ANSYS POLYFLOW 3.12 Improves Manufacturing Engineering

By DE Editors

ANSYS, Inc. (Southpointe, PA) released ANSYS POLYFLOW 3.12 for analysis of plastic and rubber processing, glass forming, and food processing. The company says this new version of ANSYS POLYFLOW technology is faster, more efficient, and can handle large problems. The ability to provide data to structural analysis software from ANSYS is built-in, which improves the accuracy of virtual prototyping predictions.

ANSYS POLYFLOW is known for its capability in modeling viscoelastic materials, which include many plastics, rubber, pastes, and dough. These materials, which exhibit behaviors in between those of fluids and solids, are difficult to simulate.

The addition of three efficient and robust solvers — fully coupled, multifrontal, and iterative — means users can run simulations on much larger meshes than ever before. 3D simulations for dies containing more than 3 million elements have been converged on a standard high-end computer in just a few hours. Significant speed-ups regularly exceed 100 percent on large simulations compared to previous releases.

Faster simulation opens the door in complex rubber, plastic extrusion, and coextrusion processes to optimization and automatic die balancing.

For glass applications, ANSYS POLYFLOW has added thermal stress relaxation and Narayanaswamy models, which are also available in ANSYS Mechanical software.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.