What’s new in Simcenter Systems Simulation 2504

Simcenter Amesim streamlines modeling with resizable icons in its sketch environment. This intuitive click-and-drag functionality allows engineers to emphasize key components and subsystems, providing them with the prominence they deserve.

Supporting all Simcenter Amesim components, including supercomponents and statecharts, resizing maintains design integrity with preserved aspect ratios. This feature enhances the sketch environment, allowing dynamic presentations and quick adjustments such as copy/paste scaling and reset scaling.

With Simcenter Amesim’s resizable icons, engineers can efficiently focus on critical elements, ensuring clarity while modeling complex systems.

Simcenter Amesim introduces the test execution manager to streamline the validation of models and library developments, along with Simcenter Amesim upgrades. This non-regression testing tool efficiently compares simulation results against test cases, ensuring reliability across updates.

Engineers benefit from facilitated testing of new developments, seamless upgrading of software versions, and the ability to execute tests both locally and remotely via a web page. The test execution manager keeps your models validated and integrated, supporting continuous development and innovation with confidence.

Evaluating battery performance across multiple charge and discharge cycles can be both technically demanding and time-consuming. With the release of Simcenter Systems 2504, we’re introducing an enhanced battery cycler that makes this process significantly easier—and more realistic.

Instead of configuring every step manually, engineers can now define entire test sequences through a simple, human-readable text file. Each test can include a range of actions, from basic charging and discharging cycles to custom current profiles, looped sequences, and specific event-based conditions. It’s as close as you can get to operating a real battery test bench—without the hardware.

This improvement allows for a much more flexible and intuitive way to run performance assessments and optimization routines, enabling users to simulate complex scenarios and make smarter design decisions, faster.

Understanding battery aging is vital for engineers as various degradation mechanisms can affect performance and lifespan. Simcenter addresses this challenge with its enhanced battery P2D electrochemical model, which employs advanced pseudo-2D and single-particle modeling capabilities.

This innovative model helps identify key degradation mechanisms like positive electrode dissolution, SEI layer growth, and lithium plating. Furthermore, it facilitates the automatic evaluation of effective battery capacity, enhancing both design and operational performance.

With this tool, engineers gain valuable insights into battery aging, empowering them to optimize energy storage solutions for increased reliability and efficiency.

Simcenter’s Embedded CFD feature revolutionizes thermal comfort management by modeling complex cavity radiation using predictive 3D capabilities in a 1D model. This approach extracts view factors from 3D and translates them into the 1D radiation model.

Engineers benefit from automated 3D factor computation and retrieval from Simcenter STAR-CCM+ directly within 1D models. By using user-defined 1D enclosure boundaries, the solution provides automated and efficient resolution of finite radiative fluxes, enhancing system design accuracy and thermal performance.

This user-friendly tool offers an intuitive workflow that empowers users to define complex battery systems with visual control over every step. By enabling the simultaneous generation of both battery and cooling models—whether direct or indirect—the battery pack assistant enhances modeling efficiency.

Further customization is facilitated through a customizable discretization approach, focusing on specific zones to yield accurate results. The assistant also allows for the generation of an open and easily customizable Simcenter Amesim model.

With the battery pack assistant, engineers can confidently navigate the complexities of battery and cooling performance, ensuring optimized designs and improved thermal efficiency.

Engineers working on hydrogen production face the challenge of assessing the performance of alkaline electrolyzers under varying operating conditions with limited data. Simcenter addresses this with its comprehensive alkaline electrolyzer component, providing a solution that significantly enhances efficiency in green hydrogen production.

This component allows engineers to swiftly explore the potential of alkaline electrolyzers across different conditions using a limited experimental dataset for parameter setting. The integration of this predictive AWE component within Simcenter’s suite streamlines the hydrogen production process, enabling quick balance of plant sizing and control design. With these capabilities, engineers can optimize hydrogen systems more effectively, supporting the transition towards sustainable energy solutions.

In industries like aerospace and automotive, efficient cryogenic fluid storage is essential. To assist engineers, Simcenter introduces its innovative fluid storage library, paired with the liquid hydrogen dormancy demo. This library offers novel components tailored for modeling self-pressurization and boil-off in cryogenic tanks.

The LH₂ dormancy demo provides engineers a quick way to harness these components, facilitating system modeling that aligns closely with experimental data. Engineers can now accurately estimate pressure buildup and temperature variations due to heat input.

This capability proves invaluable, allowing precise design and optimization of cryogenic storage systems. By integrating these new tools, Simcenter aids engineers in overcoming complex challenges, pushing forward advancements in cryogenic storage across various critical industries.

In response to the evolving transportation landscape, Simcenter presents its enhanced vehicle model databases to address engineers’ need for precise modeling of new electric vehicles and hydrogen trucks. By utilizing correlated starters and integrating comprehensive test data, engineers gain access to ready-to-use models of vehicles like the Hyundai Ioniq 6, BYD Atto 3, and various hydrogen-powered trucks.

This advancement allows for exceptional simulation fidelity, empowering engineers to confidently evaluate and optimize next-generation vehicle solutions. With Simcenter’s enhanced database, the complexities of new vehicle technologies are navigated more effectively, pushing the boundaries of innovation in sustainable transportation. These validated models provide engineers the accuracy required to develop more efficient, reliable transportation solutions, leading to a greener future.