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Saturday, 02 January 2021 14:18

ANSYS Workshop by SAASST CubeSat Research Engineers

The last SAASST workshop of 2020 was conducted on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, by the CubeSat Laboratory research engineers, Ms. Tarifa Al-Kaabi, Mr. Ibrahim Al-Sabt, and Mohamed Saleh BinAshour. The workshop was on ANSYS, a software package that lets you digitally model real-world phenomena. It uses computer-based numerical techniques to solve physics problems. The range of problems ANSYS can solve is immense and could be anything from fluid flow, heat transfer, stress analysis, and more.

The real power of an FEA or CFD package such as ANSYS is that it can solve problems that are not amenable to an analytical approach. That is, they do not have standard formulae. With the arrival of cheap utility computing in the form of the Cloud, you can push the limits of what can be modeled on the computer.

The ANSYS workshop was both conducted onsite and online. A good number of students from the University of Sharjah attended the live session. Students were invited to contact the CubeSat research engineers for further investigation of any of their engineering projects. SAASSt was able to secure all of the needed engineering applications for its CubeSat program: 3DExperience Catia, ANSYS, STK, Thermica, and Altium.