ADVANTAGE ISSUE 3/2022
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EXCELLENCE IN ENGINEERING SIMULATION 6 Model-Based Systems Engineering Explained PyAnsys: Tap into Ansys Simulation with Python Introducing Ansys Gateway Powered by AWS Ansys Advantage

COMPLETE SIMULATION’S NEW MISSION MBSE ENHANCES THE SAFETY AND CYBERSECURITY OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ACCESS THE POWER OF ANSYS WITH PYTHON Discover how Ansys’ integrated products, services, and partner ecosystem make it easier to connect your digital thread to meet the complex engineering challenges that will advance society as a whole. SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EXPLAINED Learn how MBSE enables you to replace static documents with “intelligent” digital models that contain everything important about the system — the requirements, architecture, and interfaces between...

TEACHING ‘BRAINS’ USING DIGITAL TWINS A LINK AROUND THE WORLD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE See how Microsoft is using machine teaching, not machine learning, to train “brains” that can be used to advise a human operator on the best decision to make. SIMULATION PREDICTS COVID-19 AEROSOL FLOW IN STADIUMS Follow Professor Bert Blocken’s team as they use CFD to understand how Covidcontaining aerosols travel throughout crowded stadiums, leading to a predictive model that could minimize future stadium closures. ROBUST DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OPTIMIZE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION EFFORTS Learn how Ansys optiSLang...

Complete Simulation’s New Mission By Jane Trenaman, Senior Director, Product Management, Ansys When Ansys began, more than 50 years ago, our goal was to help you use structural simulation to verify physical tests. Over the years, simulation came to be defined by the physics challenges being solved — structural, thermal, fluidic, optical, electromagnetic – and the Ansys product portfolio expanded, incorporating bestin-class physics simulation capabilities across a broad spectrum of engineering disciplines. Our goal was to help you answer the engineering challenges you faced. Today, our goal...

tap into the cloud compute strength of Microsoft Azure. Our new Ansys Gateway powered by AWS offering enables you to use your existing AWS cloud subscription to support your use of Ansys simulation. You can read how Ansys Cloud was used to simulate airflow in an entire stadium on page 34 and see how Emirates Team New Zealand is using Ansys simulation to help design its winning America’s Cup yachts via Ansys Gateway powered by AWS on page 22. Ansys and third-party tools, as well as your in-house solutions, to automate simulation workflows. CAPTURE AND MANAGE THE DATA More simulation means...

MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EXPLAINED By Tim Palucka, Managing Editor, Ansys Advantage Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is a methodology that focuses on creating and exploiting digital system and engineering domain models as the primary means of exchange of information, feedback, and requirements, rather than relying on documents. It involves the entire process of capturing, communicating, and making sure all the digital models we use to represent a system are coordinated and maintained throughout the entire life cycle of the system. Ansys Advantage Ansys Advantage

and integrating the simulation into this “Automating allows the team to rapidly identify potential system model issues with changes to mission requirements ... The overall improvement versus the original process was about a 7X speedup in turnaround time. — Phathom Atena Donald, Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin Space rior to about 2010, a system engineering design was likely to be a bunch of related papers and documents containing drawings, diagrams, mathematical formulas, requirements, and other specifications for how the system would work. But around that time, projects became too large...

Ansys ModelCenter’s Behavior Execution Engine (BEE) integration ensures that system design meets behavioral requirements early in the development life cycle. comprehensive list of qualities that the system is required to have or functions it is required to perform (i.e., the requirements). SAMs are created using specialized software programs and utilize purpose-built languages for describing system architectures. 2. Engineering simulation software. A SAM can be compared to a computer-aided design (CAD) drawing — it describes the system in detail, but there is no way to tell from the SAM...

As the design cycle progresses and the product design is refined, engineers can use Ansys MBSE technology to assess whether the as-designed system meets the specified requirements, or whether changes have to be made. When changes are made to the requirements or the SAM, the entire procedure can repeat until results satisfy specifications, verifying that the design will work as intended throughout the product’s lifetime. Only after these requirements have been satisfied will the team build a physical prototype of the design to perform physical tests on it. The value of MBSE is that it...

MBSE Enhances the Safety and Cybersecurity of Autonomous Vehicles By Tim Palucka, Managing Editor, Ansys Advantage The continuing enhancement of automobiles with advanced driver assist systems (ADAS) and the ongoing quest to produce fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) that communicate with each other on the road leads to larger, more complex systems. Simultaneously, it demands more safety and security in automobile systems design. But safety and security requirements can sometimes clash. To make a car safer requires additional components to monitor the operation of the vehicle, but these...

o support development of such large, complex systems and provide a robust development framework for automotive system designs, Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd. (Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions) of Japan established a specialized department called the MBSE Design Lab in 2019. It expanded to become the MBSE Design Center in October 2022. This model-based systems engineering (MBSE) Design Center features Ansys SCADE embedded software and Ansys medini analyze functional safety and cybersecurity simulation software as key elements of their approach to designing safe and secure...