Ansys Definitions Flashcards
simulations to help engineers understand how fluid (gas and liquid) forces impact structures and how fluids can heat or cool machines or devices when used with multiphysics simulations
Fluids – Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
simulations provide insight into how structures respond to fluid forces, electrical emissions, or thermal changes when part of Multiphysics simulations
Structures – Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
Increase the understanding of how to make smart sensors, antennas, motors and other devices operate most effectively in complex environments where thermal effects and vibration may be challenging
Electronics
Interactions between physical forces in various states of matter (solid, liquid and gas), and thermal and electro-magnetic forces
Multiphysics Simulations
- An integrated tool that enables designers to create/modify geometry, analyze structural, fluids and electromagnetics effects and post process all within the same platform
- Multiple powerful flagship physics solvers that are tied together in an easy to use interface
- Create process templates that automate the entire simulation workflow for easy repeatability and promotion of best practices
- Perfect for design engineers who need to run individual or multi-physics analysis for validation purposes but that don’t require the extra horsepower of the ANSYS flagship solvers
ANSYS Discovery AIM
- Easy, Fast, Powerful Simulation for Designers
- Leveraging GPU technology to deliver instantaneous structural/fluid results with very little input from the user
- Designers can quickly understand how changing the geometry or a boundary condition affects the stress, velocity, or deformation
- Interactively modify the geometry - as soon as a particular modification is complete, the structural and/or fluid results will update instantaneously
ANSYS Discovery Live
-Powerful, single platform direct modeler to quickly create, modify and repair geometry
-Full part, assembly, and drawing capabilities for design and concept modeling
-Built-in CAD translators for all the major CAD formats
-Powerful features to speed up analysis preprocessing workflows (e.g. Volume Extract for CFD analysts and automatic beam extraction for FEA users)
-Includes toolsets for reverse engineering faceted/scanned data and editing or optimizing STL files for additive manufacturing and 3D printing.
-Supports creation of manufacturing fixtures, process plans, or optimization and repair of models for toolpath creation
Creation, repair and rapid unfolding of sheet metal components
ANSYS Discovery SpaceClaim
- Standalone Build Setup/Preparation solution
- STL File Repair and Geometry Manipulation
- Part Nesting and Support Generation
- Orientation Guidance and Wizards
- Built inside SpaceClaim and can be purchased as standalone product
Additive Prep
- Metal Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation
- Metal Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) Process Simulations
- Distortion Compensation
- Build Failure Prediction
Additive Print
- Material Microstructure Prediction Capabilities
- Curated Material Property Databases
- Grain Morphology Predictions
- Melt pool and Porosity Prediction
Additive Science
Simulate the entire design to print additive manufacturing process with full user control in workbench mechanical
Workbench Additive
- Flagship finite element analysis (FEA) tool for structural, thermal, acoustic and other effects
- Applications from linear statics to complex transient simulations involving nonlinear materials
- User-friendly tree-based graphical interface
- Built in topology optimization to find optimum geometry shapes that efficiently meet objectives
- Strong two-way connections with ANSYS tools in the Electrical, Fluids and Systems spaces
ANSYS Mechanical
- Advanced pre and post processing utility for designing layered composites
- Connects to Mechanical for mixed composite and non-composite models
- Built in tools that enable engineers to define stack-up information, fiber orientation, ply types, etc.
ANSYS Composite PrepPost
- Model multibody dynamics in simple and complex assemblies of interconnected parts, joints and contacts
- Model rigid mechanisms while letting some parts remain flexible to identify stresses during operation
ANSYS Rigid Body Dynamics
- Addresses the vast majority of analysis requirements associated with hydrodynamic assessment of all types of shore and marine structures (e.g. SPARs, FPSOs, semi-submersibles, tension leg platforms, ships, renewable energy devices, and breakwaters)
- Used extensively in the oil & gas, renewable and general engineering sectors to model installation and use of equipment in open water as well as in harbors or sheltered locations
ANSYS AQWA
- Simulates response of structures to loadings
- Extends the capabilities of ANSYS Mechanical to problems involving short-duration severe loading, large material deformation and material failure (eg. impact and drop testing)
ANSYS Explicit Dynamics
- Models short time duration events such as impact, drop testing, explosions, and more
- Solves for complex interaction between all phases of matter due to built-in structural and fluid solvers
- Simulates anything from large material deformation and failure to shock wave propagation
- Accurately captures the effects of drop tests or impact on an assembled product (in conjunction with ANSYS Mechanical)
ANSYS Autodyn
- An explicit analysis tool that is capable of simulating parts/assemblies that are subjected to large loads within a very short period of time
- Applications include automotive crash testing, sport impact, metal crimping, etc.
- Integrated into ANSYS Mechanical, providing easy-to-use interface of for pre and post processing
ANSYS LS-Dyna
- ANSYS’ most powerful general-purpose computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool.
- Well-validated physical modeling capabilities deliver fast, accurate results across the widest range of CFD and multiphysics applications
- Highly scalable high-performance computing (HPC) so you can solve complex, large-model CFD simulations — faster and at lower cost. Fluent holds the supercomputing record scaling to over 172,000 cores
- A new Fluent experience. Along with a new look and task-based workflows, you will appreciate the enhanced speed and simplicity of this single-window way to run computational fluid dynamics simulations
ANSYS Fluent
- A high-performance computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software recommended for turbomachinery and general simulations.
- Delivers reliable and accurate solutions quickly and robustly across a wide range of CFD and multiphysics applications
- Recognized for its outstanding accuracy, robustness and speed with turbomachinery such as pumps, fans, compressors, and gas and hydraulic turbines
ANSYS CFX
- The gold standard for modeling and simulating complex gas phase and surface chemistry reactions for fast, accurate development of combustion systems
- Reactor Networks to model complex flow-fields
- Gain better understanding of low emissions combustion stability
- Understand and predict particle formation
- Easily create CFD flamelet tables with speed and accuracy
- Explore how input uncertainties affect simulation results
ANSYS Chemkin-Pro
- Create the most accurate combustion and reacting flow simulations
- Detailed and validated reaction mechanisms for over 65 fuel components
- Create accurate simulations for combustion of such common fuels as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, FT fuels, natural or synthetic gas, biofuels and additives
ANSYS Model Fuel Library
- Simulates IC engine combustion performance with nearly any fuel, to help rapidly design cleaner burning, high efficiency, fuel-flexible engines
- Automatic mesh generation with solution adaptive and geometry-based adaptive mesh refinement eliminates manual effort
- True multicomponent fuel-vaporization models for accurate prediction of fuel effects
- Track soot particle nucleation, growth, agglomeration and oxidation without a compute-time penalty to predict particle size and number
ANSYS Forte
- Accelerate design while shrinking energy and raw material to make manufacturing processes more cost-effective and environmentally sustainable
- Design and optimize processes such as extrusion, thermoforming, blow molding, glass forming, fiber drawing and concrete shaping
- Minimize physical prototyping when manufacturing extrusion dies or to reduce thickness variation to improve the quality of thermoformed or blown products
- Inverse die design capability can identify final die designs much faster than traditional build-and-test methods
ANSYS Polyflow
- Automate the production of high-quality hexahedral meshes needed for blade passages in rotating machinery
- Minimizes mesh dependencies when assessing differences in performance predictions between designs
- Persistent environment and system-wide parameter management provided by ANSYS Workbench automates and standardizes the process for complete turbomachinery analyses, from geometry design to meshing
- Part of ANSYS Turbo Tools - Specialized, easy-to-use tools for rapid design of 3D components, efficient blade row geometries and high quality meshes
ANSYS Turbogrid
- Specialized, easy-to-use tool for the rapid 3D design of rotating machinery components Design axial, mixed-flow and radial blade components (pumps, compressors, fans, blowers, turbines, expanders, turbochargers, inducers, etc)
- Complete geometric modeling
- Integrated initial sizing
- Interactive blade design
- Part of ANSYS Turbo Tools - Specialized, easy-to-use tools for rapid design of 3D components, efficient blade row geometries and high quality meshes
ANSYS BladeModeler
- The ideal tool for rapid and reliable aerodynamic and hydrodynamic blade row design
- Quickly develop blade geometries that achieve desired performance objectives
- Great value in early design stages when changes are most easily made and it is critical to get the basic design right
- Part of ANSYS Turbo Tools - Specialized, easy-to-use tools for rapid design of 3D components, efficient blade row geometries and high quality meshes
ANSYS Vista TF
- Three-dimensional, state-of-the-art, design and aid-to-certification simulation software to provide enhanced aerodynamic and in-flight icing protection solutions in a cost-effective manner by addressing all five major aspects of in-flight icing:
- Airflow
- Droplet and ice crystal impingement
- Ice accretion
- Aerodynamic degradation
- Anti- and de-icing heat loads
ANSYS FENSAP-ICE
- Complete package of powerful software tools used to prepare and mesh geometry and to post process CFD simulation results
- Included with ANSYS product bundles including CFD Premium, CFD Enterprise, Chemkin-Pro
- Available as a complete standalone package when additional pre and post processing capability is needed
ANSYS CFD PrepPOST
A low frequency electromagnetic FEA tool for simulating electromechanical and low frequency electromagnetic performance in motors, transformers, sensors, permanent-magnet devices and more
ANSYS Maxwell
- The industry leading tool for modeling high frequency electromagnetic fields. It’s the accuracy standard by which all other solvers are measured
- Solve a wide range of applications in RF and microwave design (e.g. antennas) to performing analysis for signal and power integrity in high-speed PCBs and IC packages
ANSYS HFSS
- Fast and accurate solutions for implementing antennas or radar systems on cars, planes, ships, towers and other large structures
- Antenna-on-platform parameters (e.g. far fields and coupling) with more scalability in size and speed than traditional FEA used in HFSS
- Consider multiple bounces, edge diffraction and creeping wave rays through advanced physics modeling
- Analyze radar cross section (RCS) of very large platforms and perform automotive radar analysis
ANSYS HFSS SBR+
- RF and microwave circuits and complete end-to-end wireless communication systems, based on standard communications schemes
- Circuit Analyses
ANSYS RF Option
Predict RF cosite interference to identify root-cause EMI issues in complex RF environments (comes with RF Option when packaged to HFSS)
ANSYS EMIT
Powerful electronic cooling solutions, utilizing the industry-leading ANSYS Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver for thermal and fluid flow analyses of integrated circuits (ICs), packages, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and electronic assemblies
ANSYS Icepak
Specialized design platform for analyzing signal integrity, power integrity, and EMI analyses of IC Packages and full PCBs
ANSYS SIwave
- Enables the extraction of RLCG parameters in a variety of electromagnetic applications (e.g. IGBTs, traces, connectors bus bars and cables)
- Widely used in touchscreen and IC packaging applications
ANSYS Q3D Extractor
Transient circuit analysis in HFSS allowing creation of high-speed channel designs, including the driving circuitry and the channel
ANSYS SI Option
A multi-domain system modeling for true system- level virtual prototypes. Tight integration with ANSYS 3D Physics tools, ANSYS Embedded Software tools along with its built-in circuit and control system design functionality
ANSYS Simplorer
Simulation of all sensors, including lidar, cameras and radar, the multiphysics simulation of physical and electronic components, analysis of systems functional safety, as well as the automated development of safety-certified embedded software
ANSYS Optis
- Develop System On Chip (SoC) designs for integrity and robustness against Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
- By leveraging a combination of layout and circuit-level analysis, identify and isolate potential issues due to charged-device model (CDM), human body model (HBM) or other ESD events
- Certified by major foundries as an ESD-sign off solution which is critical for the development process
ANSYS Pathfinder
- Comprehensive RTL design-for-power platform
- Look at power profiling and budgeting, RTL-Driven Power Grid Integrity and more
- Drive an automated power reduction process using analysis, by identifying reduction opportunities based on evaluations of changes to the logic and activity while keeping in context the physical effects
ANSYS PowerArtist
- The “go-to” sign-off solution for all foundries and processes for creating robust, high performance SoCs, designed using the latest FinFET technology
- Geared to the integrity and reliability of ICs
- Design SoCs that are power efficient, reliable against thermal, electromigration and electorstatic discharge
- Provides model interoperability with ANSYS board and system level tools to ensure that the chip performs as intended in the entire system
ANSYS RedHawk
A transistor level power noise and reliability simulation platform
ANSYS Totem
The new Elastic Compute technology architecture, modeled after the same big data architectures used in today’s internet operations, but purpose-built for EDA.
ANSYS SeaScape
- Complements existing signoff and physical design flows
- Evaluate all of the timing paths and clock trees in a SoC for delay and variance for even the largest designs
- Production-proven accuracy to tackle the most advanced manufacturing processes, the functionality to account for all critical contributors to delay and constraints across multiple process, voltage, temperature corners and scenarios
- Calculate timing with variation on a full SoC without taking shortcuts
- With a fully threaded and distributed architecture and the ability to run on thousands of CPUs, turnaround time scales inversely with the number of CPUs available
ANSYS Path FX
- An inductor, transformer and transmission line synthesis and modeling tool
- Shortens the design cycle by greatly reducing the time it takes to synthesize and model complex spiral devices and T-lines. It takes only a few seconds to compile an inductor or transformer geometry and just a couple of minutes to model and analyze complex inductors
VeloceRF
A novel pre-LVS electromagnetic modeling software solution. The limitless capacity of its engine in combination with highly accurate results and blazing fast modeling times are the core differentiating factors compared to any other EM tool currently available.
RaptorX
A powerful post-LVS RLCk extraction software solution that enables IC design engineers to accurately predict electromagnetic coupling effects during the signoff phase
Exalto
- An embedded systems tool providing an easy to use, versatile environment for the design of Human Machine Interfaces (HMI)
- Perform graphical prototyping and design, HMI behavioral logic design, interactive simulation, integrated design checking and HMI testing automation
ANSYS SCADE Display
- A design environment for systems with high dependability requirements
- Tailored for systems engineers and utilizes SysML making the experience more user-friendly and intuitive than typical SysML implementations
ANSYS SCADE Architect
- Support for Application Lifecycle Management
- Traceability is key in developing complex applications and providing control for lifecycle management of models, configuration, changes and documentations
ANSYS SCADE LifeCycle
Cost-effective environment for testing and requirements validation for any SCADE application
ANSYS SCACE Test
- Build, validate and deploy digital twins
- Combines the power of a multidomain systems modeler with extensive 0D application-specific libraries, 3D physics solvers and reduced-order model (ROM) capabilities
- Combines multidomain systems simulation capabilities with rapid human-machine interface (HMI) prototyping, systems optimization and XiL validation tools – for system validation and assurance of expected performance
- Easily integrates with industrial internet of things (IIoT) platforms and contains runtime deployment options for connecting the twin to test or real-time data
ANSYS Twin Builder
A single integrated tool for implementation of key safety analysis methods (HAZOP, FTA, FMEA, FMEDA)
ANSYS medina analyze
- The leading system for materials information management in engineering enterprises
- Tools to manage, analyze, and apply corporate material intelligence, based around a material database system
- Manage proprietary materials information alongside access to a comprehensive library of materials property data
- Deploy materials information in a controlled manner to authorized users, enterprise-wide
ANSYS GRANTA MI
A unique collection of teaching resources supporting university-level teaching of materials
ANSYS CES EduPack
Powered by Aras platform, is a centralized knowledge management application that improves multiphysics collaboration by making data, project plans and analytics easily accessible in one place so team members across the world and in different functional silos can work with the same, most up-to-date information
ANSYS MinervaTM
- The ANSYS application for Design Exploration and Optimization
- The ANSYS application for Design Exploration and Optimization
- Response Surface, Direct solve and Adaptive approaches
- Ease of use, independent of project physics or complexity
ANSYS DesignXplorer
- General purpose tool for variation analysis
- Simulation workflow building for simulation process automation and PLM integration with 3rd party tools
- Sensitivity analysis, calibration, design exploration, optimization
ANSYS optiSLang
- Provides a unified and consistent layer for customization through all ANSYS products enabling users to:
- Create New Features
- Direct, API-driven customization of ANSYS products
ANSYS ACT
