Introduction training, Simcenter HEEDS, online

Training overview

HEEDS Introductory training serves as an introduction to the major concepts behind effective process automation and design-space exploration using HEEDS. It provides a basic introduction to using HEEDS for design exploration studies. You will learn how to set up, run, and view the results from a general HEEDS study!

Duration: Three half-days (3 x 4h).

Training content

Session 1:

• Introduction
• Exercise: Manual Optimization
• Introduction to Process Automation and Multi-Disciplinary Optimization (MDO)
• Exercises: Process Automation and Automated Optimization
• Defining Optimization Problem

Session 2:

• File and Directory Structure during a HEEDS study
• Exercise: Post-Process in HEEDS Post
• Optimisation: Objectives Constraints and Performance
• Exercise: Constrained Optimization

Session 3:

• Design Variables in HEEDS
• Exercise: Dependent and Discrete Variables
• Optimization Search in HEEDS
• Multi Objective Optimization
• Exercise: Multi-Objective Optimization
• Exercise: Multiple Analysis

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in Siemens’ Simcenter software.