New Technologies and the ANSYS Technology Legacy

ANSYS Inc. has been acquiring technology and growing at a tremendous rate.

Recent ANSYS acquisitions include:

Harvard Thermal - The ICE family of products, Iceboard, Icechip, Icepack, Icemax. These products are focused on thermal management of printed circuit boards (PCB’s)

ICEM CFD - Advanced meshing modules- ANSYS AI*Env and ICEM CFD used extensively
when a high quality mesh is required for a difficult geometry.

Century Dynamics - AUTODYN, explicit solver for short duration events, specifically explosion analysis. In addition, these other software products, ASAS, AQWA, are used for Eularien CFD analysis in marine environments.

Fluent - world class computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software used extensively in
the chemical processing, oil and gas and biomedical industries.

CFX - world class computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software used extensively for the analysis of rotating equipment.

ANSYS/AUTODYN is
a powerful explicit analysis package designed to model the on-linear
dynamics of high speed events. The solver is well suited for modeling
solids, fluids, gases and the complex interaction between these phases. AUTODYN includes Lagrange, Euler, ALE, and SPH solvers and allows the use of any combination to best represent the physics of the model.
Advanced material models can simulate non-linear effects including
rate-dependent properties and a variety of failure models. All
thesefeatures make the solver very versatile and highly suited to
simulate eventsthat may include non-linear materials, strong
interaction between phases, large deformations/strains, and material
failure/fragmentation. Typical applications include analysis of
personal armour and armoured vehicles, effects of explosives on
buildings, aircraft impact, decommissioning of large structures, and
shielding against hyper-velocity particles for space applications.

Shock wave propagation and Stress Distribution in a demilitariazation unit for a 1/2 pound ordanance.