ANSYS/Professional

ANSYS/Mechanical

ANSYS/Multiphysics

ANSYS/Structural

STRUCTURAL LINEAR L i n e a r S t re s s Substructuring STRUCTURAL NONLINEAR Geometric Material Element CONTACT

Surface-to-Surface Node-to-Surface Node-to-Node P re t e n s i o n

DYNAMIC
Modal Spectrum Harmonic Random Vibration

STRUCTURAL TRANSIENT
Linear Nonlinear

BUCKLING
Linear Nonlinear

THERMAL
Steady-State Tr a n s i e n t Conduction C o nve c t i o n Radiation P h a s e C h a n ge

CFD
Steady-State Tr a n s i e n t I n c o m p re s s i b l e C o m p re s s i b l e Laminar Tu r b u l e n t N a t u r a l C o nve c t i o n Fo rc e d C o nve c t i o n Conjugate Heat Transfer Newtonian Viscosity Model Non-Newtonian Viscosity Model Multiple Species Free Surface ALE Formulation

ELECTROMAGNETIC
M ag n e t o s t a t i c Low Frequency Transient Low Frequency AC Harmonic
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Limited to user specified heat transfer film coefficients Limited to radiation to a constant temperature ambient surroundings boundary condition

ANSYS/ED

ANSYS, Inc. Family of Enterprise Solutions

ANSYS/Emag

DesignSpace

ANSYS/FLOTRAN

LS-DYNA PrepPost

ANSYS/LS-DYNA

ANSYS/PrepPost

A N S YS / M e c h a n i c a l

ANSYS/Multiphysics

ANSYS/Professional

A N S YS / S t r u c t u r a l

ANSYS/Emag

ELECTROMAGNETIC
C i rc u i t C o u p l e d Current Conduction E l e c t ro s t a t i c s Frequency Domain (AC Harmonic) H i g h Fre q u e n c y M o d a l Scattering Analysis

FIELD AND COUPLED-FIELD

Acoustics Acoustics/Structural E l e c t r i c / M ag n e t i c Fluid/Structural Fluid/Thermal M ag n e t i c / F l u i d M ag n e t i c / S t r u c t u r a l M ag n e t i c / T h e r m a l P i e zo e l e c t r i c Thermal/Electric Thermal/Structural E l e c t r i c / M ag / T h e r m a l / S t r u c t

SOLVERS
Fro n t a l Sparse I t e r a t i ve Explicit AMG1 DDS1

PREPROCESSING
I G E S G e o m e t r y Tr a n s f e r Defeaturing Solid Modeling Meshing Loads and Boundary Ta b u l a r L o a d s a n d B o u n d a r y Loads and Boundary Functions

POSTPROCESSING
C o n t o u r D i s p l ay s Ve c t o r D i s p l ay s Animation Results Listing Output2

GENERAL FEATURES
HTML Report Generation PDS Submodeling Optimization ANSYS Parametric Design Language Pa r a m e t r i c S i m u l a t i o n C A D Pa r a m e t e r C o n t ro l
1Part of the add-on product, Parallel Performance for ANSYS 2For ANSYS:WMF, EMF, JPEG,VRML, Postscript,TIFF. For DesignSpace: EPS,TIFF, UPS, BMP, PNS

A N S YS / E D

ANSYS, Inc. Family of Enterprise Solutions

A N S YS / F L OT R A N

A N S YS / L S - DY N A

LS-DYNA PrepPost

A N S YS / PrepPost

DesignSpace

Closest to Reality-it's what every engineer strives to achieve when analyzing designs. At ANSYS, Inc., we want to help our customers compete in today's furious-paced market by developing the Computer-Aided Engineering industry's most robust, realistic simulation software. ANSYS, Inc. provides tools tailored to meet the demands of diverse users in nearly every engineering industry. While delivering effective interoperability with other ANSYS, Inc. products and CAD platforms, the ANSYS, Inc. Family of Enterprise Solutions enables companies to see how their designs will react to the physical demands of the real world, allowing them to make crucial changes prior to production. Our customers depend on us to provide leading, simulation software that helps them to produce reliable products faster, while reducing costs. For more than 30 years, ANSYS, Inc. has built a solid reputation by providing cutting-edge software to engineers around the world.

For more information regarding ANSYS software, visit www.ansys.com

H a w k e s O c e a n Te c h n o l o g i e s San Anselmo, California

DesignSpace Product Line

The demands of todays fiercely competitive market can make or break a company. This is why the product design teams of so many organizations are phasing out the expensive and time-consuming traditional product development process in favor of three-dimensional CAD and up-front simulation. Using this process gives product designers and engineers the power to conceive, design and validate ideas right on their desktops, instead of spending unnecessary time or money fabricating tools, building parts and testing prototypes. Upfront simulation is especially beneficial in those early stages of the product development process, when the vast majority of the final product costs are determined. The company ultimately benefits because it results in optimal product performance and material costs. Adding DesignSpace, the up-front simulation tool fro m ANSYS, Inc., to an existing 3D CAD environment allows users to realize even faster product development cycles, with lower development costs. Designed for product designers and engineers wanting to use, but lacking experience with, traditional Finite Element Analysis, DesignSpace provides both the simulation capacity and necessary guidance to resolve many common engineering problems, such as safety factors, stresses, deformations, vibrations, temperature distributions and heat flows. DesignSpace is fully associative with major 3D CAD systems including SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Mechanical Desktop and Inventor. It supports CAD geometry, and makes testing and reporting results easier with state-ofthe-art features such as wizard technology and DesignSpace Report, an automatic,W eb-enabled report generator. By using DesignSpace as part of their product development process, numerous companies have been able to realize the product quality, time-to-market and cost-saving benefits of design-integrated simulation. Through its combination of "Knowledge-BasedAutomation," interactive Wizard technology and ANSYS solution capability, DesignSpace has distinguished itself as the foremost solution in up-front engineering tools.

W e used DesignSpace with extremely positive results on the Deep Flight Aviator Project. With DesignSpace and Autodesk's Inventor, we were able to quickly try various hull configurations and run stress analyses on each one to eventually decide on what we think is the optimal design for our application. Eric Hobson Mechanical Engineer

Home Gardener Manufacturing Co. L i t i t z , Pe n n s y l v a n i a

After just a few iterations, we brought the weight down from the pilot run parts by 40 percent. If DesignSpace helped us produce a better looking part with 15 percent less material, and you equate every processed pound of plastic to a dollar amount, its clear how much potential savings there is from one analysis. Thomas R. Hecht Design and T echnical Services Manager

ANSYS Product Line

The ANSYS product line offers software designed to meet the demands of your entire enterprise, fro m design engineers to senior analysts. Our diverse product line provides everything engineers need to improve communication and collaboration, thus resulting in reduced time to market, higher quality and increased productivity across the board. The ANSYS product line includes its time-tested, industry-leading applications for structural, thermal, mechanical, computational fluid dynamics and electromagnetic analyses, as well as solutions for transient impact analysis. ANSYS software solves for the combined effects of multiple forces, accurately modeling complex behaviors resulting from multiphysics interactions. The software also features advanced nonlinear material simulation and the best solvers money can buy. Whether a company specializes in power generation, aerospace, or tiny Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), only a product that simulates multiphysical interactions provides the full picture.The organization saves design time and resources, all while improving the quality of its products.

Oceaneering International, Inc. Upper Marlboro, Mar yland

Using ANSYS, we modeled the hull of the submarine to analyze the structural weaknesses of the hull, and to determine the critical points in supporting the structure during the recovery. ANSYS was a driving influence in the design of the recovery apparatus and key in a successful recovery operation of the H.L. Hunley. Leonard T .Whitlock Senior Project Manager Independent Consultant

Iv-Infra

Papendrecht, The Netherlands

Probabilistic Design System

Because probabilistic design studies help quantify the uncertainty in product behavior,ANSYS, Inc. has added a Probabilistic Design System to all of its products, making it feasible to study the effects of input parameter variations on product behavior. This new statistical functionality offers various distribution functions to simulate the variance of input parameters, including geometric dimensions, material properties, and loads and boundary conditions. These studies are essential in satisfying customer product requirements on such issues as quality, reliability, performance, availability and price.

Within the structural design of the British Airways London Eye, we have made great use of ANSYS. Because of the uniqueness of the wheel, we were able to measure the behavior of the structure on some elements in practice. The comparisons with the calculated values were astonishing.

Arie Lanser Manager, Engineering Department

ANSYS/Professional
ANSYS/Professional is an inexpensive, easy-to-use application that boasts the industry's leading solution power. A complete toolkit for structural and thermal simulation, it offers the ideal solution for users facing common analysis projects, but lacking experience with the ANSYS product line. Plus, its extensive capabilities enable users to deploy its full power at their own pace. With ANSYS/Professional, users can solve solid-to-solid and shell-to-shell assemblies with ease. The software offers something else that its competitors do not: the ability to access the traditional ANSYS Graphical User Interface for high-end analyses right from its intuitive Mechanical T oolbar. It's the perfect tool for the user who demands ease-of-use combined with a high level of functionality. In addition, ANSYS/Structural's pre-tension bolt capability has also been expanded to include multiple load steps. This capability is ideal for analyzing bolted-joint assemblies and general fastener assemblies, including rivets.

ANSYS/Mechanical
ANSYS/Mechanical, the centerpiece of the ANSYS Family of Products, is designed to perform both linear and nonlinear analyses. It contains the industry's most robust structural nonlinear analysis capabilities, including complex multi-body contact. ANSYS/Mechanical melds state-of-the-art technology with solution algorithms to meet the needs of users in various industries around the world. There is quite simply no better tool on the market today for determining stresses, forces, temperatures, displacements and contact pressure distributions. ANSYS/Mechanical has the ability to combine both thermal and structural environments for analysis. Its coupled-field capabilities make acoustic, piezoelectric, thermal-structural and thermal-electric analyses possible. Additional features include contact capabilities, as well as complete steady-state and transient thermal analyses featuring convection, conduction, radiation and phase change. This product also offers enhanced technology to deliver improved usability and performance. The implementation of mixed U-P formulation, using Lagrange multipliers, helps ensure better convergence and robustness for incompressible hyper-elastic materials such as rubbers and polymers. This new formulation can be used in conjunction with B-bar, URI, and classical displacement. Further,ANSYS/Mechanical contains the most complete line of solvers available to resolve extensive and intricate real-world problems. It utilizes a complete range of nonlinear and linear elements, as well as a full complement of nonlinear and linear material laws, fro m metals to rubbers and polymers.

ANSYS/Structural
Offering the most robust nonlinear capabilities for designs strictly requiring structural analysis, ANSYS/Structural contains the most complete line of solvers for handling large and complex assemblies, as well as a full complement of nonlinear elements and a comprehensive set of nonlinear and linear material laws. ANSYS/Structural delivers increased flexibility, accuracy and speed with the addition of nonlinear material models and several enhancements in element technology. The implementation of mixed U-P formulation, using Lagrange multipliers, helps to ensure better convergence and robustness for incompressible hyperelastic materials such as rubbers and polymers. ANSYS/Structural offers a variety of inelastic material models to simulate real world conditions. Users can choose from MooneyRivlin, Neo-Hookean, Polynomial, Arruda-Boyce and Ogden models to accurately simulate incompressible materials. Furthermore, a new user-programmable feature for constitutive modeling provides the means for constructing custom material models, as well as links to third party libraries.

ANSYS/Multiphysics
As one of the flagship products, ANSYS/Multiphysics allows users to couple structural, thermal, fluidic and electromagnetic effects simultaneously on designs. This coupling of effects, in which one is dependent upon the behavior of another, is known as coupled-field or "multiphysics" simulation. This technology helps companies build better products more efficiently and at a lower cost; helping to ensure its competitiveness in today's fast-paced business world. ANSYS/Multiphysics offers a new material definition GUI, along with new material models for hyperelasticity, viscoplasticity and plasticity. An Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) scheme performs time-accurate fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulations, along with a new FSSOLV macro for static FSI cases. It also offers surface-to-surface thermal radiation capabilities for CFD problems. Plus, with ANSYS/Multiphysics, users can study volumeof-fluid surface tension effects for capillary and droplettype flows. Other features include new thermalmechanical contact elements, tangential vector HighFrequency electromagnetics elements for resonant, propagating, radiation and scattering phenomena, along with Perfectly Matched Layers boundaries for efficient reductions in HF far-field meshing requirements.

ANSYS/LS-DYNA
By leveraging industry-leading explicit dynamic technology from the Livermore Software T echnology Corporation, ANSYS/LS-DYNA is the premier software for the simulation of explicit dynamic engineering problems. ANSYS/LS-DYNA integrates best-in-class explicit dynamic technology with the ANSYS GUI, enabling robust pre- and post-processing. The software also offers restart capabilities and support for two-dimensional elements, both of which dramatically reduce solution time.

ANSYS/FLOTRAN
Solving a wide variety of CFD problems, ANSYS/FLOTRAN is the very definition of flexible and easy-to-use CFD software. Manufacturing companies in industries ranging from automotive, aerospace and heavy machinery, to computers, electronics and MEMS devices, use ANSYS/FLOTRAN to produce high-quality designs and reduce costly prototyping cycles. With ANSYS/FLOTRAN, users can conduct free-surface simulations, including surface tension effects, enabling the user to predict the time-dependent behavior of capillary and droplet break-off flows.

ANSYS/Emag
The price/performance leader in the industry, ANSYS/Emag contains extensive analysis capabilities that include static, transient, and harmonic low-frequency and electromagnetic tools. Available as an independent module or as an add-on feature,ANSYS/Emag can simulate electrostatics, circuits and current conductions, as well as charged-particle tracing in both electrostatic and magnetostatic fields. The software also features the T refftz domain method, which brings hybrid boundary element methods to address far-field simulation. The ANSYS T refftz domain method combines the strengths of finite element and boundary element simulation methods.

ANSYS/ED
ANSYS/ED is an economical and complete introduction to the ANSYS product line. Designed specifically for training, ANSYS/ED offers students, professors and professionals a low-cost, problem size-limited alternative version of ANSYS/Multiphysics. The software provides access to design analysis capabilities for a low fee. Learning all dimensions of the ANSYS product line, including preprocessing, solution and post-processing, before purchasing a full license of ANSYS/Multiphysics, ensures a maximum return on investment.

ANSYS/PrepPost
The idea behind software that contains only the preand post-processors of ANSYS product line technology is to provide cost savings to ANSYS users. Available as an add-on feature to other ANSYS product line members or as an independent module,ANSYS/PrepPost software allows users to purchase ANSYS technology at a cost-effective price, since solvers are not included. Essentially,ANSYS/PrepPost is used for model preparation, application of loads, meshing, results analysis and viewing. With a majority of analysts time spent on the pre- and post-processing of a model, ANSYS/PrepPost allows companies to make these two stages more efficient. In addition, the AMG solver works well with models typically difficult for other types of iterative solvers. The DDS is a scalable solver designed for use in a distributed-memory environment or a combination of both distributed- and shared-memory environments. It is intended for large static or full transient analyses with symmetric matrices that do not involve pre-stress, inertia relief, coupling or constraint equations. DDS divides a model into multiple domains, that is, contiguous groupings of finite elements drawn from the complete model. Unlike other schemes, which typically have a single domain associated with each CPU, DDS typically has multiple domains associated with each CPU. Because of excellent serial solvers available within ANSYS, DDS typically requires six or more processors in order to outperform other solvers. This solver is expected to scale to tens of processors, even over a network. DDS should also be utilized in cases where no single computer system has adequate memory to solve a large model. Parallel Performance for ANSYS offers engineers the benefit of decreased time to completion, as well as the option of using either multiprocessing servers or a cluster of workstations networked together. As the quest for high fidelity increases model size, complexity and more nonlinear behavior, Parallel Performance for ANSYS, with its AMG and DDS solvers, will lead the way in bringing engineering simulation closest to reality!

ANSYS/LS-DYNA PrepPost
Created to cost-effectively assist ANSYS/LS-DYNA users with pre- and post-processing involved in analysis work, ANSYS/LS-DYNA PrepPost allows viewing of numerous results after simulation. In addition to nodal and element outputs, users may review descriptions of resultant forces and sliding energy.

Parallel Performance for ANSYS

As the engineering industry adopts multiprocessing as a necessity,ANSYS, Inc. is ready to meet the challenge with its new add-on product, Parallel Performance for ANSYS. This brand new software add-on can be easily integrated into other powerful ANSYS solutions, such as ANSYS/Mechanical and ANSYS/Structural. Using its two new solvers, the Algebraic Multigrid Solver and Distributed Domain Solver, engineers can affordably resolve large and complex engineering problems many times faster than before. The AMG Solver is intended for use on shared memory, multiprocessing servers. It scales well for up to eight processors, yet maintains excellent performance levels with as few as two processors.

S ervices & Support

Successful business solutions drive successful businesses. ANSYS, Inc. is an innovative, dynamic company giving full attention to the corporate-wide engineering needs of its customers by offering an extensive range of customer services and solutions. Quick Start The quick start program training is a service offered to ANSYS customers who desire direct hands-on assistance with their first application. This service is intended to help the client realize an immediate return on their investment in the ANSYS program. Additionally, the quick-start program will provide invaluable guidance and personalized instruction aimed at maximizing the client's productivity. Quick-start training can take many forms, from one-on-one mentoring, to customized courses, to complete pilot analysis projects. Customization General-purpose commercial CAE software may not meet all of the distinctive requirements of your company. In such cases, we can tailor the ANSYS program to your organization's needs with custom interfaces and capabilities. W e can write ANSYS macros to automate repetitive analysis tasks. Alternatively, for unusual tasks, we can add specialty features such as a new material behavior model or a special element. Many companies have found that the costs of such customization can be quickly recouped through improved productivity and enhanced competitive advantage.

Customer Services Business Unit

The Customer Services Business Unit at ANSYS, Inc. exceeds industry standards when addressing customers' needs. Providing T echnical Support, Customization Services,T raining and Sales to worldwide vendors, ANSYS, Inc. guarantees the ultimate value of customer satisfaction and appreciation. Technical Enhancements and Customer Support The TECS program is offered to address industry-wide engineering problems by providing a multitude of valueadded services, with focus on keeping customers up to date with the latest releases of ANSYS, Inc. software. Customers receive priority service benefits for a yearly fee, which include updated software releases, customer support, online Customer Zone, worldwide call-tracking system and timely releases of corrective and adaptive maintenance. T o remain competitive in any industry, TECS is a smart investment for your future! Training T raining courses are invaluable for the success of any ANSYS user, and company success begins with the proper training. At ANSYS, Inc., success for our customers starts by being more productive and driving your products to market easily and efficiently. Offering a multitude of training courses from the ANSYS curriculum, we provide practical, real-world instruction, based on years of engineering consulting and expertise. These courses are presented through a mix of classroom lectures, demonstrations, and practical hands-on exercises.

Partnering Opportunities
ANSYS, Inc. aggressively seeks to maximize the quality and breadth of its product offerings and services by partnering with other providers of CAE software and related technologies. This effort is embodied in, among other things, the Enhanced Solution Partner program, which helps companies integrate ANSYS functionality with their own software. One of the biggest problems facing users of CAD and CAE applications is that the data exported from CAD platforms is often not suitable for immediate usage in CAE platforms. With CADfix for ANSYS, the result

Application Service Provider Program

of a partnership between ANSYS, Inc. and International T echneGroup Incorporated (ITI), this problem is a mere memory. CADfix for ANSYS automatically identifies geometry flaws in transit and corrects them for smooth and immediate usage in ANSYS software.The flaws that are not corrected automatically are identified to the user via a series of intuitive prompts that guide the user to a manual remedy. ANSYS, Inc. now offers a unique Application Service Provider Program that allows users to run large ANSYS simulations via the Internet or dedicated lines. e-CAE.com was created for users requiring higher processing speeds for time-critical simulations, or occasional simulations of large models. e-CAE.com serves as a conduit to our remote data centers, complete with multiple parallel processing servers, which have the capacity to accept "batch" jobs with specific controls or job execution parameters. It also features state-of-the-art security and systems infrastructure from respected providers such as Cisco Systems, SGI, Sun, HewlettPackard and others. The ANSYS e-CAE.com ASP Program requires a subscription to one of two plans.The Surge Capacity Plan is designed for users requiring faster solution time and the Periodic User Plan is tailored to meet the needs of users requiring occasional use of simulation software. For more information, contact an ANSYS Support Distributor or visit www.e-CAE.com.

Education Program
In addition to ANSYS/ED software,ANSYS, Inc.s Educational Partnership Program offers universities the opportunity to develop integrated software applications using ANSYS, Inc. technology. If the resultant applications are marketable, the institution may be eligible to become an ESP partner. Such arrangements can lead to revenue-sharing for the institution. E ven as the institution educates its students using state-of-the-art CA E tools, it potentially undertakes a lucrative partnership with ANSYS, Inc. In collaboration with Design News magazine,ANSYS, Inc. sponsors an annual College Design Engineering Contest open to all North American collegiate design teams.

ANSYS Solutions Magazine

ANSYS, Inc., with Penton Media, Inc., produce a trade magazine, ANSYS Solutions, for ANSYS users and those considering an ANSYS, Inc. software investment.The magazine contains in-depth articles on topics in CAE, editorials from prominent industry personalities, tips for effective use of ANSYS, Inc. software, product updates and stories about ANSYS software implementation.

For more information regarding any ANSYS, Inc. programs or partnerships, please visit www.ansys.com.

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