Introducing HFSS Version 12

Introducing HFSS
Version 12
Matthew H. Commens,
Ph.D.
Product Manager
Ansoft HFSS
© 2008 ANSYS, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 ANSYS, Inc. Proprietary

HFSS 12.0
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accuracy. “

HFSS 12: New Features
New Solver Technology
New Meshing
Technology
Integration with ANSYS

DesignXplorer
Improved GUI and Modeler
Adjoint Method Based Derivatives New Element

Technologies
New Solver Technology
Domain Decomposition

Simulating Large
•F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: UHF blade antenna @ 350 MHz

•L = 18.6λ, V = 806λ3

“Divide and Conquer”

Domain Decomposition
• Distributed memory parallel

solver technique
• Distributes mesh sub-
domains to network of
processors
• Significantly increases
simulation capacity Distributes mesh sub-domains
to networked processors and memory
• Highly scalable to large
numbers of processors
• Automatic generation of
domains by mesh partitioning
– User friendly
– Load balance
• Hybrid iterative & direct solver
– Multi-frontal direct solver for
each sub-domain
– Sub-domains exchange
information iteratively via
Robin’s transmission
conditions (RTC)

18X Speed-up with 15 Domains
Speed-up
Number of
domains Time (sec) Speed-up 18
17
1 23252 1.00
16
15
Superlinear performance!
14
13
2 8928 2.60 12
11
10
3 6056 3.84 9
Speed-up
8
4 4479 5.19 7
6
5
5 3476 6.69 4
3
2
6 2784 8.35 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
7 2649 8.78 Tim e (secs)
8 2180 10.67 25000
9 2032 11.44
20000
10 1760 13.21
15000
11 1859 12.51
Time (secs)
12 1804 12.89 10000
13 1527 15.23
5000
14 1649 14.10
0
15 1313 17.71 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Results and Accuracy
• Consistent results between domain

decomposition and direct solver

Humvee with Patch Antennas
• Two L-band patch antennas

located on roof of Humvee
– Fed using TM20 mode to excite
monopole far-field pattern
• Bounding airbox is 12.5λ x 22λ x
8λ or 2200λ3
6 domains Domain Solver
Total Memory 4.5 GB
Average Memory 0.75 GB
Solution Time 25 min
1st order basis functions. Performed

8 passes to reach ΔS = 0.02

WLAN Access Point and Printer
• Wireless printer and router in typical office

environment
– 2.44 GHz solution frequency
• Room size is 25λ x 25λ x 22λ or 13750λ3
• Solved on 16 core AMD Opteron
workstation
• Printer-to-router coupling: -57 dB
15 domains Domain Solver
Tetrahedra 846k
Total Memory 32 GB
Average Memory 2.0 GB
Solution Time 5 hr 20 min

Metallic Sphere
• Mie scattering from a PEC Sphere

– 100λ in diameter
– Distributed to 30 cores across four
networked computers
• Re-calibrate your Expectation!
9M tetrahedra, 64-bit
meshing
51M unknowns (matrix size)

Domain Decomposition Example
Antenna Integration on Spacecraft

Antenna Element Design
• Operating criteria
– 3-4 GHz frequency band
– 50 Ω input impedance
• Axial mode helix selected as antenna
– Endfire radiation with moderate gain
– Right-hand circular polarization
– Wide bandwidth
– Simple feed
– High radiation efficiency
• Orthogonal support dielectric along helix
• Coax probe feed extends above antenna
ground plane
• Simulation with direct solver
– 200k unknowns in 1.2 GB

Finite Array Model
• 7-element array model with

finite ground plane
– Includes edge effects
– Includes mutual coupling
between elements
Fields with All Element Excited
Far-field Pattern for

Broadside Beam
Far-field Pattern for
Broadside Beam

Installed Array on Spacecraft
• Good correlation with

isolated array patterns
• L = 78 λ, V = 31,000 λ3
– 25M unknowns
– 12 hr runtime, 35 cores
• Recalibrate your expectations!

New Meshing Technology

New Meshing Technology
HFSS 11 HFSS 12
(bottom up algorithm) (top down algorithm)
model model
Surface Mesh Volume Mesh
Geometric healing or repair Volume mesh generation

(For model defects)
Adapt mesh to conform to geometry
Surface mesh generation
Conformal surface mesh generation

Volume mesh generation
Volume Mesh Surface Mesh

TAU Mesher
• Mesh a higher percentage

• Effective on imported geometries
• Higher mesh quality
• fewer total elements
• smoother element transition
• Automatically healing and repair.
v11
v12

Molex Backplane Connector
•11.0 Initial Mesh: 631862

•12.0 initial Mesh: 227517, ~63% reduction in initial mesh size
•Mesh reduction directly translates to reduction in memory and solution time
Fewer, higher quality mesh elements

New Element Technology
Curvilinear Elements

Curvilinear Elements
• Most accurate solution to fields on

curved structures
• Mesh adapted about curved or
true surfaces
• Element matrices computed using Rectilinear mesh element Curvilinear mesh element
the curved boundaries
• Reduces solution time and RAM
usage
– A smaller, coarser mesh
achieves equivalent accuracy
Red – HFSS
Blue – Analytic Curve

10 cm radius PEC sphere
solved from 0.040 - 2 GHz

SLAC Beam Former
E-field along Z
A ns oft LLC X Y P lo t 4 trues urfac es _longer

0 Curv e Inf o
dB(S(W av ePort1:3,W av ePort1:3))
Setup1 : Sw eep1
-5 SA ='22.5deg'
Return Loss TM01 mode (dB)
-10
-15
-20
Measurements
-25
11,428.4 +- 0.5 MHz
-30
-35
-40
11426.0 11426.5 11427.0 11427.5 11428.0 11428.5 11429.0 11429.5 11430.0
F req [M H z ]

Resonator with Concentric
Spherical Dielectrics
• Fewer curvilinear elements yield Faceting f (GHz)
same accuracy as rectilinear 45˚ 8.75
– 88% fewer tetrahedra 30˚ 8.54
– Runs 16X faster 15˚ 8.53
10˚ 8.40
ΔF=0.1% Mesh Time
7.5˚ 8.40
10˚ rect. 53k 16:40
5˚ 8.39
22.5°
22.5˚ 8.38 6k 00:55
curv.
I Wolff, “A generalized description of the spherical

three-layer resonator with an anisotropic dielectric
material,” IEEE AP Symp, June 1987, pp. 307-
310

New Element Technology
Mixed Element Orders

Mixed Element Orders
First-Order, 16:23, 1.40GB
• Automatic localization of basis

functions
• Refinement via element size and
order
• Locally efficient use of computing
resources
Mixed-Order, 7:55, 0.985GB

Log Periodic over EBG
Groundplane
• High geometric detail with large
homogeneous radiation volume
• Compare mixed order vs. 1st

order
– 28% reduction in solution time
– 29% reduction in memory
• Mixed order converges faster

– 12 passes vs. 14 passes
– Average order = 0.96
• S11 @ 12 GHz
– 1st S11 = 0.86584
– Mixed S11 = 0.86511

Introducing Adjoint Method
Based Deriviatives

Adjoint Derivatives
• New Capability for sensitivity, tuning, and optimization

• Compute the derivatives of SYZ parameters with respect to project and
design variables
• Eliminates need to solve multiple variations with small differences and
numerical noise
– More efficient and more accurate
• Provides real-time tuning of reports to explore effects of small design changes
• Improves derivative-based optimization methods
2008 IEEE MTT-S Digest, pp. 527-530

Sensitivity of |S11|, Combline Filter
10000 0
5000 -10
d S 1 1 d p [1 /m ]
-20
|S 1 1 | [d B ]
Ri 0
-30
G2
G1 -5000
Ri G2 -40
-10000 -50
G1 – gap between center
-15000 -60
tuner and resonator d|S11|_dRi
d|S11|_dG1
9
9 .3
9 .6
9 .9
5
1 0 .2
1 0 .5
1 0 .8
.0 5
10 5
10 5
.9 5
9 .1
9 .4
9 .7
.3
.6
G2 – gap between off-center
10
10
tuners and resonators d|S11|_dG2
freq [GHz]
|S11|
Ri – inner radius of coax feed
Note: for sensitivity with respect This filter design is:

to Ri, ports are involved
- Most sensitive to change in gap G2
- Least sensitive to change in coax radius Ri
Local Derivatives Speed-up
Optimization
• Goal: Minimize reflection in
waveguide quarter wave
transformer
• SNLP optimizer uses derivative
information to speed-up
calculation of response surface
Example Optimization without Derivatives
Example Optimization with Derivatives

SMA launch
• SMA launch is typical multi-variable design problem

• Design variables:
– length, radius of via stub, radius of antipads, radius
of signal pads, radius & antipad of ground via
• Solve for the derivatives of many variables at once
Nominal Values for
Design Variables
Specify Desired Derivatives

in Solution Setup

Real-Time Tuning with Analytical
Derivatives
• Real-time tuning shows effects of
small changes on S-parameters S21
S11
S-parameters of Nominal Design
New Derivative
Context in
Report Editor
Quickly Explore Effects of Small

Changes on S-parameters

Improved GUI and Modeler

Post-Processing Variables
• New type of variable whose value

can be modified without re-
simulating model
• Optimize complex weights of
antenna elements in phased array
– Optimize for side-lobe location
and main beam peak
Optimization of Phased Array Excitations
Synthesized Far-field Pattern

Convergence Based on Multiple
Output Variables
• Evaluate and save multiple
expressions vs. adaptive pass
– Includes SYZ parameters,
local, near and far field
– Fully integrated with reporter
and Optimetrics

Clip Plane Viewing
• Project preview
– Image and notes
available in File Open
– Image available in
Windows Explorer
• Clip plane
– Interactively slice
through arbitrary plane
– Can view model
geometry, mesh plots,
field plots, etc.

Select by Area Mode
• Enable material override

– Conductors override
dielectrics
– Smaller objects override
larger objects with same
material
– Avoids need for explicit
subtractions
• Select objects by area

– Click and drag to rubber-band
select
– Right-to-left selects all objects
passing through window
– Left-to-right selects all objects
inside window

Overlay Far Field Plots on Model
• Visualize radiation patterns on model geometry

– Control transparency and/or size of pattern overlay

Array Variables
Supported at
design level only
Assign array
variable to
Material property

New Modeling Commmands
“Modeler/Chamfer (Fillet)”
• Fillets and
Chamfers on
2D objects
• Sheet wrapping
• Sheet and body
imprinting with
projection

Streamline plots
Streamline plot of Poynting vector

on this face. Streamlines originate at
discrete points on the face
Integration with ANSYS
DesignXplorer

ANSYS DesignXplorer in R12.1
and HFSS 12.0
WR90 Transition
WR137
th
wid
height
len
gth

DX – Response Surface

DX – Robust Design (DOE)

Six Sigma

Port post-processing on fields
HFSS 12.0: Available Now!

Matched terminal s-parameters
Modeler selection by area filter
Fixed distance padding for region
User Defined Keyboard shortcuts
Expression cache
Multiple output variable convergence
Overlap/intersecting object selection from message

window
ACIS R19 SP2 upgrade
Extended healing capability
Improved setup for analytic ports
Project specific script recording
Define parametric sweep from file
Improved far field data link. More efficient
Project Preview – Both file open and in Windows Explorer
Flexible history editing
Polyline cross-section
Mode filtering for report setup


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© 2008 ANSYS, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 ANSYS, Inc. Proprietary

© 2008 ANSYS, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 ANSYS, Inc. Proprietary

New Solver Technology

Integration with ANSYS

Improved GUI and Modeler

Adjoint Method Based Derivatives New Element

© 2008 ANSYS, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 ANSYS, Inc. Proprietary

•F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: UHF blade antenna @ 350 MHz

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• Distributed memory parallel

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8 2180 10.67 25000

12 1804 12.89 10000

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• Consistent results between domain

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• Two L-band patch antennas

Total Memory 4.5 GB

Average Memory 0.75 GB

Solution Time 25 min

1st order basis functions. Performed

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• Wireless printer and router in typical office

15 domains Domain Solver

Average Memory 2.0 GB

Solution Time 5 hr 20 min

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• Mie scattering from a PEC Sphere

51M unknowns (matrix size)

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• 7-element array model with

Fields with All Element Excited

Far-field Pattern for

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• Good correlation with

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Geometric healing or repair Volume mesh generation

Conformal surface mesh generation

Volume Mesh Surface Mesh

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• Mesh a higher percentage

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•11.0 Initial Mesh: 631862

Fewer, higher quality mesh elements

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• Most accurate solution to fields on

Blue – Analytic Curve

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A ns oft LLC X Y P lo t 4 trues urfac es _longer

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I Wolff, “A generalized description of the spherical

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First-Order, 16:23, 1.40GB

• Automatic localization of basis

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• Compare mixed order vs. 1st