Suggested References
- Drone Section of Ansys Learning Hub
- Drone Mobility Issue Ansys Drone/EVTOL Issue
- Future Air Mobility (EVTOL) Future Air Mobility Document
- Finite Element Analysis for Engineers: A Primer by Trevor Hellen, Adib A. Becker, International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community, NAFEMS, 2013, ISBN 1874376980, 9781874376989
Training Instructions/Pre-requisites
Welcome aboard! the industry professionals and students, who wants to join physics based simulation learning path in Drone/EVTOL Segment, he/she MUST posses the following pre-requisites:- Ansys Mechannical Getting Started Training Completion - Get Started with Ansys Mechanical
- Ansys Fluent Getting Started Training Completion - Getting Started with Ansys Fluent
- Ansys Maxwell Getting Started Training Completion - Ansys Maxwell Getting Started
- Ansys HFSS Getting Started Training Completion - Ansys HFSS Getting Started
- Ansys Digital Twin Builder Getting Started Training Completion - Ansys Digital Twin Builder Getting Started
Industry Drone Experts - Mentorship
0-6 Months Drone Basics Learning Path
The Challenges to Developing Fully Autonomous Drone Technology
This blog covers the Challenges to Developing Fully Autonomous Drone Technology.
How to Quiet Drones With Acoustics Simulation
This blog covers the Drone noise is affected by many factors, including: Motor size and mounting, Propeller diameter, shape and rotational speed, Drone body shape, Operating environment.
Solid Modeling of a Drone
In this course, you will learn how to create a solid model of a drone using SpaceClaim.
Drone Safety Takes Flight at Airbus, Supported by Ansys SCADE
This blog covers addresses industries clearly focus on redefining the drone industry via innovation, safety can never be compromised when launching new product designs.
Battery Pack Development and Cost
This course covers the comprehensive process of battery pack development and cost, with a particular focus on electric vehicles. It starts with the transition from individual cells to a complete battery pack, discussing the importance of cell behavior, cell balancing, safety, thermal design, and the role of the battery management system.
Thermal Design and Management of Battery Packs
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of thermal design and management in battery packs. It starts with the fundamentals of battery pack design, emphasizing the thermal aspect and its impact on battery performance, safety, and reliability.
Mechanical Design of Battery Packs
This course covers the comprehensive aspects of mechanical design of battery packs. It begins with an understanding of the electrical design, capacity, voltage, and current requirements of a battery pack, using the example of an electric bike.
Electrical Design of Battery Packs
This course covers the comprehensive aspects of designing battery packs, with a particular focus on the electrical design. It starts with the basics of assembling cells into modules and then into a battery pack, emphasizing the importance of parallel and series combinations. The course then delves into the significance of bus bar design, contact resistance, voltage drop, current equalization, and conductor selection.
Battery Management System Essentials
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of Battery Management Systems (BMS). It starts with the exploration of BMS measurements, emphasizing the importance of sensing voltage, current, temperature, and isolation in a battery pack. It explains, how an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) is used to measure voltage by converting analog signals into digital values.
Motor Design Engineering Considerations
This course covers the intricate aspects of motor design, selection, performance, and adaptation. For instance, it delves into the causes and mitigation of steel losses in motors, the impact of saturation on motor performance, and the sources of noise in motors.
Thermal Design of Drone Motors
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of thermal design in motors. It begins with the concept of heat generation and dissipation in motors, and the role of finite element analysis in thermal design. For instance, the course explains how to model a motor thermally using basic principles of heat flow, applying Ohm law in temperature difference and thermal resistance.
Energy Storage Options
This course covers the multifaceted aspects of energy storage, particularly in the context of renewable energy. It begins with an exploration of the importance of energy storage, discussing the technology, cost, and subsystems involved in electric vehicles and renewable energy.
Renewable Energy and Sustainability
This course covers the comprehensive understanding of renewable energy sources and their potential in India. It begins with an exploration of India energy scenario, its contribution to global warming, and the potential of renewable energy sources like solar and wind energy.
6 - 24 Months Learning Path
Electric Machines: Specification & Initial Design
This course is designed for existing users of ANSYS Mechanical. You will learn and achieve an understanding of the available material models for plastics simulation. This course also covers some testing procedures to extract tests data for Ansys simulations.
Electric Machines: High-Fidelity Electromagnetics Modeling
This course covers, how to leverage Ansys simulation suite to perform high-fidelity EM analysis of electric machines. It walks through workflows to get the best simulation performances and results.
Electric Machines: NVH & Acoustics
This course covers, how to leverage Ansys simulation suite for NVH and acoustics analysis of either the electric motor or full e-drivetrain (motor + gearbox).
Electric Machines:Thermal Design and Optimization
This course covers, how to leverage Ansys simulation suite for advanced thermal modeling for the purpose of the design and its optimization for motors.
Electric Machines: Thermal Management Design Validation
This course covers, how to leverage Ansys multiphysics platform for high-fidelity motor thermal modeling. This includes 2D/3D EM to 3D CFD/Thermal model coupling. Also, covers various cooling types for electric motors (e.g. air-cool, spray oil-cooled).
Electric Machines: System Modeling
This course covers, Learn how to leverage Ansys simulation suite to create system models that can be used for evaluating motor sub-system performance under complex drive scenarios (e.g. diff. driving cycles). The rest of the electric drivetrain is assumed to be either modeled already or to be represented as direct inputs to the motor model.
Drone Case Study/White Papers/Research Papers
Dronamics Optimizes its Cargo UAV with Ansys Simulation
Ansys + Dronamics Ansys Case Study
Ansys EVTOL Simulations
Ansys Advantage Issue for EVTOL
Structural Investigation of Agricultural UAV
Research Paper
Drone Webinar Series
Analyzing Quadcopter Drone Propeller Noise Using Ansys CFD
This webinar will discuss the use of Ansys Fluent to simulate the noise produced by a generic four-bladed quadcopter drone. The methodology is based on the use of unsteady scale-resolving turbulence modeling along with the Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings (FW-H) acoustic analogy to compute sound pressure levels at selected locations below the drone.
Aeroacoustics analysis for Drone Noise
This webinar will address noise issues. Companies are investigating the use of drones for package delivery, military reconnaissance, emergency services, environmental monitoring, media coverage and much more. As drone use increases in urban and suburban areas, engineers are turning to simulation to analyze and reduce the noise.
Ansys Electronics Solutions for Drone Applications
This webinar presents optimization of drone antennas for communication with user and other systems. The design of these antennas are critical to maintain proper connectivity. Ansys helps the engineers to design with ease. The EMI analysis is also critical for such application to make the system work under complex EM environment.
Functional Safety in Compliance with ARP4761 for Drone
This webinar will expalin, the safety of drones are very critical and how simulations make drone safer and in complaince with ARP4761 safey standards.
Drone Structural Challenges and Solutions
In this webinar, we will discuss the structural integrity challenges in drone design like light-weighting of drones, payload analysis, vibration, etc. The offering of Ansys Simulation solutions will be presented with a live demonstration.
PyAnsys Based Drone Simulations - Add on Module
PyAnsys Installation and Getting Started
PyAnsys based automation and development work.
Drone Blade Geometry
The drone blade geometry automation work.
Time For Action
Industry Ready/Recognised Skilled Professional in Drone Segment
The drone market is growing exponentially, presenting several requirements of skilled resources are in demand till 2040. These simulation based courses will be able to understand the concepts via simulation through verification and validation process. After completion of course with workshops, detailed examination with quiz will be conducted and accordingly, certificate will be awarded.