ICEMCFD HEXA in CATIA V5 for Hexahedral Meshing in the Design Process

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ICEMCFD HEXA in CATIA V5 for Hexahedral Meshing
in the Design Process
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Presentation Content

• Company profile
• Industry focus
• ICEMCFD HEXA CAA V5 based
• Outlook
• Summary
• Contact

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ICEMCFD ENGINEERING

• ICEM CFD Engineering is headquartered in
  Berkeley, CA with 12 offices and 102 employees
  worldwide
• History
• Started in 1990 as a Partnership incorporated in
  1993
• Revenue growth of 40-50 per year from 1993 -
  2000
• In Sept. 2000, merged with ANSYS, Inc. (ANSS)
• Today
• an ANSYS subsidiary focused on CAD based CFD /
  CAE pre- and post- processing

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ICEMCFD Engineering Offices
Hannover, Germany Stuttgart, Germany
Toulouse, France Paris, France
Detroit, MI
Boston, MA
Centerville, MN
Warwick, UK
Seattle, WA
Tokyo, Japan
Berkeley, CA Main Office
Pune, India
Columbus, OH
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ICEMCFD Engineering

• Provider of most widely used software for CFD
  pre-processing (CAD based, generation)
• In addition ICEM CFD supports other CAE
  applications e.g. Structural analysis,
  Electro-Magnetics
• Partner with CFD, CAE solver vendors and CAD
  vendors (for example ICEPAK for Fluent)
• Strong technical support team
• Consulting groups in Detroit and Stuttgart
• Consulting for meshing and analysis
• Custom development of vertical applications

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ICEM CFD Engineering Business Focus

• To provide Automated Meshing tools directly
  linked to underlying CAD Models
• To provide an environment where the CFD/CAE user
  completes his/her job faster, easier and better
• To offer consulting services including using
  ICEM CFD and selected solvers
• To provide tailored solutions to specific
  markets
• To provide component technologies to Partners

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ICEMCFD Engineering Industry Segments

• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Process
• Power Generation
• Electronics (Thermal Management, Electromagnetic
  shielding)
• Bio-Medical

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Software Community Program SCP

• ICEM CFD Engineering joined the SCP to benefit
  from Dassault Systemes
• V5 Middleware Architecture
• Sustained and comprehensive Technical and
  Marketing Support
• to provide a CATIA V5 integrated application to
  quickly build and update high-quality hexahedral
  meshes for CFD and FEA analysis

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ICEMCFD HEXA - Features
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ICEM CFD HEXA Top-Down Meshing
ICEMCFD Hexas Top-down approach for topology
creation during hexa meshing is much faster
than conventional bottom-up approach. Complex
topologies, as shown, can be generated in a
fraction of a time. This approach provides and
already shows higher potential for automation
than conventional approaches.
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ICEM CFD HEXA Automatic O-Grid Creation
O-Grids and C-grids can be generated
automatically within user specified blocks. This
can be the C-blocks for a complete aircraft or a
car in wind tunnel generated with one single
command. This tool is very effective in creating
boundary layer meshes around and within objects.
O-grid can be automatically generated with a
single command.
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ICEM CFD HEXA in CAA V5

• Targeted Market
• Users in Automotive, Aerospace, Process Plant and
  Electronic Industries, who require good quality
  Hexahedral mesh support for stretched
  configuration, non-linear material laws and large
  scale models for CFD and FEA Analysis
• Key User Challenges
• Good Quality Hexahedral Mesh
• Quick and consistent update of design changes to
  analysis models
• Working with complex geometry

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Consistent Product Portfolio
Set up Mesh Topology and Parameters in CATIA
Generate Geometry Associated Hexahedral Mesh
Store Mesh results in CATAnalysis Document
Design Changes in CATIA
ICEM CFD Hexa

• Geometry Associated Hexahedral Meshing
• ICEM CFD Hexa CAA V5 brings to CATIA V5 users
  advanced hexahedral meshing while maintaining
  associativity with CATIA V5 design and analysis
  models
• Easy to use associative hexahedral meshing
• Accelarte design-to-analysis iterations
• Improve product quality and performance

Regenerated mesh in CATAnalysis Document
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ICEM CFD Hexa CAA V5 Based

• ICEM CFD Hexa CAA V5
• Released May 2002
• CATIA V5 R8 SP3
• on Windows Platform
• V5 Prerequisites
• ME2
• GPS on MD2

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High Quality Associated Hexahedral mesh
integrated with CATIA V5

• Shorter design cycle, decreased time to market
• Increased number of analysis variations for
  improved results
• Same tools for CFD and Structural Analysis

Video Clip of Design Changes and Mesh Update
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SUMMARY

• ICEM CFD Hexa CAA V5 Based provides
• Associativity with CATIA V5 models
• High quality hexahedral mesh for complex
  geometries within an easy to use, automated and
  intuitive framework
• Shorter design cycle, decreased time to market
• Increase number of analysis variations providing
  improved results
• Effective capturing of external and internal flow
  boundary layers
• Same tools for CFD and Structural Analysis

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IBM IBM Business Partners benefits

• Generating additional CATIA V5 revenues for the
  IBM/BP
• Each V5 partner license sold required CATIA V5
  pre-requisite (ME2)
• When a customer uses any V5 partner application,
  a CATIA seat is blocked
• You can attack new profiles of customers
• Entering New Name Accounts (NNA)
• Can be the way tool to win a NNA the Hexahedral
  meshing functionality offered by ICEM CFD
  Engineering may be mandatory to sell DS solutions
  (e.g. to fulfill all criteria of a benchmark, or
  an invitation to tender). Example - Michelin
• Reinforcing the 3d PLM vision
• By complementing through a tight integration the
  CATIA V5 products software partners applications
  demonstrate the end-to-end DS/IBM 3d PLM vision
• Increasing your customer satisfaction
• By providing a V5 based product to a customer
  that meets its specific needs
• We provide you customer feedback
• We provide solutions to solve customer issues

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For more information

• ICEM CFD Engineering Business Contact
• President Armin Wulf wulf_at_icemcfd.com
• European operations Reimund Steberl
  rst_at_icemcfd.de
• Business Development Vijay Shah
  vshah_at_icemcfd.com
• Press Mark Mohrmann mark_at_icemcfd.com
• web site www.icemcfd.com
• Inquiries info_at_icemcfd.com
• Software Community web site
• http//www.dsweb.com/community/software/