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ANSYS 18.2 Mechanical Products Update
ANSYS 18.2 Mechanical Products Update
ANSYS 18.2 Mechanical Products Update
2 updates
August 2017
General Animation
Forward 1 frame
Full screen graphics
New option to have legend dynamically change from frame to frame and
the result contours display the full range of colors from the minimum
value to the maximum value.
Acoustic Simulation
Simulate the generation, propagation, radiation, absorption and reflection
of sound pressure waves in acoustic medium
Applications
Noise elimination in automobiles
Noise minimization in machines
Architecture acoustics
Hearing devices
Sonar and underwater acoustics
Design of speakers, acoustic filters, mufflers, and other similar devices
Geophysical exploration
The Helmholtz equation (linear wave equation) is used as the basis for the acoustic
domain: 2
1 p
2
p0
c t
2 2
M p C p K p q
p p p
Modal Acoustics analysis enables you to model the acoustics and optionally structural
domain together to determine frequencies and standing wave patterns
Modal Acoustics system in the Project Schematic and the corresponding Mechanical
system is shown below. For fully coupled analysis, the structural physics can be enabled
using the Physics option either from Project schematic or Mechanical system. By default,
the Acoustics physics is enabled
A group of bodies having either Structural or Acoustics physics is represented by a Physics region object
Additional advanced settings can then be specified on the selected acoustics or structural physics region
Block Lanczos, Subspace and Full Damped eigensolver are applicable for Modal Acoustics analysis when
structural physics region is absent ( pure acoustic domain)
Unsymmetric and Full Damped eigensolvers are available, when the structural physics region is present.
Ability to include acoustic boundary conditions of type Pressure, Impedance boundary, Absorption
surface, Radiation boundary, Absorption element and Free surface
Ability to include acoustic loads of type Temperature, Impedance sheet and Static Pressure
Ability to include structural interactions. The Create Automatic->FSI on Modal Acoustic system can be
used to automatically identify the fluid structure interface faces and create the FSI object
Acoustic pressure showing the transmission loss profile of a muffler Pressure wave generated by 2 speakers inside of a room
Harmonic Acoustics Analysis in the Project schematic and the corresponding Mechanical system is
shown below
For fully coupled analysis, the structural physics can be enabled using the Physics option either
from Project schematic or Mechanical system. By default, the Acoustics physics is enabled
The Analysis settings of Harmonic Acoustics analysis supports Scattering Controls for Scattering problems
It also supports Output controls of Calculate Velocity and Calculate Energy for acoustic physics region
It also supports advanced property of Far-field radiation surface, which enables the computation of far-
field results. The user can explicitly add far-field radiation surface using the RMB option Create
Automatic->far-field radiation surface on the Harmonic acoustics system
Supports Acoustic excitations of type Mass Source, Surface Velocity, Diffuse Sound field, Incident Wave
Source and Port in Duct
Supports Acoustic loads of type Temperature, Impedance sheet and Static Pressure
Supports Acoustic Boundary conditions of type Pressure, Impedance Boundary, Absorption Surface,
Radiation Boundary, Absorption Element, Free surface, Thermo-Viscous BLI boundary, Rigid wall,
Symmetry Plane, Port and Far-Field radiation surface
Supports Acoustic models of type Transfer Admittance matrix
Acoustic Excitations
Incident Wave source: Planar wave, Monopole, Dipole, Back
enclosed loudspeaker and Bare loudspeaker
Port in Duct: Planar wave, Rectangular and Circular duct
Surface Velocity and Mass source (including frequency dependent)
Acoustic Boundary Conditions
Impedance (including frequency dependent)
Absorption coefficient (including frequency dependent)
Results : The pressure field is calculated at each element node (pressure is a degree of freedom). In the
frequency domain the equivalent source principle provide pressure parameters outside the FE domain.
The output parameters available are:
Postprocess pressure, SPL, acoustic velocity or energy in computational domain as contour plot
Postprocess results outside of computational domain (radiation)
Far-field Results
Acoustic Far Field results allows to plot the SPL, Pressure, Phase, Directivity, Scattered
pressure or Target strength on a polar graph.
Far-field radiation surface must exist to perform this calculation but it is defined automatically
by default.
To take into account symmetries (Neumann boundary), Symmetry Plane objects must be inserted
in the model.
Ansys allows Fully coupled (for instance underwater applications) or one way coupled
vibroacoustic analyses.
One-way coupling from structure to acoustics is more computationally efficient, while the
acoustic effect on the structure can be neglected. The structural results can be used as the
acoustic excitation source using the one-way coupling process.
Several solutions are available for One-Way Coupling from Structure to Acoustics:
Project Schematic Link (non-conforming mesh)
External Data (non-conforming mesh)
The structural and acoustic equations are coupled this can be solved with an
unsymmetric matrix approach or a symmetric matrix approach, the latter being more
efficient.
p q jq
1 1 1
C fs q
1
M S 0 q Cq 0 q f q
2 o q g q Kq
u u o
j
o u f
0 M u C fs Cu 0 Ku
Coupling with structure allows for solving many tightly-coupled problems such
as transducer or speaker design
The structural analysis (Mode Supersposition or Full) and the pure acoustic analysis are performed
in 2 different harmonic models.
The structural velocities are transferred to the acoustics harmonic analysis using project schematic
link.
In fluid dynamics, slosh refers to the movement of liquid inside another object (which is, typically,
also undergoing motion). Strictly speaking, the liquid must have a free surface to constitute a slosh
dynamics problem, where the dynamics of the liquid can interact with the container to alter the
system dynamics significantly.
Important examples include propellant slosh in spacecraft tanks and rockets (especially upper
stages), and cargo slosh in ships and trucks transporting liquids (for example oil and gasoline).
p F g
F
Scattering is a general physical process where some forms of radiation, such as light, sound, or
moving particles, are forced to deviate from a straight trajectory by one or more localized non-
uniformities in the medium through which they pass.
In acoustics, the scattering studies how its solutions, the sound waves, scatter from solid objects or
propagate through non-uniform media (ie.sound waves, in sea water, coming from a submarine).
Specific loads excitation waves can then be used for such analyses.
The diffuse sound field is approached by the asymptotic model summing a high
number of uncorrelated plane waves with random phases from all directions in free
space.
The incident space of the diffuse sound field is mesh-free.
Forces (FFT)
Structural Dynamics
ANSYS Mechanical
Displacements
Acoustic Field
ANSYS Mechanical
50
40
30 Experimental
20 ANSYS
10 Theory
0
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200
Each contact detection point always interacts with the same target
element which is determined from the initial configuration.
Advantages:
The small-sliding logic also improves solution robustness. It can easily solve certain complex contact models
for which the finite-sliding logic would have difficulties or find no solution. This is especially true for models
having a bad quality geometry or mesh and non-smooth contact interfaces.
The nodal connectivity of the contact element remains unchanged throughout the analysis. Contact
searching is performed only once in the beginning of the analysis. which is cost-effective.
The sparse solver can reuse the same matrix structure throughout the simulation, which avoids the costly
sequential step of equation ordering at every equilibrium iteration.
Using finite sliding contact option in R18.2: 45 equilibrium iterations (Better contact
stiffness for gasket elements introduced in R18.0)
140 R17.2
R18.1
120
Solver Rating
R18.2
100 3x speedup
80
60
Concept:
For bonded and no separation contact, if no other nonlinearities exist in the model (plasticity, large deformation, or
unilateral contact), a linear solution (no equilibrium iteration) is good enough to obtain an accurate solution.
Advantages:
The contact searching and is performed once in the beginning of the linear analysis.
The factorized stiffness matrix can be re-used if there is no displacement constraint is added or removed.
Reaction forces are always balanced comparing with the old one iteration NL solution.
Notes:
Improved robustness & performance
Support for shell/solid multibody parts
Improved beam/shell support
Improved support for zero thickness baffles
New option to show obscured edges
New ability to separate overlapping bodies
Legacy share methods easier to access
If you want to make CAD changes (Pull, Move, etc) after Sharing,
best to Unshare everything, make the change, and then re-Share
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Shell/Solid Multibody parts: Improved support in SpaceClaim & DesignModeler
Note:
Element Order=Program Controlled
means solids get meshed as high
order, shells get meshed as linear
(mixed order mesh)
Mechanical does not currently
support mixed order sheets, so user
should set the element order
appropriately for such models.
User should set
this to Linear or
Quadratic
Goals:
1. Incorporate some of the best practices for meshing as the default options.
2. Simplify scaling up or down the mesh size
3. Reduce the complexity Improve ease of use!
18.2 Improvements:
1. Dynamic defaults
2. Elevate defeature size
3. Tools Options Meshing
Simplified Mesh Sizing UI
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Simplified mesh sizing user experience
Dynamic defaults:
In the past, global scaling has been done via Relevance, but
there have been many complaints about this.
At the same time, the software sets the defaults starting with
the element size or max face size, and scales the other sizes
in relation to it.
At 18.2, the user can pivot around the element size (or max
face size) and use this for scaling instead of using relevance
to scale the model.
To do this, leave the defeature size, min size and/or max tet size
as default and simply adjust the element size (or max face size)
For further control use Min Size Factor and/or Defeature size
factor to set the desired scaling.
Locally, a user can use the new Factor of Global Size type in the
sizing control to set the relevant sizing based on global.
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Simplified mesh sizing user experience: Dynamic defaults
Default mesh (nothing has changed here @ 18.2): Dynamic defaults:
Software computes default size based on bounding box When user changes Element size (Max face size), if the user has not
entered a value for defeature size, min size or max size, the defaults
Defeature size is defaulted to 0.005 * Element size (Max face size) dynamically update.
Min size is set to 0.001 * Element Size (Max face size) Thus a user can pivot around the Element size (max face size) for a
more direct scaling of values (in comparison to relevance)
Max size is set to 2 * Element size (Max face size)
Min size
Here the Curvature Normal angle is increasing the min size to limit
curvature refinement, as a result the same curvature refinement is
done for all three cases shown in this example
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In this case, we change the
Simplified mesh sizing user experience: Size Factors ToolsOptionsMeshing Size
Factors:
Mechanical Min Size Factor
from 0.01 to 0.1
Defeature Size Factor from
0.005 to 0.05
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Simplified mesh sizing user experience: Local Size Factors
18.1 18.2
Tet10 Tet10
Hex8/
Wedge6
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Improved usability for contact sizing:
Input
Output
Commands
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ACT Exposure and Scripting (Example)
Input
Output
To provide greater flexibility for specifying complex loading and material input for coupled-diffusion
analyses such as electromigration, the following enhancements have been made to the diffusion and
coupled-field analyses
The concentration degree of freedom (CONC) is now a primary variable with the TABLE type array
parameters
Elements PLANE223, SOLID226/227, PLANE238, and SOLID239/240 now support material properties
defined as a function of primary variables (e.g. TIME, X, Y, Z, TEMP, CONC)
In addition to other primary variables, the diffusion flux (DFLUX) and diffusing substance generation
(DGEN) loads can now be defined as functions of concentration (CONC)
MP,RSVX,1,%RSV_C%
New features
Support for residual vector and residual response calculations
RESVEC command
Includes support for modal analyses, spectrum analyses and
transient/harmonic analyses which use the mode-superposition method
Improved scaling
Improved performance with introduction of small sliding contact
Improved performance at very high core counts
Solver Rating
200
Solder balls
16 million DOF; sparse solver
Nonlinear transient analysis 150
Linux cluster; each compute node
100
contains 2 Intel Xeon Gold 6148
Package
processors, 192GB RAM, SSD, RHEL
50
7.3
Intel Omnipath interconnect 0
PCB
128 256 512 1024 2048 4096
Number of Cores
Model courtesy of MicroConsult Engineering GmbH
Cluster data provided by Intel via the Endeavor cluster
Launched in Mechanical
for Explicit Dynamics
systems from the
Environment toolbar
This model has been developed by The National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC) of The George Washington
University under a contract with the FHWA and NHTSA of the US DOT
Need for
Speed ?
1M Nodes
3K Spotwelds
Airbags,
Kinematic joints
Parallel Performance:
52 minutes
on 24 cores