ANSYS 10 Upgrades Performance and Physics in Fluid-Structure Interaction

By DE Editors

ANSYS, Inc.(Southpointe, PA) announced yesterday it would be distributing Version10.0 of its ANSYS simulation software beginning in July. The new release offersmajor advances in performance, ease-of-use, interoperability, andcoupled physics technology, such as fluid structure interaction (FSI).It is completely compatible with the current ANSYS 9.0 software.

Continuing to improve upon its multiphysics technology, ANSYS 10.0offers superior capabilities for complex FSI problems. Positioned as acomplete FSI solution from a single vendor, it utilizes each of thebest-in-class technologies in stress and fluid flow analysis. A singlegeometry is used for both, with meshing appropriate to the specificphysics required. A high-speed protocol provides the communicationnecessary to perform dynamic FSI analysis. And it parallelizes onmulti-machine clusters for very large problem sizes.

"ANSYS 10.0 represents the latest in integrated CAE capability," saidJim Cashman, president and CEO at ANSYS, Inc. "We have continued toincrease the breadth and depth of the ANSYS simulation technology,while at the same time establishing an unprecedented level ofinteroperability between all forms of simulation and analysis."

Further strengthening the industry-specific capabilities in theWorkbench environment, ANSYS introduces design tools for rotatingmachinery and blade design. ANSYS 10.0 features ANSYS BladeModeler, a3-D rotating machinery design tool for bladed components andANSYS TurboGrid, a hexahedral meshing tool for bladedesign.

In the mechanical application area, ANSYS 10.0 includes thermaltransients implemented within ANSYS Workbench. To address theneed for efficient and timely execution of analysis problems ofever-increasing size and complexity, the ANSYS 10.0 parallel solver nowsupports new choices in both communications technology as well asprocessors. In addition to Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet. ANSYSWorkbench now is supported on Windows XP 64-bit for AMD and EMT64chipsets. This support eliminates the 2GB memory limit that many usersface when running large models on Windows. In addition, it provides theopportunity to add extra physical memory, which ANSYS uses to completethe entire solution without writing to the hard disk—usually the sourceof extended computation times.

Other features include a new modal port definition for high-frequencyelectromagnetics applications, gyroscopic effects that enhance theperformance of ANSYS for rotor dynamics application of turbomachinery,and structural-thermal-electric coupling enhancements fordirect-coupled field physics.

There are also meshing architecture improvements, and more. For more information, visit ansys.com.