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AIM 18.0 New FeaturesAIM Program Management
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AIM Frequent Releases
Provides rapid expansion of capabilities
R16.0
•Essential physics for fluids, structures, thermal, and electric conduction
•Static/steady state, modal
•Single, easy-to-use user environment
•SCDM and DX
R16.1
• UX improvements
• Structural joints
• Conjugate heat transfer (Beta)
• Compressible flow (Beta)
• Stress-life fatigue (Beta)
• Custom templates (Beta)
R16.2
•Conjugate heat transfer
•Compressible flow
•Buoyancy
•Nonlinear contact
•Large deflection
•Stress-life fatigue
•One-way thermal FSI
•Custom templates
•Enhanced graphics
•Auto-region interfaces (Beta)
•Integrated design points (Beta)
R17.0
•Integrated modeling
•Material rendering
•Integrated design points
•Auto-region interfaces
•Enhanced solution monitoring
•Remote loads
•Strain-life fatigue
•Field level help
•AIM on simulation portal
•Student licensing
•UX improvements
•Magnetostatics (Beta)
•Model transfer to Mechanical and Fluent (Beta)
R17.1
•Magnetostatics
•Magnetic-thermal coupling
•Polymer extrusion
•Structural shells
•Solution monitors
•Performance
•Material appearance settings
•Geometry modeling enhancements
•Multi-step templates
•UX enhancements
•AIM included with Mechanical Enterprise
•Thermal transients (Beta)
•Model transfer to Mechanical (Beta)
R17.2
•Simulation steps and bolt pretension
•Thermal transients
•Momentum and heat sources
•Periodic interfaces
•Wall roughness
•Viscosity as a function of strain rate
•Monitoring calculated values
•Extrusion with thermal effects
•Model transfer to Mechanical
•Japanese user interface
•UX enhancements
•HTML report generation
•Magnetic frequency response (Beta)
R18.0
•Magnetic frequency response
•One-way magnetic-thermal coupling
•Solver dependent expressions (Fans)
•More structural boundary conditions
•Display Multiple Results
•Display Calculated Values
•Shell FSI
•Model transfer to Fluent
•Scripting for Geometry
•UX Enhancements
•Chinese user interface
•AIM included with Fluids Enterprise/Premium Products
•Fluids Transient (Beta 2.0)
•Porous media (Beta)
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AIM 18.0 New Features• Magnetic frequency response
• Automatic enclosure for magnetics
• One-way magnetic-thermal coupling
• Solution dependent expressions
• Model transfer to Fluent
• One-way FSI for shell structures
• Spatially varying force and pressure
• Cylindrical support
• Bolt pre-tension enhancements
• Calculated value annotations
• Multiple results display
• Light, dark and white color themes
• Chinese user interface
• Scripting for geometry
• Polymer extrusion enhancements
• AIM available with CFD Enterprise
• AIM available with Mechanical Enterprise PrepPost and Solver
Steady-state temperature from eddy current heating
Model transfer to Fluent
Display multiple results
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Magnetic Frequency Response
• Frequency Response– Guided workflow for frequency
response of electromagnetic devices including eddy/displacement currents
– Include frequency dependent materials
Eddy current density in liquid glass
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Automatic Enclosure Creation for Magnetics
• Magnetics template enhanced to automatically create surrounding region
Relay geometry in CAD system
Automatic creation of enclosure
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One-way Magnetic-Thermal Coupling
• One-way magnetic- thermal coupling
– Transfer loss from magnetic frequency response to steady-state or transient thermal simulation
Steady-state temperature in glass from eddy current heating
Note: Source and Target Locations should match, and only include bodies that have losses
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Solution Dependent Expressions
• Include field variables and quality functions (Average, Min, Max, etc.) in expressions to define boundary conditions
Inlet boundary condition for automotive fuse box based on expression that defines fan P-Q curve
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Model Transfer to Fluent
• Transfer model from AIM to Fluent
– Transfer part or volume mesh and selection sets
– Via Workbench schematic connection or AIM template
– Perform parametric updates
Geometry and mesh for butterfly valve model transferred from AIM to Fluent
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Templates for Model Transfer
• Connect to Mechanical or Fluent– Templates create Geometry and Mesh task and a WB schematic connection
to analysis system
– Allows selection of downstream analysis system for Mechanical
• Static structural, Modal, Random vibration, Harmonic response, etc.
Template automatically creates schematic connection
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Material State
• Ability to define the state of matter – solid, liquid or gas
– Allows one material definition with different phases
– Solves total energy equation for gases
• Even with constant density
– Improves accuracy of thermal simulation
Data center conjugate heat transfer model solved using Air with Gas material state
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Fluid Solution Continuation
• Fluid solution continuation– Fluid solution will continue from the
previous solution if the number of iterations is the only change
– Changing the number of iterations changes the status to “partially updated”
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One-way FSI with Shell Structures
• Physics Coupling to shells– Enables one-way transfer of fluid forces
– Mapping control available for gap tolerance
Dish antenna one-way FSI, velocity vectors and resulting deformation
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Spatially Varying Force and Pressure
• Spatially varying Force– Specify expression for directional
components for Force per unit area
– Relative to Global or user specified Reference frame
• Spatially varying Pressure– Specify expression for Pressure
– Relative to Global or user specified Reference frame
Displacement of tank with hydrostatic pressure load
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Cylindrical Reference Frame for Displacement and Support Conditions
• Cylindrical reference frame available for displacement and support conditions
– Allows more flexible specification of cylindrical constraints
Cylindrical reference frame used to constrain radial and axial direction for pinned support
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Bolt Pretension Enhancements
• A single Bolt Pretension can represent a collection of bolts
– One bolt per location or one bolt for all locations
• Post-process bolt adjustment and bolt working load
Single bolt pretension object represents all twelve bolts for bolted pipe flange assembly
Contour of bolt working load
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Display Multiple Results
• Display multiple results – Group view allows display of
multiple results
– Legend displayed when appropriate
Display of multiple contours and calculated values
Display vectors, contours and calculated values
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Calculated Value Annotation
• Display annotation for calculated values
– Calculated value label included in display
– Click on annotation label to edit calculated value
– Can be included with multiple results displays
Display calculated value annotation
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White, Light and Dark Color Themes
• Modify UI color theme based on preference
– File > Tools > Options > AIM > Theme
White theme
Light theme (AIM default)
Dark theme
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Copy Material Assignments
• Copy material assignments– Material assignments from the
previous Physics task are copied automatically when connected to the same Geometry task
– Copy individual material assignments or copy all assignments from other simulation processes
– Easier setup for multiphysics with multiple material assignments
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Usability Enhancements
• Monitoring calculated values– Shortcut to add calculated values to a
monitor chart
• Simulation steps– Access simulation step manager from
boundary conditions
– Ability to visualize applied factors
• Default results names– Automatically uses variable name when
defining new results
• Prescribed displacements – Shows vector arrow in applied direction
(similar to Force)
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Chinese User Interface
• Chinese user interface– Tools > Options > Regional and Language Options
– Provides a local language version of AIM for Chinese users
Chinese translation of AIM user interface
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Scripting for Geometry Modeling
• Execute geometry modeling operations via Python scripts– Execute via Script Editor while editing geometry model (Model > Show
Script Editor)
– Or from AIM File menu (File > Scripting > Run Script File)
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Polymer Extrusion CHT
• Conjugate heat transfer for polymer extrusion
– Create fluid-solid, fluid-fluid and solid-solid region interfaces and associated behavior
Polymer extrusion CHT, fluid-solid region interface and temperature solution
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Polymer Extrusion Enhancements
• Fluid-fluid region interfaces– Allows polymer extrusion solutions with
a non-conformal fluid mesh
• Simplified viscoelastic model– New material model to account for
extrudate swelling
• Display of intermediate results– Use animation slider to display
intermediate results
Polymer extrusion with fluid-fluid region interface
Simplified viscoelastic model
Animation slider used to display intermediate results for polymer extrusion
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AIM included with CFD Enterprise
• CFD Enterprise Licenses– AIM capabilities included in CFD Enterprise
– AIM solver and prep/post capabilities included CFD Enterprise Solver and CFD PrepPost
– Shared license enables fluids solvers (Fluent, CFX, etc.) or AIM
– AIM provides added value to CFD Enterprise license
– Provides CFD Enterprise customers with an easy-to-use entry point for additional physics simulation
– Enables customization of CFD workflows for design engineers
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AIM included with Mechanical Enterprise PrepPost and Enterprise Solver
• Mechanical Enterprise Licenses– AIM solver and prep/post capabilities included Mechanical Enterprise
Solver (meba) and Mechanical Enterprise PrepPost (preppost) licenses
– (AIM capabilities also included in Mechanical Enterprise (ansys) license)
– Shared license enables Mechanical or AIM
– AIM provides added value to Mechanical Enterprise licenses
– Provides Mechanical Enterprise customers with an easy-to-use entry point for additional physics simulation
– Enables customization of simulation workflows for design engineers
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AIM 18.0 Beta Features
• Beta features can be activated by selecting Tools > Options > Appearance
• Beta features can be uniquely turned on or off by selecting Tools > Options > AIM
• For more information consult the AIM beta documentation available on the Customer Portal
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