Due to popular demand, this week our ANSYS webinar schedule includes some added sessions on three Ask the Expert topics: advanced post-processing in ANSYS Mechanical 14.5, best practices for FSI and system coupling simulations, and the ANSYS electric machines design toolkit.

Also, there’s a new addition to our Webinar Series: Recent Advances in Automotive Simulation you won’t want to miss. Keep reading for full descriptions and links to register for these webinars!

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Ask the Expert: ANSYS Electric Machines Design Toolkit

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
4:00 P.M. EDT, 8:00 P.M. GMT (REGISTER)

The computation of efficiency maps is critical but can be laborious for the design of a PM motor. ANSYS has introduced a user-friendly electric machines design toolkit that is completely integrated into ANSYS Maxwell. The toolkit allows for the computation and display of torque speed curves and efficiency maps for PM machines. It integrates various effects such as skewing, DC/AC winding resistance, end-turn winding inductance, frequency-dependent core loss coefficients, and mechanical loss. Furthermore, an efficiency map computation is compared with measurements for a permanent magnet synchronous machine that includes the complete torque-speed operating region. The validated simulation model allows an investigation into reducing the permanent magnet size for which the impact on the efficiency map and machine performance is further quantified, and design changes are simulated to maintain the desired efficiency over the operating range.

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Ask the Expert: Advanced Post-Processing Features in ANSYS Mechanical ANSYS 14.5

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
9:00 A.M. EDT, 1:00 P.M. GMT (REGISTER)

Across many industries, significant effort is expended to create detailed virtual models to ensure accurate structural simulations. However, high-fidelity simulations are of little value if you are not able to efficiently extract the results in a usable format. ANSYS Mechanical 14.5 contains many advanced features, such as user-defined results, path operations, and probes that provide the user with a robust post-processing toolset. To efficiently utilize Mechanical 14.5, you must understand these tools.

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PCA Engineers Limited Accelerates the Evolution of Turbochargers via Numerical Optimization and Advanced Simulation Techniques

Speakers
Chris Robinson, Ph.D., Managing Director, PCA Engineers Ltd.
Brad Hutchinson, Ph.D., Vice President, Industry Marketing, ANSYS, Inc.

Thursday, May 23, 2013
Noon EDT, 4:00 P.M. GMT (REGISTER)

Turbocharging the automotive internal-combustion engine has become highly topical, with the trend to downsize engine capacity toward lower emissions without compromising the driver’s perception of performance and transient response. This webcast illustrates the implementation of a design-by-analysis approach in a modern, fully integrated design environment, illustrated by examples of compressor and turbine designs for small gasoline engines. Automated, numerical optimization is an emerging technology that can be deployed within such a system on several levels to eliminate much of the manual iteration, and its usefulness and implementation are described. Also, illustrations of higher-fidelity simulation are included along with their roles in the design process. In addition, future prospects are discussed. To what extent can an empirical background in turbomachinery design become redundant in the designs of new machines? What are the major technical challenges for developers of advanced design and analysis techniques? Webcast attendees are invited to interact with the speakers during the program’s live Q&A segment.

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Ask the Expert: Best Practice for Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) and System Coupling Simulations

Thursday, May 23, 2013
1:30 A.M. EDT, 5:30 A.M. GMT (REGISTER)

As engineers increasingly rely on simulation during the product design cycle, the need to simulate designs using multiple physics is growing rapidly so that real world behavior can be simulated. System coupling in ANSYS Workbench provides tight integration of ANSYS Fluent and ANSYS Mechanical to allow the most complex fluid-structure interaction phenomena to be simulated in a single environment.

Happy Monday everyone! Before I share this week’s listing of ANSYS webinars, I wanted make sure you all remembered to show your Mom some extra appreciation over the weekend in celebration of Mother’s Day. (If you forgot, now might be a good time to pick up the phone.) Did you know that, while this holiday was first celebrated in the U.S. in 1908, 160 countries have adopted the tradition, celebrated at various times of the year?

Okay, on to the ANSYS webinars for this week. From advanced post-processing to FSI, don’t delay.. register today!

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Happy Monday everyone! Each week I like to share our ANSYS webinars for the week with you, but this week I’d like to also invite you to take advantage of additional content we post on our social channels. Whether you’re a Twitter aficionado, a Facebook fan or love your Google+, you’ll find ANSYS posting content keeping you up-to-date on the latest in engineering simulation. You can find a full listing of the social channels we participate in at Social@ANSYS.

Join the simulation conversation, won’t you?

Okay, are you ready to advance your knowledge by attending some great ANSYS webinars? Here’s this week’s line up. Register today!

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Happy Monday everyone! Can you believe it’s going to be MAY this week? I took a peek at the schedule for our upcoming events and there’s something for everyone, so make sure you check out the full calendar.

What’s on tap for this week? Here’s the list and descriptions. Make sure you register today so you don’t miss out!

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Perhaps you’re familiar with ANSYS Advantage magazine. For the past six years I have been its managing editor. Much of my job is to bring together a variety of materials to make a magazine issue that is both interesting and informative for readers. I work with customers as well as ANSYS staff and partners around the world to write articles on how the broad range of ANSYS software is used in a wide variety of industries. In the end, all these elements need to converge as a publication that represents the expertise and ingenuity of ANSYS customers.

ANSYS Advantage‘s history is also a story of convergence.The original ANSYS structural mechanics publication was called ANSYS Solutions; nine years ago, CFX Update, a CFD magazine, was merged into this. Later the well-respected Fluent News joined the mix, and the magazine was reinvented as ANSYS Advantage.

 In recent years, the magazine has welcomed articles from each new ANSYS acquisition and now includes info about electromagnetics, power analysis and optimization solutions, as well as smart systems, embedded code and data management to represent the full range of ANSYS capabilities. Continue reading →

I’d like to start our ANSYS Webinars post this week by saying, Happy Earth Day everyone! This year the theme is “The Face of Climate Change”.  Climate change impacts people, animals, and our most beloved places around the world.

Did you know that by attending ANSYS webinars you can you reduce your fossil-fuel consumption and air pollution while learning some great new tips & tricks?

Let’s do a little math. Let’s say we have 200 people attend one training session who all fly from the West Coast to the East Coast. That would be estimated at  509131.77 lbs / 230.94 metric tons of carbon emissions. Yikes!  Okay, I cheated and found an emissions calculator but still it’s interesting to see the numbers, isn’t it?.

Do your part to change the world and attend one of our ANSYS webinars this week! We’re  going to cover high performance computing for mechanical simulations as well as hosting  two Ask the Expert sessions. Register today.

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