Mapping fluid pressure into a structural model can help engineers assess composite designs without the complexity of a fully coupled simulation. This article outlines a practical one-way FSI workflow for composite structures applied to a hydrofoil example where it adds tremendous value.
Buying a new workstation for Ansys LS-DYNA is not the same as buying one for general FEA or CFD. The LS-DYNA solver puts unusual demands on a machine, and the parts that matter most depend on the type of analysis you run. This means that a high price tag or large core count on a spec sheet won’t necessarily guarantee you faster results – so you need to carefully consider where it is worth spending your hard-earned money. This guide covers the three things that LEAP’s Explicit Dynamics team advises you to look at first.
Engineers spend a surprising amount of time keeping information consistent. When a requirement changes, then someone has to work out which calculations, drawings and test plans are affected. It is engineering work, but it’s manual, easy to get wrong, and hard to trace afterwards. Model Based Systems Engineering, or MBSE, is a way of avoiding that. Rather than describing a product across a set of separate documents, MBSE captures it in one connected model.
In this guest blog, Matthew Ferguson, Business Development Manager – Quarries and Aggregates Australasia, describes Multotec’s use of digital engineering practices in the design of precision-engineered components that are critical to the ACE & ERX platform’s hammerless mechanism, delivering lower lifecycle costs through reductions in change-out times and reduced wear on critical parts.
Mining has always demanded ingenuity, but the pressures of the past few years have sharpened that need considerably. For mine operators, the fastest way to capture both benefits isn’t always buying a brand-new fleet. Often, it’s retrofitting the diesel haul trucks they already own. In this guest blog, EPCA walks us through how their simulation-led retrofit approach compresses development timelines, preserves existing asset value, and delivers reliable, zero-emission haulage, even in the face of environmental and geopolitical headwinds.
Esper Satellite Imagery develops hyperspectral imaging sensors for low Earth orbit, delivering affordable, wide-spectrum data for agriculture, mining, and environmental monitoring. Their mission is to deploy 18+ sensors by 2028, providing global, high-frequency insights. LEAP sat down with Shoaib Iqbal, Co-founder and CEO of Esper Satellite Imagery to learn how Ansys simulation tools are helping Esper to achieve their goals.
One of the most talked about controversies from the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games revolved around accusations of teams “double-touching” the curling stone after its initial release. To quantify how even the slightest touch might alter the outcome of a curling match, we conducted two Ansys LS-Dyna simulations: one representing a perfectly clean release and the other including a minimal post-release force.
Product development cycles face competing pressures – accelerate development and ensure reliability, all while balancing cost control and flexibility to innovate. Since engineers are under constant pressure to deliver faster, safer, and more cost-effective designs, we need a way to evaluate trade-offs ‑early, before design freedom is lost. Ansys OptiSLang is built precisely for this purpose, by changing the paradigm from “simulate to check” to “simulate to discover”.
Transfer chutes are very commonly used in bulk material processing and handling scenarios, particularly for bulk granular materials. When analysing the structural performance of a transfer chute, it’s important to consider how the flow of material will impact your design, and to then quickly evaluate the structural performance of the design under load. Whilst it’s straightforward to account for the normal component of pressure in a design, the tangential pressure is a trickier load to setup. In this blog, we’ll investigate how you can setup pressure loads to capture tangential pressures for a variety of transfer chute geometries.
Our exploration of Ansys Discovery’s capabilities now shifts from general 3D geometries to a specialised yet widely encountered case: axisymmetry. Many essential components such as pipes, flanges and pressure vessels, exhibit rotational symmetry. In this section, we examine Discovery’s performance on axisymmetric problems using two established NAFEMS benchmarks, LE7 and LE8 – read on to see the results.
