1519884848-ANSYS Discovery Live Technology
1519884848-ANSYS Discovery Live Technology
1519884848-ANSYS Discovery Live Technology
Sir Dyson developed 5,127 prototype designs between “One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.”
1979 and 1984 - Sir Alexander Fleming, Penicillin
Time/cost/effort
Features:
• Speed – Instantaneous simulation experience
• Ease of use – Run 1st simulation in minutes.
• Geometry Enabled – Edit geometry from any CAD source.
• Interactive – Edit physics inputs, geometry, or alter display
characteristics, and simulations update in real-time.
Technology
• Massively parallel solvers and post-processing running on
GPUs
• Fast, flexible, CAD-neutral geometry platform (SpaceClaim)
• Volumetric simulation approach
Benefits:
• Quickly create & test multiple design variations
• Minimal learning curve
• Negligible setup time (no meshing/time step) choices
• Robust - no failed simulations
• Scales with future compute advances
External CFD/
Internal CFD
Structural
Thermal Modal
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Test the “unlikely”
Discover something
new
Wait Wait
Design Revise Finalize
Prep
CAE
Simulate Simulate
Wait
• Geometry
Preparation
• Meshing
After Discovery Live • Wait Time
• Post processing
DESIGN
Design
Design Finalize
Simulate
CAE
Validate
Design and
instant answers
Simulate
Speed, reliability, and tight geometry integration are valued
over high accuracy
Question How to / could we? Which is better & will it break? Will it perform as designed?
Characteristics Original, custom Iterative & pass/fail Detailed operating insight
Solution space Open solution space A few design points Complex component or system
Accuracy Directionally Accurate Higher fidelity Highest accuracy
Discovery
Discovery Live AIM
Discovery SpaceClaim
Discovery Live
• Instantaneous simulation, tightly coupled with direct
geometry modeling
ANSYS ANSYS
ANSYS CFD • Qualitative results; high accuracy is not the goal
Mechanical Electronics
Discovery SpaceClaim
• Fast and intuitive 3D Direct Modeling to create, edit
and repair geometry for concept design and simulation
AIM
Live
The problem
• Must understand drag and forces on vehicles to know how to restrain them
• Goal to understand the magnitude of forces on a canopy of an MVT and
subsequently minimize them
How they used Discovery Live
• Rapidly adjusted canopy angles
• Reversed the entire MVT – an obvious adjustment with Discovery Live
Results
• Discovered reversing the vehicle made a significant impact
• 1 week estimate of time required to analyze in traditional CFD system
• 1.5 days to learn Discovery Live & obtain results
"I was blown away by the speed and ease of use … You will be able to "I never thought I’d be able to do CFD modeling unless
JACOBS I pursued a higher level engineering degree.“
perform your first analysis in less than 15 minutes.“
ANALYTICS - Travis Jacobs, Principal at Jacobs Analytics - Olivia Lim, AirLoom Energy
“It looks, for a first release, like one of the biggest breakthroughs
in design and engineering technology in the last ten years. And
this is just the first, preproduction release”