Introduction

SWAU — pronounced “swah-oo” — is the Southwest ANSYS Users (SWAU), an organization of ANSYS users and people interested in ANSYS, who are located in the Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Western Kansas, and El Paso). The goal of the organization is to provide a sense of community for ANSYS users in the region, to serve as a means of communication about ANSYS, and to provide technical and peer resources to those interested in becoming ANSYS users.

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Teach Yourself ANSYS Customization with PADT's APDL Guide

This guide is a compilation of course notes from PADT’s very popular ANSYS Customization with APDL class. By popular demand, PADT has turned these notes into a 288-page guide that steps new and experienced ANSYS users through all of the details of APDL scripting. Its 12 chapters include reference information, examples, tips and hints, and eight workshops. The guide, available in hardcopy only, is an invaluable resource to anyone who wants to start using APDL or become an ANSYS “power user”. At $75 plus shipping, this manual will quickly pay for itself by saving you hours of research and trial-and-error.

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Leading European Analyst Reports ANSYS the Largest Engineering Simulation Software Vendor in Europe

ANSYS, Inc. announced that it has been cited as Europe's leader in engineering simulation software sales in a report by 01consulting, which specializes in evaluating the industry on the continent. Of nearly a dozen computer-aided engineering (CAE) software vendors tracked in Europe, ANSYS came out as the overall leader in software sales and as a leading supplier in every European geography and industry sector.

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Collaboration Between ANSYS and Zuken Will Drive Improvement in Electronics Development

ECAD Interface Now Available between Zuken Electronics Design and Manufacturing Solutions and ANSYS Workbench

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Petrobras Relies on ANSYS Simulation Technology as a Key Enabler for Product and Process Design Innovations and Operational Excellence

ANSYS, Inc. announced that Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) in Brazil, one of the world's most innovative integrated oil and gas companies, has broadened its technology relationship with ANSYS. Petrobras will utilize multiple simulation and modeling applications from ANSYS in pursuit of its innovation initiatives in product and process design, enhancing its operational excellence in production, refining and processing.

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Whether you feel you need to start implementing CFD into your engineering analysis or you are looking for increased compute power, PADT, Inc. can assist you! We use two of the best and most comprehensive CFD tools available, FLUENT and CFX, which are unmatched in their breadth and depth of capability when solving the toughest or even the simplest CFD problems.

PADT, Inc. has CFD engineers with over 15 years of experience using FLUENT, CFX and a host of other CFD codes. This experience enables us to quickly assess an application, understand the challenges and provide you with timely, accurate and detailed results.

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• Want to bring CFD into your engineering design and analysis and don’t currently have the expertise
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Featured Article: Simulation and the “Green Revolution”

By Eric Miller

Every decade or so, usually in hindsight, you can see an industrial trend arise that has had an impact on those of us who make our living doing simulation. Network hardware to support the massive expansion of the internet was one of the more recent trends as well as the Nuclear power industry in the 60’s and 70’s was a major contributor to the creation and success of ANSYS. Right now simulation is seeing significant growth in the Oil and Gas sector. In recent months a new trend has gained significant momentum and has become commonplace: Green Technology

Lots of people have been “green” or environmentally-friendly for decades. Yet it was never as mainstream an issue as it is today. The rise in prices for Oil and Gas and the noticeable impact of global warming have combined to create economic and political momentum. This momentum has translated into financial backing and the creation of hundreds if not thousands of projects in both large and small companies to develop technology which can support the green revolution. If you are an engineer who wants to be involved, simulation tools like ANSYS, CFX and FLUENT are the perfect enablers for that contribution.

Wanting to be green is simple but getting the technology in place to make it happen is complex and expensive. Whether it is more efficient coal fired power plants, internal combustion engines that emit less carbon per mile, or using new, thin-film semiconductor manufacturing techniques for photovoltaic solar sells, engineers need to get inside their systems to fully understand all of the internal details of their specific device’s mechanical, fluid and chemical behavior. In addition to that the new machine that they create must operate with a high level of reliability and durability.

Electronics and aerospace have had to tackle the same technical problems in order to become the major industries they are today. The use of simulation for these industries is evidence that analysis will play a major roll in the growth of green industries, which is likely to occur over the next decade. Those who are already familiar with ANSYS, Inc’s full breadth of products will be able to make a significant contribution.

PADT has already been witness to this in a couple of different areas. The most obvious for those of us in Arizona is the Solar Energy field. Right now solar power is very expensive, and the systems are not very reliable. Yet some companies are using ANSYS, Inc’s simulation tools to solve problems and take their technology main-stream. They are not only using CFD models to design for real-world wind loading, but using FEA to understand and improve the thermal and structural performance of their systems.

Another recent example at PADT is the use of very sophisticated CFD to improve the efficiency and cleanliness of coal fire power plants. Using the most recent turbulence and combustion physics modeling, some of our customers are reengineering their systems on the computer early in the design process to get their plants greener and more profitable.

Wind Power is yet another example of where simulation has enabled the growth and interest in green technology. Most wind turbines now use huge blades made from various composites and aluminum. ANSYS technology has been used by many key vendors to optimize blades and improve their performance to a level that makes massive wind turbines a viable way to generate energy. Currently the industry is using simulation to turn their focus on improving generator design (EMAG, stress, rotor dynamics) and optimizing the placement of turbines in a wind farm; to take advantage of local geography and wind patterns (CFD).

It is hard to predict which technologies our power hungry world will end up embracing, but there is no doubt that significant changes are on their way and simulation will play a major role in making them happen. Knowing the full range of ANSYS, Inc. products will allow analysts around the world to play a significant role in the environmentally conscious changes to come.

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