CFD simulation for every engineer
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a tool with amazing flexibility, accuracy and breadth of application. But serious CFD, the kind that provides insights to help you optimize your designs, can be out of reach unless you choose your software carefully. To get serious CFD results, you need serious software. Ansys CFD goes beyond qualitative results to deliver accurate quantitative predictions of fluid interactions and trade-offs. These insights reveal unexpected opportunities for your product — opportunities that even experienced engineering analysts can miss.
Ansys provides a comprehensive fluid dynamics product suite for modelling fluid flow and other related physical phenomena. It offers unparalleled fluid flow analysis capabilities, providing all the tools needed to design and optimize new fluids equipment and to troubleshoot already existing installations. The Ansys fluid dynamics suite contains both general-purpose computational fluid dynamics software and additional specialized products to address specific industry applications.
The image on the left is a polyhedral mesh of an F1 car allowing full automation, fewer cells and faster convergence (compared to tetrahedral mesh). Image shows pressure distribution.
Solution Capabilities
Ansys offers a comprehensive fluid dynamics product suite for modelling fluid flow and other related physical phenomena.
Temperature profiles and flow streamlines from three axial fans cooling a card array in a VME format box.
The Ansys fluid dynamics product suite contains both general-purpose computational fluid dynamics software and additional specialized products to address specific industry applications.
Airflow and wind-induced loads on a futuristic building as calculated with ANSYS fluid dynamics technology
Applications
Features
Ansys Workbench Integration
Ease of use, and automated, parametric workflows from geometry, meshing, physics set-up, and post-processing to Design of Experiments
Industry-leading Numerics
Ansys fluid dynamics software uses industry-leading numerics to solve the fluid flow equations
Advanced Post-Processing
The Ansys CFD-Post product is the common post-processor for the Ansys fluid dynamics applications
Comprehensive Physics
Ansys fluid dynamics software offers unparalleled breadth and depth in the modelling of fluid flow related physics phenomena
Scalability and High-Performance Computing
Enables fast simulation throughput of high-fidelity fluid dynamics models
Customization and Scripting Tools
Automated and customized workflow enabling increased productivity
Solution Benefits
Ansys fluid dynamics offer a range of product subsets to meet current requirements as well as a seamless upgrade path for future needs. Unparalleled fluid flow analysis capabilities provide all the tools needed to design and optimize new fluids equipment and to troubleshoot already existing installations. Fluid dynamics solutions also allow knowledge transfer from experienced analysts to the less experienced while maintaining high quality standards for your simulation.
The image on the right shows that different designs can be compared directly in Ansys CFD-Post, both visually and quantitatively.
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