The use of ANSYS Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software has steadily grown over the past 15 years to become the established market leader in CFD in our region. Today, there are thousands of users across hundreds of discrete organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand using ANSYS CFD across a diverse range of industries, from high-profile OEMs and research organisations, through to large engineering consulting firms and specialist SME product designers. Combined with an appreciation of the underlying flow physics and theory, ANSYS CFD allows these engineering teams to gain an insight into complex problems involving fluid dynamics, heat transfer and other flow phenomena.
Whilst the results of a CFD analysis are often used to troubleshoot the performance of an existing problematic design or simply to understand the flow within a current design, ANSYS CFD is increasingly being used to design completely new products from scratch and then to further optimise the performance of these designs using in-built optimisation tools.
An excellent example of this innovative approach to product design can be found in the Dyson Air Multiplier fan, which was brought to market through clever use of ANSYS CFD software to optimise the aerofoil-shaped ramp that was originally conceived by James Dyson.
ANSYS CFD technology encompasses two well-known CFD tools, ANSYS FLUENT and ANSYS CFX, which have been acquired by ANSYS and integrated into the ANSYS Workbench over the past decade. The flagship ANSYS CFD product provides our customers in Australia and New Zealand with access to both of these world-leading general-purpose fluid dynamics products, which have been estimated to represent more than 1,000 person-years of research and development and are relied upon by customers across all engineering disciplines and in all regions of the globe.
- ANSYS CFD Capabilities
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The depth and breadth of CFD technology provides LEAP’s customers with the experience & trust that they expect from ANSYS Inc, the world’s largest engineering simulation software company. In addition to the routine assessment of fluid flow behaviour and heat transfer, ANSYS CFD software allows our customers to include more realistic physics related to phenomena such as:
- Advanced Turbulence modelling to accurately predict swirling flow, separation and transient flow phenomena
- Complete access to state of the art Multiphase Flow modelling tools to simulate the diverse range of flow regimes involving combinations of gases/solids/liquids
- Heat transfer mechanisms in addition to conduction & convection, including solar and thermal radiation and conjugate heat transfer between fluids and solid components.
- Rotating machinery or moving equipment, with the movement characterised by arbitrary motions known a priori, or calculated using 6DOF solver techniques which integrate the force balance from the fluid forces acting on the geometry.
- Fluid-Structure Interaction incorporating a 1-way or 2-way transfer of data between ANSYS FEA and CFD simulations, made possible by the automated structure of the ANSYS Workbench
- Plus many more challenging physics problems, such as those outlined in the ANSYS CFD brochure.
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Red Bull Racing Formula 1 / F1 and ANSYS Engineering software
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- LEAP Capabilities
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In Australia and New Zealand, engineers are usually dealing with fluid dynamics problems that involve some of these additional complexities and we offer a collaborative approach to ensure your successful implementation of ANSYS CFD and a rapid return on investment. In all cases, LEAP aims to thoroughly understand and work through your requirements to determine the best combination of ANSYS Workbench and ANSYS CFD tools to solve your unique set of fluid dynamics problems, and to help you as you continue to apply ANSYS CFD to your product/process designs via our renowned technical support and mentoring programs.
- Simulation Types
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What simulations do you need to perform?
Mass and Heat Transfer
Steady-State and Transient flow
Time-dependent boundary conditions
Incompressible and Compressible flow
Turbulence - isotropic
Turbulence - anisotropic/RSM/LES
Turbulence - transitional/SAS/DES
Natural Convection / Buoyant Flow
Non-Newtonian viscosity
Conduction, Convection and Radiation
Conjugate heat transfer
Surface to Surface and Solar Radiation
Radiation with participating or transparent media
Periodic domains
Porous media
Rotating equipment - MRF/frozen-rotor
Rotating equipment - sliding-mesh/stage
Fan modelling - explicit or lumped parameter
Dynamic/moving-deforming mesh
Immersed-solid/MST method for moving parts
Flow-driven solid motion (6DOF)
Species modelling
Flow pathlines (massless) or Particle tracking (with drag and mass)
2-way Coupled discrete phase / particle transport modeling
Combustion
Cavitation
Multiphase - Eulerian
Multiphase - free surface
Acoustics - source export
Acoustics - noise prediction
1-way & 2-way Fluid structure interaction
Adjoint Method solver optimization
Extrusion
Blow moulding
Fibre spinning
Fuel cell modules
