ANSYS Convergence Webinar Series

Dear Desktop Engineering Reader:

ANSYS has announced the fall lineup for its ongoing Convergence Webinar Series. It’s an intriguing array of seven live broadcasts covering a range of physics-based research and development at engineering and manufacturing companies like Cisco, Petrobras and BISSELL Homecare as well as in university settings. The first live broadcast in the fall 2014 series airs next Tuesday, October 21st. More on it in a moment.

The broad outline of these events is simple to grasp: Hands-on simulation experts across a diverse set of disciplines and industries will tell you about their cutting-edge product/technology research and development and the role ANSYS simulation tools play in helping them solve some pretty thorny engineering challenges. Expect to see a lot of screen shots, graphs and animations. All the webinars in the series are complimentary, cover real-world engineering simulation applications, touch upon trends and provide best practices.

Rockwell Hsu from Cisco Systems is the presenter for next week’s event, “Power Integrity Analysis of High-Speed SerDes Analog Supply.” Hsu’s starting point is that signal integrity engineers need better predictions for DC and AC simulation for SerDes (serializer/deserializer) analog supplies so that they can meet tighter DC IR drop (resistance drop) requirements and reduced high-frequency transient noise specifications. Hsu will discuss how the use of an ANSYS 3D field solver instead of a 2.5D version can enhance power delivery network analysis, speed up development times and improve products.

Here’s a peek at the rest of the series:

“Innovation in Metallurgy and Solar Power via Computational Fluid Dynamics”

Two presentations are offered in this event. In the first, you can learn how researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used ANSYS Fluent to develop a process for steel continuous casting. In the second, Ken Craig from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, talks about using ANSYS Fluent, ANSYS DesignModeler, ANSYS DesignXplorer and ANSYS Meshing to model a receiver for a concentrated solar power plant.

“Fluid Simulation: Improving Your Everyday Life”

Learn how simulation helps researchers at the University of Parma, Italy, sterilize tomato concentrate without sacrificing quality. Then see how engineers from BISSEL used ANSYS Fluent to assess the performance of a cyclonic vacuum cleaner in terms of airflow characteristics and dust separation efficiency.

“Fluid–Structure Interaction for Healthcare”

The principles of fluid dynamics and FSI (fluid–structure interaction) that allow engineers to design better industrial valves can be applied to the human heart. Researchers at Intevac and Ozen Engineering used ANSYS CFX and ANSYS Fluent for FSI simulations of the human left ventricle to better understand hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.

“Simulation in the Oil and Gas Industry”

Petrobras, a leader in energy industry technologies, deploys engineering simulation for a range of oil and gas applications. In this webinar, experts from Petrobras discuss metal-composite repair and oil platform flare design.

“Structural Simulation”

This broadcast provides two transportation-related presentations. In the first, Ralph Hsiao from Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company discusses how engineers used ANSYS Autodyn explicit dynamics software in Lagrangian mode to better understand the bolt severance mechanism in a railroad bolt cutter design. In the second presentation, Flavio Mamede from Furnas explains how engineers in Brazil used finite element analysis to help determine whether existing bridges could be reinforced to handle new load profiles or if new bridges needed to be built.

“Turbomachinery Simulation: FSI for Blade Flutter in a Compressor”

Understanding how blade flutter occurs requires knowledge of both fluid and structural physics. Researchers at Stellenbosch University explain how they used FSI to model blade flutter in a compressor.

Broadcasts in the ANSYS Convergence Webinar Series air weekly through December 9th. All events start at 11 a.m. EDT (3 p.m. GMT; 4 p.m. GMT after the return of eastern standard time). You can learn more about each webinar and register for those you want to attend at the other end of today’s Check it Out link. Good stuff.

Thanks, Pal. – Lockwood

Anthony J. Lockwood

Editor at Large, Desktop Engineering

Go here to learn more about the ANSYS Convergence Webinar Series.