Introduction to Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) with Ansys

Introduction to Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) with Ansys, Simulation is a critical tool for many industries and the global simulation software market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8-9% in the next few years. This is a substantial increase — primarily due to the many benefits simulation software provides business, including reductions in product development costs, physical tests and faulty prototypes. In computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications like simulation, there are types of software to analyze your product such as finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and many others. To conduct a CAE simulation, there are three important steps to an analysis: pre-processing, solving and post-processing. Let’s discuss the FEA pre-processing step, specifically the importance of a good quality mesh. Finite element analysis (FEA) is a mathematical representation of a physical system comprising a part/assembly, material properties and boundary conditions. In several situations, product behavior in the real-world cannot be approximated by simple hand calculations. A general technique like FEA is a convenient method to represent complex behaviors by accurately capturing physical phenomena using partial differential equations. FEA has matured and has been democratized so that it can be used both by design engineers and specialists.