EXCELLENCE IN ENGINEERING SIMULATION ISSUE 1 | 2021 4 12 23 America’s Cup: Volkswagen Refines ABB Speeds Analysis Sailing With Simulation Vehicle Designs with Twin Builder © 2021 ANSYS, INC. Ansys AdvantageCover1 “Ansys’ acquisition of AGI will help drive our strategy of making simulation pervasive from the smallest component now through a customer’s entire mission.” – Ajei Gopal, President and CEO of Ansys 2 Ansys Advantage Issue 1 / 2021 EDITORIAL Ansys, AGI Extend the Digital Thread Engineered products and systems can involve thousands of components, subsystems, systems and systems of systems that must work together intricately. Ansys software simulates all these pieces of the puzzle and their functional relationships to each other and, increasingly, to their environments. Anthony Dawson The success of a mission can is intended to achieve, and the Vice President & General hinge on the functionality of environment in which it must Manager, Ansys one component. Consider the achieve it. launch of a satellite; once in AGI realized that, too often, orbit, it cannot be recalled. For systems aren’t evaluated in missions like these, there are the full context of their mission has a long history of making no second chances. Simulation until physical prototypes sure that important cargo is critical throughout the entire are put into testing. Many gets where it needs to go. On systems engineering process to organizations may not even Christmas Eve, it continued its ensure that every component realize the extent to which this 23-year tradition of working with — whether part of the payload approach squanders time and the North American Aerospace design, launch system, satellite money, sometimes resulting Defense Command (NORAD) deployment, space propulsion in designs that can’t cooperate Operations Center on the annual system, astrodynamics or with their interdependent assets Santa Tracker experience, which onboard systems — will fulfill or perform adequately in their attracts more than 24 million the mission. But how can you operational environments. And visitors from across the globe be sure of that if you don’t this waste is avoidable with each year. AGI uses STK to model also simulate the operational the right software approach — Santa trackers that follow him environment — that is, the digital mission engineering. on his trek around the world mission itself? and capture video of his visits to Enter Analytical Graphics, ALL MISSIONS, famous destinations. Inc. (AGI) — the newest member GREAT AND SMALL of the Ansys family. AGI is AGI’s digital mission engineering the pioneer of digital mission software has been essential to engineering, which extends many programs that you’ve engineering simulation into the seen in the news. Take for operational environment. example NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which recently scooped IN THE BEGINNING THERE up a mineral sample from the ADVANCING DIGITAL WERE SATELLITES asteroid Bennu like a carousel MISSION ENGINEERING When AGI was founded in rider catching a brass ring. AGI’s The pairing of Ansys and AGI will 1989, its goal was to transform flagship software application, enable simulations with unrivaled the world of satellite mission Systems Tool Kit (STK), was depth of detail and breadth planning. Very quickly, used to calculate the delicate of scope. Customers who are however, AGI found that its sequence of maneuvers that already familiar with AGI’s digital customers wanted a simulation enabled the spacecraft to touch mission engineering software environment in which they could the surface of the asteroid will find a wide array of digital model assets in any domain — without slamming into it. The design capabilities through land, sea, air, space or cyber. As STK scenario that produced the Ansys, while customers who the capabilities of AGI’s software mission’s nominal trajectory was already design their products grew, the company developed also used to visualize the mission with Ansys software will discover a new, powerful understanding on its website. the tremendous advantages of of “the mission.” Simply put, AGI While OSIRIS-REx is the most extending simulations beyond defines a system’s mission as recent famous mission that AGI the point where the rubber the operational outcome that it has supported, the company meets the road. © 2021 ANSYS, INC. Ansys Advantage 1 Table of Contents 4 23 38 Focus on Optimization DEPARTMENTS 4 Volkswagen in Shanghai are FOCUS: MULTIPHYSICS using Ansys Fluent Adjoint FREEDOM OF SPEED Solver to refine vehicle designs more efficiently. 1 Emirates Team New Zealand EDITORIAL sails a new AC75 class boat that Ansys, AGI Extend the features foiling monohulls and 16 Digital Thread a return to soft sails. The team is FOCUS: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING at the vanguard of incorporating AM HINGES ON modeling and simulation tools OPTIMIZATION into its design process. A Q&A with Jun Cheol Lee, manager of the Advanced 9 Manufacturing Computer-Aided FOCUS: LIGHTWEIGHTING Engineering Team at Hyundai Motor Group, which developed AIM HIGHER WITH an automotive hood hinge with 29 OPTIMIZATION CELEBRATING 1,000 STARTUPS Ansys Additive solutions. See how Arsenal Advanced Ansys Startup Program Methods can save hundreds of Helps Companies pounds in aerospace payload 18 Achieve Liftoff via topology optimization. FOCUS: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING COMPOSITES EXPAND 12 INDUSTRIAL 3D PRINTING 48 FOCUS: AERODYNAMICS See how Fortify engineers used ANALYSIS Ansys Maxwell, Ansys Fluent and REDUCING DRAG Simulation in the News FOR A BETTER WORLD Ansys Mechanical to streamline Learn how engineers at SAIC their composite 3D printer. 2 Ansys Advantage Issue 1 / 2021 and assess how well a new 20 glass configuration would 38 ELECTROMAGNETICS INTERNET OF THINGS transmit acoustic ultrasound LIGHTNING RESPONSE waves, with minimal loss. STARTUP BEAMS Learn how Ansys EMA3D Cable POWER TO THE IOT with integrated MHARNESS Learn how Nikola Labs solver helps validate a numerical 30 designed a sensor to monitor approach to aircraft system SUSTAINABILITY the condition of machines lightning response compliance. SIMULATION CHANGES through vibrational analysis THE CLIMATE CHANGE and are tackling battery life EQUATION challenges with Ansys HFSS. 23 Climeworks uses Ansys software THERMAL ANALYSIS to improve its carbon dioxide FAST TRACKING removal solution. 41 NEXT-GEN ELECTRIC AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES TRACTION MOTORS SEAMLESS OPTICS DESIGN Find out how ABB coupled 34 A technology partnership Ansys Fluent with Ansys Twin STRUCTURAL DESIGN between Ansys and Zemax Builder’s dynamic reduced- SUPASHOCK SMOOTHLY makes optics development order modeling to rapidly and EXPANDS BUSINESS WITH exponentially faster. accurately analyze thermal SIMULATION behavior. Discover how Supashock analyzed all of the load 45 cases involved in a hydraulic COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS 26 lifting system undergoing a IMPROVE EFFICIENCY VIBRATION ANALYSIS large range of motion while AND REDUCE EMISSIONS GOOD VIBRATIONS compensating for misalignment Simulation enables the oil See how Corning used and payload variations. and gas industry to improve Ansys Mechanical and Ansys efficiency and reduce Mechanical Acoustic to model emissions of fired heaters. elcome to Ansys Advantage! We hope you enjoy this issue Realize Your Product Promise® containing articles by Ansys customers, staff and partners. If you’ve ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an W airplane, driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a bridge, or put on The Editorial Staff, Ansys Advantage wearable technology, chances are you’ve used a product where Ansys software played a critical role in its creation. Executive & Managing Editor Ansys is the global leader in engineering Jamie J. Gooch simulation. We help the world’s most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation Editorial Advisers software, we help them solve the most complex Lynn Ledwith, Mary Beth Clay, Rachel Wilkin design challenges and engineer products limited only by imagination. Neither ANSYS, Inc. nor Dan Hart Design Editorial Contributor guarantees or warrants accuracy or completeness Ansys Customer Excellence of the material contained in this publication. 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