Introduction
Technology is the
lifeblood of ANSYS,
Inc., and the basis for
everything we offer our
customers. For more than
35 years, ANSYS has been
the pioneer in the
application of finite
element methods to solve
the engineering design
challenges our customers
face.
How have we achieved
this near 40-year run of
groundbreaking
achievement in
engineering simulation
and modeling? Staying
true to our vision and
strategy has certainly
been a major factor.
Unlike others, ANSYS has
never wavered from its
core business of
engineering simulation
software.
Instrumental to our
success are the five
principles used to guide
the development of our
products and technology:
unequalled depth,
unparalleled breadth,
comprehensive
multiphysics, engineered
scalability, and
adaptive architecture.
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about our guiding
principles.
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ANSYS 12.0 New Features
ANSYS 12.0 delivers innovative,
dramatic simulation technology
advances in every major physics
discipline, along with
improvements in computing speed
and enhancements to enabling
technologies such as geometry
handling, meshing and
post-processing. These
advancements alone represent a
major step forward on the path
forward in Simulation Driven
Product Development.
The
ANSYS
Workbench environment
is the glue that binds the
simulation process; this has not
changed with version 2.0. In
ANSYS 12.0, while the core
applications may seem familiar,
they are bound together via the
innovative project page that
introduces the concept of the
project schematic. This expands
on the project page concept.
These advancements alone
represent a major step forward
on the path towards Simulation
Driven Product Development.
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all the new features here.
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Geometry and Meshing
ANSYS has combined rich geometry
and meshing techniques with its
depth of knowledge and
experience, resulting in
integrated geometry and meshing
solutions that share core
libraries with other
applications.
At ANSYS 12.0,
geometry
interfaces have been
enhanced to import more
information from CAD systems,
including new data types such as
line bodies for modeling beams,
additional attributes such as
colors and coordinate systems,
and improved support for named
selections created within the
CAD systems. For pre-processing
larger models, release 12.0
includes support for 64-bit
operating systems and smart and
selective updates of CAD parts.
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Multiphysics
ANSYS 12.0 expands the
industry-leading
comprehensive
multiphysics solutions.
New features and
enhancements are available
for solving both direct and
sequentially coupled
multiphysics problems, and
the ANSYS Workbench
framework makes performing
multiphysics simulations
even faster than before.
The integration of the broad
array of ANSYS solver
technologies has taken a
considerable step forward
with release 12.0. The ANSYS
Workbench environment has
been redesigned for an
efficient multiphysics
workflow by integrating the
solver technology into one
unified simulation
environment.
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Structural Mechanics
The ability to drive the
engineering design process in
structural
applications has
taken a significant step forward
with the improvements in release
12.0. New features and tools,
many integrated into the ANSYS
Workbench platform, help reduce
overall solution time. Specific
improvements focus on elements,
materials, contact and solver
performance, along with linear,
rigid, and flexible dynamics.
The most notable new element in
release 12.0 is the four-noded
tetrahedron for modeling complex
geometries in hyperelastic or
forming applications. This
reduces the time it takes to
develop an analysis from
geometry through solution, while
maintaining the accuracy of the
solution. In regards to
materials, Release 12.0
introduces several additions to
the wide choice of materials
already available.
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Fluid
Dynamics
The ANSYS 12.0 introduces
the full integration of its
fluids
products into ANSYS
Workbench together with the
capability to manage simulation
workflows within the
environment. This allows users —
whether they use
ANSYS CFX
or
ANSYS
FLUENT software (or
both) — to create, connect and
re-use systems; perform
automated parametric analyses;
and seamlessly manage
simulations using multiple
physics.
The perennial goal of improving
accuracy without sacrificing
robustness motivated numerous
developments, including new
discretization options such as
the bounded second-order option
in ANSYS FLUENT and the
iteratively-bounded
high-resolution discretization
scheme in ANSYS CFX. Being able
to consistently use higher order
discretization schemes means
that users will see further
increases in the accuracy of
flow simulations without
penalties in robustness.
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