ANSYS Discovery Live

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 What will you Discover?

Sir Dyson developed 5,127 prototype designs between “One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.”
1979 and 1984 - Sir Alexander Fleming, Penicillin

ANSYS is driving innovation with digital experimentation!

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 Utility Over Accuracy

Time/cost/effort

Experimentation does not

require maximum fidelity.

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 ANSYS Discovery Live
A new paradigm in 3D design exploration, bringing real
time simulation into the hands of every engineer.

Features:
• Speed – Instantaneous simulation experience
• Ease of use – Run 1st simulation in minutes.
• Geometry Enabled – Edit geometry from any CAD source.
• Interactive – Edit physics inputs, geometry, or alter display
characteristics, and simulations update in real-time.

Technology
• Massively parallel solvers and post-processing running on
GPUs
• Fast, flexible, CAD-neutral geometry platform (SpaceClaim)
• Volumetric simulation approach

Benefits:
• Quickly create & test multiple design variations
• Minimal learning curve
• Negligible setup time (no meshing/time step) choices
• Robust - no failed simulations
• Scales with future compute advances

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 Discovery Live Physics Applications

External CFD/
Internal CFD
Structural

Thermal Modal
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 Test the “unlikely”

Discover something
new

Discovery Live makes simulation

fast, cheap, easy
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 Discovery Live and the Design Process
Before
DESIGN

Wait Wait
Design Revise Finalize

Prep
CAE

Simulate Simulate
Wait

• Geometry
Preparation
• Meshing
After Discovery Live • Wait Time
• Post processing
DESIGN

Design
Design Finalize
Simulate
CAE

Validate

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 Discovery Live in the Design Cycle
What if questions

Design and
instant answers 

Discovery Live answers questions such as:

− How can I improve mixing efficiency?

Why Discovery Live? − What if / could we?

− What will behavior look like if a parameter is changed?
~80% of product costs are
− Which iteration seems to perform better?
determined early design phases
− Where/how can I reduce weight with minimal effect on
performance?

Physics simulations in Discovery Live are fast, cheap, easy

Simulate
Speed, reliability, and tight geometry integration are valued
over high accuracy

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 Discovery Family and ANSYS Flagship Products

Designer: Exploration Designer: Refinement/Validation Analyst: Validation

Question How to / could we? Which is better & will it break? Will it perform as designed?
Characteristics Original, custom Iterative & pass/fail Detailed operating insight
Solution space Open solution space A few design points Complex component or system
Accuracy Directionally Accurate Higher fidelity Highest accuracy

Discovery
Discovery Live AIM

Discovery SpaceClaim

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 ANSYS Discovery Product Line

Structures Fluids Electromagnetics

Discovery AIM
• Easy to use high-fidelity simulation providing ANSYS
Semiconductors Embedded Software gold-standard accuracy and speed
• Comprehensive physics

Systems Partner Network 3-D Design

Discovery Live
• Instantaneous simulation, tightly coupled with direct
geometry modeling
ANSYS ANSYS
ANSYS CFD • Qualitative results; high accuracy is not the goal
Mechanical Electronics

Discovery SpaceClaim
• Fast and intuitive 3D Direct Modeling to create, edit
and repair geometry for concept design and simulation

AIM

Live

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 Think of it this way…..

Discovery Live Discovery AIM ANSYS Flagship

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 Customer Success Story
Roadtec, a subsidiary of Astec Industries

The problem
• Must understand drag and forces on vehicles to know how to restrain them
• Goal to understand the magnitude of forces on a canopy of an MVT and
subsequently minimize them
How they used Discovery Live
• Rapidly adjusted canopy angles
• Reversed the entire MVT – an obvious adjustment with Discovery Live
Results
• Discovered reversing the vehicle made a significant impact
• 1 week estimate of time required to analyze in traditional CFD system
• 1.5 days to learn Discovery Live & obtain results

*Images provide by Roadtec

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 Customers and Press
"I believe it could be a game changer ... It has the potential for our “It removes the barrier of having to learn how to use a
specialists and designers to do “what if” studies much, much faster and simulation tool… students can get right to the physics and
easier.“ discover without having to become simulation experts first.“
- Bob Tickel, Director of Structural & Dynamic Analysis, - Prof. Rajesh Bhaskaran, Cornell University
Corporate R&T, Cummins

"I was blown away by the speed and ease of use … You will be able to "I never thought I’d be able to do CFD modeling unless
JACOBS I pursued a higher level engineering degree.“
perform your first analysis in less than 15 minutes.“
ANALYTICS - Travis Jacobs, Principal at Jacobs Analytics - Olivia Lim, AirLoom Energy

“This is the most impressive software

“I’ve heard the ‘we’re going to revolutionise demo I've seen in two decades.”
simulation’ a billion times …so can it
[Discovery Live] really change simulation
adoption? My belief is that it could.”
"....something radical has
come along: ANSYS
Discovery Live."

“It looks, for a first release, like one of the biggest breakthroughs
in design and engineering technology in the last ten years. And
this is just the first, preproduction release”

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