What can be simulated in OnScale?

Here's an overview of what can be simulated in OnScale.

Physics & Computation

  • Piezoelectric effects
  • Acoustics and solid mechanics
  • Elastic waves & mode conversions
  • Nonlinear geometric effects
  • Contact and large deformation
  • Sophisticated absorbing boundary conditions. Both linear and nonlinear waves
  • Coupled Thermo-Mechanical effects
  • Nonlinear propagation
  • Element erosion
  • Steady-State Flow
  • Electrostatics (cMUTs)
  • Electromagnetics 
  • Electrical Circuit
  • MPI on local and cluster-based systems
  • Multi-Billion element models
  • 10-15 million elements per GB RAM
  • Cloud computing resource available

Meshing & Finite Elements

  • 1D, 2D and 3D element types
  • Axisymmetric Constraints
  • 2D and 3D Hexahedral elements
  • 2nd order linear elements
  • Skewed elements and grids
  • Automatic Standard Partition Meshing options
  • General Connectivity supported (Tets, degenerated Hexes)
  • Specialised elements such as: Shell, Beam, Bar, Spring, Contact elements
  • Tetrahedral, Hexahedral, Prism, Pyramid element interpolation options
  • Refined Grid capability
  • Structured Grid supported

Geometry Modelling

  • Primitive solid objects: block, cylinder, torus, ellipse, cone etc
  • Extrude, revolve, sweep
  • Boolean operations: fuse, cut etc
  • Combination of points, lines, surfaces, solids etc
  • Work plane with 2D modelling
  • Image to material map importation
  • CAD Importation and manipulation
  • Create geometry from arbitrary arrays
  • Copy and duplicate geometry and structures
  • Local axis positioning and referencing

Materials

  • Linear Elastic
  • Anistropic Materials
  • Piezoelectric Materials
  • Electrostrictive Materials
  • Magnetostrictive Materials
  • Nonlinear Tissues
  • Comprehensive Damping Models (Frequency Dependent)
  • Time varying materials
  • Nonlinear material properties available as functions (e.g. dependance on stress)
  • Thermal properties
  • Viscosity & plasticity effects

Results & Tools

Visualisation

  • Interactive 3D Graphics
  • Embedded Graphics for runtime plotting
  • Vector Plots
  • Surface and isosurface Plots
  • Splining and slices
  • Contours

Custom Tools

  • Extrapolation Tools
  • GUI Wizards for rapid model creation and simulation
  • Scripting
  • Interactive HTML Help
  • 3D Interactive Graphics
  • Over 500 example models
  • Extensive material database

Post-Processing & Analysis

  • Impedance & Admittance Calculations
  • FFTs
  • Beam Profiles
  • Displacement Shapes
  • Pulse-Echo Simulations
  • Broadband Analysis
  • Harmonic Analysis (Mode Shapes)
  • Radiation Force Calculation
  • Loss Calculations
  • Transmit Voltage Response
  • Averages, Integration, Max/Mins, Flux of fields over arbitrary surfaces, lines, volumes and objects
  • Custom functions for mathematical operations, spatial locations, field extraction and more

Import/Export

Import

  • text
  • excel
  • images
  • CAD formats
  • 3rd Party FE meshes
  • matlab

Export

  • text
  • excel
  • images
  • matlab
  • Animations