Shape Your World Posts Tagged ‘SOLIDWORKS Simulation’Top 10 Engineering Webinars of 2017 from GoEngineerThursday, January 11th, 2018Happy New Year! Last year, we hosted design engineering webinars produced by GoEngineer. If your goal is to learn more and grow in your design role, check out our top 10 most viewed engineering webinars to get a jump-start on your goals! 1. SOLIDWORKS 101 – Best Practices For Creating Your First PartLearn best practices on basic fundamentals of sketching and creating your part in SOLIDWORKS.
Flow Simulation – How to Handle a Vortex Across a Pressure BoundaryWednesday, April 19th, 2017What is a “Vortex Across a Pressure Boundary?”In Flow Simulation, a vortex is a region in the fluid domain which causes a swirl in a region where there is asymmetric drag in the flow field. The vortex itself is an expected phenomenon which itself is not problematic. When that vortex is allowed to generate across a theoretical boundary within a CFD analysis that can cause the results to deviate from reality in the immediate vicinity of the boundary or also cause the solver to fail to produce results at all. For that reason, it is important to note where this is happening in an analysis and take steps to avoid it.
How can this be fixed?The vortex itself is generating because of the local solid geometry near the pressure boundary of a CFD setup. If the flow through the boundary is not symmetric, a low-pressure region can generate in front of the boundary allowing fluid to pass the wrong direction through the boundary as intended. The fix for this is to “build out” the model geometry. What does this mean? The solid model needs to have more real life geometry added to the setup so the flow field can be allowed to have the vortex and then transition into a unidirectional flow. Solution 1: Add GeometryAn example of a vortex across a boundary would be directly from the first Flow Simulation tutorial in SOLIDWORKS. (The tutorials can be found under ‘Help’, ‘SOLIDWORKS Simulation’, ‘Flow Simulation Online Tutorial’ once the Flow Simulation add-in is turned on). The ball valve, as it is setup in the tutorial, has two lids that are positioned closely to the ball of the valve. In situations where the ball valve is not set completely open the flow through the valve is forced to be asymmetric as it passes through the pressure outlet. The asymmetric flow out the pressure boundary allows fluid to backflow through the theoretical pressure boundary and creates the vortex that is seen below. (more…) SOLIDWORKS 2017 Grouping Components in the Feature TreeThursday, December 22nd, 2016What is a Singularity?A singularity is a function’s divergence into infinity. Simulation occasionally produces stress (or heat flux) singularities. How do they occur? Mathematically, the solver uses matrices to represent the elastic field (displacements of the elements). When a highly localized load is applied, the gradients of the displacement vectors begin to diverge, causing the roots of the matrices to go to infinity. For a simplified explanation, see the stress equation below. Stress goes to infinity due to force applied in a very small area.
Where do Singularities occur?Singularities are usually seen at points, edges, or reentrant corners. Reentrant corners are interior corners, with angles pointing into the part. The high stress concentrations are usually seen near 90 degree corners, but can potentially occur for any angle less than 180 degrees. Why don’t they occur in real life?Think of the common case of singularities created on interior corners. In software, that corner is perfectly sharp. In real life, there will always be a slight bend. Also, the part may deform slightly, or “slip”, and allow the faces of the corner to slide against each other. The slight bend and additional friction allow for a converging stress. Olympic Weightlifting Gets Drop Tested with SOLIDWORKS SimulationMonday, August 15th, 2016Ever wonder why rubber weights are used in Olympic weightlifting, but iron plates in most gyms?We did. So, we looked into it. The World’s greatest athletes demonstrate what it means to push the boundaries of human potential at each Olympic Games. In Olympic weightlifting, for example, new records are being set every year. Much is said about the athletes and how they challenge their limits to achieve new heights, but what about the equipment? Weightlifting Equipment
At GoEngineer, these are the kinds of questions that keep us up at night. Here’s what we found; changing the material of the weights, changed the sport of weightlifting. See our Simulation FEA Drop Test Weightlifting has been an Olympic event since the very first Olympics in Athens in 1896. Back then, the bar and the plates were made out of iron. The rules required athletes to gently return the weights to the ground. This obviously wasn’t possible when an athlete was going for a max effort lift, and would miss. Batman v Superman – Scientifically Speaking, Who Would Win?Monday, March 28th, 2016Batman v Superman – Who will win the battle of the ages?
(Source: Warner Bros.)
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