The Future of Optimal Design Computations Is Democratized and Cross-Disciplinary

摘要

THE NEVER-ENDING struggle to fit more components in a limited space while keeping costs at a minimum poses a great optimal design challenge for future design engineering teams. Miniaturization in consumer electronics, for example, easily leads to overheating and efforts to reduce weight may lead to compromised structural integrity. These contradictory requirements result in difficult optimization problems that require a cross-disciplinary approach involving many different types of coupled physics. Consumer electronics is one of many technology areas that require a multi-physics approach to achieve future design goals and competitiveness. Just think of smartphones and the quest for lighter batteries that can both be charged quickly and last long enough on one charge to meet consumer expectations. Other examples include wireless sensors for internet of things (IoT) applications, motors for electrical vehicles, and more.