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ANSYS Discovery Live

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What will you Discover?

“One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.”- Sir Alexander Fleming, Penicillin

Sir Dyson developed 5,127 prototype designs between

1979 and 1984

ANSYS is driving innovation with digital experimentation!

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Utility Over Accuracy

Experimentation does not require maximum fidelity.

Time/cost/effort

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ANSYS Discovery Live

Technology

• Massively parallel solvers and post-processing running on GPUs

• Fast, flexible, CAD-neutral geometry platform (SpaceClaim)

• Volumetric simulation approach

A new paradigm in 3D design exploration, bringing real time simulation into the hands of every engineer.

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

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.

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Discovery Live Physics Applications

Structural

ModalThermal

External CFD/

Internal CFD

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Test the “unlikely”

Discover something new

Discovery Live makes simulation

fast, cheap, easy

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Discovery Live and the Design Process

Design

Prep

Simulate

Revise

Simulate

FinalizeWait

Before

DE

SIG

NC

AE

Wait

Wait

• Geometry Preparation

• Meshing• Wait Time• Post processing

DesignSimulate

Validate

Finalize

After

DE

SIG

NC

AE

Design

Discovery Live

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Discovery Live in the Design Cycle

Discovery Live answers questions such as:− How can I improve mixing efficiency?

− What if / could we?

− What will behavior look like if a parameter is changed?

− Which iteration seems to perform better?

− Where/how can I reduce weight with minimal effect on performance?

Physics simulations in Discovery Live are fast, cheap, easy

Speed, reliability, and tight geometry integration are valued over high accuracy

Why Discovery Live?~80% of product costs are

determined early design phases

What if questions

and

instant answers Design

Simulate

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Discovery Family and ANSYS Flagship Products

Exploration Refinement/Validation

Discovery LiveDiscovery

AIM

Discovery SpaceClaim

Analyst: ValidationDesigner:Designer:

How to / could we?

Original, custom

Open solution space

Directionally Accurate

Which is better & will it break?

Iterative & pass/fail

A few design points

Higher fidelity

Will it perform as designed?

Detailed operating insight

Complex component or system

Highest accuracy

Question

Characteristics

Solution space

Accuracy

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ANSYS Discovery Product Line

Discovery AIM• Easy to use high-fidelity simulation providing ANSYS

gold-standard accuracy and speed

• Comprehensive physics

Discovery Live• Instantaneous simulation, tightly coupled with direct

geometry modeling

• Qualitative results; high accuracy is not the goal

Discovery SpaceClaim• Fast and intuitive 3D Direct Modeling to create, edit

and repair geometry for concept design and simulation

Systems

Structures

Semiconductors

Electromagnetics

Embedded Software

3-D Design

Fluids

Partner Network

ANSYS CFD ANSYS Mechanical

ANSYS Electronics

AIM

Live

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Think of it this way…..

Discovery AIM ANSYS FlagshipDiscovery Live

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Customer Success StoryRoadtec, a subsidiary of Astec Industries

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

*Images provide by Roadtec

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Customers and Press

"I believe it could be a game changer ... It has the potential for our

specialists and designers to do “what if” studies much, much faster and

easier.“

- Bob Tickel, Director of Structural & Dynamic Analysis,

Corporate R&T, Cummins

"I was blown away by the speed and ease of use … You will be able to

perform your first analysis in less than 15 minutes.“

- Travis Jacobs, Principal at Jacobs Analytics

“It removes the barrier of having to learn how to use a

simulation tool… students can get right to the physics and

discover without having to become simulation experts first.“

- Prof. Rajesh Bhaskaran, Cornell University

"I never thought I’d be able to do CFD modeling unless

I pursued a higher level engineering degree.“

- Olivia Lim, AirLoom Energy

"....something radical has

come along: ANSYS

Discovery Live."

“This is the most impressive software

demo I've seen in two decades.”“I’ve heard the ‘we’re going to revolutionise

simulation’ a billion times …so can it

[Discovery Live] really change simulation

adoption? My belief is that it could.”

JACOBSANALYTICS

“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”