ANSYS-HFSS Training Course Outline

ANSYS-HFSS Training Course Outline
This course starts with an introduction to ANSYS to bring the researcher up to speed on how to
analyze the design of an RF-MEMs Switch by the end of day 2. Day’s 3 and 4 build on your
knowledge of ANSYS Workbench to apply it in HFSS for Antenna Modeling.
ANSYS
Day 1
� Presentation – ANSYS Multiphysics
� Lecture – Introduction to ANSYS Workbench
� Lecture – Chapter 2: Mechanical Basics
� Workshop 2.1 – ANSYS Mechanical Basics
� Lecture – Chapter 3: General Preprocessing
� Workshop 3.1 – Contact Control
� Lecture – Chapter 3, continued
� Workshop 3.2 – Contact Control
� Lecture – Chapter 4: Meshing in Mechanical
� Workshop 4.1 – Meshing Control
� Lecture – Chapter 5: Static Structural Analysis (beginning)
Day 2
� Lecture – Chapter 5: Static Structural Analysis (continued)
� Workshop 5.2 – 2D Structural Analysis
� Lecture – Chapter 6: Vibration Analysis
� Workshop 6.1 – Free Vibration Analysis
� Lecture – Chapter 7: Thermal Analysis
� Workshop 7.1 – Steady State Thermal Analysis
� Lecture – Chapter 8: Results and Postprocessing
� Workshop 8.1 – Results and Postprocessing
� Demonstration – Structural Analysis of RF MEMS Switch

HFSS
Day 3: Introduction to HFSS
� Boundary Conditions
� Excitations (Port Assignment)
� Analysis & Solution Setup
� HFSS 3D Modeler GUI
� Simple Design Examples (HFSS Design Projects)
Day 4: Advanced HFSS Topics
� High Performance Computing License Capabilities
� HFSS Integral Equation Solver License (HFSS-IE)
� Modeling Finite Antenna Arrays with HFSS using Domain Decomposition
� Introduction to Designer
� Designer Layout (Solver On Demand-HFSS in Designer)