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Using Realistic Bulk Material Loads in ANSYS for Optimized Equipment Design
When designing heavy equipment such as bucket loaders, truck bodies and diggers, finite element analysis tools, such as ANSYS, are a ‘must-have’ in any design engineer toolkit in order to assess the...
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ANSYS Adds 3DSIM for Simulation-Driven Additive Manufacturing
As we announced recently, ANSYS and 3DSIM have joined forces to offer engineers, designers and machine operators the only end-to-end additive manufacturing (AM) simulation workflow in the world today....
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Discovery Live Paves the Way for Rapid Simulation Results
I was recently presented with a unique opportunity to compare the results of full ANSYS CFD simulations with the results obtained using the new ANSYS Discovery Live product, which provides results...
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Ensuring EMI/EMC Compliance with Electronics Simulation
Today we live in a hyper-connected world, surrounded by smart products. If industry forecasts are correct, by 2020 — just 2 short years from now — there will be over 28 billion internet-connected...
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The Bell X-1’s Historic Supersonic Flight with ANSYS AIM
During the autumn of 1947, the sleek orange form of the Bell X-1 “Glamorous Glennis” dropped clear of its B-29 mothership and lit its four chambered XLR-11 rocket engine. The flight that followed...
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Enhancing the Accuracy of Full-body Scanners for Improved Airport Security
If you’ve traveled by plane in recent years, you know the airport security drill: Put all your possessions through the X-ray detector, empty your pockets and step into one of the full-body scanners —...
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Ensuring Signal Integrity Throughout a Channel
Electronic devices — with well-designed signal integrity (SI) — have transformed the way we communicate, work, learn and entertain. Around the globe, we find smart phones, fiber-optic and wireless...
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Investigating Placement of Antennas Inside an Aircraft Fuselage
You may be surprised to learn that a standard passenger jet can have 30 to 50 antennas protruding from the aircraft’s external surface, producing drag forces that can drastically reduce fuel efficiency...
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ANSYS and Green Hills Software Together at CES 2018
Safety first — especially when it comes to engineering control systems for autonomous vehicles. These systems must meet the same high-level safety standards long-mandated for aerospace and defense...
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ANSYS Discovery Live Engineering Design Competition
Over the last four months, I’ve had the pleasure of talking with several ANSYS Discovery Live technology preview users and learning about their unique stories. Regardless of the user, there is one...
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Cloud Computing Speeds Antenna Design
In a previous blog, I noted that born in the cloud companies can be a boon to tech startups looking to optimize precious resources. In this post, I offer a spectacular case in point. Optisys had big...
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Simulation Electrifies Motor Design
Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) are skyrocketing. Driven by technological improvements in powertrains and batteries, environmental regulation, and shifting consumer demand for greener vehicles, global...
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ANSYS HFSS 19 – New Capability, New Look, More Power
Exciting new capabilities have just been released in ANSYS HFSS 19. With this release, we are delivering new features such as Radar Cross Section Analysis (RCS), a dynamic new user interface, more...
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Can The Patriots Get an Edge with Real-time CFD Simulation?
I think I figured it out. The Patriots might be using real-time CFD simulation to raise their field goal percentages. As anyone who watches the NFL knows, the Patriots are perennial winners. With their...
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Fluid Dynamics are Engineer Ready in ANSYS 19.0
In early January, I spent two jam packed days in a room with over 60 of our best and brightest to exchange CFD best practices and learn what’s new for fluid dynamics in ANSYS 19.0. These are ANSYS...
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Improve Thermal Reliability with ANSYS Icepak
Electronics is at the heart of many exciting products like smartphones, tablets, and TVs, and it plays a key role in various industries from semiconductor, automotive, agriculture, aerospace,...
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Accelerating Rapid Product Development with ANSYS Discovery
Last September, we launched the preview of ANSYS Discovery Live — a new technology that can bring intuitive and real-time simulation insight to all engineering decisions. “… one of the biggest...
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Efficiency Maps for Electric Motors Made Easy
Simulating electric motors saves time, minimizes the number of needed prototypes and enables innovation as it is possible to virtually test a wide range of possible designs. ANSYS can simulate electric...
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ANSYS 19 Delivers Accurate CFD for Very Large and Very Small Details
Engineering problems can be quite straight forward when confined to a single size scale. For example, designing an elephant-proof fence is simply an exercise welding together enough big steel bars. But...
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Thermo-Mechanical Analysis Methods for Printed Circuit Boards: Part 2
In part one of this series, we discussed modeling approaches for the complex geometry found in printed circuit boards. Now, we’ll move on to discussing methods for characterizing the thermal properties...
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