So today we found out that the ANSYS model we built is not going to work for the optimization program that we learned about this morning. It needs to be the current version of ModeFrontier, which for some reason isn't installed on the university computers yet. Why, I don't know. Luckily another team member had built the model in Abaqus mainly to verify that we had ANSYS configured correctly. However, we cannot get the Abaqus input to work in the optimization program. It cannot find the command .exe to get the program running.
ModeFrontier is a neat concept. In the simplest terms, you can give it a range of inputs and outputs, and it will run as many different combinations as you tell it to. That way you can find the optimum combination of inputs to meet the output conditions that you specify. Audi supposedly gained 2.3 seconds of lap time around LeMans on the R8 with the program. No details on the specifics of what they wound up changing though.
On a completely unrelated note - washing your hands here is a pain. They have separate faucets for hot and cold, and the hot is definitely not turned down any. Makes it very hard to properly wash your hands....cough cough head cold cough cough. Don't really understand why mixing faucets aren't more common - even in new buildings I haven't seen many of them.
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