Case Studies/Testimonials

 Ultrasonic testing system for helicopter parts
In the very first phases of product development, the ability to analyze the design as work progresses, using ANSYS Workbench enabled Robo-Technology to guarantee that the rigidity and vibration behavior of the system would meet customer demands.

 High quality meshes lead to faster turnaround time
Utilizing ANSYS ICEM CFD tools for defense, energy and commercial product design, HyPerComp Inc. generates tetrahedral, hexahedral and hybrid unstructured grids that are, in turn, used by our higher order CEM, CFD and MHD solvers.

 Combustor heat transfer and automated design
The design of an aircraft engine combustor is a multidisciplinary process involving aero CFD, combustion, heat transfer CFD, dynamics, thermal, mechanical and life prediction. In order to meet aggressive new product introduction (NPI) analysis requirements, GE Global Research Center has been collaborating with GE Aircraft Engines to develop advanced combustor design technologies.

 Scripted geometry creation and structured multi-block hexa meshing
The Rotocraft Research Group at Carleton University runs complex CFD simulations that can require weeks of computation time. The solver requires a high-quality structured multi-block hexahedral mesh with advanced mesh distribution.

 Keeping Vintage Planes in the Air
ANSYS Workbench surface-to-surface contact element technology enabled Raetech to efficiently and accurately model the numerous parts that touch one another in the T-34 aircraft lower spar carry-through structure.

 Designing Quieter Fans for Turbo-Jet Engines
CFD simulation enables researchers to develop an efficient engine fan that produces less acoustic noise.

 Simulation of Aircraft
HyPerComp Inc. uses the ANSYS ICEM CFD Tetra product to simulate aircraft, providing the company with mesh generation tools that are extremely powerful and user friendly enabling quick turnaround time.

 Process Compression: Technologies and Strategies for Faster Product Development
Numerous factors contribute to the success of a manufacturer and the products it produces. Time to market, efficiency of operation, product quality, engineering innovation, and market-driven designs, among others. The linchpin holding all these elements together is the product development process, from the early conceptual stages of design through release to manufacturing and beyond, with engineering activities often devoted to retrofits, upgrades, and other engineering changes throughout the entire product lifecycle. Product development certainly isn't the only function of significant importance in the manufacturing enterprise, of course. Activities in marketing, sales, procurement, production, testing, field service and many other areas are critical to success in the market. Indeed, input and feedback from all these groups plays a huge role in current team-based product development initiatives. And it is in product development, especially in the earliest stages of the cycle, where some of the most important decisions will be made with the greatest impact on the product's cost, performance, manufacturability and marketability.

 Air Craft Cabin Modeler
For a Bombardier CRJ700 passenger comfort study, Mindware used the scriptability and parametric capabilities in ANSYS ICEM CFD to parametrically generate a hexahedral mesh in batch mode.

 Analyzing Composites for Housing Electronic Circuits in Satellites
ANSYS Software works with ESAComp, to provide a robust parametric model representing different components and to reliably perform both structural and thermal analyses of composite structures for use in satelittes.

 Simulation-Based Lifecycle Cost Management
ANSYS Mechanical is used to assist in calculating fatigue damage for each engine component and each aircraft flight.

 CFX Improves Rotor-Stator Modeling
CFX-5 has proven to be scalable for both CPU and memory, making it highly effective for rotor-stator modelling.

 ANSYS and Battle Readiness: Prognostic Model Keeps Helicopters Flying
For 20 years, the U.S. has asked its military to do more with less. Even as resources are trimmed, the armed forces are asked to take on new missions in faraway places. All too often, this is done with equipment that is far beyond the service life for which it was designed. Despite their increasing age, aircraft remain in service because replacements are not being acquired.

 CFX Simulation for Predicting Drag
ANSYS has participated successfully a validation study from AIAA. The studies showed that pressure-based methods are very well suited for the simulation of aeronautical flows at transonic conditions.