ANSYS 14.

5 Capabilities Brochure

Fluid Dynamics Structural Mechanics Electromagnetics Systems & Multiphysics

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ANSYS DesignSpace®

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ANSYS Mechanical™

ANSYS Structural™

Professional™ NLS

ANSYS Polyflow®
ANSYS CFD-Flo™
ANSYS LS-DYNA®
ANSYS Autodyn®

ANSYS Maxwell®
Professional NLT
ANSYS® 14.5

ANSYS Fluent®

ANSYS HFSS™
ANSYS CFX®
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Structural Analysis
Analysis Types
Static • • • • • •
Modal • • • • • •
Buckling (linear) • • • • • •
Buckling (nonlinear) • • • • • • •
Transient • • • ∆ ∆ • • •
Spectrum • • • • •
Harmonic • • • ∆ ∆
Random vibration • • •
Substructuring • • •

Geometric Nonlinearity
Large strain • • • • • • •
Large deflection • • • • ∆ • • •

Material Model Highlights

Linear material models • • • • • • • • •
Rate-dependent plasticity • • • • • •
Rate-independent plasticity • • • ∆ • • •
Hyperelasticity • • • ∆ • • •
Viscoelasticity • • • • • •
Creep • • •
Reactive materials • •
Contact Modeling
Bonded/no separation sliding • • • • • • • • •
Pretension (bolts, etc.) • • • • • •
Joints • • • • •
Spot welds • • • • • • • •
Nonlinear Contact Modeling
Rough • • • • • ∆ • • •
Frictionless • • • • • ∆ • • •
Friction • • • • • • •
Gaskets • • •
Advanced Analysis
Rotordynamics • • •
Component mode synthesis • • •
Cyclic symmetry analysis • • • • • •
Rezoning • • • •
Submodeling • • • • • •
Element birth and death • • • ∆ ∆ ∆

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ANSYS Multiphysics™
CFD™

ANSYS DesignSpace®

ANSYS Explicit STR™

ANSYS Mechanical™

ANSYS Structural™

Professional™ NLS

ANSYS Polyflow®
ANSYS CFD-Flo™
ANSYS LS-DYNA®
ANSYS Autodyn®

ANSYS Maxwell®
Professional NLT
ANSYS 14.5

ANSYS Fluent®

ANSYS HFSS™
ANSYS CFX®
Capabilities Chart

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Explicit Analysis
Modeling Capabilities
Interactive prep/post and solution •
Remapping in space •
Remapping solution methods •
Mass scaling • • •
Dezoning •
Part activation and deactivation •
Part addition/removal during
a simulation •
Erosion based on multiple criteria • • •
Natural fragmentation • •
Euler solver •
2-D solver ∆ •
Fluid–structure interaction (FSI) •
Implicit–explicit deformations • • •
Implicit–explicit material states • •

Thermal Analysis
Analysis Types
Steady state • • • • • • • • •
Transient • • • • • • •
Thermal Modeling
Conduction • • • • • • • • • • •
Convection • • • • • • • • •
Radiation • • • • • ∆ ∆
Phase change • • • • • • • •

Fluid Dynamics
Modeling Capabilities
Variety of inlet and outlet B.C. • • • • •
Steady-state flow • • • • •
Transient flow • • • • •
2-D flow (dedicated solver option) • •
2-D flow (using thin 3-D segment) • • • • •
3-D flow • • • • •
Time-dependent boundary conditions • • • • •
Incompressible flow • • • • •
Compressible flow • • • •
Natural convection • • • •
Fan model • • • •
Periodic domains • • • • •
Porous media • • • • •
Heat transfer • • • • •
Conjugate heat transfer • • • • •
Non-Newtonian viscosity • • • • •
Viscoelasticity •
Turbulence (isotropic) • • • •

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ANSYS Multiphysics™
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ANSYS DesignSpace®

ANSYS Explicit STR™

ANSYS Mechanical™

ANSYS Structural™

Professional™ NLS

ANSYS Polyflow®
ANSYS CFD-Flo™
ANSYS LS-DYNA®
ANSYS Autodyn®

ANSYS Maxwell®
Professional NLT
ANSYS 14.5

ANSYS Fluent®

ANSYS HFSS™
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ANSYS CFX®
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Fluid Dynamics
Modeling Capabilities (continued)
Turbulence (anisotropic/RSM/LES) • • • •
Turbulence (transitional/SAS/DES) • •
Rotating equipment
(MRF/frozen-rotor) • •
Rotating equipment
(sliding-mesh/stage) • •
Dynamic/moving-deforming mesh • • • • •
Immersed-solid/MST method
for moving parts • • • •
Flow-driven solid motion (6DOF) • • •
Internal radiation
(participating media) • • • • •
Internal radiation
(transparent media) • •
External radiation • •
Solar radiation and load • •
Species modeling • • • • •
Flow pathlines (massless) • • • • •
Particle tracking (with mass) • •
Coupled discrete phase modeling • •
Acoustics (source export) • • • •
Acoustics (noise prediction) •
Chemical reaction • • •
Combustion • •
Cavitation • • • •
Multiphase (Eulerian) • •
Multiphase (free surface) • • • • •
Fluid–structure interaction option • • • • •
Internal optimization for flow • •
Specialty extrusion models •
Specialty blow molding models •
Specialty fiber spinning models •
Specialty fuel cell models +
Solver Options
Pressure-based coupled solver • • • • •
Density-based coupled solver •
Pressure-based segregated solver •
Parallel solving on local PC option • • • • • • •
Parallel solving over network option • • • • • •
Customizable, scripting and
user functions • • • • •
Adjoint solver for sensitivity •
analysis

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ANSYS DesignSpace®

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ANSYS Mechanical™

ANSYS Structural™

Professional™ NLS

ANSYS Polyflow®
ANSYS CFD-Flo™
ANSYS LS-DYNA®
ANSYS Autodyn®

ANSYS Maxwell®
Professional NLT
ANSYS 14.5

ANSYS Fluent®

ANSYS HFSS™
Capabilities Chart

ANSYS CFX®
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Electromagnetics – Low Frequency
Electrostatics • •
AC conduction • •
DC conduction • •
DC insulator field •
Magnetostatics • •
Adaptive field mesh •
AC harmonic magnetic • •
AC harmonic electric •
Electric transient • •
Ion optics •
Magnetic Transient
Rigid motion visualization •
Translational motion • •
Rotational motion • •
Double-layer rotational motion •
Cylindrical motion •
Automatic matching boundaries •
Winding definition •
Automatic coil connections
across boundaries •
Advanced circuit coupling
with ANSYS Simplorer® •
Circuit coupling with adaptive
time stepping •

Advanced Material Characteristics

Nonlinear anisotropic materials •
Functional magnetization direction •
Advanced permanent magnet
demagnetization modeling •
Nonlinear magnetization
characteristics •
Core loss modeling •
Automatic project creation
using UDPs •
Insulation sheet to model cracks •

Electromagnetics –
High Frequency
Frequency domain analysis •
Time domain analysis •
Eigenmode analysis •
Integral equation analysis •
Hybrid finite element integral •
equation analysis
Wave port excitation •
Lumped port excitation •
Floquet excitations •
Plane wave excitation •
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ANSYS Multiphysics™
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ANSYS DesignSpace®

ANSYS Explicit STR™

ANSYS Mechanical™

ANSYS Structural™

Professional™ NLS

ANSYS Polyflow®
ANSYS CFD-Flo™
ANSYS LS-DYNA®
ANSYS Autodyn®

ANSYS Maxwell®
Professional NLT
ANSYS 14.5

ANSYS Fluent®

ANSYS HFSS™
ANSYS CFX®
Capabilities Chart

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Electromagnetics – High
Frequency (continued)
Hertzian dipole excitation •
Cylindrical wave excitation •
Gaussian beam excitation •
Linear antenna excitation •
Linked far-field excitation •
Linked near-field excitation •
Voltage source excitation •
Current source excitation •
Magnetic bias excitation •
Modal solutions •
Terminal solutions •
Perfect electric conductor •
boundary
Perfect magnetic conductor •
boundary
Finite conductivity boundaries •
Impedance boundary •
Layered impedance boundary •
RLC boundary •
Radiation boundary •
Symmetry boundary •
Master/slave boundary •
Screening impedance boundary •
Perfectly matched layer boundary •
Frequency-dependent materials •
Field calculation inside conductive •
materials
Discrete-frequency sweep type •
Fast-frequency sweep type •
Interpolating sweep frequency •
sweep type
Zero-, first-, second- and
mixed-order element types •
True curvilinear mesh elements •
Fully automated meshing •
Fully automated adaptive •
mesh refinement
S,Y, Z matrix results •
Propagation constant results •
E, H, J, P field results •
Field calculator •
Iterative matrix solver •
Direct matrix solver •
Distributed frequency sweep solver •
capability
Distributed model solution •
capability

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ANSYS

ANSYS Multiphysics™
CFD™

ANSYS DesignSpace®

ANSYS Explicit STR™

ANSYS Mechanical™

ANSYS Structural™

Professional™ NLS

ANSYS Polyflow®
ANSYS CFD-Flo™
ANSYS LS-DYNA®
ANSYS Autodyn®

ANSYS Maxwell®
Professional NLT
ANSYS 14.5

ANSYS Fluent®

ANSYS HFSS™
ANSYS CFX®
Capabilities Chart

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Electromagnetics – High
Frequency (continued)
Antenna parameter calculation •
Infinite antenna array calculation •
Finite antenna array calculation •
Radar cross section calculation •
Frequency selective surface •
calculation
Metamaterial calculation •
Specific absorption rate •
calculation
EMI/EMC calculation •
Imported geometry healing •
Fully scriptable •
Link to ANSYS Mechanical •
Dynamic link to Ansoft Designer® •
Link to ANSYS SIwave™ •
Link to ANSYS Simplorer •

Coupled Physics
(Sometimes requires two or more products)
Acoustics • • • ∆ ∆
Acoustics–structural • •
Electric–magnetic • • •
Fluid–structural • • • • • •
Fluid–thermal • • • •
Electromagnetic–fluid • + + + •
Electrostatic–structural •
Magnetic–structural • •
Electromagnetic–thermal • • •
Piezoelectric • •
Piezoresistive • •
Thermal–electric • • •
Thermal–structural • • • • • • •
Thermal–electric–structural • • •
Thermal–electric–fluids •
Electromagnetic–thermal–structural • • •
Electromagnetic–thermal–fluids •
Reduced-order modeling (ROM) • • •

Pre-Processing
Modeling Capabilities
IGES/STEP geometry reader • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Beam modeling • • • • • + • • •
Composite lay-up • • • • • •
Meshing Capabilities
Defeaturing • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Surface meshing • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Tetrahedral meshing • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

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ANSYS Multiphysics™

ANSYS DesignSpace®

ANSYS Explicit STR™

ANSYS Mechanical™

ANSYS Structural™

Professional™ NLS

ANSYS Polyflow®
ANSYS CFD-Flo™
ANSYS LS-DYNA®
ANSYS Autodyn®

ANSYS Maxwell®
Professional NLT
ANSYS 14.5

ANSYS Fluent®

ANSYS HFSS™
Capabilities Chart

ANSYS CFX®
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Pre-Processing
Meshing Capabilities (continued)
Prism inflation layers • • • • • • • • • • • •
Swept-hex meshing • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Thin-sweep meshing • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Multizone hex meshing • • • • • • • • • • • •
Automatic hexa-core meshing • • • • • • • • • • • •
Automatic hexa-dominant meshing • • • • • • • • • • • •
Cut cell Cartesian meshing •
Curvilinear elements • •
Adaptive mesh refinement • • • • • • • • • • •

Boundary Conditions
Solid model loads and
boundary conditions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Tabular loads and boundary
conditions • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Function loads and boundary
conditions • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Apply temperature loads • • • • • • • • • • • •

Post-Processing
Report generator • • • • • • • ∆ ∆ • • • • • •
Contour displays • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Vector displays • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Isosurface displays • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Slicing planes • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Quantitative calculations • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Particle tracing • • • • •
Animation • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Output (images, Excel® data) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
CFD turbomachinery • • •

General
ANSYS Engineering Knowledge
Manager™ (EKM) data
management ready + + + + + + + + + + + +
Parallel solvers
(HPC licenses required) + + + + + • + + + + + + +
Solver scripting language • • • • • • • • • • • •
Parameter manager • • • • • • • ∆ • • • • • •
∆ = Limited set of feature capabilities + = Additional product required

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