ANSYS eNews July 2013

Hot Stuff
Concentrated solar power (CSP) systems use mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a small target. This drives a heat engine connected to an electrical power generator. NEM is using ANSYS technology to increase the stiffness of the mirrors to put as much reflected light as possible onto the target, called a receiver, without paying a cost premium

Systems-Level Electronic Systems
ANSYS subsidiary Apache Design has been on the leading edge of chip-package-system design for over 7 years and continues to meet and exceed customer needs. In this video interview from the Design Automation Conference, Aveek Sarkar, VP Product Engineering and Support, discusses the importance of simulation in designing electronics for efficient power, noise reduction and cost.

Flight Simulator
The Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop challenges the simulation community to apply best practices to predict unsteady aerodynamics characteristics for rigid or weakly coupled aeroelastic systems. ANSYS staff used ANSYS Fluent and ANSYS CFX computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to solve the problems, then presented the results at the meeting. A select set of results is illustrated in this article and the full set is available.

ANSYS
ANSYS and US Army Partner to Increase Efficiency of Simulating Government Defense Technology

Scientific Computing World:
Simulation Shines Light on Solar Energy

Aerospace Manufacturing:
Simulation is on the Wing

Professional Engineering:
Automation for Creation

Silicon India:
Simulation Software is Indispensible for the Future

Chip Design:
Unavoidable Design Challenges

HPC wire:
Australia Buys Cray Supercomputer to Model New Submarine

Interempresas.net Construction:
Finite Element Analysis: Buckling Failure of Masonry Walls (in Spanish)

Webinars

ANSYS Webinar Series: Ask the Expert
Our Ask the Expert webinar series continues through July and August. Don't miss these informative sessions on best practices for the wide range of ANSYS tools and capabilities. Coming up are:

•	July 17: Cable Design Kit
•	July 17 or July 24: Using Bolt Pretensioning in ANSYS Mechanical and MAPDL 14.5
•	July 17 or July 24: Preprocessing "How To Mesh" — A CFD Meshing Demonstration Series - Part 2

Missed a webcast? Go to the ANSYS Resource Library to view the recordings on demand.

Power, Noise and Reliability Webinar Series from Apache
This webinar series from ANSYS subsidiary Apache showcases popular customer presentations from this year's Design Automation Conference. Join our customers as they share insight into their use of our software.

•	July 16: NVIDIA — Early RTL Power Analysis and Reduction for Advanced Power-Efficient GPU Designs
•	July 23: Freescale — Power, Noise and Reliability for Advanced Automotive and Networking ICs
•	August 6: GlobalFoundries — Hierarchical Voltage Drop Analysis for Complex Power-Gated, Multi-Domain 20nm Designs

Conferences

October 29 – 30
Frankfurt, Germany

Automotive Simulation World Congress

Mark your calendar for the Automotive Simulation World Congress, October 29 – 30 in Frankfurt, Germany. This is your chance to learn about innovative applications, new technology and best practices from your automotive simulation peers and ANSYS experts. Register today.

Seminars
Every month ANSYS sponsors a wide range of seminars around the world.

Medical Technology and a Teaspoon of Sugar
For a person with diabetes, the ability to lead a normal life is partly due to technological advancements that allow him to manage the daily vagaries of the disease from the comfort and privacy of his home. The engineering technologies that make devices to handle and analyze very low volumes of fluids in small handheld devices are micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) and microfluidics. Learn more in this blog post.

White Paper: Design for Affordability — Implications for Simulation-Based Engineering
Simulation-based engineering tools — such as finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics and electromagnetics field solvers — are a proven value-added contributor to the product development process in the defense industry. However, how the tools are used and who is using them is also an important factor in leveraging these tools' full value.

Recorded Web Event from SAE International: PCA Engineers Limited Accelerates the Evolution of Turbochargers via Numerical Optimization and Advanced Simulation Techniques
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.

ANSYS Resource Library

Webinar on Demand: Diagnosing Nonlinear Structural Solutions in ANSYS Mechanical 14.5

Webinar on Demand: Reducing Product Development Risk and Complexity with Model-based Systems Engineering and Embedded Software

Webinar on Demand: Total Brake System Design and Instability and Noise Prediction

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