Design Exploration applications (apps) help the Simulation Analyst to explore multiple alternatives across a range of operating scenarios that enables optimal design selection using powerful decision-making tools. Parametric Design Study Essentials and Parametric Design Study applications enable the Simulation Analyst to define and perform studies that explore alternative designs using parametric optimization methods.

The Simulation Analyst builds these studies using the applications packaged with the Structural Generative Engineer (OPZ) role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This best practice document focuses on and illustrates the various design exploration studies available in the Design Exploration application.

Target Audience: Simulation Analysts.

SIMULIA Simpack is a Multibody Simulation (MBS) software for dynamic analysis of mechanical systems. Multibody Simulation allows an analyst to study the kinematic behavior of a system or to identify forces acting between two components at a much lower computational cost than a Finite Element Analysis. 

Flexible Multibody Simulation is an elegant approach that combines the benefits of the traditional MBS approach with the high fidelity provided by the Finite Element method. 

This document provides an overview of model reduction techniques, preparation of FE model, types of couplings, substructure generation steps, quality check of FBI files, and the best solver settings suitable for Flexible Multibody Simulation. 

Target Audience: Analysts, Consultants and Tech Support.

Meshing a fluid domain involves discretization of the domain into discrete cells. Various meshing techniques are used to discretize a complex model with good quality mesh, which enables the solver to solve the problem without convergence issues.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides a lot of capabilities that help to mesh different fluid scenario domains, for example from simple to complex. There are certain best practices that the user needs to follow when handling fluid domain meshing. This document mainly focuses on these best practices. The SIMULIA Fluid Model Creation app is mainly used for fluid domain definition and domain mesh creation.

Target Audience: Simulation Analyst and Fluid Simulation Engineer.

This Best Practices document covers all prerequisites required for installation and configuration of 3DEXPERIENCE R2024x SIMULIA Process Composer and 3DOrchestrate Distribution server in High Availability mode. 

It enables the users to perform 3DEXPERIENCE R2024x SIMULIA 3DOrchestrate ‘High Availability’ deployment with Apache as reverse proxy, and load balancer.

Target Audience: Site IT, Software Architects, Administrators, Tech Support members, and Consultants

The Physics Simulation adapter allows the user to execute the simulation object in the Process Composer applications. Using this adapter, the user can change the input parameters such as dimensions, load, and so on, and execute the simulation object to update the result parameters. This adapter gives an option to create new branches of the original simulation object for each run.

This document gives an overview of the Physics Simulation adapter and focuses on the following points: 

• Advantages of mode selection for the execution 

• Branching of the Simulation Object and its Lifecycle 

• Best practices for configuring the adapter 

• Best practices to troubleshoot the adapter related issues

Target Audience: Simulation Expert, Method Developer.