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[Dennis Chen]

I found Art Shipiro's online thermal lecture from like over 10 years ago.   I try to look him up but can't find him anywhere.   I want to ask if Ansys employee can tell me if he's still at LSTC or Ansys?

[Erik Kostson]

 

Hi Dennis

I can not give such Information out (rules of conduct and personal information) – if you post your question here, we will try and see if we can help answer it.

All the best

Erik

 

[Dennis Chen]

Hi Erik, I was hoping to reach out to him to both thank him for the lecture notes I found but also to ask about the future development of thermal mechanical analysis (strongly coupled) in LS-Dyna.

The latter question is what I really want to know but I doubt as an employee at Ansys, you can share that publicly on a forum.   However, if it's possible to share, I want to get a sense of what Ansys's position is in terms of further capabilities development in LS-Dyna when it comes to both Thermal and thermal mechanical coupled analysis capabilities.   Furthermore, this query extends to fluid-structural coupled problems as well.   Is there further plan to develop the ICFD/FSI capabilities? 

I don't have anything specific in mind when it comes to what capabilities I want.   I think for a lot of people, we don't handle really edge case applications and can utlized existing tools to solve a lot of our problems.   However, I want to know if Ansys intends for LS-Dyna to keep up with abaqus because I can observe, in my current positoin, that abaqus is constantly releasing new capabilities. 

I think Art was one of the original owner so maybe they all retired after selling the company?  if that was the case, and I reached out ot him, I am sure he would be much more open to sharing info.  that's why i wanted to reach out to him per chance he's willing to respond.  There you go, full disclosure. 

[Erik Kostson]

Dear Dennis

 

We are always looking at improving our solutions and solvers (EM.Thermal, ICFD, ...), so your feedback would be very valuable.

 

As you say best is to create a support request via ACSS portal, and discuss any limitations you encounter and any poetential enhacnements needed.

 

We can then try and do our best to offer workarounds, and if that is not possible we can create enhancement requests.

 

All the best and thank you again for your feedback.

 

Erik