ANSYS Workbench for Process

Compression and Scalability

Jiaping Zhang, Technical Service Engineer,

Ansys Inc. Houston Office
Jiaping.Zhang@Ansys.com
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 Agenda

1. Ansys Workbench & Mechanical: An Introduction

2. 6 Steps to a Successful FEA Simulation

3. Physics Coupling and External Data Import

4. ACT Preview: Customizing the User Interface

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 Agenda

1. Ansys Workbench & Mechanical: An Introduction

2. 6 Steps to a Successful FEA Simulation

3. Physics Coupling and External Data Import

4. ACT Preview: Customizing the User Interface

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 Productivity Challenge
Shorten setup time for a single simulation
Reduce solving time
Simplify results analysis
Increase simulations in fixed time
Setup Solving Results Variations

One simulation
Boost Productivity
HPC+GPU
Setup Solving Results Variations

N simulations

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 Workbench: Shorten Setup Time

Multiphysics Workflow

Automatic Contact

CAD& Parametric Automatic Meshing

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 Workbench: Reduce Solving Time
Distributed ANSYS+GPU(Graphics Processing Unit) Acceleration

Easy

Turn On GPU

Solder Joint
Creep Analysis
Solder - 4M DOF
balls

Mold
PCB

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 Workbench: Simplify Postprocessing

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 Workbench: Allows Variations

Single Parameter Response Surface

Goal Driven Optimization Sensitivity Study

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 Agenda

1. Ansys Workbench & Mechanical: An Introduction

2. 6 Steps to a Successful FEA Simulation

3. Physics Coupling and External Data Import

4. ACT Preview: Customizing the User Interface

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 Step 1: Define the Simulation Workflow

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 Step 2: Define Geometry and Materials I

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 Step 2: Define Geometry and Materials II

Material Library

Material Curve Fitting

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 Step 3: Define Connections between Bodies

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 Automatic Contacts Detection
409 Parts, 967 Contacts .

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 More Connections are Available

Spot Welds

Beam

Joint Spring

Mesh connection

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 Step 4: Mesh the Model

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 Global Mesh Control

Curvature On

Proximity On

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 More Local Controls are Available

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 Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Convergence

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 Step 5: Define Loads and Boundary Conditions

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 Loads and Boundary Condition Options

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 Applying Loads to Nodes
Nodal orientation allows
users to assign a coordinate
system to node or nodal sets

Direct FE loads and

boundary conditions can be
applied to selected nodes,
whose direction is defined
by Nodal orientation

Nodes are oriented in cylindrical system for loads and

boundary condition definitions
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 Step 6: Understanding and Verifying Results

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 Thoroughly Investigate Your Results

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 Check The Quality of Your Results

Applied Load

Reactive Force

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 Create a Project Report

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 Enhance Simulation Using Command
Objects

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 Command Object Example: Contact Setting

Frictional
Surface

Set shear stress limit

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 Command Object Example: Loading
Apply Constraint and Loading on this surface

Load step 2: Clamp top surface

Load Step 3: Apply vertical loading to clamped surface

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 Command Object Example: PostProcessing

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 Agenda

1. Ansys Workbench & Mechanical: An Introduction

2. 6 Steps to a Successful FEA Simulation

3. Physics Coupling and External Data Import

4. ACT Preview: Customizing the User Interface

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 Coupling Physics Approach Reality

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 ANSYS Solution for Multiphysics
Electromagnetic Mechanical Computational Fluid
Simulation Simulation Dynamics (CFD)

High Implicit Explicit Electronics

Low General CFD
Frequency Frequency cooling
ANSYS Explicit
ANSYS ANSYS
HFSS Mechanical ANSYS ANSYS CFD
Maxwell AUTODYN
SIwave ANSYS LS-DYNA Icepak
Simplorer

Fluid Dynamics Structural Mechanics

Electromagnetics
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 Fluid-Structure Coupling

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 Electromagnetic-Structure Coupling

Magnetics forces will induce stresses(Example: Motor)

Resistive losses will cause thermal stress(Example: Satellite Dish Antenna)

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 Electromagnetic-Fluid-Structure Coupling
Maxwell+Fluent
One-way and two-way coupling
Combine with 1-way FSI

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 External Data Mapping: Motivation
Exchange files are
frequently encountered
to transfer quantities
from one simulation to
another.

Efficient mapping of
point cloud data is
required to account for
misalignment, non
matching units or
scaling issues.

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 Supported Data Types

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 Importing Multiple Files
Multiple files can be
imported for transient
analyses or to handle
different data to be
mapped on multiple
bodies

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 Validating the Mapped Data

Visual tools have been

implemented to control how
well the data has been
mapped onto the target
structure
Both the size of the spheres and
their color provide indication of
the mapping quality

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 Agenda

1. Ansys Workbench & Mechanical: An Introduction

2. 6 Steps to a Successful FEA Simulation

3. Physics Coupling and External Data Import

4. ACT Preview: Customizing the User Interface

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 ACT Introduction
Application Customization Toolkit (New in R14.0)
Encapsulate APDL macros: Allows re-use of legacy
APDL-scripts and encourages migration from MAPDL
to Mechanical via encapsulated macros
MAPDL exposure: Fills the gap between MAPDL
solver capabilities and their exposure in ANSYS
Mechanical
New pre-processing features (custom loads and
boundary conditions)
New post-processing features (custom results)
3rd party/in-house solver integration (Mechanical
GUI)

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 Simple ACT Example
APDL ANSYS Mechanical
! APDL_script_for_convection.inp

! Input parameters:
esel,s,type,,10
cm,component,ELEM
thickness = 0.005
film_coefficient = 200.
temperature = 226.85

! Treatment:
/prep7
et,100,152
keyop,100,8,2.
et,1001,131
keyo,1001,3,2
sectype,1001,shell
secdata,thickness,10
secoff,mid
cmsel,s,component
emodif,all,type,1001
emodif,all,secnum,1001
type,100
esurf
fini APDL
alls
/solu
esel,s,type,,100
nsle
sf,all,conv,film_coefficient,temperature
alls
Opportunity to migrate existing process automation
from MAPDL to ANSYS Mechanical at low cost
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 ACT Structure

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 Customize Toolbar Using XML

XML definition:
<load internalName="Convection on Blade" caption="Convection on Blade" icon="Convection"
issupport="false" isload="true">
<version>1</version>

<callbacks>
<onsolve>Convection_Blade_Computation</onsolve>
</callbacks>

<details>
<property internalName="Geometry" dataType="string" control="scoping"></property>
<property internalName="Thickness" caption="Thickness" dataType="string"
control="text"></property>
<property internalName="Film Coefficient" caption="Film Coefficient" dataType="string"
control="text"></property>
<property internalName="Ambient Temperature" caption="Ambient Temperature"
dataType="string" control="text"></property>

</details>
</load>

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 Define Internal Process Using Python
Python script:

# Get the scoped geometry:

propGeo = result.GetDPropertyFromName("Geometry")
refIds = propGeo.Value

# Get the related mesh and create the component:

for refId in refIds:
meshRegion = mesh.MeshRegion(refId)
elementIds = meshRegion.Elements
eid = aap.mesh.element[elementIds[0]].Id
f.write("*get,ntyp,ELEM,"+eid.ToString()+",ATTR,TYPE\n")
f.write("esel,s,type,,ntyp \n cm,component,ELEM")

# Get properties from the details view:

propThick = load.GetDPropertyFromName("Thickness")
thickness = propThick.Value
propCoef = load.GetDPropertyFromName("Film Coefficient")
film_coefficient = propCoef.Value
propTemp = load.GetDPropertyFromName("Ambient Temperature")
temperature = propTemp.Value

# Insert the parameters for the APDL commands:

f.write("thickness="+thickness.ToString()+"\n")
f.write("film_coefficient="+film_coefficient.ToString()+"\n")
f.write("temperature="+temperature.ToString()+"\n")
# Reuse the legacy APDL macros:
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 3rd Party/In-house Solver Integration
ACT allows partners/customers to seamlessly integrate into Mechanical

Non parametric optimization

solver (topological optimization)

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 Concluding Remarks

Workbench compresses and scale your simulation via:

Compress setup process

Simplify physics coupling and data import

Allows User Customization

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 Thank you!

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