UGS Transforms CAE Performance with NX Nastran 4
With the upcoming release of NX Nastran 4 - available in October - UGS has established the scalability and performance lead in solving complex analyses with significant advances in performance and customer-driven enhancements.
"The new functionality in NX Nastran 4, and its integration with the NX portfolio, promise to strengthen the competitive appeal of UGS' overall offering in the CAE market and help customers continue increasing the business impact of CAE," said Bruce Jenkins, managing partner, Spar Point Research LLC.
UGS actively solicits input from its customers to identify and prioritize the most desirable and highest value enhancements to incorporate into its software solutions. With NX Nastran 4, a variety of major enhancements will be available in three primary categories.
Performance Improvements
With the release of NX Nastran 4, UGS has implemented a major improvement in memory management. NX Nastran now fully exploits the memory advantages of 64-bit architecture, enabling solutions for complex product performance simulations by taking full advantage of computers with large memory.
This development builds on the NX Nastran leadership position for high performance solutions. Other advances e include extending the scalability and performance of NX Nastran parallel processing on cluster hardware systems, enabling solutions of very large models on up to 64 computers simultaneously - significantly boosting productivity.
Discipline Extensions
Among the functionality enhancements is a new dynamic analysis capability for Rotor Dynamics, enabling engineers to develop designs that operate away from the critical unstable operating speeds of rotating systems. Additionally, the advanced nonlinear capabilities introduced in version 3 have been extended with a new capability for efficient simulation of high-speed impact events and metal forming (explicit non-linear solver).
Process Improvements
In the area of process, there are extended capabilities for dynamic enforced motion simulation, which improves accuracy; and, enhancements in the area of temperature dependent modeling of composites that allow for more accurate calculations of thermal loads on composite structures.
"NX Nastran is evolving rapidly," said Chuck Grindstaff, executive vice president, PLM Products. "Our development team is focused on the tools that matter most to our customers. NX Nastran is not only the most cost-effective solver in its class, it is also now the fastest."
