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Confidence by Design WorkshopMay-4-2012

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T. S. Dhanasekaran, PhD.

Application Engineer

ANSYS Inc.,

Agenda

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Pre-processing Advances for CFD applications

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AKA 14.0 Geometry and Meshing Update

Rapid & Robust

Top on the list of challenges engineering

companies are facing is shortened product

development schedules while at the same

time the product designs themselves are

becoming increasingly complex.

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Meshing of these designs introduce

challenges in terms of speed, robustness

and accuracy.

Courtesy Siemens AG.

Workflow & Usability – Geometry Advances

We focused on enhancing your productivity

through new features, increased flexibility,

efficiency and usability

• ANSYS DesignModeler

– Core modeling improvements

– Application-specific modeling

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– Application-specific modeling

• ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler

– Improved Workbench integration

– Enhanced Model Preparation

• Interoperability

– Support for new CAD releases

– New CAD file readers

• 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

Workflow & Usability – Direct Entity Input

Extrude

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greater automation and flexibility

Revolve

Sweep

• Improved visualization controls for modeling and topology

verifications

• Available through View options or directly from the Toolbar

Workflow & Usability – Visualization Controls

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Vertex DisplayEdge Direction Display

Use it for Split or blend Topology and identify edges

Single/Box selection toggle

• RMB + LMB combination to easily

toggle between the two selection

modes

Auto Freeze during slicing

Workflow & Usability – Add’l Enhancements Active Bodies

Bodies involved in the slice

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Auto Freeze during slicing

• Slice feature and Slice Material

operations are now available for all

bodies

– Both active and frozen

• Active bodies involved in the slice are

changed to frozen state automatically

Bodies involved in the slice

are changed to a frozen

state automatically

Improved Named Selection transfer between ANSYS DesignModeler

and other ANSYS Workbench applications

New Hot Keys

Improved Error handling

• Attach failures

• Share topology failures

Workflow & Usability – Add’l Enhancements

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• Share topology failures

A new export property inside DesignModeler to control named selection transfer to other workbench applications

Improved error handling to

provide appropriate error and

warnings in case of failures

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 don’t need live CAD access

Workflow & Usability – Interoperability

Pro/Engineer

Use CAD configuration manager

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– Native file readers don’t need live CAD access

Workbench 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

Pro/Engineer

ANSYS DesignModeler

Associative Interfaces (Associative,

bidirectional and parametric)

• Creo Parametric

• Creo Elements/Pro

• Creo Elements/Direct Modeling

CAD Readers

• AutoCAD 2012*

• Creo Elements/Pro

• NX 7.5

• Inventor 2011

Workflow & Usability – Interoperability

Geometry Interfaces at R14.0

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• Creo Elements/Direct Modeling

• Inventor 2012

• SolidWorks 2011

• Solid Edge ST3 (103)

• Solid Edge ST4

• CATIA V5 R21

• Teamcenter 8.0. 8.1, 8.3

• Inventor 2011

• SolidWorks 2011

• Catia V5 R20

• Catia V4

• IGES and STEP

• Parasolid 24.0

• ACIS R20

• GAMBIT 2.4

* Requires an AutoCAD installation

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

Workflow & Usability – ANSYS SpaceClaim

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before transferring the model into

Workbench

• Help detect and fix topology sharing issues

before transfer

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

Workflow & Usability – ANSYS SpaceClaim

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• Option to preview face selection

propagation to detect leaks during

volume extraction

Improved Selection and Repair Options

• More Selection Options

• Select Parents

• Select Children

• ClipView option to isolate and examine

selected region

Workflow & Usability – ANSYS SpaceClaim

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• Multi-face patch option for fixing

missing faces

ClipViewWithout multi-face With multi-face

Rapid & Robust Meshing

Enhanced productivity through increased automation, flexibility,

efficiency and robustness

• Assembly Meshing

– Tet and CutCell

• Performance (Speed, Robustness)

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• Performance (Speed, Robustness)

• Selective Meshing

• Virtual Topologies

• Hex Meshing

• ICEM CFD/TGrid

Top-down approach meshes all parts

at once

• Uses Virtual Bodies (material

points) to automatically extract

internal regions from assemblies

• Supports:

– Meshing solids from sheet

bodies

Rapid & Robust Meshing – Assembly Meshing

Assembly Meshing

reduces time-to-mesh by

reducing/eliminating the

tedious geometry clean-up

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bodies

– Conformal mesh between parts

without requiring multibody

parts

– Overlapping bodies

– Tet (linear) and CutCell (hex-

dominant) mesh types

– Inflation

Prism (inflation) layers

• Speed (~2x faster)

• Robustness

• Element/cell quality

CutCell

Rapid & Robust Meshing – Performance

Tet with inflation

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CutCell

• Robustness

• Cell quality

CutCell with inflation

Persistence

• Record and replay sequence

of meshing steps

Flexibility

• Adv. Front surface meshing

• Separate min size

Rapid & Robust Meshing – Selective Control

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• Separate min size

for curvature & proximity

Convenience

• Contact transfers to

Fluent

Virtual Topologies (VT)

enabling improved

automation, flexibility, and

usability:

• More interactive usage through

direct graphics interaction

rather than tree objects

Cluster 1

Cluster 2

2 Virtual Faces created.

1 for each cluster.

Rapid & Robust Meshing – Virtual Topologies

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rather than tree objects

• Ability to run “Auto VT” on

selected edges, faces or bodies

• Clustering of faces/edges

• Create hard vertex

• Face splits

• Improved meshing performance

w/VTs

1 for each cluster.

Flexibility: Allows user to get mapped or swept mesh in

easier fashion

Rapid & Robust Meshing – Virtual Topologies

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Rapid & Robust Meshing – Virtual Topologies

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MultiZone improvements

• Handling of cylindrical side faces

• Imprinting

– Through bodies

– Through long stretches of connected

side faces

• Support for Match control

Rapid & Robust Meshing – Hex Meshing

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• Support for Match control

• Robustness

• SpeedSpeed improvements for multi-body

parts with swept blocks

Productivity enhancements through

increased robustness, flexibility, and

efficiency

• Stability and usability

– >200 defects and feature requests resolved

• User interface

– Speed (display, selection)

Rapid & Robust Meshing – ICEM CFD

New Mid-side Node

Refinement option

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– Speed (display, selection)

– Model tree enhancements

– Enhanced Subsets

• Mesh Editing

– Enhanced Prism editing, refinement, etc.

• Hexa

– Enhanced Create, MultiZone, Split, Move,

Link, Smooth, Index control, etc.

Refinement option

Unstructured

MultiZone with

Periodicity

Productivity enhancements through

increased robustness, flexibility, and

efficiency

• Assembly Meshing

• CutCell-to-Tet conversion with

Rapid & Robust Meshing – TGrid

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• CutCell-to-Tet conversion with

remeshing

• Prism speedup (~2x)

Summary

All of these enhancements were driven in major part by

customer’s inputs and guidance, in response to real world

engineering challenges.

We are very interested in your feedback.

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Meshing Product

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Questions?

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