Altair HyperWorks Introduction
Quick introduction to Altair HyperWorks and its suite of products.
Altair HyperWorks is the most comprehensive open-architecture simulation platform, offering best-in-class technologies to design and optimize high performance, efficient and innovative products. HyperWorks includes finite element modeling, analysis and optimization for structures, fluids, multibody dynamics, electromagnetics and antenna placement, model-based development, and multiphysics. Users have full access to a wide suite of design, engineering, visualization, and data management solutions from Altair and its technology partners.
The 2019 version of the HyperWorks suite offers many new functionalities in areas such as efficient modeling and meshing, multiphysics and multi-disciplinary analysis, structural analysis and optimization, model-based design, electromagnetism, fatigue life prediction, and composites materials.
A massive development effort has been placed to deliver the most robust, efficient
and fast-performing HyperWorks software release
to-date:
- HyperWorks 2019 sets a new benchmark for quick and robust modeling and visualization of large, complex assemblies. Thousands of development hours have been spent refining and improving the software algorithms and workflows, implementing hundreds of customer requests.
- In parallel to the legacy GUI, a brand-new user experience is now available to maximize efficiency for complex FE modeling tasks such as geometry creation and editing, meshing, and morphing.
- Significant performance improvements have been achieved across the different desktop and solver applications, including invoking time, results loading, batch-meshing, and more.
New Products
HyperWorks stretches your software dollar through its
patented value-based licensing method. The 2019 release adds the following to the
list of products available under HyperWorks units:
- Simulation-Driven Design
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- Altair Inspire platform
- The Altair
Inspire platform is an intuitive
and powerful software technology platform that enables
simulation-driven design throughout the entire product
development process from concept to creation. When used
throughout the design process, the Inspire platform empowers the
creation of designs that are focused on both performance and
manufacturability and empowers its users to explore,
develop, and manufacture high performance products in a
single intuitive development environment. The Inspire platform included in the
HyperWorks 2019 release is
comprised of the following products:
- Altair Inspire - Generative Design and rapid simulation solution for designers
- Altair Inspire Cast – Fast casting process simulation
- Altair Inspire Form – Sheet metal forming feasibility and tryout
- Altair Inspire Extrude – Metal and Polymer extrusion process simulation
- Altair SimSolid
- A structural analysis software developed specifically for rapid design iteration. It eliminates geometry simplification and meshing, the two most time-consuming and expertise-extensive tasks done in traditional FEA, enabling the analysis of fully-featured CAD assemblies in minutes without meshing.
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Multiphysics
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- Altair HyperLife
- An easy-to-learn fatigue analysis software developed on the modern, solver-neutral HyperWorks X framework. HyperLife provides a comprehensive toolset for durability analysis, directly interfacing with all the major finite element analysis (FEA) and multibody dynamics (MBS) result file formats. With an embedded material library, HyperLife offers solutions for fatigue life predictions under static, transient and vibration loading across a wide range of industrial applications.
- Altair SimLab
- Altair builds upon its core SimLab technology and leadership in automated solid modeling, boasting an entirely new user experience. The new multiphysics solution features the addition of deeply embedded solvers, including statics, dynamics, heat transfer, fluid flow and electromagnetics analysis. Altair’s solvers integration fluid-structure interaction, EM-thermal.
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
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- Altair nanoFluidX
- State-of-the-art particle-based (SPH) fluid dynamics code for simulation of single and multiphase flows in complex geometries with complex motion. It can be used to predict the oiling in powertrain systems with rotating shafts / gears and analyze forces and torques on individual components of the system.
- Altair ultraFluidX
- Simulation software based on Lattice-Boltzmann method for ultra-fast prediction of the aerodynamic properties of passenger and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as for the evaluation of building and environmental aerodynamics.
Key Enhancements
The new HyperWorks 2019 release includes numerous key
enhancements in the areas of design, modeling & visualization, and physics simulation:
- Physics – Structural Solvers
- In addition to the aforementioned release of Altair SimSolid and HyperLife, both OptiStruct and Radioss solvers have been enhanced with new and improved functionalities
addressing several different use cases:
- In the area of stiffness, strength and stability analysis, axisymmetric analysis is now supported by Altair OptiStruct for Elasto-Plasticity and Large Displacement nonlinearity. OptiStruct’s capabilities for nonlinear analysis keep expanding, also thanks to the addition of new supported element types.
- For rotor dynamics, new functionalities such as rotor effect, mode tracking and rotor energy from complex eigenvalue analysis are now supported by OptiStruct.
- OptiStruct also reinforces its leadership in structural optimization with the addition of a new, GRID-based free shape optimization. This new option allows much larger shape changes as each grid has its own design variable.
- Altair Radioss version 2019 offers a new multi-material for Arbritrary Lagrangian and Eulerian (ALE) applications, which is easy to use, faster, more accurate, and ensures energy conservation.
- Physics – Electromagnetic Solvers
- The insurgence of trending technologies like e-mobility, advanced
driver-assistance systems (ADAS), and electrification in general, makes
the development of fast, efficient and accurate electromagnetic solvers
paramount. With the 2019 release, Altair
HyperWorks introduces many new
functionalities in Feko, WinProp and Flux:
- Diffraction effects are now supported by Feko’s RL-GO solver, a key feature very important for antenna placement and radar cross section (RCS) analysis.
- RCS information obtained from Feko are now used by WinProp to significantly accelerate the simulation of ADAS and autonomous driving scenarios.
- The development of Altair Flux 2019 has been particularly focused on new functionalities for fast and robust simulation of electric motors, such as result preview during solving, new layers mesh generator, and improvement of shell elements generation with mesh import.
- Physics – Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Solvers
- Altair HyperWorks 2019 includes a complete range of CFD solutions addressing the most complex fluid and thermal problems. In addition to the new GPU-based solutions, Altair ultraFluidX and nanoFluidX, a wide array of new functionalities has been added to AcuSolve, Altair’s CFD solver based on finite element formulation, well suited for accurate simulation of incompressible flow, transient, multi-phase, thermal analyses, and fluid-structure interaction (FSI).
- Physics - Multibody Dynamics
- Altair
MotionSolve 2019 includes new
functionalities and expands its variety of integrators, support of
co-simulation, multiphysics and a special focus on flexible body
modeling:
- A new analytical design sensitivity and optimization capability is now available. You can directly improve product performance and minimize development uncertainties by using these capabilities.
- The MotionSolve examples library has been enhanced to include twenty new use-cases that demonstrate this capability. You can download these examples to review the new capabilities in depth. This feature is complementary to capabilities that are available in HyperStudy.