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1) DesignXplorer within ANSYS Workbench allows engineers to explore design spaces through techniques like design of experiments, response surfaces, sensitivity analysis, and goal-driven optimization. 2) Robust design uses probabilistic algorithms to optimize design variables to achieve reliability targets like six sigma, accounting for variation in input parameters. 3) The path to robust design involves first performing single physics simulations, then multiphysics simulations, design studies, design exploration techniques, and finally optimization and robust design techniques using probabilistic algorithms.

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04 Ansys DX PDF

1) DesignXplorer within ANSYS Workbench allows engineers to explore design spaces through techniques like design of experiments, response surfaces, sensitivity analysis, and goal-driven optimization. 2) Robust design uses probabilistic algorithms to optimize design variables to achieve reliability targets like six sigma, accounting for variation in input parameters. 3) The path to robust design involves first performing single physics simulations, then multiphysics simulations, design studies, design exploration techniques, and finally optimization and robust design techniques using probabilistic algorithms.

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Design Exploration and Robust

Design using ANSYS DesignXplorer


Single Simulation
• Single Solve
– Solves a single simulation with
only a single physics
– Engineers are interested in
solution robustness, speed,
Doesn’t account for
physics interactions accuracy, ease of use and
engineering results

“Virtual Prototyping” typically requires looking


at multiple physics, This single physics
approach is often not enough.
Single Multiphysics Solve
– Solves a single simulation
involving multiple physics
– Engineers are still interested in
solution robustness, speed,
Doesn’t provide accuracy, ease of use and
direction for design engineering results
improvement
– And the ease and power of the
physics coupling
How can I improve performance?
Can I reduce weight or cost?
What is limiting performance?
Is this a robust design?
“What If” Study
• User adjusts inputs and investigates
? results
• Builds on previous expectations,
?
? adds requirement of easy and robust
Solutions compared, parametric updates and comparative
but design is not well
understood and no
reports
optimum is found

Need a more scientific and automated way to


decide which points to solve
Need a way to interpolate between these points
Design Exploration
• Scientific methods to explore the
design space fully
Response • Allows user for: sensitivity and
Surface correlation, DOE and response surface
technology, mesh morphing, charting
Provides design and reporting
understanding, But …. • For complex solutions, user can take
advantage of robust efficient &
affordable ANSYS distributed solver
Technologies.

Optimize a design with selected inputs and goals


Arriving at a set of Optimal
design solutions
• Optimization
– Searches the design space for
optimal candidates, given user-
defined goals and priorities
Solutions may be too – Adds requirements for: advanced
sensitive to input
variability optimization algorithms to
efficiently search for candidates,
comparative reporting

Real-world inputs typically have some variation


and may require a more “robust design” goal
Robust Design
• Taking the variation of inputs into account, and
seeking a design with a probabilistic goal

Output
distribution
Input
distribution
• RDO => Min standard deviation of the results
• Six Sigma => Optimal design within a safe domain
• In order to arrive at Robust design, User needs to
- Specify probabilistic parameters
- Use probabilistic optimization algorithms

Robust Design optimizes design variables to achieve a


particular probabilistic level such as Six Sigma, which
translates into 3.4 failures in one million parts.
The Path to Robust Design
Robust Design
•Probabilistic
Algorithms
Optimization •Adjoint solver
methods
•Algorithms

Design Exploration
•DOE, Response
“What if” Surfaces, Correlation,
Sensitivity, etc.
Study
•Parametric
Multiphysics Platform
Solution
•Integration
Single Physics Platform
Solution
•Accuracy,
robustness, speed…
Design Exploration and
Robust Design at ANSYS
Optimization tools at ANSYS
– ANSYS DesignXplorer
• Unified Workbench
solution
– ANSYS Fluent Baseline Design

• Has built-in morphing and


optimization tools
• Has an adjoint solver Optimized Design
– ANSYS MAPDL
• DX VT
– And more
ANSYS DesignXplorer Integral with Workbench
• Parametric multiphysics
modeling with automated
updates
• Bi-directional CAD, RSM,
scripting, reporting and
more...
DesignXplorer in Workbench
ANSYS DesignXplorer
DesignXplorer is everything
under this Parameter bar…
• Low cost & easy to use!
• It drives Workbench
ANSYS
• Improves the ROI! Workbench
Solvers

DX
ANSYS DesignXplorer Design of
Experiments

With little more effort than for a single


run, you can use DesignXplorer to
create a DOE and run many variations.
Correlation Matrix

Understand how your parameters are


correlated/influenced by other parameters!
Sensitivity

Understand which
parameters your
design is most
sensitive to!
Response Surface
Understand the
sensitivities of the output
parameters (results) wrt 2D Slices Response
the input parameters. 3D Response
Goal-Driven Optimization

Use an optimization algorithm


or screening to understand
tradeoffs or discover optimal
design candidates!
Robustness Evaluation
Input parameters have variation! Make sure your
design is robust!
Six Sigma, TQM

Output
parameters
vary also!
Understand how your Predict how Understand which
performance will vary many parts will inputs require the
with your design likely fail? greatest control?
tolerances?
Challenges
• Engineers face numerous obstacles that prevent them from using
optimization fully
• Our plans are largely based on removing those obstacles so our
customers can get more out of simulation

Do you use optimization


software?

41.9% 18.6%

Matlab
21.8% 16%
The Path to Robust Design
• Build on the solid foundation of Workbench as
a platform for parametric simulation
• Develop DX as an optimization platform
• Build up to probabilistic optimization Robust Design

Optimization

Design Exploration

“What if” Study


Multiphysics

Single Physics

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