Capabilities Chart

A comprehensive checklist of ANSYS capabilities

Complete Simulation Solutions Pre/Post Solutions

Advanced Meshing

ANSYS PrepPostTM
Professional NLS

CFX PrepPostTM
Multiphysics TM

Professional TM

DesignSpace®

ANSYS® ICEM CFDTM

DesignSpace
Structural TM

LS-DYNA ®
Structural
ANSYS® CFX®
Emag TM

CFX®

TM
ED
Capability
Structural Analysis
Analysis Types
Static • • • • • • • •
Modal • • • • • • • •
Bucking - linear • • • • • • • •
Buckling - nonlinear • • • • • •
Transient • • • [C-1] [C-1] •
Spectrum • • • • • •
Harmonic • • • [C-1] [C-1] •
Random vibration • • • •
Substructuring • • • •
Shape optimization • • • • • • • •
Geometric Nonlinearity
Large strain • • • • • •
Large deflection • • • [C-2] • • •
Stress stiffening • • • • • •
Spin softening • • • • • •
Material Modeling
Linear material models • • • • • • • • •
Nonlinear material models • • • [C-3] • •
Contact Modeling
Surface-to-surface • • • • • • • • •
Node-to-surface • • • • • • • • •
Node-to-node • • • • • •
Beam-to-beam • • • • • •
Beam-to-surface • • • • • •
Pretension (bolts, etc.) • • • • • • • •
Interface (gaskets) • • • •
Spot welds • • • • • •
 Complete Simulation Solutions Pre/Post Solutions

ANSYS® PrepPostTM
Advanced Meshing
Professional NLS

CFX® PrepPostTM
Multiphysics TM

Professional TM

DesignSpace®
DesignSpace®
Mechanical TM

Structural TM

LS-DYNA TM
Structural

Emag TM

CFX®

TM
ED
Capability
Advanced Analysis
Rotordynamics • • • •
Component mode synthesis • • • •
Cyclic symmetry analysis • • • • • •
Rezoning • • • •
Submodeling • • • • • •
Element birth and death • • • • • •
Thermal Analysis
Analysis Types
Steady-state • • • • • • •
Transient • • • • •
Thermal Modeling
Conduction • • • • • • •
Convection • • • • • • •
Radiation • • • • •
Phase change • • • • •
Fluid Dynamics
Steady-state/transient flow • • •
Incompressible/compressible flow • • •
Laminar/turbulent flow • • •
Forced and natural convection • • •
Conjugate and radiation heat transfer • • •
Multiple species transport • • •
Newton and non-Newtonian viscosities • • •
Rotating frames of reference • • •
Distributed resistances and sources • • •
Free surfaces by VOF method 2-D 3-D 2-D
Deformable meshes (ALE formulation) • • •
Porous media model • • •
Solution-based mesh adaption •
Generalized grid interfaces •
Equilibrium real gas thermodynamics •
Multiple frames of reference [C-4]
Lagrangian particle tracking [C-4]
Multiphase flows [C-4]
Reacting and combusting species [C-4]
Predictive laminar to turbulent
transition model [C-4]
Monte Carlo radiation model [C-4]
Scalable parallel performance [C-4]
Electromagnetics – Low-Frequency
Electrostatics • • •
Magnetostatics • • •
Low-frequency electromagnetics • • •
Current conduction • • •
Circuit analysis and coupling • • •
Ion optics–– charged particles • • •
Low-frequency electric • • •
Low-frequency magnetic • • •
Steady-state • • •
Harmonic • • •
Transient • • •
 Complete Simulation Solutions Pre/Post Solutions

ANSYS® PrepPostTM
Advanced Meshing

CFX® PrepPostTM
Professional NLS
Multiphysics TM

Professional TM

DesignSpace®
DesignSpace®
Mechanical TM

Structural TM

LS-DYNA TM
Structural

Emag TM

CFX®

TM
ED
Electromagnetics – High-Frequency
Modal • •
Harmonic • •
Scattering • •
Perfect electric & magnetic conductors • •
Impedence boundaries • •
Perfectly matched absorber boundaries • •
Near and far field extension • •
Periodic structures • •
Frequency selective surface (FSS) • •
Antenna radiation patterns • •
Radar cross section (RCS) • •
Specific absorption rate (SAR) • •
Coupled Physics
Acoustics • • •
Acoustics-structural • • •
Electric-magnetic • • •
Fluid-structural • [C-5] [C-5] •
Fluid-thermal • • •
Electromagnetic-fluid • •
Magnetic-structural • •
Electromagnetic-thermal • •
Piezoelectric • • •
Piezoresitive • •
Thermal-electric • • • •
Thermal-structural • • • • • • •
Thermal-electric-structural • •
Electromagnetic-thermal-structural • •
Electrostatic-structural • •
Reduced order modeling (ROM) • •
Multi-field general purpose solver • [C-5] [C-5] •
Solvers
Iterative [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] • • [C-6] •
Sparse direct [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] • • [C-6] •
Frontal (wavefront) [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] •
Algebraic multi-grid (AMG) [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] •
Distributed memory PCG [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6]
Distributed memory JCG [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6]
Distributed sparse (Dsparse) [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6] [C-6]
Explicit • •
Pre-processing
Solid modeling • • • • [C-7] [C-7] [C-7] • • • [C-7] [C-7] •
IGES geometry transfer • • • • • • • • • • • •
Defeaturing • • • • [C-7] [C-7] [C-7] • • • • [C-7] •
Geometry repair • • • • [C-7] [C-7] [C-7] • • • •
Faceted data handling •
Shrinkwrapping •
Midsurfacing • • • • [C-7] [C-7] [C-7] • • [C-7] •
Variable thickness mid-surfacing •
Beam modeling • • • • • • • •
Automatic surface meshing • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Automatic tetrahedral meshing • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Automatic prism inflation layers • • • • • • • • • •
Automatic hexa-core meshing • •
Automatic swept hex-meshing • • • • • • • • • • • •
Thin-sweep meshing • • • • • • • • • • • •
Automatic hexa-dominant meshing • • • [C-8] [C-8] [C-8] [C-8] • • [C-8] • • [C-8]
 Complete Simulation Solutions Pre/Post Solutions

ANSYS® PrepPostTM
Advanced Meshing
Professional NLS

CFX® PrepPostTM
Multiphysics TM

Professional TM

DesignSpace®
DesignSpace®
Mechanical TM

Structural TM

LS-DYNA TM
Structural

Emag TM

CFX®

TM
ED
Body-fitted Cartesian meshing •
Structured surface meshing (blocking) •
Structured hex meshing (blocking) •
Solid model loads and boundary • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Tabular loads and boundary • • • • • • • • • • • •
Function loads and boundary • • • • • • • • • • •
CFD boundary conditions • [C-9] •
CFX command expression language • •
CFD turbomachinery pre-processing [C-10] • [C-10]
Parameterization of an existing mesh [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] •
Mesh morphing • [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] [C-11] • [C-11] [C-11]
Mesh editing • • • • • • • • • •
Mesh repair (remeshing, etc) • • •
Post-Processing
Contour displays • • • • • • • • • • • •
Vector displays • • • • • • • • • • • •
Isosurface displays • • • • • • • • • • • •
Slicing planes • • • • • • • • • • • •
Quantitative calculations • • • • • • • • • •
Particle tracing • • • • • • •
Animations • • • • • • • • • • • •
Annotated graphs • • • • • • • • • • • •
Results listings • • • • • • • • • • • •
Output (VMRL, Postscript, TIFF, etc.) • • • • • • • • •
CFD turbomachinery post-processing • •
General
Report generator • • • • • • • • • • • •
Probabilistic design system • • • • • • •
Robust design [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] • [C-12]
Design optimization [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] [C-12] • [C-12] •
ANSYS Parametric Design Language • • • • • • [C-12] • • •
CFX command language • •
Parameter manager • • • • • • • • • • • •
CAD parameter access [C-13] [C-13] [C-13] [C-13] [C-13] [C-13] [C-13] [C-13] [C-13] [C-13] •

[C-1] Limited to mode-superposition method only [C-6] More than 2 processors are available through the ANSYS [C-10] In addition, ANSYS BladeModeler and ANSYS TurboGrid
[C-2] Not available for 2-D plane and 3-D solid elements Mechanical HPC add-on module complete our specialized turbomachinery solution
[C-3] Limited hyperelasticity and plasticity nonlinear material support [C-7] Available with ANSYS DesignModeler product [C-11] Available with the ANSYS Mesh Morpher product
[C-4] Available through an add-on module [C-8] Available through the Advanced Structural Meshing [C-12] Available through the ANSYS DesignXplorer
[C-5] ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS CFX can be used together for add-on module add-on module
two-way FSI analysis [C-9] Available with CFD Utilities add-on for AI*Environment [C-13] Available as geometry Interface for various CAD systems

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