Engineering Analysis

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The Abaqus Multi-Physics product suite has significant capabilities that are used to solve multiphysics problems. These capabilities, developed over many years and fully integrated as core Abaqus functionality, have been used extensively for many engineering applications on products and engineering projects in use today.

Multiphysics technology has been a part of Abaqus from the beginning. Starting with Abaqus V2 (in 1979), Abaqus/Aqua simulates hydrodynamic wave loading on flexible structures for offshore pipelines. Through the years additional multiphysics capabilities have been added, such as fluid, thermal, and electrical couplings, to name a few.

The advantage of Abaqus Multiphysics is the ease with which Multiphysics problems can be solved by the Abaqus structural FEA user. From the same model, same element library, same material data, and same load history, an Abaqus structural FEA model can easily be extended to include additional physics interaction. No additional tools, interfaces, or simulation methodology are needed.

 

http://www.simulia.com/products/abaqus_multiphysics.html

 

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With an intense focus on end-user productivity, process automation and design optimization, HyperWorks dramatically reduces the number of engineering tasks that provide no competitive advantage. As a result, more time is available to leverage employee capital – a corporation’s greatest asset – to successfully develop new, exciting and profitable products.

 

HyperWorks speeds product innovation by enabling a truly CAE-driven design process. The HyperWorks technology suite provides the critical insight to make more informed design decisions earlier in the design process – where they have greatest impact on downstream success. With the broadest set of direct interfaces to commercial CAD and CAE solutions, HyperWorks simplifies the exchange of data and models throughout the total enterprise. With robust solver solutions and a fully customizable environment, HyperWorks increases product design efficiency and provides an open architecture system for native file-sharing with clients and suppliers.

 

HyperWorks is the leader in simulation-based robust design for improving product quality. By using information dashboarding tools to combine multi-disciplinary trade-off studies, robust design methods, and manufacturability assessment, HyperWorks helps bring high-performance products to market faster and with complete confidence.

 

http://www.altairhyperworks.com/Default.aspx

 

 

 

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As companies strive to produce innovative and higher quality products, the simulation of individual physics is no longer adequate for the design of many products. Multiphysics simulation allows engineers and designers to evaluate their designs operating under real-world conditions. ANSYS Multiphysics provides the analysis industry’s most advanced coupled physics technology within a unified simulation environment. The ANSYS Multiphysics solution allows engineers and designers to simulate the interaction between structural mechanics, heat transfer, fluid flow, acoustics and electromagnetics all within a single software product.

 

ANSYS Multiphysics delivers two proven solution techniques for solving coupled-physics problems – the directly coupled-field elements and the ANSYS Multi-field solver. The ANSYS Multi-field solver provides robust implicit sequential coupling for solving problems such as fluid-structure interaction and induction heating. Whereas, the directly coupled-field elements provide both matrix and load vector coupling for solving problems such as Joule heating and electrostatic actuation. Together, the two solution techniques in ANSYS Multiphysics provide the appropriate solution technology to solve an extremely broad range of industry applications. Devices such as thermoelectric coolers, accelerometers, integrated circuits, solenoids, electric motors and many other devices are all readily analyzed with ANSYS Multiphysics software.

 

http://www.altairhyperworks.com/Default.aspx

 

 

 

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The Comsol Multiphysics® simulation environment facilitates all steps in the modeling process —defining your geometry, specifying your physics, meshing, solving and then post-processing your results.

Model set up is quick, thanks to a number of predefined modeling interfaces for applications ranging from fluid flow and heat transfer to structural mechanics and electromagnetic analyses. Material properties, source terms and boundary conditions can all be arbitrary functions of the dependent variables.

A multiphysics simulation is achieved in minutes. Predefined multiphysics-application templates solve many common problem types. You as the user, also have the option of choosing different physics from the Multiphysics menu and defining the interdependencies yourself. Or you can specify your own Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), and couple them with other equations and physics.

COMSOL Multiphysics operates as the primary tool for all your future modeling needs. Its versatility, flexibility and usability can easily be extended with its add-on modules.

 

http://www.comsol.com/products/multiphysics/

 

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Fieldview is powerful post-processing software to quickly identify important flow features and characteristics in your simulations. It allows interactive exploration for thorough understanding of your results. Examine and compare cases, extract critical values, and make compelling presentations.

FieldView lets you easily interrogate your CFD, CAE, and miltiphysics simulation data to see the behavior of fluid flows naturally and accurately. It makes you more productive.

FieldView handles datasets of any size seamlessly--even simulations with billions of nodes. Work with transient and steady state data. Work with structured, unstructured, and hybrid grids. And FieldView's client-server architecture lets you work on huge, server-class problems at your desk, without moving solution data files.

 

http://www.ilight.com/fieldview.php

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SimXpert is a fully integrated multidiscipline simulation environment. Integrated with MSC's advanced multidiscipline (MD) solver technologies, SimXpert provides an efficient end-to-end solution that gives users native CAD access with bi-directional interoperability, pre-processing, solving, post processing, report generation, and automation capabilities within a single easy-to-use solution.

To accelerate the low value-add stages of simulation, SimXpert enables analysts to automate all aspects of the simulation process. For instance, analysts spend an inordinate amount of time setting up simulation problems which involves importing a model and meshing it, applying loads and boundary conditions, and defining material properties. SimXpert is designed with out-of-the-box features to help analysts automate repetitive tasks so they can get to results faster, thereby condensing design cycles

Simulation features make it the right choice for engineering:

 

• Complete integrated solution (pre/post/solver) speeds the process of simulation
• Expansive multidiscipline (MD) simulation workspaces including Structural, Thermal, Motion, Explicit, and Crash
• Bi-directional CAD associativity eliminates data translation
• Integrated Assembly Management for plug-and play assembly analysis

 

http://mscsoftware.com/products/simxpert.cfm

  

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