In most industries today, there is a relentless pursuit of lower cost, more reliable and safer products and faster development times, in the face of intense global competition. Consequently, your margin for error is shrinking, and the cost of being wrong can be disastrous, especially in today’s intense global competition. Playing safe is no longer an option. Over designing products is too expensive. A shrinking margin of error has begun to cast doubt on some often employed engineering assumptions, particularly uncoupling of physical phenomena during simulations. For instance, considering material integrity to be temperature independent may no longer be something you can assume then account for later with a high safety factor. More and more development organizations are increasing the fidelity of their simulation models by considering two or more coupled physics, otherwise known as a multiphysics simulation.
“Simulation with ANSYS software certainly allowed us to meet (our design) objectives with advanced technology that we easily integrated into our product development process. In this way, rather than merely fix problems at the last minute near the end of development, we used simulation to guide the design.” Larry Larder, Herman Miller, Inc - The mission at ANSYS is to facilitate Simulation-Driven Product Development.
ANSYS is the market leader as it has the greatest range of capabilities, covering a broad span of physics – including structural, thermal, fluid dynamics and electromagnetics – and a deep pool of features within each discipline. So even if you only need some of these capabilities now, you know that the depth and breadth is available when you need it.
- The multiple physics are nicely integrated into one software package
- The ANSYS solvers are mature (some over 40 years strong), robust, reliable and fast
- Over 500 developers are working on continual capability enhancements
- 13,000 Total Customers Worldwide
- 200,000 Seats Worldwide
- 200, 000 University Seats Worldwide
- ANSYS only does simulation software. Simulation software is the ANSYS core business.
No other company producing simulation tools has the depth and breadth of ANSYS. Unlike other CAE companies, who may possess competence in one or maybe two fields, ANSYS provides very strong solutions in multiple disciplines.
ANSYS Technical Breadth and Depth
- Structural
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ANSYS offers a full complement of structural elements, material models and analyses targeted toward understanding and solving complex structural phenomena. A comprehensive library of linear and nonlinear material models can handle composites, plasticity, hyperelelasticity, viscoelasticity, creep and special materials including cast iron and shape memory alloys. A complete set of elements are specially architected for finite strain, large deformations and large rotations. Contact is easily accounted for, including friction and sliding, with automatic contact detection for imported assemblies. Several advanced contact solution features are also supported for one and two dimensional surfaces on either flexible or rigid bodies. The software offers a variety of analysis types such as static, modal, harmonic, random vibration, rotordynamics, and nonlinear implicit and explicit dynamics. It is also possible to perform a sequential combination of these analyses, for example a pre-stressed modal analysis. In short, this is a total structural package which also enlists high performance computing capabilities, such as parallel processing, to produce highly scalable results and make a 100M dof problem attainable. Lastly, if by chance we have not anticipated and provided for your structural analysis needs, we have provided documented interfaces to allow you to customize the solver and create your own elements, materials, and loads - or script your own solution procedures.
- Fluid
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Today ANSYS provides the world’s leading commercial software for solving fluid flow problems. In the commercial CFD market, no other provider offers more advanced capabilities with the flexibility of unstructured meshes for complex geometries. Advanced capabilities included multi-species and multi-phase flows, combustions and reacting flows, more than a dozen turbulence models, as well as multiple references frames.
- Thermal
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Capturing thermal effects in both solids and fluids has been a fundamental requirement for ANSYS’ core technology since the beginning. Thermal analyses are used to determine the temperature distribution, thermal gradient, heat flow, and other thermal quantities in a device or fluid. Thermal effects can be considered steady-state or transient, and thermal analyses can include conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer.
- Emag
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Analysis features have been developed to address the diverse needs of today’s electromagnetics engineer, from designing electric motors to microwave antennas. The technology allows the simulation of low-frequency magnetostatics, electrostatics and electromagnetics. In addition, circuit analysis supports an arbitrary arrangement of circuit elements and coupling them directly to a finite element domain to allow simulating circuit fed devices where nonlinear effects must be considered. For high frequency electromagnetics, a full-wave solution formulation captures propagation, radiation and scattering phenomena. Supporting the electromagnetics capabilities is a rich material library with linear and nonlinear descriptions for resistive losses, permittivity, and dielectric losses.
- About ANSYS Breadth and Depth
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ANSYS technical depth and breadth, in conjunction with the scalability of our product portfolio, allows us to truly couple multiple physics in a single simulation. Technical depth in all fields is essential to understand the complex interactions of different physics. The portfolio breadth eliminates the need for clunky interfaces between disparate applications. These two components comprise the foundation for true multiphysics simulations. No other analysis tool on the market provides as many physics capabilities within one single integrated package, called Workbench. Workbench allows you to take advantage of your parametric CAD data. You can have a parametric model across physics, geometry, materials and loads. This allows you to perform sensitivity studies and design optimization with coupled physics solutions. Finally, preparing your structural, thermal, fluid and electromagnetic models in a unified environment leads to fewer software tools to purchase and maintain. This also allows the analysts to save time and money because they only having to master one software product.
