Everyday innovators, scientists, students, and engineers around the world have ideas for new products or ways to make current products better.
But there are things to consider such as deadlines, proof of concept, prototyping, and testing that take valuable time and money.
Ultimately, everyone wants to ensure their product or design will perform well and be safe.
How can these results be achieved in a timely manner?
That’s where engineering simulation comes in.
Engineering simulation plays a huge role in the development of ground-breaking products around the world.
In this lesson, we will learn the basics of numerical simulation along with the scope of simulation and its different physics areas.
What is Engineering simulation?
Engineering simulation is the computer-based analysis of how a new product design would perform in real life situations.
Essentially, it is a way to do virtual experiments to verify the efficacy of your designs.
Once you define your inputs, such as geometry and material properties,
you describe the product environment or operating conditions through loads and boundary conditions.
The output from the simulation is understanding your product's response and performance.
Interested in how much stress a part experiences under load in order to avoid failure?
Or perhaps you want to know the peak temperature experienced by a CPU to prevent overheating
engineering simulation software can help you figure that out.
Through the application of physics and numerical techniques, simulation helps engineers and designers
efficiently explore a wide array of design parameters to understand the viability of their product designs.
What kinds of physics and problems can engineering simulation solve?
Ansys has a leading solution for almost every area of physics you can think of.
Mechanical & Structural studies. You can solve complex structural engineering problems with Ansys Mechanical.
Thermal Simulation. Learn how heat transfer affects product performance with Ansys Mechanical and Discovery.
Fluid dynamics. Study advanced fluid flows in our state-of-the-art CFD software, Ansys Fluent.
Optics. Advanced optical analysis, sensor vision, and even human vision can be simulated with Ansys Speos.
Photonics. Simulate light’s interactions for the design of photonic components and systems with Ansys Lumerical.
And that’s not all, there are many more fields where engineering simulation plays an important role.
So, whether you are a student looking to understand how varying physics actually plays out in the world visually,
a designer iterating possible designs, or an engineer refining a model, numerical analysis can be an invaluable tool.
In the next lesson, we will learn more about the importance of engineering simulation.