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Fluids | Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Software
To optimize the efficiency of products and processes, predicting and controlling fluid flow is critical.
Ansys computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions give you confidence in the optimal performance of your product even before you make the first prototype.
With Ansys CFD software, you can model and simulate all fluid processes, including fluid-structure multiphysics interactions. Projects well-suited to this powerful CFD software include automobile engine gas combustion, chemical solution movement through pores in a shale gas formation, jet engine turbine air passage, and heat transfer among printed circuit board components.
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Ansys Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Products | Fluids-based Software
Fluent
Ansys’ most powerful computational fluid dynamics tool, Fluent, includes well-validated physical modeling capabilities to deliver fast, accurate results across the widest range of CFD and multiphysics applications.
CFX
Ansys CFX is a high-performance computational fluid dynamics tool that delivers reliable and accurate solutions quickly for a wide range of applications, including leading capabilities for rotating machinery.
EnSight
Ansys EnSight is the market leader for data visualization. Its post-processing tool includes models with more than hundreds of millions of cells, providing engineers with insights unavailable elsewhere.
Polyflow
Ansys Polyflow provides advanced fluid dynamics technology for companies in the polymer, glass, metals, and cement processing industries.
Chemkin-Pro
Ansys Chemkin-Pro is the gold standard for modeling and simulating complex gas phase and surface chemistry reactions for fast, accurate development of combustion systems.
TurboGrid
Ansys TurboGrid complements rotating machinery simulation with a specialized, easy-to-use tool for the rapid 3D design of rotating machinery components.
Forte
Ansys Forte accurately simulates IC engine combustion performance with nearly any fuel, helping engineers rapidly design cleaner burning, high-efficiency, fuel-flexible engines.
VistaTF
Ansys Vista TF complements rotating machinery simulation by enabling engineers to quickly develop blade geometries that achieve desired performance objectives.
BladeModeler
Ansys BladeModeler complements rotating machinery simulation with a specialized, easy-to-use tool for the rapid 3D design of rotating machinery components.
Mosaic Meshing
Mosaic Mesh, a Hexahedral Dominant Mesh Software accelerates the meshing process with a reduced face count, higher quality cells and efficient parallel scalability.
FENSAP-ICE
FENSAP-ICE is the premier in-flight icing simulation system. Its innovative, graphical environment provides intuitive file management and makes it easy to interact between simulation modules.
Fluent Meshing
Fluent meshing provides automation to highly crafted meshing. Methods available cover the meshing spectrum of high-order linear elements to tetrahedral and polyhedral analysis.
Ansys Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Licenses | Multi-Software Bundles
CFD Enterprise
To benefit from all the computational fluid dynamic solvers that Ansys offers, choose the CFD Enterprise toolkit. CFD Enterprise offers full versions of Ansys Fluent, AIM Pro, and CFX to help you optimize product performance with well-validated physical modeling capabilities that deliver quick, accurate results.
Engineers use Ansys CFX for the most accurate, robust, and rapid simulation for rotating machinery such as fans, pumps, compressors, and gas and hydraulic turbines. Companies in the glass, metals, polymer, and cement industries can choose Ansys Polyflow for advanced fluid dynamics technology.
CFD Premium
Today’s experienced engineers need well-validated CFD results to analyze products quickly and thoroughly. With full versions of Ansys Fluent, CFX, and SpaceClaim included, CFD Premium provides accurate, quick, and robust results.
Engineers can simulate IC engine combustion performance with Ansys Forte. Simulate with nearly any type of fuel to quickly design high-efficiency, clean-burning engines that are fuel flexible. To ensure speed and safety for in-flight icing certification, Ansys FENSAP-ICE provides accurate, rapid aircraft icing assessments, along with other comprehensive analysis in the aerospace industry.
Ansys Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) | Practical Application
Single Phase, Non-Reacting Flows
Fluid flow simulations need comprehensive, accurate turbulent flow models. Choose Ansys CFD software solutions for any application, including steady-state and advanced scale-resolving models.
Heat Transfer
To provide superior analysis in heat transfer products, Ansys CFD software simulates natural and heat-forced convection, radiation, diffusion, and heat conduction in solids.
Particle Flow
Choose Ansys CFD software to solve a full range of fluids particulate systems, from dilute to frictional flows. Using a full range of validated, proven physics, Ansys experts have focused on particle flow simulation for decades.
Free Surface Flows (Multiphase)
Quickly and accurately model transient and steady phenomena involving immiscible fluids such as air and water with Ansys CFD simulation. Simulate sloshing, phase changes, hydrodynamics, maritime application wave loading, or liquid flows and heating.
Dispersed Multiphase Flows
Optimize your design for particle transport systems or air bubble injection systems with Ansys CFD software. Predict erosion rates in pipes and simulate complex phenomena such as slurries, bubbly flows, and fluidized beds.
Reacting Flows and Combustion
Optimize product performance, achieve fuel efficiency, and design faster solves with Ansys CFD software’s detailed, intuitive fuel models and best-practices methodologies. Achieve goals cost-effectively without increasing solution times.
Turbomachinery
Ansys turbomachinery simulation products are up to any challenge: radial and axial compressors, turbines, turbochargers, and many others. Engineers can predict particle erosion and design better centrifugal compressors, steam turbines, hydro turbines, and pumps.
Simulation Aircraft Icing
Icing is a critical aspect for the safety of aircraft design, but achieving regulatory certification takes time and involves icing tunnels, flight testing, and simulation models. Regulatory changes and awareness of high-altitude ice crystals and supercooled large droplets also impact time to market.
CFD Software for Architecture
With high rheology material, Ansys Polyflow is the gold standard of CFD software for architecture. R&D teams in polymer, metals, glass, and processing industries use Polyflow for strategic design.
HPC-Fluids
Solve large-scale, complex CFD models more quickly and cost-effectively with Ansys High-Performance Computer (HPC) parallel processing. Ansys HPC operates at 80% efficiency with just 5,000 cells per CPU core, providing superior and proven scalability.
Fluid Structure Interaction
Engineers must understand fluid force impact on surrounding equipment and its subsequent performance. Choose Ansys multiphysics solutions to solve challenges in fluid-structure interaction.
Thermal FSI
Not controlling heat can cause safety problems and poor performance, but laboratory analyses can be time consuming and expensive. Save time and money with Ansys multiphysics solutions.
Hydrodynamics
Offshore structures often have different requirements than traditional structures. Ansys Multiphysics Software provides the tools to accurately simulate the loads and effects of waves, currents, and wind-based phenomena. Engineers can also employ virtual towing tanks to examine any flow or performance features such as hull resistance, self-propulsion, maneuvering, appendage shape, and vessel acceleration.
Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT)
An improper understanding of thermal management can result in deformations or overheated parts. Ansys provides high fidelity solutions to predict performance for the widest range of fluid-solid heat transfer problems, including but not limited to conjugate heat transfer (CHT) and thermal fluid–structure interaction (FSI).
Cement Processing
CFD modeling can help to optimize plant design and operation in a variety of cement industry applications. In-depth knowledge of fluid-structure interaction is often central to cement-related processes such as extrusion, blow molding, thermoforming, fiber drawing, glass forming, and concrete shaping.