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What’s new in LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim Revision 11

 

With Rev11, LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim increases its support to industry-oriented applications, proposes dedicated libraries, tools and demonstrators, provides superior ergonomics and usability, and increases its openness to external software and platform interfacing.

Take a look below to discover a few highlights of what’s new in our Rev 11… 

A. Platform features

Platform Facilities

Analysis Tools & Post-processing Capabilities
Interactive Help

Solver and Numerics
MIL/SIL/HIL and Real-Time

Modelica Platform

B. Library improvements


Signal

Mechanics
Fluids
Thermal
Electric Motors and Drives
Internal Combustion Engine
Vehicle Dynamics

C. Development libraries

Libraries of Manoeuvres
Aircraft Electrics Library

Libaero: Aerospace Library

D. New Solutions

Powertrain Transmission
Vehicle System Dynamics
Vehicle Thermal Management
Electromechanical
IC Engine

Aeronautics Space and Defense

 

A. Platform features

Platform Facilities

  • Super component Facility completely redesigned for access in every mode, simplified exploration, edition, customization, sharing etc.
  • Units Management for Parameters and Variables, with default and editable unit configurations and simplified world-wide collaboration.
  • Run Monitor for Single & Batch Runs to follow progress of individual runs, uncover warnings/errors
  • Enriched Text Annotations in the Sketch for better understandability and practicality
  • Usability Enhancement through simplified compilation window, search in the Get AMESim Demos and batch Run Selections in Plot 
  • Licensing Standardized Daemon replacing previously existing AMEDaemon and identical for all the LMS applications.

 

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Analysis Tools& Post-processing capabilities

  • Customized Plot Styles
  • 2D Density of Points in XY Plots for superimposition over result maps
  • MM1D Tables supported in Table Editor
  • Dashboard User Design of Toolboxes to create and organize your own dashboard primitives
  • Dashboard Pre-Processing with Buttons and Switches
  • Dashboard Automotive Toolbox
  • Dashboard Dynamic Input Change and Monitoring
  • Animation/Dashboard Synchronization.

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Interactive help

  • New Platform User’s Guide: Spectral Analysis with single document centralizing information on FFT, Spectral Map, Order Tracking
  • Easier browsing in HTML Sub models documentations (CSS & Java_script)
  • More Platform demos
  • Redesigned Solutions demos portal for better application identification
  • More Quick Start movies for introduction to important features.

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Solver and Numerics

  • New Simulator Architecture for quick and easy monitoring of the simulation and recovering of computed values
  • Performance Analyzer
  • Improved Parallel Batch Runs
  • Encryption of Data Tables in Supercomponents.

 

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MIL/SIL/HIL and Real-Time

  • User-friendly Simulink Mask
  • Multi-System Export on real-time targets to optimize CPU time  and allow modular approach
  • Support of HWA Create real-time target
  • Libraries Compatibility with Multi-DLLs & HiL Real-Time for the vast majority of the libraries.

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Modelica platform

  • Extended Modelica Compiler
  • Enhancements of Modelica Assembly Icons & Diagrams in AMEHelp.

B. Library improvements

Signal

  • Signal Bus Viewer
  • Matrix Multiplication
  • Transmitter/Receiver Compatible with Vectors.

 

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Mechanics

  • New Library User’s Guide: Mechanical Library
  • Enhanced Planar Mechanical (PLM) Demonstrator
  • Transmission library: Powertrain Library Demonstrators, Dual Mass Flywheel, Torque Convertor with Thermal Sensitivity and 2 to 8 wheels Vehicle Sub models.

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Fluids

  • Hydraulic, Thermal-Hydraulic libraries: Functional Valves, Improved Volumetric Pumps and Motors Models, New Diesel Properties for High Pressure
  • Thermal-Hydraulic library: New CFD 1D Line submodels
  • Thermal-Hydraulic library & Pneumatic libraries: New Heat Exchangers with Regression Tool
  • Thermal Component Design library: New Submodels
  • Pneumatic, Thermal-Pneumatic libraries: Pneumatic (PN) and Thermal-Pneumatic (THPN) Library Merge
  • Pneumatic, Gas Mixture libraries: Enhanced Gas Property Database, New Pressure Drop Submodels
  • Pneumatic, Pneumatic Component Design and Gas Mixture libraries: New Accuracy Submodel.

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Thermal

  • Thermal library: Environmental Moist Air and new heat transfer components
  • HEAT library: Zero Flow Condenser for Stop & Start
  • HEAT library: New Grill Sub model with Distributed Pressure Drop
  • Two Phase Flow library: Fluid Separator Sub model
  • A/C library: New Thermal Expansion Valve Sub model.

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Electric Motors and Drives

  • Control Feature for DC Machine
  • Variable Reluctance Machine
  • Tabulated Machine with Voltage and Temperature Dependence.

 

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IC Engine

  • IFP-Engine library: New Injector Model and Tool and User-Interface to Manage the ICE Model Data.

Vehicle Dynamics

  • 1D / 3D Convertor for Linear and Rotary Shafts
  • Basic 3D Mechanisms
  • Chassis Model with Trailer
  • Power and Energy Metrics of a Full 3D Vehicle Model
  • Simple Tire Models - Dugoff Model & Rocard/Brossard Model
  • Global Parameters Templates for Vehicle Size Class Modeling.

C. Development libraries

Libraries of Manoeuvres

  • Based on a generic sequential Function Chart library (State Flow).
  • More precise definition of manoeuvres gives more direct and accurate rating of vehicle attributes: Drivability, Performance and Consumption as well as Vehicle Dynamics.

 

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Aircraft Electrics Library

  • Direct and fast startup for electrical network modeling and simulation
  • Enables to start building a full model and provides a faster and more structured approach for system simulation that fits to customer process (functional, behavioral and physical modeling levels).

 

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Libaero: Aerospace library

  • Aircraft Flight Mission
  • ISA-76 atmosphere model
  • Direct access to standard variables for environmental description.

 

 

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D. New Solutions 

Powertrain Transmission

  • Demonstrator Sensitivity Analysis on a Parallel Hybrid Vehicle.

 

 

 

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Vehicle System Dynamics

  • Parameters Scalability for Chassis and Tire Models, IFP-Drive & TR & VD Libraries
  • Vehicle and hydraulic braking circuit in cosimulation for Real Time purposes
  • Fuel consumption of a full 3D vehicle model.

 

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Vehicle Thermal Management

  • New demonstrators for Air Conditioning applications

 

 

 

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Electromechanical

  • Reduction Methodology for Electric Machines
  • Model-In-the-Loop Demonstrator for Electric Vehicle Motor Controller.

 

 

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Internal Combustion Engine

  • BARBA & CFM Combustion Models Fitting Tools
  • Direct 1D/3D coupling for combustion calculation
  • 4-cylinder gasoline turbocharged engine and 6-speed Automatic Transmission for RT
  • Model Test Bench Tool.

 

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Aeronautics Space and Defense

  • 2H – 2E Electrical Network System
  • Electrical Harness
  • DC Power Generation System: Transient model of Transformer Rectifier Unit (TRU)
  • AC Power Generation System
  • Ram Air Turbine (RAT) for Emergency Power Generation
  • Electro-Mechanical Actuator (EMA )
  • Nose Landing Gear Steering System
  • Oleo Pneumatic Shock Absorber
  • Thermal Cabin
  • Rotorcraft Starter Generator Mode
  • Turboshaft Engine.

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