ANSYS 14.0: YY. Perng Lead Application Engineer
ANSYS 14.0: YY. Perng Lead Application Engineer
ANSYS 14.0: YY. Perng Lead Application Engineer
YY. Perng
Lead Application Engineer
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Outline
• ANSYS Workbench
• Geometry and Meshing
• Structure Mechanics
• Fluid Dynamics
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ANSYS Workbench 14.0
• System Coupling
• ANSYS RSM
• ANSYS DesignXplorer
• ANSYS EKM
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System Coupling 14.0
• Facilitates simulations that require tightly integrated couplings of
analysis systems in the ANSYS portfolio
• Extensible architecture for range of coupling scenarios
(one‐, two‐ & n‐way, static data, co‐simulation…)
• ANSYS Workbench user environment and workflow
• Stand‐alone coupling service delivers coupling management and
mapping/interpolation
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Multiphysics and Systems Coupling – FSI
Two‐way surface force/displacement
coupling between Fluent and Mechanical
via Systems Coupling
• Steady/static and transient two‐way FSI
• Integrated post‐processing with CFD‐Post
• Workbench based setup and execution
– Windows and Linux
• Alternative execution from command line
– including cross‐platform
• Parallel processing with ANSYS HPC
– RSM currently not supported
• Restarts for fluid‐structure interaction
• Parameterization, design exploration and
optimization Non‐Newtonian blood flow
through a three leaf mitral valve
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ANSYS RSM 14.0
• RSM supports background update of the
Solution (or Analysis) component for:
– Mechanical (ongoing support)
– MAPDL (now supports parallel solve)
– CFX (now supports parallel solve, external
files)
– FLUENT (now supports parallel solve,
UDFs)
• Queue multiple jobs on a local machine
– Overnight or other low‐usage times
• Submit jobs to remote machines
– Distributed clusters
– Management of files, including UDFs
• Update design points in parallel via RSM
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RSM: Simultaneous Update of Design Points
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ANSYS DesignXplorer 14.0
• Workbench Design Exploration and Optimization for
increased understanding, innovation & simulation ROI
• New at 14.0
R14
• Reduced time required
• 2 new adaptive DOEs
• Distributed solve
• Design point sorting
• Increased Robustness Robust Design
• Support for partial DOE’s Optimization
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ANSYS EKM 14.0
• EKM
• Individual user
• Workgroups/Shared user
• Integration with Workbench
– Save Workbench projects to the
repository
– Automated indexing and Report
generation for Workbench Projects
– Search and Resume Workbench projects
– Execute Workbench projects for
parametric runs, DOE, Optimization
– Compare multiple Workbench Projects to
find the best fit candidate
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Geometry Advances
Focus on enhancing your productivity through new
features, increased flexibility, efficiency and usability
• ANSYS DesignModeler
– Core modeling improvements
– Application‐specific modeling
• ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler
– Improved Workbench integration
– Enhanced Model Preparation
• Interoperability
– Support for new CAD releases
– New CAD file readers
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ANSYS DM 14.0: Interoperability with CAD
Several new readers to provide two types of
interfaces for all major CAD systems for
improved productivity and flexibility
• Associative Interfaces
– Associative, parametric and Bi‐directional
• Readers
– Native file readers for users without live CAD Pro/Engineer
access
GAMBIT reader is enhanced to support non
ACIS geometry
A new DWG Reader for AutoCAD
Improved model processing for faster and
targeted updates
Updated geometry interfaces ANSYS DesignModeler
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ANSYS DM 14.0: Direct Entity Input
• Direct entity selections are
accepted for Extrude, Revolve,
Sweep and Skin/Loft
operations
• Named selections and sketches
remain supported as valid
inputs for greater automation
and flexibility
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ANSYS DM 14.0: Mid Surfacing
• Selection tolerance
– Tolerance is used to detect face pairs in case
of imperfect offsets
– Selecting an undetected pair manually
provides feedback on tolerance value
required, which can be used for automated
selection
• Graphical display of thickness (using color)
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ANSYS DM 14.0: Rotor Shaft Feature
• A new option to import line bodies to create Shaft
geometry
• Reads input from a text file and automatically creates
line bodies with specified cross‐sections
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ANSYS DM 14.0: Interoperability with Ansoft
Products
• Bi‐directional geometry transfer
between Ansoft products and
Workbench applications for multi‐
physics simulations
(DesignModeler/Mechanical/Meshing)
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ANSYS DM14.0: Other Enhancements
Improved Named Selection transfer between ANSYS DesignModeler and other
ANSYS Workbench applications
Single/Box selection toggle
• RMB + LMB combination to easily toggle between the two selection modes
New Hot Keys
Improved Error handling
• Attach failures
• Share topology failures
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ANSYS SpaceClaim 14.0
Improved ANSYS Workbench Integration
• Improved Associativity and data transfer
• Support for multiple design points
Preview options for Topology Sharing
• Preview sharing to view topology sharing
before transferring the model into Workbench
• Help detect and fix topology sharing issues
before transfer
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ANSYS SpaceClaim 14.0: Volume Extraction
Volume Extract Tool Improvements
• Progress reporting
• Options to specify multiple faces as seeds
to create more than one volume in a
single step
• Option to preview face selection
propagation to detect leaks during
volume extraction
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ANSYS SpaceClaim 14.0: Selection and Repair
Improved Selection and Repair Options
• More Selection Options
• Select Parents
• Select Children
• ClipView option to isolate and
examine selected region
• Multi‐face patch option for fixing
missing faces
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Rapid & Robust Meshing
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Assembly Meshing
Assembly Meshing enables dramatically
reduced time to mesh for typical CAD
models by eliminating the tedious
geometry clean‐up
Top‐down approach to mesh all parts at
once
• Uses Virtual Bodies (material points or
groups) to automatically extract internal
regions from assemblies
• Supports:
– Meshing solids from sheet bodies
– Conformal mesh between parts
without requiring multibody parts
– Overlapping bodies
– Tet (linear) and CutCell (hex‐dominant)
mesh types
– Inflation
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Performance
Prism (inflation) layers
• Speed (~2x faster)
• Robustness
• Element/cell quality
Tet with inflation
CutCell CutCell with inflation
• Robustness
• Cell quality
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Selective Meshing Worksheet
• Controls order of body meshing:
– Allows selective body meshing to remain persistent
– User can record meshing operations, or add steps manually
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Virtual Topologies
Virtual Topologies (VT) enabling
improved automation, flexibility,
and usability: Cluster 2
• More interactive usage through direct Cluster 1
graphics interaction rather than tree
objects
2 Virtual Faces created.
• Ability to run “Auto VT” on selected 1 for each cluster.
edges, faces or bodies
• Clustering of faces/edges
• Create hard vertex
• Face splits
• Improved meshing performance
w/VTs
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Hex Meshing
MultiZone improvements
• Handling of cylindrical side faces
• Imprinting
– Through bodies
– Through long stretches of connected
side faces
• Support for Match control
• Robustness
• Speed
Speed improvements for multi‐body
parts with swept blocks
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Structural Mechanics 14.0
• MAPDL/WB Integration
• Physics coupling and data mappping
• Rotating machines
• Composites & Fracture Mechanics
• Application Customization
• Thin structures modeling
• Contact analysis
• Advanced Modeling
• Performance
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MAPDL/WB Integration
Direct FE
• Nodal Orientation
• Nodal Force
• Nodal Pressure
• FE Displacement
• FE Rotation
• Works with RESTART !
• Displacement Results Nodes are oriented in cylindrical system for loads and
boundary condition definitions
Node selections for applying loads and reviewing
local results
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Enhanced Data Mapping
• New data types
– Heat flux
– Heat generation
– Thickness
– Displacement (
• Weighting options
– Kriging
– Triangulation
– Distance based average Thicknesses Temperatures
• Multiple files import
– Transient analysis
– Multiple bodies
• New mapping validation
Accuracy control
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Composites
• Data Integrate ACP Pre/Post into WB
• Composite failure material properties in
Engineering Data
• Simple setup and post‐processing of
laminate composites in Mechanical
(shells only at R14)
• Allow transfer of data between ACP and
Mechanical at WB schematic level
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Contact Analysis
• Rigid bodies
– Speed and accuracy improvements
• 2‐5x overall speed‐ups
• Flexible bodies
– Projection based contact
– Contact stabilization
Regular contact Projection based
Smoother temperature results on a multilayered structure
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Advanced Materials
• More advanced models to include
complex nonlinear phenomena
– Anisotropic Hyperelasticity plus Viscoelasticity
for strain rate effects
– Hyperelasticity coupled with Pore Pressure
element
– Shape Memory Alloy enhanced with
superelasticity, Memory effect, New Yield
Function, Differentiated Moduli (Austenite,
Martensite) Nonlinear materials support for
coupled field elements – An
– Holzapfel Model ‐ Capture the behavior of
example of Friction Stir Welding.
fiber‐reinforced tissue
– Coupled field‐elements for strongly coupled
thermo‐mechanical analysis now accounts for
plasticity induced heat generation along with
friction effect
Solver From NAFEMS
Kernel
World Congress
May 2011 Boston,
Speedups MA, USA
“Accelerate FEA
Simulations with a
GPU”
‐by Jeff Beisheim,
ANSYS
Overall
Speedups
4 CPU cores 2.24
4 CPU cores + 1 GPU
2
1.70
1.52 1.44
1.16 1.20
1
0
V13cg‐1 V13sp‐1 V13sp‐2 V13sp‐3 V13sp‐4 V13sp‐5
(JCG, (sparse, (sparse, (sparse, (sparse, (sparse,
1100k) 430k) 500k) 2400k) 1000k) 2100k)
•Windows workstation : Two Intel Xeon 5560 processors (2.8
GHz, 8 cores total), 32 GB RAM, NVIDIA Tesla C2070, Windows
7, TCC driver mode
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Physics Coupling: Rigid Body Dynamics and
Simplorer co‐simulation
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Fluid Dynamics 14.0
• Workflow & Usability
• Multiphysics and Systems Coupling
• Solver and HPC Performance
• Rotating Machinery
• Automotive Power Train Modeling
• Multiphase Flow Modeling
• Comprehensive CFD Capabilities
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Multiphysics and Systems Coupling – FSI
Two‐way surface force/displacement
coupling between Fluent and Mechanical
via Systems Coupling
• Steady/static and transient two‐way FSI
• Integrated post‐processing with CFD‐Post
• Workbench based setup and execution
– Windows and Linux
• Alternative execution from command line
– including cross‐platform
• Parallel processing with ANSYS HPC
– RSM currently not supported
• Restarts for fluid‐structure interaction
• Parameterization, design exploration and
optimization Non‐Newtonian blood flow
through a three leaf mitral valve
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Multiphysics – 1‐way FSI
Significantly faster surface mapping for
1‐way FSI (CFD‐Post) β
• New Octree mapping method
significantly faster algorithm
– Need to set Option in CFD‐Post
• 1‐way FSI in ANSYS Workbench uses CFD‐
Post ‘under‐the‐hood’
– Will use mapping option set by user in
CFD‐Post (which is stored in user
preferences)
– Status message with diagnostics report
indicates new mapping method is being
used
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Multiphysics – Fluent‐Maxwell
Complex multiphysics modeling
• New: Electromagnetic‐thermal interactions inside
Workbench using Fluent with Maxwell
– One‐way and two‐way β coupling
• Combine with 1‐way FSI
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Adjoint Solver
Adjoint Solver for Fluent fully tested,
documented, and supported at R14.0
• Provides information about a fluid
system that is very difficult and
expensive to gather otherwise
• Computes the derivative of an
engineering quantity with respect Shape sensitivity to down‐force on a F1 car
to inputs for the system Lift Force (N)
– Tested up to ~15M cell
Shape sensitivity to lift on NACA 0012
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Solver and HPC Performance
3072 cores
Improved scalability (FL)
• Scalability to higher core counts
• Simulations with monitors including plotting
and printing
• Cluster‐to‐cluster view factor file writing
optimization
Hex‐core mesh, F1 car, 130 million cells
monitor‐enabled
35
R13
1.1 million 30
R14
surface clusters
25
20
15
Sample cluster‐
to‐cluster view 10
0.4 million factor data 5
surface clusters writing using
0
32‐way parallel 0 200 400 600 800 1000
and Infiniband.
Example data for scaling with R14 monitors
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Rotating Machinery
Highly efficient time accurate simulations
with Transient Blade Row capability
(CFX)
• Several models available
– Time Transformation (TT)
• Inlet Disturbance
• Single Stage TRS
– Fourier Transformation (FT)
• Inlet Disturbance
• Single Stage TRS β
• Blade Flutter β
Reference solution Time Transformation
without a TBR method, solution, requiring only
requiring 180 deg model 3 stator and 2 fan blades
Plane showing gas
temperature
Plane showing porous
media temperature
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Multiphase – DEM
NETL Fluidized Bed
Simulations using
DEM with DDPM
Model dense particulate flows with DEM (FL)
• DEM enabled as a collision model in the 12% fines
DPM model panel 0‐25 sec
• Use in combination with single phase and
DDPM simulations
• Works in parallel
• Particle size distributions
• Prediction of the packing limit
• Head‐on collisions 3% fines
• Collisions with walls start‐up ‐15 sec
and 15‐30 sec
• Example applications: Bubbling and
circulating fluidized beds, particle Note that channeling
is observed in the
deposition in filtering devices, 15‐30 sec animation
particle discharge devices (silos)
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Comprehensive CFD – Motion
Improved accuracy with simplicity of
immersed solids (CFX)
• Addition of boundary model for more realistic
velocity forcing with immersed solids Boundary-fitted mesh
– Track nodes nearest to immersed solid
– Assume constant shear (laminar) or use
scalable wall function (turbulent) to modify
forcing at immersed solid ‘wall’
• Can improve immersed solid predictions Immersed Solid (default)
significantly
– Continuing development for further
improvements and broader applications
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ANSYS Icepak
• New GUI and graphics enhancement
– Context aware right click menus in graphics window
• ECAD import enhancement
– Stacked die and PoP import
– ODB++ import
– ANF import from 3rd party tools in both binary and ASCII
• CSV import of parametric trials and polygonal
sources
• Solar radiation with transparent surfaces
• Layer stack‐up for PCB object
• Local coordinate system based on flow direction for
flow resistance specifications
• LED source and High Density Datacenter component
macros
• Thermostat transient feedback macros for heat
sources and fans
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Electronic CAD Interfaces
• ANSYS Icepak supports for IDF
Electronic CAD Interfaces
MCM, BRD and generic ANF
ODB++
• Ansoft Links provide many
additional import options Cadence Allegro
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Interface to SIwave
Power Map
Temperature
Current Density Temperature
(SIwave) (Icepak)
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Summary
ANSYS 14.0 contains a wide range of enhancements:
• New infrastructure for flexible coupling between
solvers to enable multiphysics and system level
simulations
• Faster and robust solvers with highly scalable HPC for
solving ever larger and more complex models with
high fidelity and accuracy in less time
• Enhanced workflow and usability for greater user
experience and productivity
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