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ESI has released a Virtual Performance Educational Package, making its Virtual Performance Solution accessible to students performing structural analyses and impact simulations. Available for download, the Virtual Performance Educational Package is free for students and teachers during the first six months. Offering an easy-learning introduction to simulation basics, ESI's Virtual Performance Educational Package enables static and modal analyses (implicit solver) and crash/impact simulation (PAM-Crash explicit solver). The user environment consists of three modules of Visual-Environment, an open framework for collaborative engineering: Visual-Mesh, Visual-Crash PAM and Visual-Viewer. ESI's Educational Package is meant for undergraduate and masters students, initiating them to simulation through self-learning tutorials inspired from automotive and aerospace case studies. The models may contain up to 12,000 nodes, a model size that enables a fast calculation time on personal com...

ESI Group has unveiled the latest release of its Visual-Environment 5.5 integrated suite of collaborative solutions. Visual-Environment offers a flexible and open engineering framework where applications and interfaces covering multiple simulation domains can be implemented. This latest release features a number of new features, addressing specific requirements for the automotive industry. Among these are a rapid Model Checker, a Barrier Positioning tool and a Model Compare function. The latter - offered in Visual-Crash PAM and Visual-Crash DYNA, dedicated environments for crash simulation - is a tool used to compare two iterated models and to identify variations on the basis of set criteria (ID, name, area, volume, mass and properties). The differences can then be visualised and copied from one model to another. This amounts to a gain in time and efficiency as engineers no longer need to browse iteration data manually, according to the company. Mansour Mirdamadi, senior engineering l...

ESI has released the 2009 version of its PAM-CEM software package for computational electromagnetics. The PAM-CEM Simulation Suite offers industrial coupling capabilities to address realistic models in their early design stage and to assess real electromagnetic multi-scale phenomena occurring in the middle and high-frequency ranges. PAM-CEM can handle 3D models featuring on-board complex antennas and realistic cable networks. PAM-CEM Version 2009 includes several key enhancements that benefit transport, aeronautics and defence, as well as the telecommunications and electronics industries. For example, it provides direct access to the electromagnetic fields radiated in the 'near zone' surrounding the 3D computational domain. It can account for distant antennas or high frequency onboard automotive radar devices, without major computational drawbacks. The EMS (Immunity) interpolation scheme has been improved to allow cable networks to run close to the metallic (meshed) structures...