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Capabilities of Simcenter Amesim platform for solving engineering problems
Published in Nicolae Vasiliu, Daniela Vasiliu, Constantin Călinoiu, Radu Puhalschi, Simulation of Fluid Power Systems with Simcenter Amesim, 2018
Nicolae Vasiliu, Daniela Vasiliu, Constantin Călinoiu, Radu Puhalschi
Amesim Solutions focus on critical design and engineering issues with an extensive set of application-specific solutions for automotive, aerospace, and mechanical industries. Simcenter Amesim provides users direct access to multidomain simulation solutions for powertrain, transmission and internal combustion engines, vehicle thermal management, fluid systems, ground loads and flight controls, vehicle system dynamics, and energy and electromechanical systems. Each of these solutions comprises a specific set of tools and application libraries and focuses on delivering simulation capabilities to assess the behavior of specific subsystems. For example, engineering teams can analyze and optimize the Noise–Vibration–Harshness (NVH) performance of transmission systems, or fine-tune air management and ECU calibration for combustion engines. With Simcenter Amesim, systems can be studied independently, but what makes LMS Imagine.Lab truly unique is the possibility to integrate subsystems into a unique environment to evaluate their interaction.*
Virtual prototyping for maritime winch design and operations based on functional mock-up interface co-simulation
Published in Ships and Offshore Structures, 2019
Yingguang Chu, Birger Skogeng Pedersen, Houxiang Zhang
Virtual prototyping (VP) provides the designer a lot of possibilities to test and evaluate the design trade-offs and immediately knowing the results of any change. For general conceptual design purpose, Bye et al. presented a web-based tool for winch design optimisation (Bye et al. 2017). The programme is directly written in java, which makes it more open and flexible; however, the implementation of modelling is poor and ambiguous to understand for the user. In fact, the physics of the dynamic systems are merely simple calculations of the output torques of the drive motors. Using this primitive tool, Hameed et al. implemented a Matlab optimisation client and employed four different optimisation algorithms as comparison (Hameed et al. 2017). The results provide useful information for decision-making during the conceptual design phase of the winch system to obtain the most output torque using minimal electrical power. Previous work has developed a VP system for complex dynamic systems using the functional mock-up interface (FMI) standard (Chu et al. 2018). Co-simulation provides an effective solution for real-time simulation of complex multi-domain models. It allows for the reuse of the existing knowledge in domain-specific modelling and simulation, and enhanced simulation performance of complex multi-domain dynamic system operations. Chen et al. presented simulation of heave compensated winch using a commercial software AMESim interoperate with ADMAS (Chen et al. 2017). AMEsim includes ready-to-use multi-physics libraries and can be easily coupled with other software packages including the FMI support.