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Predicting Equipment Fatigue Caused by Flow-Induced Vibration
The energy of a human voice at certain pitch and volume can shatter a wine glass due to vibrations caused by sound waves. Motion of fluids can also create structural vibration, sometimes with...
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Enabling Virtual System Prototyping with ANSYS Simplorer
The objective of simulation software is to inform design choices and provide validation results that include systems-level qualities, properties, characteristics, functions, behavior and performance...
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Nebia Uses Simulation to Make a Luxury Shower Head Go Green
Who said that CFD simulation was only for “hard” problems like jet engines and race cars? It is easy to dismiss CFD as overkill for something as familiar as a showerhead — weren’t they optimized long...
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Guest Blog: Turbulent Combustion Modeling at CRAFT Tech
CRAFT Tech (Combustion Research and Flow Technology, Inc.) is a small and well-established CFD consulting firm that specializes in addressing unique and challenging problems for both government and...
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Ensuring Safety on the Rails
The tragic derailing of an Amtrak train near Philadelphia points out just one of the challenges facing the modern railroad industry — safety. The industry also must contend with rising energy costs,...
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Bigger, Faster Antenna and Antenna Platform Simulations!
The recent ANSYS acquisition of Delcross Technologies is a very exciting addition to our electronics product portfolio! The Internet of Things (IoT), aerospace and defense electronics, including...
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Optimizing Product Designs for Heat Transfer and Thermal Stress
Earlier this year, we introduced ANSYS AIM, the first integrated and comprehensive multiphysics simulation environment designed for all engineers. Since then, we’ve been working hard to add new...
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Taking Laminar-Turbulent Transition Modeling to the Next Level
Flows around aerodynamic bodies, like aircraft wings, helicopter blades, wind turbines and turbomachinery components develop boundary layers that, to a large extent, define their performance. The...
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From Subtractive to Additive Manufacturing
David Conover, chief technologist for mechanical products at ANSYS Inc., compares a bracket on his left made with additive manufacturing that is lighter and smaller than an identical bracket made by...
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Streamlining the Simulation of Structural Assemblies
Many product designs require the simulation of structural assemblies, which includes predicting the deformation and stress of the assembly where multiple parts come into contact or are connected. Parts...
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Making Our Highways Safer with Automotive Radar
Automotive radar is a key technology in delivering active safety systems that play a major role in reducing traffic fatalities. Active safety systems include adaptive cruise control and collision...
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I Can’t Hear You! Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) in Sports Arenas
During a recent NFL game, the visiting team complained about picking up the home team’s radio broadcast on their coach-to-coach headsets preventing the coaches from communicating with one another. The...
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Using Explicit Simulations to Go Further
Highly non-linear simulations can be difficult to converge using the implicit simulation tools. The implicit route can involve several restarts trying different settings each time. Another methodology...
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So You Want to Design Medical Devices
Healthcare is often cited as one of the leading applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). Looking around the Web, it is clear that leading high tech companies like Qualcomm, Intel, Cisco, Juniper...
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Automated Design System Speeds Pump Development
Advanced simulation tools are essential for contemporary and competitive product design. But it is the assembly of these tools into an effective, automated design system that gives leading companies an...
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Achieving Power Noise Closure and Reliability Sign-off Accuracy for SoCs...
TSMC’s Partner of the Year Award This year, ANSYS received yet another TSMC’s Partner of the Year Award in the category of joint development of the 10nm FinFET Design Infrastructure. It has been 11...
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Modelling Compressible Flows in ANSYS AIM
In all real life flows, the properties of a fluid material vary with pressure and temperature. The degrees of these variations depend on both the fluid itself and the flow regime. Some engineering...
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Speed Design and Production of Extrusion Dies Using CFD
Extrusion is a high-volume manufacturing process in which any of a multitude of polymers are melted, formed into a continuous profile and then cut to length. The process results in a wide variety of...
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Reduced Order Modeling in the Context of System Level Simulation
I recently had the pleasure of representing ANSYS as an invited plenary speaker at the MoRePaS international workshop on Reduced Order Modeling. Model order reduction techniques and the resulting...
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Upshift Into the Next Gear With ANSYS AIM
In my almost 20 years of work at CADFEM, an Elite channel partner of ANSYS in central Europe, I have seen a continuous transition in the usage of simulation from experts to development engineers. One...
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