PITTSBURGH, June 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- From ideation to
design to manufacturing and operations, ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS)
is accelerating, streamlining and simplifying the product life
cycle through new functionalities released in ANSYS 2019 R2. With a
revolutionary ANSYS® Mechanical™ user experience,
simplified simulation of complex electronics and a new
ANSYS® Fluent™ workflow that significantly speeds
meshing of dirty geometries, ANSYS' pervasive simulation
engineering solutions enable digital transformation — speeding
customers' innovations and reducing their time to market.
Digital transformation is impacting every industry. Through
groundbreaking digital technologies, hardware and software
developers can work together in all phases of the product
development cycle and shave years off their product timelines. With
new functionalities in ANSYS 2019 R2, including new materials
capabilities for structural analysis following the recent
acquisition of Granta, ANSYS' simulation solutions accelerate
collaboration, validation and verification — creating a reliable
digital thread between all operations.
"Design, engineering and manufacturing practices are changing at
lightning speed — organizations are leaning on simulation and
digitizing their processes to bring cutting-edge products to
customers faster than ever," said Shane
Emswiler, vice president and general manager for ANSYS
electronics, fluids and mechanical business units at ANSYS. "This
release empowers customers to do more with multiphysics simulation
in less time. ANSYS 2019 R2 automates simulation while making it
easier to use."
Highlights of the ANSYS 2019 R2 release include:
New User Experience and More in ANSYS Mechanical
With ANSYS 2019 R2 and the acquisition of DfR Solutions, ANSYS
Mechanical cements its industry lead in usability and productivity.
ANSYS 2019 R2 introduces a new user interface in ANSYS Mechanical
that speeds user adoption and reduces learning times to transform
engineers' productivity. The improved interface provides new
capabilities around customization, ease of use features and instant
search and launch tool.
By adding DfR Solutions' Sherlock to the portfolio, ANSYS now
offers a turnkey, end-to-end solution in electronics
reliability.
"The recent acquisition of DfR Solutions provides users an
easy-to-use solution focused on mechanical reliability for
electronic products," said Jim
Hunter, manager, Viasat Reliability Engineering. "Electronic
product CAD assemblies which previously took weeks to create can
now be assembled and solved in under an hour."
Beyond the new interface and acquisition, 2019 R2 includes
enhanced SMART fracture modeling, a new topology optimization
methodology that reduces the time to prepare the resultant
geometry—shortening the digital thread. Also included in ANSYS 2019
R2 is an automatic meshed-based connection for shell and beam
models, which is a key offering for oil & gas structures and
heavy industrial equipment models.
"ANSYS' meshed-based connection enabled us to generate meshes
for models and complicated geometries previously impossible to
mesh. Days spent ensuring joint edges were properly imprinted on
faces geometrically are now in the past, as the meshed-based
connection technology automatically detected and connected the
model exactly as intended. By every metric, the mesh quality was
superior to previously meshed models," said Wu Zhu, Principal Structural Engineer at Diamond
Offshore Drilling. "Diamond Offshore Drilling's mission of
responsibly unlocking energy depends on our in-house engineering
team swiftly responding to environmental and customer needs. Not
only will this new meshing technology save us hours of tedious
geometry work, it will allow us to respond to urgent FEA tasks
faster."
New Materials Offerings
Following the acquisition of Granta, ANSYS 2019 R2 embeds data
on more than 600 materials within ANSYS Mechanical — speeding up
the process of setting up models by reducing time spent looking for
material properties. The ANSYS GRANTA Materials Data for Simulation
data package provides broad coverage of material types and easy
access to key data needed for structural analysis.
Powerful New Tools for Simulating Complex Electronics
New offerings in the electronics and electromagnetics suite
include important new features for engineers meeting complex design
challenges. Accelerated doppler processing in ANSYS®
HFSS™ SBR+ expedites the modeling of ADAS radar scenarios
related to autonomous vehicles and other near-field radar sensing
systems by 100X.
ANSYS 2019 R2 also introduces TAU Flex meshing, a powerful new
meshing technology enabling users to efficiently obtain design
trend information earlier in the design cycle. The integration of
EMIT to the ANSYS HF flow enables a new capability to simulate RF
Desense, a major challenge encountered by engineers designing
smartphones, tablets and wireless products that include antennas,
RF transceivers, digital data sources and sensors.
Additionally, in collaboration with our partner Modelithics,
Inc., ANSYS 2019 R2 introduces a new library of HFSS 3D component
models for the design of 5G and wireless communication systems.
ANSYS Cloud added to Electronics Suite
ANSYS Cloud delivers easy and instantaneous access to
cloud-based high-performance computing directly within ANSYS'
structures, fluids and electronics product suites — enabling
companies of all sizes to accelerate their digital transformation
initiatives with near infinite compute resources, more product
performance data and faster time to market. Direct on-demand cloud
access from the ANSYS® Electronics Desktop™ in
2019 R2 enables ANSYS® HFSS™ and
ANSYS® SIwave™ customers to seamlessly burst
into faster, distributed simulation—solving higher fidelity models
and more design variations well beyond the capacity of their
on-premise compute resources.
New Fluids Workflow Speeds Meshing of Dirty
Geometries
In the fluids suite, ANSYS enhanced and extended its new Fluent
experience that accelerates digital transformation by enabling
users to do more computational fluid dynamics (CFD), in less time,
with less training than ever before. The new task-based, fault
tolerant workflow meshes dirty, non-watertight geometries twice as
fast without scripts or popups. Complex models that previously took
days or even weeks can now be meshed in hours.
With ANSYS 2019 R2, users can further speed combustion
simulations without sacrificing accuracy through the newly released
capabilities. A benchmark example resulted in a reduced mechanism
with 36% fewer species than previous methods. Parallel performance
gains can cut simulation time in half for full-cycle internal
combustion engine simulations that include spray, chemistry and
flame propagation physics.
New hybrid meshing capabilities save hours of hands-on time by
enabling users to completely mesh complex turbine blade models.
New SPEOS with Live Preview
The new ANSYS SPEOS packages an unprecedented integration that
offers an intuitive and comprehensive user interface — increasing
customers' productivity by computing GPU-based simulation previews
within the ANSYS multiphysics ecosystem. The new ANSYS SPEOS
enables a faster and more iterative design potential and is
accessible to engineers without computer-aided design (CAD)
experience.
With the new SPEOS Live Preview, users explore an interactive
version of their SPEOS simulation model and obtain immediate
rendering results directly on ANSYS VRXPERIENCE.
"To develop successful head-up display systems, Hyundai Mobis
must simultaneously assess the highly complex optical and
mechanical performance of many different designs," said
Kihyuk Song, Principal Research
Engineer, Hyundai Mobis. "With ANSYS SPEOS, we can rapidly test
many scenarios to determine the optimal HUD configuration, while
reducing our development times.
Revolutionary ANSYS VRXPERIENCE Offerings
The new ANSYS VRXPERIENCE Sound empowers users to improve brand
image and the sound quality by listening and modifying the sound
coming from a recording or CAE. ANSYS VRXPERIENCE Sound is the
premier software and comprehensive solution for sound analysis,
sound quality measurement and 3D playback, and is now connected to
ANSYS Mechanical.
With the ANSYS 2019 R2 release, ANSYS VRXPERIENCE HMI and ANSYS
VRXPERIENCE Perceived Quality enable users to more easily define
object animation and lighting approach through finger tracking —
creating dynamic and interactive projects faster. Users can easily
animate and experiment with virtual prototypes.
Complete Driving Simulation Platform
ANSYS 2019 R2 offers advanced simulation of scenarios for closed
loop ADAS and AV testing with its new complete driving simulation
platform, ANSYS VRXPERIENCE Driving Simulator Powered by SCANeR™.
Users can virtually test scenarios in direct connection with ANSYS
VRXPERIENCE.
ANSYS VRXPERIENCE Driving Simulator Powered by SCANeR provides
the capability to prepare advanced scenarios and run simulations
including events, surrounding traffic and vehicle dynamic with
complete and accurate multi-body vehicle dynamics. With ANSYS
VRXPERIENCE Driving Simulator Powered by SCANeR, users will reduce
physical testing and shorten the time to market by testing the
autonomous driving systems in a digital framework.
Streamlined Safety Testing and Analysis
With the ANSYS® medini analyze and
SCADE® families, users are enabled with new
capabilities that allow them to ensure the digital safety of their
embedded systems and software applications. The new
ANSYS® SCADE® Test™ model coverage
feature divides the testing effort relative to structural coverage
achievement — thanks to model-to-code coverage. Unique in the
embedded software market space, model-to-code coverage requires
only one execution, one acquisition, one level of justification and
one review. The software is also 10X faster than previous
versions.
ANSYS SCADE Test for SCADE Suite® is ready for
qualification under DO-178C and for certification under ISO 26262,
IEC 61508, or EN 50128. The resulting qualification credits enable
users to avoid lengthy and costly reviews and verification
activities when certifying and qualifying their safety-critical
products.
The innovations in SCADE® Solutions for ARINC
661 Compliant Applications provide users with up to 40% efficiency
improvement in widget and graphical server creation, thanks to the
new ARINC 661 Server Creator UI. This user interface allows for a
streamlined ARINC 661 widget and server creation and customization
process.
"Rail-Mil is currently developing the first communication-based
train control system for Poland
and has chosen ANSYS to help deliver on this business initiative.
This project is aimed at increasing railway system capacity while
maintaining existing safety levels," said Slawomir Jasinski, CEO, Rail-Mil Poland. "As we
develop onboard systems for trains, the intelligent solutions we
use have to be reliable and safe, as any issue could lead to
serious consequences. We selected ANSYS SCADE as it is the best
software in the market to speed up embedded software development
and ensure compliance with EU regulations."
ANSYS® medini analyze fully supports the FMEDA
safety analysis on the semiconductor level including verification
of safety mechanism coverage data by fault injection. This enables
our customers to comply with ISO 26262:11 2018.
New Features for System Simulation and Digital
Twins
ANSYS® Twin Builder™ 2019 R2 enhances
Modelica workflow capabilities, making it easier for users to
quickly implement and edit Modelica components in their systems
designs. Support for undo-redo and a new array connector dialog box
are a few of these new capabilities. New solver performance
enhancements in the product improve performance by up to 30%.
Multiphysics Performance Improvements
In the multiphysics suite, all multiphysics simulation cases
that use System Coupling benefit from performance improvements of
3X for the coupling engine — increasing overall run times by 20% or
more. With the update, users can run mixed steady-transient
analyses, which increases simulation efficiency when modeling a
multiphysics application with fast physical effects on one side and
a slower response on the other. The "fast" physics can be run as
steady-state and the slower response as transient.
More Comprehensive and Insightful 3D Design
Exploration
ANSYS® Discovery™ continues its award-winning momentum to bring
simulation upfront in the design process and simulation insight to
every engineer. In this release the designer use cases are expanded
with live thermal stress and electrical conduction simulation.
Engineers need to evaluate a broad spectrum of product behaviors
as they develop their designs, and ANSYS Discovery features
industry-leading breadth of phenomena with unparalleled speed and
ease of use. This release also delivers more insight from the
simulations, through a new interactive legend, improved result
controls and enhanced immersive interaction with 3D simulation
results. While still in beta, generative design capabilities take a
step forward with options for getting results back to surface-based
CAD models.
Faster and Easier Additive Manufacturing
ANSYS Additive Prep, built right into
ANSYS® SpaceClaim®, makes orienting
parts and creating advanced support structures easy. New heat maps
give fast feedback on optimal supports, distortion tendency and
build time while native support generation tools are fast and easy
to use.
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Simulation, we help the world's most innovative companies deliver
radically better products to their customers. By offering the best
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