Electromagnetic solver refinement of polynomial order. To increase accuracy for an electromagnetic analysis in local areas, you can activate automatic local increasing of polynomial order (up to order three) during solver. The polynomial order of elements that have the highest flux density errors is raised.

In some cases, EM plots may be spotty in previous version. This is fixed in 2021.2.

The dynamic rectangle can be easily oriented to the desired position by setting coordinates and angles directly in the callout.

Results of a linear buckling analysis are the displacement fields for different modes and Eigenvalues table (or critical multipliers table). The original load applied to the model and multiplied by these Eigenvalues would cause the stability failure in a perfect system (negative value means that particular mode can occur if loads are in the opposite direction).

You can now optionally enable a HyperLynx™ report to study results of a co-simulation in a HyperLynx html report such as Electric Current Density, Voltage, Pin Current and Voltage, etc.

You can also optionally delay the start of co-simulation. If joule heating is the only heat source in the task, you need to start co-simulation from the beginning. If the task has other sources and more complicated physics which require time to converge, you may want to delay the co-simulation to a moment in the calculation where other parameters are converged to optimize the convergence time. 

By default two-resistors show the component’s power in the name.

The temperature probe names are extended with the “extracted_tnetlist_” prefix for easier tracking in a system tool. 

A new blog post highlights why BCI-ROMs in VHDL-AMS format should be used for electrothermal circuit simulations and demonstrates an example of an ADAS camera. A dynamic thermal management strategy is implemented to keep the temperature of the CPU in the operating range by adjusting the global clock rate.

A potential use case for BCI-ROM FMUs is covered in the “Thermal management of Electric Vehicles is now a breeze” blog post. The example shows a Simcenter Amesim model of an electric vehicle with a BCI-ROM of an inverter from Simcenter FLOEFD added to the circuit as an FMU. 

You can select any coordinate system (Global, Face or Custom) for your radiation source to define non-uniform intensity or blackbody temperature distribution over the selected faces.

Radiation Source settings are available in the Parameter Editor. This allows you to easily change different parameters across multiple projects and configurations at the same time.

Simcenter FLOEFD automatically applies appropriate Analytical or Empirical solutions in places where mesh resolution is not enough for an accurate Numerical solution. As a result the mesh setting is easy and fast, and calculation time is dramatically decreased because accurate results can be achieved with a coarser mesh.

The second order approximation is now used by default for convective terms of turbulence equations. The 2nd order model has better convergence for cases with high oscillations at the beginning of calculation.

Combustible mixtures can have three components, and the third component can be fuel or oxidizer.

Each of the resulting pictures, video, Microsoft Word documents and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets are stored in separate dataset types and can be viewed with built-in Teamcenter® software tools. Simcenter FLOEFD™ for NX scene files are stored in a new special dataset type supported by Teamcenter version 13.2 and later and can be viewed with the standalone free of charge Simcenter FLOEFD Viewer.