ANSYS Europe Newsletter


September 2004

In this issue...

Workbench Solutions
• Empower your innovation capacity with the Shape Optimiser

ANSYS Solutions
• Mesh Shape Modifications without CAD!

ANSYS CFX Solutions
• Robust Cavitation Modelling

ANSYS ICEM CFD Solutions
• ICEMCFD / AI*Environment 5.0 – Streaming Video Demo
• Save 1000000! - ICEMCFD Hints & Tips

ANSYS Industry Solutions
• Grünbeck
• Raetech
• Fairchild
• Silmach

Links

ANSYS Homepage
• Customer Portal
• CFX Community Pages

European ANSYS Conferences

Our European Conferences will be taking place during November in locations throughout Europe. For more information, contact your channel partner, or click the links below.

04-05 Nov
08-09 Nov
10-12 Nov
15-16 Nov
17 Nov
19 Nov

Bergamo, Italy
Avignon, France
Dresden, Germany
Stratford, UK
Madrid, Spain
Breda, The Netherlands

Case Study Index

Introduction

Welcome to the first ANSYS Europe electronic newsletter, we have listened to your feedback and have combined our previous newsletters and bulletins into one easy to read quarterly newsletter. This newsletter replaces the ICEM CFD, DesignSpace, and Variational Technologies newsletters, and carries the latest news, tips, and information for all ANSYS products.

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Workbench Solutions

Empower your innovation capacity with the Shape Optimiser

Simply put, the Shape Optimiser provides suggestions for removing material from a part or from an entire assembly. That is, it guides you in carving a design from a solid lump of material or from a known part or group of parts. Bodies designed using this technique yield optimal stiffness at minimum weight for a given loading environment. The Shape Optimiser provides unbiased, and often surprising design suggestions that help you to define conceptual designs and to refine existing parts. Full Story

ANSYS Solutions

Mesh Shape Modifications without CAD!

What if there was a product that let's you work with one model, but allows you to change it over and over to investigate multiple what-if scenarios without having to go through all of the import/export operations? What if you had a tool that made a finite element model flexible, useful, and parametrically modifiable? What if it didn't matter where that finite element model came from, or how old it was? Full Story

ANSYS CFX Solutions

Robust Cavitation Modelling

Cavitation is a common problem in pumps, inducers, hydraulic turbines, propellers, fuel injectors, and other fluid devices subjected to low pressures. Cavitation often causes performance breakdown and damage, which can be very costly. Because CFX software from ANSYS, Inc. has long been a CFD technology leader, engineers and designers now look to CFX to understand and reduce cavitation. CFX-5 delivers a robust cavitation model to further solidify its leadership in complex CFD analysis. Full Story

ANSYS ICEM CFD Solutions

ICEMCFD / AI*Environment 5.0 – Streaming Video Demo

Version 5.0 of ICEMCFD / AI*Environment was released a few months ago. What better way to see the new interface than a streaming video showing the product in action? Existing users will pick up some tips and people new to the system will see how it can mesh what most would think as impossible! Full Story

Save 1000000! - ICEMCFD Hints & Tips

Save up to a million cells by making a stretched PRISM mesh. A guide will explain the process required. Useful for aerospace, motorsport and turbo-machinery users. Full Story

Industry Solutions

Grünbeck Wasseraufbereitung
"The biggest benefit we gained from using ANSYS DesignSpace was that we can now check designs in the shortest time possible to find out which one is most suitable. Combined with topological optimization, DesignSpace finds new design solutions, which we would not have thought of." Full Story

Raetech
"The ANSYS ICEM CFD Suite is a great assortment of meshing tools. Complete turn-around time from an imperfect CAD surface model to a fully meshed model ready for analysis is phenomenal. We have not found another tool that can hold a candle to ANSYS ICEM CFD’s capabilities in meshing, interoperability, or ease of use. Simply put, this is the best meshing tool for complicated problems" Full Story

Fairchild Controls
"Our physical prototype performed precisely as the CFX tools predicted it would, and we were absolutely confident the final product would also perform as it was supposed to, even under the demanding conditions the Marine Corps would subject it to," says Jeff Hutchison, principle engineer for Fairchild Controls, "With no need to start the development cycle again for another prototype, we were able to move swiftly into manufacturing and testing deliverable hardware." Full Story

Silmach
"A decisive advantage offered by MEMS technologies is the possibility of implementing sensors and actuators within arrays. This requires knowledge of the different physics of each section of the device required for it to work. ANSYS Multiphysics enables us to couple these physics and accurately predict their performance." Full Story

Version News

Visit the ANSYS Customer portal, or the CFX Community site for more details and instructions.

Core Product	Latest Release	Release Date
ANSYS	v8.1SP1	Apr-04
Workbench	v8.1SP6 (Win32)	Jul-04
Workbench	v8.1SP7 (Sun and HP 64Bit)	Aug-04
CFX	v5.7SP1	Jul-04
CFX-TurboGrid	v2.2SP1	Aug-04
Paramesh	v3.0SP1	Aug-04
ICEM CFD	v5.0SP1

David Good - ANSYS, Europe. - Editor