ESI VA One 2016.0 offers a wide range of enhancements that will enable users to address common modeling applications even more easily in the automotive, aerospace, marine and industry sectors.

Highlights of this release:

• Generic Surface Pressure enhancement gives new ability to flexibly specify a wide range of partially correlated Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) sources and enhance AVA modeling capabilities.
• Overall performance speed improvements, particularly to read, write and solve steps.
• Dedicated performance increases specifically for multi-core Boundary Element Method (BEM) calculations.
• New! Ability to model ribbed panel with sandwich or general laminate skins. This completes the feature set for ribbed panels with any skin type using thick plate theory.
• Enhanced non-uniform acoustic Finite Element (FE) mean flow predictive capabilities to accurately model the effect of flow noise on muffler Transmission Loss (TL) via automated OpenFOAM analysis when porous materials are present, completing feature set to allow combinations of complex geometry, perforated elements and porous materials in muffler design.
• Ability to model uniform mean flow with BEM
• Ability to model the effect of compression on porous fiber material properties
• Script support for Hill criterion to predict failure from stress in structures
• Ability to read forced response and modal damping from Virtual Performance Solution (VPS) files

View more details about this release in VA One 2016 Release Notes document.