Simcenter Femap

Simcenter Femap

Simcenter Femap provides engineers and analysts with a finite element analysis modeling solution to handle even the most complex tasks easily, accurately and affordably.

Simcenter Femap is recognized as the world’s leading CAD-independent pre- and post- processor for advanced engineering finite element analysis. It is widely used by the world’s leading engineering organizations and consultants to model complex products, systems and processes, including satellites, aircraft, defense, automotive vehicles, electronics, heavy construction equipment, lift cranes, marine vessels and process equipment.

Femap is CAD-independent and can access geometry data from all major CAD systems including CATIA, Pro/Engineer, NX, Solid Edge, SolidWorks and AutoCAD. Femap is also solver-neutral and provides in-depth pre- and postprocessing support for all of the main commercial solvers on the market, including NX Nastran, Ansys, LS-DYNA, Abaqus and TMG. You can take full advantage of the advanced analysis capabilities of these solvers using Femap’s comprehensive modeling and analysis support, particularly for dynamic, geometric and material nonlinear, heat transfer and fluid flow analyses.

Using Femap’s digital simulation capabilities you can:

  • Predict and improve product performance and reliability
  • Reduce time-consuming and costly physical prototyping and testing
  • Evaluate different designs and materials
  • Optimize your designs and reduce material usage

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Femap with Simcenter Nastran

A series of advanced Simcenter Nastran solution capabilities are available as add-on modules to Femap, providing engineering desktop solutions for even the most advanced Nastran analysis.

Within Femap it is possible to directly define and control most aspects of the Simcenter Nastran simulation including solution options, specific job controls, load and constraint definition, model checking, and detailed result generation requests.

A comprehensive range of add-on modules allows the product to be configured to provide the functionality you need, allowing for great flexibility and scalability extending to the most advanced types of analysis that are able to handle the toughest engineering problems.

Simcenter Nastran Modules

  • Base module
  • Dynamics
  • Optimization
  • Advanced Nonlinear
  • Rotor Dynamics
  • Structural Analysis Toolkit
  • Desktop Extension

Provides all of the capabilities that you will need in many instances, including linear statics, normal modes, buckling, steady-state and transient heat transfer, basic nonlinear, design sensitivity and unlimited problem size capabilities.

Enables product performance to be evaluated in both the time and frequency domains.

Determine optimal design parameters with sizing optimization capabilities.

Facilitates large deformation; supports nonlinear materials, time-dependent loads, deformable and rigid contact. Provides nonlinear time integration for impact analysis.

Predicts the dynamic response of rotating systems such as shafts, turbines and propellers to determine critical shaft speeds.

Saves postprocessing time by organizing results data and calculating additional results quantities.

Desktop Extension removes checksum control, allowing the user to manually edit input files and run the analysis independently of Femap.

Advanced Bundle Includes Dynamics (see above), plus:

  • Superelements

    Superelements play a key role when solving very large and complex finite element models by decomposing larger structures into equivalent sets of smaller substructures.

  • Aeroelasticity

    Determine structural response from aerodynamic loading for static and flutter conditions.

  • DMAP

    Direct matrix abstraction programming (DMAP) is a unique Nastran programming capability that allows customers to expand Simcenter Nastran capabilities by writing their own applications and installing custom modules.

  • Distributed Memory Parallel (DMP)

    DMP capabilities allow users to run Simcenter Nastran with multiple processors, which can reduce solve time for large solutions

Femap Solvers

  • Femap Thermal Solvers

  • Femap Flow Solver

Femap’s thermal solvers add state-of-the-art thermal analysis solutions to the Femap environment and provide fast and accurate solutions to complex thermal engineering problems.

Using finite-element mesh, finite-volume based numerical techniques, the Femap Thermal Solver makes it easy to model nonlinear and transient heat transfer processes including conduction, radiation, and phase change. Accurate thermal analysis can be performed quickly and effectively, delivering the engineering insight and turnaround speed needed to ensure success within today’s rapid development cycles.

Femap Advanced Thermal Solver adds a number of more advanced thermal modeling and simulation capabilities to the Femap Thermal Solver package including 1D fluid network modeling and free and forced convection. An extensive suite of thermal modeling tools are provided to allow users to define more advanced and sophisticated thermal simulations, such as radiation and spacecraft modeling, including solar and orbital heating, orbit modeling and display, ray tracing capabilities, and articulating structures. These extensive modeling tools are also complemented by a number of more advanced solver features such as custom user subroutines, model simplification, sub-structuring, and interfaces to industry thermal codes.

The Femap Flow Solver adds state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis solutions to the Femap environment and provides fast, efficient and accurate solutions to complex CFD problems.

Femap Flow software is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution that is fully embedded into the native Femap environment. It provides fast, efficient and accurate functionality to simulate fluid flow and heat transfer for complex parts and assemblies. You also can explicitly couple Femap Flow with Femap Thermal and Femap Advanced Thermal for comprehensive thermo-fluid modeling of a wide range of multi-physics problems.

A sophisticated algebraic multi-grid solver provides the backbone to a complete CFD capability that is able to support the simulation of both laminar and turbulent fluid flow, low speed and high speed compressible flow, forced flow, natural convection and mixed flows, all with multiple inlets, outlets and internal flow boundary conditions. This memory efficient capability ensures that solutions are solved quickly and easily.

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  • Try Femap Free
  • Request a Femap Demo
  • Request a Femap Quote
  • Order Femap Monthly Subscriptions

You can try Femap with Simcenter Nastran free for 45 days and explore the state-of-the-art modeling functionality of Femap with the powerful analysis capabilities of the industry-leading Simcenter Nastran solver. To speed up the learning process for Femap with Simcenter Nastran, we’ll send you valuable “how-to” tips and tricks as well as links to online training materials. With your registration, we’ll also give you access to an exclusive newsgroup where you can share ideas and tips with other analysts. To get your free trial, please fill in the form below.

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In addition to perpetual licenses and longer term rental or annual subscription plans, Femap is now available on a monthly subscription basis.  Choose from five popular configurations:

  • Femap standalone
  • Femap with Simcenter Nastran
  • Femap with Simcenter Nastran and Dynamic Response
  • Femap with Simcenter Nastran and Advanced Bundle
  • Femap with Simcenter Nastran and Advanced Bundle with Desktop Extension

The Advanced Bundle offers the Dynamic Response capabilities in addition to the functionality previously available in the Aeroelasticity, DMAP, Superelement, and Distributed Memory Parallel (DMP) add-on modules.  Desktop Extension removes checksum control, allowing the user to manually edit input files and run the analysis independently of Femap.

Subscription-based licensing gives your team the ability to quickly increase or decrease its quantity of Femap licenses as needed while providing the flexibility to pay as you go.  To order, click the link below, which will take you directly to Siemens to complete your order.