CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

5 May 2008

Implementation Investments

University of New South Wales Teams With ANSYS to Develop Industry-Ready Work Force

ANSYS, Inc. announced that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia has chosen to deploy software from ANSYS across its campuses on that continent. UNSW will use the ANSYS academic products for teaching programs and research activities in various fields of engineering and science.

“UNSW is committed to new and creative approaches to education and research to maintain its leadership position. Deploying academic products from ANSYS as an integral part of the curriculum allows our students to be trained on a cutting-edge commercial engineering simulation toolset along with underlying numerical theory, making them ready for the simulation-driven product development environment of industry,” said Professor Eddie Leonardi, director of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory and deputy head of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW. “The depth, breadth and comprehensive multiphysics capabilities of technology from ANSYS make the academic products unique in meeting our teaching and research needs.”

UNSW’s School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering will offer its third-year students a course that covers applications of computational techniques and commercial packages in engineering analysis. Covering structural and fluid flow analyses in two streams, the course will use the ANSYS technology portfolio to enhance understanding of modeling strategies, structured and unstructured grids, element choices, solution interpretation, accuracy and convergence, turbulence modeling, nonlinear, and time-dependent problems. Through the application of ANSYS® DesignModeler™ software and geometry interfaces for various CAD systems, students will learn about “what-if” parametric studies in a design context. Finally, the two streams will be combined, introducing students to coupled-physics phenomena, such as fluid structure interaction, using the ANSYS® Workbench™ environment.

Products from ANSYS will be used for both teaching and research in a number of other schools at UNSW, including The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The School of Materials Science & Engineering, The School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, The School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, The Faculty of Built Environment, The School of Mining Engineering, and UNSW at the Australian Defence Force Academy. A number of research projects using the suite of ANSYS products will be conducted this year by the Water Research Laboratory, the Faculty of Safety Science and the NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre.

“We are honored to partner with UNSW, as it is one of Australia's leading teaching universities and undertakes a tremendous range of research. Our relationship with UNSW is critical in ensuring that there is an ANSYS trained workforce available to our commercial customers; it also is crucial in ensuring that academic research can continue to push the technology envelope,” said Joe Fairbanks, vice president, worldwide sales and support at ANSYS, Inc. “The affiliation with UNSW is a testament to the potential of our products — as well as to the support capabilities of our partner LEAP and the value they create for our academic customers.”

LEAP Australia Pty Ltd., the ANSYS channel partner in Australia, has been working closely with UNSW. “A well-trained and industry-ready work force is one of the key obstacles faced by Australian companies when deploying simulation as part of the product development process in creating competitive products,” said Greg Horner, managing director and co-founder of LEAP. “Having high-quality universities like UNSW training graduates in computational engineering is fantastic for local businesses.”

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