Plotting in ANSYS Mechanical

Plotting is a part of any project, because plots are essential to communicate your analysis set-up and results to others. In this article, we'll look at how to increase image quality and how to efficiently produce plots.

Vista TF tutorial V14.5

Vista TF is a quasi-2D solver designed to give a quick response to design input for turbomachinery applications. This tutorial gives a brief introduction to the Vista TF component along with Vista CPD, BladeGen and BladeEditor.

Introduction

The TF in Vista TF is an abbreviation for “Through Flow”. Vista TF is a two dimensional solver designed to give a quick response to design input for turbomachinery applications. The solver solves quasi-2D on a “S2-surface” and enables designers to quickly improve basic design parameters in an early stage of the design cycle.

ANSYS Parametric simulations

As the competition becomes tougher and tougher the need for robust design increases. Simulation is a great tool to help with that. With the computers getting faster it is now possible to do hundreds of simulations early on in a design phase of a product to find a robust and optimized product. This will of course lead to cost savings and in the end more satisfied customers. In this series of articles I will describe the great capabilities available in ANSYS Workbench to do these kind of simulations. I will begin by talking about parameters and “What-If” studies that are available with all ANSYS licenses.
Then I plan to do an article about DesignXplorer, the tool in Workbench to do optimization, sensitivity studies, six sigma analysis, etc. and will end with an article about how to solve with RSM (Remote Solve Manager) and HPC (High Performance Computing).

We often talk about parametric simulations or parametric studies. The name parametric refers to the basic of these simulations, the parameters. Often we want to do simulations to see what happens if we change one or more parameters in our model, say the thickness of a plate, the radius of a hole, a material property etc. So the first thing we need to decide is what parameters are we interested in, should it include geometry dimensions, material properties, load and which output parameters (results) we are interested in. Either way the way of defining parameters in ANSYS Workbench is the same, we only need to click in box in front of the value.