ESI VA One 2017 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:

• Built-in support for Python as powerful new scripting tool with high degree of interaction with VA One
• Boundary Element Method (BEM) performance and efficiency improvements including ability to model arbitrary impedance on infinite plane
• Significant Hybrid / Finite Element Method (FEM) improvements in terms of performance and efficiency with new options for mass matrices
• Several improvements to wavenumber processing including the ability to directly use BEM results to define a General Surface Pressure (GSP) load to Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) models
• New support and functionality for extracting representative area impedances from Noise Control Treatments (NCTs) through high-level interface
• Added modal data memory options for saving FE Subsystem mass matrices.
• Added support for FE Face Groups.
• Added support for handling irregular frequencies in the standard BEM solver.
• Added the ability to apply an impedance to a rigid infinite plane of a BEM fluid.
• Added a "Create Area Isolator from NCT" script to create a general area isolator from a specified noise control treatment lay-up.
• Added Python® 3.6.1 in VA ONE as a scripting language.
• Added a Python console tab to the log window for interactive access to Python® functions.
• Improved FMM solver to extend its capabilities in terms of the octree depth and high clustered data.
• Improved 3D solid element formulation for PEM subsystems.
• Improved wavenumber analysis.

View more details about this release in VA One 2017 Release Notes document.