ANSYS

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ANSYS

ANSYS Mechanical 8.0 running on Windows XP.
Developer:	ANSYS, Inc.
Latest release:	11.0 / 2007
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Finite Element Analysis Simulator
License:	Proprietary EULA
Website:	www.ansys.com

ANSYS is the original (and commonly used) name for ANSYS Mechanical or ANSYS Multiphysics, general-purpose finite element analysis software. ANSYS, Inc. actually develops a complete range of CAE products, but is perhaps best known for ANSYS Mechanical & ANSYS Multiphysics.

ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Multiphysics are self contained analysis tools incorporating pre-processing (geometry creation, meshing), solver and post processing modules in a unified graphical user interface. ANSYS is a general purpose finite element modeling package for numerically solving a wide variety of mechanical problems. These problems include: static/dynamic structural analysis (both linear and non-linear), heat transfer and fluid problems, as well as acoustic and electro-magnetic problems.

The software is used to analyze a broad range of applications. ANSYS Mechanical incorporates both structural and material non-linearities. ANSYS Multiphysics includes solvers for thermal, structural, CFD, electromagnetics, acoustics and can couple these separate physics together in order to address multi-disciplinary applications. ANSYS software is also used in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics and Chemistry.

ANSYS acquired the CFX computational fluid dynamics code in 2003 and announced the acquisition of Fluent, Inc. in 2006.