Update Core: Modeling Complex Physical Phenomena
Simplifying the drop test simulation process

Siemens is releasing updates to its Simcenter 3D software to help companies address the complexities of product development and innovation with advanced simulation.

Siemens Digital Industries Software today announced the latest update to Siemens Simcenter™ 3D software, part of Siemens' Xcelerator portfolio of software and services.

Simcenter 3D offers new capabilities including: increased support for turbomachinery modeling; a dedicated drop test application for portable devices; topology optimization tightly integrated with the NX design environment; and a new acoustic solution method that is up to 10 times faster than standard methods.

Siemens' Simcenter 3D 2022.1 helps engineers overcome challenges in the areas of complexity modeling, feasibility exploration, speed, and integrated maintenance.

■ Complexity Modeling

The ability to model and understand complex physical phenomena is at the heart of this release of Simcenter 3D.

Simcenter 3D's industry-leading turbomachinery industrial solution has been expanded with additional thermophysics, rotational physics, and thermal fatigue capabilities to more accurately capture the complex physics occurring within these machines.

automobile differentialA new dedicated toolset for simulating spiral bevel gears, commonly found in automotive applications, enables accurate system-level NVH analysis of these mechanisms to reduce gear noise.

Additionally, a new dedicated application simplifies and streamlines the drop test simulation process for electronics and other portable devices for engineers who are not simulation experts.

■ Exploring possibilities

Acoustic hearing capabilities allow engineers to not only simulate but also hear sounds within the end user's experience.

Now engineers can hear the resulting acoustical mix of all the sounds, combining them to answer questions like, "What will the speakers sound like when I put them in a car and they combine with the background noise of the engine, HVAC, wind, and road?"

This release integrates topology optimization more tightly into the NX design environment, enabling simulation re-runs and enabling designers to easily create lightweight, structurally sound designs.

■ Fast speed

Two key updates will enable customers to break new ground faster than ever before.

A new high-performance boundary element method (BEMAO) with adaptive order solutions for acoustic simulations is up to 10 times faster than the standard boundary element method.

At the same time, new load case filtering for aerostructures allows engineers to quickly determine a final list of critical load cases among the thousands of load cases applied to the airframe.

■ Maintain integration

SimCenter 3D is available to XaaS (Xcelerator as a Service) subscribersIt connects to Xcelerator Share. The Xcelerator Share collaborative cloud environment enables users or distributed workgroups to seamlessly share files and communicate results, supporting ad-hoc collaboration.

Additionally, engineers can launch remote simulations from their desktops to any workstation or HPC cluster.