We are surrounded by sounds, some pleasant, and quite a few that are not. In order for a product to be accepted by customers, manufacturers must pay close attention to its acoustic signature, both for branding purposes and to limit noise pollution. Engineers must also consider the noise regulations that govern their industry, prior to product release. Problems identified late in development cycle can lead to costly rework and a delayed product launch.
To improve the performance of the products, engineers need to understand the roles of noise sources and all the possible transmission paths. Because of the large domain of the model, it is critical to have efficient solvers and robust technology that can account for the interactions between structures and fluids. The finite and infinite element based Multiphysics Simulation Software is intuitive and easy to implement because of the familiar technology of FEA. It is also easier to couple with structural finite element analysis codes, helping you solve coupled interaction between structures and fluids.
Few applications where acoustic modeling and vibrations are performed are interior & exterior vehicle acoustics, Powertrain, engine components, HVAC ducts, fans & pumps, electrical motors, mufflers, tire noise, silencers, sensors, sonar, flowmeters, speakers, mobile devices, microphones, mufflers, rooms and concert halls.
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been successfully applied using both metals and plastics in the aerospace, automotive, bio-medical, tooling, and other applications. Additive manufacturing is the process of creating a 3D object by adding one or more materials on top of each other layer by layer.
Multiphysics Simulation software for Metal Additive Manufacturing – puts its focus on build simulation and subsequent steps including heat treatment, cutting the base plate, removing supports, and Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP). The process simulation solution addresses both manufacturers and researchers and their needs.
A challenge is that analyzing the additive manufacturing process while coupling the relevant physics can result in large model sizes and long computational times. To overcome this issue, several different simulation strategies, such as activating mesh properties, using adaptive remeshing, and performing sequential simulations.
Since additive manufacturing is a complex process, it can be difficult to study. This technique varies based on the materials involved and the specific type of additive manufacturing.
The mobility revolution demands new simulation solutions. Multiphysics Simulation Software tools work together to address an industry-leading breadth of challenges in development and validation of driver assist systems to fully autonomous vehicles.
trainers and simulators, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
driver assist systems, vehicle to vehicle interactions, traffic simulation, autonomous vehicles
agricultural and mining equipment, trucks
intelligent highways, vehicle to infrastructure interactions, standards and certification
The Multiphysics Simulation Software capabilities help in
The Software solution includes functionality for creating, inspecting, and editing chemical equations, kinetic expressions, thermodynamic functions, and transport equations.
Modeling the batteries requires different levels of detail depending on the purpose of the simulations. This encompasses descriptions over a large range of scales, from the detailed structures in the battery's porous electrode to the battery pack scale including thermal management systems. The descriptions involve physics phenomena such as transport of charged and neutral species, charge balances, chemical and electrochemical reactions, Joule heating and thermal effects due to electrochemical reactions, heat transfer, fluid flow, and other physical phenomena that are important for the understanding of a battery system.
With Multiphysics Simulation Software, we can study the systems that include proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), hydroxide exchange (alkaline) fuel cells (AFCs), and solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), as well as the corresponding water electrolyzer systems. The Software accommodates all types of fuel cells and electrolyzers.
The Multiphysics Simulation Software enables engineers and scientists to understand, optimize, and control electrodeposition processes using simulation. This is a cost-effective approach for investigating the influence of different parameters, including cell geometry, electrolyte composition, electrode reaction kinetics, operating voltages and currents, and temperature effects. A typical simulation yields the current distribution at the surface of the electrodes as well as the thickness and composition of the deposited layer. You can model various applications, such as the fabrication of electrical and thermal conductors and the electroforming of parts with thin complex shapes.
Modeling and simulation are powerful tools for understanding corrosion and designing and optimizing corrosion protection systems. The Multiphysics Simulation Software, enables engineers and scientists to effectively model corrosion processes and protection systems in an intuitive user interface. The modeling process is streamlined by the software's capacity to describe the transport processes in an electrolyte, including the transport of ions and neutral species as well as the balance of current in metal structures. Multiphysics Simulation Software also includes capabilities for describing in detail the charge transfer reactions that are responsible for corrosion occurring at electrolyte–metal surfaces.
The Multiphysics Simulation Software includes a thermodynamic database with electrode potentials and a selection of kinetic expressions for the most common redox reactions at these surfaces. The transport and reaction processes that describe corrosion and corrosion protection systems can be modeled in 1D, 2D, and 3D using the finite element method (FEM) and boundary element method (BEM).
Multiphysics Simulation Software, provides modeling and simulation tools for designing, understanding, and optimizing electrochemical systems. It can be used for fundamental studies of electrochemical applications such as cyclic voltammetry, waste water treatment, the desalination of seawater, and electrocatalysis. The primary analysis tasks that Multiphysics Simulation Software is used for are general electroanalysis, electrolysis, electrodialysis, and bioelectrochemistry analysis.
Utilizing CFD software has become an indispensable tool in reducing development costs by enabling users to quickly handle more realistic geometries and physics.
Exterior body aerodynamics, interior air flow simulation, pressure drop calculation at inlet and exhaust manifolds, assessment of fan and rotor system design in order to develop fuel efficient and high performance vehicles.
Industrial equipment manufacturers use the Aerodynamic analysis to improve the design of key components such as turbines, fans, pumps and compressors to realize and improve the performance. Civil engineers and architects use to deliver computational fluid dynamic equations for evaluation of indoor air flow patterns, HVAC duct designing external wind loads on civil structures.
Certain drive conditions require unsteady simulation
Vehicle Thermal Management Maturity stages
Important Technologies in vehicle thermal management
We provide heat transfer solutions for engineering and industrial equipment through CFD simulation. The goal is to provide engineers in assessing the thermal compatibility and performance of the devices. Knowing the information on heating and cooling of the associated flow field, design engineers can improve the thermal management of the product significantly. Our analysts reduce the development time significantly by providing key insights through heat transfer studies so that modifications in the design can be applied well before production, providing significant cost and time savings.
Using, Multiphysics Simulation Software CFD engineers provide insights on cooling system for automobiles and help in improving the design of radiators as well as improve the efficiency of air conditioning system by simulating the air flow and associated temperature inside the cabin.
For industrial equipment such as heat exchangers, heat sinks, burners and boilers, our simulation solutions help design engineers to predict thermal compatibility and heat transfer characteristics through conjugate heat transfer studies.
Engineered Composites have actually been in use for thousands of years. Adobe bricks were made using a composite of mud and straw. It is the combination of the physical properties of each material that gives the composite material many of its physical characteristics. Today’s advanced composites, like carbon fiber, bring together combined properties we’ve come to know – lightweight, strong, durable and heat-resistant. Today, the benefits of components and products designed and produced in composite materials – instead of metals, such as aluminum and steel – are well recognized by many industries.
Multiphysics Simulation Software extensive solution capabilities in composites help to analyze and enhance complex composite designs. The tools offered by Multiphysics Simulation Software are ideal for numerous types of composites, namely, advanced composites, sandwich panels, plastics, nano composites, hard metals and more.
A composite material is a heterogeneous material composed of two or more integrated constituents for enhanced structural performance. The Multiphysics Simulation Software brings you specialized modeling tools and functionality for analyzing layered composite structures. Layered composite materials, such as fiber-reinforced polymers, laminated plates, and sandwich panels, are widely used in manufacturing aircraft components, spacecraft components, wind turbine blades, automobile components, buildings, boat hulls, bicycles, and safety equipment.
Additionally, you can extend your models to include heat transfer, electromagnetics, fluid flow, acoustics, and piezoelectric effects — all within the same simulation environment.
Product design and development requires that engineers consider trade-offs between product attributes in the areas of cost, weight, manufacturability, quality, and performance. Engineers are faced with the difficult challenge of determining how to arrive at the best overall design, making the right compromises, and not sacrificing critical attributes like safety.
Multiphysics Simulation Software offers a complete set of solutions for optimization, ranging from use of gradient based optimization methods, like sizing, shape and topology optimizations, or calculation of response surfaces, to a broader process management to analyze and optimize designs across multiple disciplines. These solutions can be integrated with third party optimizers as well to provide you solutions that mold to your requirements.
Starting with an objective function to improve and a set of design variables to change, along with an optional set of constraints, the software will search for an optimal design. Any inputs to the model — whether they be geometric dimensions, part shapes, material properties, or material distribution — can be treated as design variables, and any model output can be used as the objective function, which is then minimized or maximized.
Multiphysics Simulation Software provides you with a wide range of modeling features and numerical methods for investigating electromagnetic fields and EMI/EMC by solving Maxwell's equations.
It provides capabilities to analyze Electric Currents, Electrostatics, Magnetostatics, Electromagnetic Fields, Rotating Machinery, Electric Circuits,
Multiphysics Simulation Software helps in modeling nonequilibrium and equilibrium discharges, which occur in a wide range of engineering disciplines. Developed to handle arbitrary systems, the Multiphysics Simulation Software provides predefined settings for modeling direct current (DC) discharges, inductively coupled plasmas (ICP), microwave plasmas, capacitively coupled plasmas (CCP), combinations of ICP and CCP, and corona discharges. Multiphysics Simulation Software provides dedicated features for the analysis of semiconductor device operation at the fundamental physics level. A range of common device types can be simulated with the Multiphysics Simulation Software, including bipolar transistors, metal–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs), metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), Schottky diodes, p–n junctions, solar cells, and more.
Multiphysics Simulation Software includes features designed to model interactions of electromagnetic waves and semiconductor materials. Typical modeling devices are photodiodes, LEDs, and laser diodes. In addition, the Multiphysics Simulation Software makes it possible to employ user-defined equations and expressions in the modeling process.
One of the most challenging tasks of design and development process is prediction of failure over time. Without knowledge of how a structure might fail, it is harder to improve its safety performance. Physical testing for all possible failure scenarios can be cost prohibitive. Durability analysis from finite element models is becoming increasingly accepted in the design process. The analysis is no longer limited to fatigue life calculations - output can now include safe working stresses, warranty claim curves, and the effects of high temperatures, manufacturing processes and assembly stresses.
Multiphysics Simulation Software offers a range of solutions for FE based durability and fatigue problems that enable accurate prediction of product life under any combination of time-dependent or frequency-dependent loading conditions.
Multiphysics Simulation Software is used for performing fatigue analyses when structures are subjected to repeated loading and unloading. These analyses can be simulated in solid bodies, plates, shells, multibody systems, applications involving thermal stress and deformation, and even piezoelectric devices.
The capabilities include, but are not limited to, the classical stress- and strain-based and stress- and strain-life models that are suitable for evaluating the high-cycle fatigue (HCF) and low-cycle fatigue (LCF) regimes. The Simulation Software can be used to study and further expand its multiphysics capabilities, such as modeling thermal expansion or full elastoplastic fatigue.
Our advanced motion analysis products enable engineers to easily simulate and test virtual prototypes of mechanical systems in a fraction of the time and cost required for physical build and test.
A multibody dynamic (MBD) system is one that consists of solid bodies, or links, that are connected to each other by joints that restrict their relative motion. The study of MBD is the analysis of how mechanism systems move under the influence of forces, also known as forward dynamics. A study of the inverse problem, i.e. what forces are necessary to make the mechanical system move in a specific manner is known as inverse dynamics.
Different types of motion analysis like Rigid and flexible multi body systems, vehicular cornering, steering, quasi-static, coupled control analysis etc, can be performed.
Multiphysics Simulation Software provides an advanced set of tools for designing and optimizing 2D and 3D multibody systems using finite element analysis (FEA). The Software has the ability to simulate mixed systems of flexible and rigid bodies to find the critical components in a system, all while saving computational effort. This enables you to perform more detailed component-level structural analyses in major application areas, such as automotive engineering, aerospace engineering, biomechanics, and more.
The Software includes built-in multiphysics couplings that include acoustic–structure, solid–bearing, and fluid–multibody interactions. The multiphysics capabilities make it possible to combine multibody dynamics with other physical effects, such as advanced heat transfer, fluid flow, acoustics, and electromagnetics. You can further extend your modeling to include nonlinear structural materials and CAD import functionality.
Improve the acoustic performance of your products with the multidisciplinary approach of N&V studies
NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) or N&V (Noise and Vibration), this problem is one of the most often directly perceived quality traits of a product, and is therefore one of the most sought after targets for performance by the product development team to help differentiate themselves from competition.
With leading FEA and MBD (multi body dynamics) capabilities from Multiphysics Simulation Software, users can simulate and predict how a component or system will vibrate under varying operating conditions; for example how a driver or passenger of a car driving down the road can perceive the engine sound at cruising speed or under acceleration and at the same time perceive the feel and the noise generated as the car runs over a pot hole. Some examples of noise & vibration analysis include wind noise, exhaust, fan, interior cabin, engine, suspension etc .
With leading FEA and MBD (multi body dynamics) capabilities from Multiphysics Simulation Software, users can simulate and predict how a component or system will vibrate under varying operating conditions; for example how a driver or passenger of a car driving down the road can perceive the engine sound at cruising speed or under acceleration and at the same time perceive the feel and the noise generated as the car runs over a pot hole. Some examples of noise & vibration analysis include wind noise, exhaust, fan, interior cabin, engine, suspension etc .
Many materials have a nonlinear stress–strain relationship, particularly at higher stress and strain levels. When analyzing objects made of such materials, accounting for these nonlinearities is essential. The Multiphysics Simulation Software contains dozens of material models to support the modeling of a wide range of solid materials.
Nonlinear response could be caused by any of several characteristics of a system, like large deformations and strains, material behavior or the effect of contact or other boundary condition nonlinearities. In reality many structures exhibit combinations of these various nonlinearities. Multiphysics Simulation Software provides solutions to help you simulate accurately and efficiently systems with any or all of the nonlinearities, with applications encompassing multiple industries. The software is specifically developed for materials common in geotechnical applications, such as soils and rocks.
Industrial use cases include brakes, suspension, welding, riveting, sealing, sheet metal forming, landing gear, tire, exhaust systems, wing structures, etc
The original promise of CAE was to eliminate physical prototypes and tests, yet nearly 50 years into the journey physical prototypes are still key milestones in almost every design program. The reason why comes down to confidence; many engineers and their management simply don’t trust that they get reliable results using CAE. Simulation technology is not the problem; most companies have demonstrated that when best practices are followed, results are consistent and correlate well with the physical world. Inconsistency in the application of CAE technology leads to variability in results.
Automation is the key to improving consistency. In manufacturing, automation was the key to improving product quality – and it will be in CAE as well. At the same time, automation cannot discourage creativity or compromise flexibility; CAE engineers need to be able to exercise professional judgement.
Multiphysics Simulation Software provides tools for automation of CAE processes that capture knowledge and best practices, and can be used to automate any step in the simulation process, even across multiple disciplines. Our interactive environment for authoring best practice “templates” is easy to learn & use for everyone from casual user to expert analyst. Our templates are also flexible, allowing the end user to execute them step-by-step, fully automated, or anything in between.
The field of Rotor Dynamics is concerned with study of dynamic and stability characteristics of the rotating machinery and plays an important role in the improving safety and performance of the entire systems that they are part of.
As the rotational velocity of an object increases, its level of vibration often passes through a ‘critical speed’, commonly excited by unbalance of the rotating structure. If the amplitude of vibration at these critical speeds is excessive, catastrophic failure can occur. Internal makeup of turbomachinery can lead to such instabilities, which need to be understood to avoid catastrophic failure during operation. Engineers who design large rotors are challenged to design safe rotating machinery using physical prototypes and tests alone because of high costs and time requirements.
When designing machinery with rotating parts, it is of great importance that the effects of spinning are captured correctly. Accurate simulations help engineers better determine how to avoid system breakdown and failure, as well as how to best optimize operation and performance. Multiphysics Simulation Software, is specifically designed for performing simulations of rotating machinery, providing the capabilities needed for such decision-making.
Multiphysics Simulation Software Rotor Dynamics solution provides a highly accurate and reliable rotor dynamics solution that enables engineers to simulate the behavior of rotating machinery. Using Multiphysics Simulation Software, engineers are able to predict critical speed and evaluate the effects of instabilities on virtual prototypes, saving time and money while improving safety.
Increased use of simulation in product design and development has enabled companies identify problems early in the design cycle, and helped drive innovation at a lower cost. At the same time, simulation use has led to creation of enormous amount of data, which is not optimally stored for reuse in future, leading to increased cost in data maintenance and recovery. More than any other engineering process, simulation generates significant amount of data, which needs to be maintained and retrieved efficiently in order to gain full benefit from simulation. Simulation data is one of the most important assets to be managed, as it plays a key role in design decision making process.
Multiphysics Simulation Software offers a process and data management solution that is uniquely tuned to address simulation requirements. The system is designed to handle the volume and complexity of the simulation data for FEA, CFD and other computationally intensive methods that are growing by orders of magnitude. The web-based capabilities of Multiphysics Simulation Software, ensure faster deployments, easy extension into new domains and broad scale usability.
The Model Manager from Multiphysics Simulation Software simplifies and streamlines modeling and simulation work by providing tools for managing models and apps. This includes simulation data management and ways to collaborate and centrally organize models with version control that systematically tracks changes and updates to models. The Model Manager supports the use of a local database as well as the ability to connect to a remote server database.
There are options for efficiently storing models and apps, with only relevant data of drafts and revisions, as well as auxiliary data such as CAD, mesh, and experimental data. Finding models and apps in the Model Manager is aided by user-defined tags for organizing the files and the ability to search for certain features or parameters. Access to models can be controlled with user groups and permissions.
Multiphysics Simulation Software provides a family of high performance solutions for FEA that meet the needs of experienced experts and designers, new engineers, and everyone in between. These solutions help companies meet their business challenges by helping engineers gain deeper insight in their products through virtual testing. Engineers using Multiphysics Simulation Software's structural analysis programs are able to evaluate many different types of designs, giving high confidence that the final design will successfully meet prescribed requirements before the physical product is built.
From single components to large complex systems, from linear static to highly non-linear dynamic problems, Multiphysics Simulation Software structural analysis capabilities are built to grow with your business, optimize your cost of ownership, and support you in achieving your goals.
The Multiphysics Simulation Software includes modeling features and functionality for solid mechanics and materials modeling and the modeling of dynamics and vibrations, shells, beams, contact, fractures, and more. Application areas include mechanical engineering, civil engineering, geomechanics, biomechanics, and MEMS devices.
Multiphysics Simulation Software offers built-in multiphysics couplings that include thermal stress, fluid–structure interaction, and piezoelectricity. Multiphysics Simulation Software product suite allows for advanced heat transfer, fluid flow, acoustic, and electromagnetics effects and enables specialized materials modeling and CAD import functionality.
Most of the products we rely on today are actually mechatronic systems comprised of mechanical components; pneumatic, hydraulic or electrical control subsystems; and electronic control units. Engineering these complex systems is a true multidiscipline design challenge that is often not fully tested and validated until late in the product development process, leading to costly design changes.
Traditional "build & test" methods and isolated tools for the virtual prototyping of mechanical, electrical, or controls systems neglect important interactions between disciplines, leading to incomplete or inaccurate results. Multiphysics Simulation Software's multidiscipline simulation solutions allow engineers to validate and optimize complete mechatronic system performance, improve product quality, and save time and money by avoiding late design changes.
Multiphysics Simulation Software's thermal simulation solutions enable you to model thermal responses including all the modes of heat transfer, namely conduction, convection and radiation. Radiation view factors, critical for radiated energy flow calculations can be computed internally or imported from third party vendors providing options to our users. Additionally, both material properties and boundary conditions could be varied based on local temperatures, and can be modeled accurately and elegantly within Multiphysics Simulation Software's products.
The objective of a thermal study is often to understand the response and performance of a structure. Based on the modeling needs, chained or coupled analysis can be performed by engineers to study temperature variations and effects on structural behavior, both in terms of the stress response and failure. The multi-physics capabilities that involve thermal response can be extended further to include Joule heating and electromagnetic effects for a better representation of physical behavior.