidelity. This input will help the software balance the time the solver takes to compute results with the accuracy of the results.
Though physics-aware meshing can create the mesh under the hood of the simulation process, it still has tools allowing user-control of the mesh. This way, if your design team chooses to dig into the meshing details — or an analyst decides to step in — they can finely tune the mesh.
Capabilities like this further empower designers as techniques and knowledge traditionally known only by analysts are automated in an easy-to-use fashion.
Gain Rapid Results in Important Areas You Might Miss
The 19.2 release of Discovery AIM has seen improvements with its ability to enable your design team to explore simulation results.
Many analysts will know instinctively where to focus their post-processing, but without this experience, designers may miss areas of interest.
Discovery AIM enables the designer to interactively explore and identify these critical results. These initial results are rapidly displayed as contours, streamlines or field flow lines.
Field flow and streamlines for an electromagnetics simulation
Once your design team finds locations of interest within the results, they can create higher fidelity results to examine those area of interest in further detail. Designers can then save the results and revisit them when comparing design points or after changing simulation inputs.
To learn more about other changes to Discovery AIM — like the ability to directly access fluid results — watch the Discovery AIM 19.2 release recorded webinar or take it for a test drive.
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