Computational fluid dynamics
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a tool with amazing flexibility, accuracy and breadth of application. But serious CFD, the kind that provides insights to help you optimize your designs, can be out of reach unless you choose your software carefully. To get serious CFD results, you need serious software. ANSYS CFD goes beyond qualitative results to deliver accurate quantitative predictions of fluid interactions and trade-offs. These insights reveal unexpected opportunities for your product — opportunities that even experienced engineering analysts can miss.
CFD simulation for every engineer
While ANSYS CFD empowers experienced analysts to deliver deep insights, serious CFD is not just for experts modeling rocket ships and racing cars. Engineers at every level across diverse industries are getting great value from CFD analysis. The ANSYS Customer Excellence (ACE) team has seen and solved a vast array of CFD simulation challenges and are ready to help you solve yours.
More CFD solutions
Go further and faster with well-validated CFD results across the widest range of general, specialty and multiphysics applications. ANSYS Fluent and ANSYS CFX provide fast results for virtually any fluid or multiphysics application, with industry-leading accuracy and robustness. This serious CFD software has the wide-ranging capabilities needed to solve your design problems today and in the future.
Solve complex fluid problems
Best-in-class CFD solvers extend the limits of what is possible, so you can maximize your product’s performance and efficiency. You can use ANSYS CFD analysis to innovate with breakthrough capabilities in turbomachinery, turbulence, combustion and in-flight icing.
Make better, faster decisions
Recent innovations to modeling, meshing, the user environment, high-performance computing and post-processing radically accelerate your time to results without compromising accuracy. They enable novice users to quickly become productive while giving experienced users greater opportunities to excel.
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Applications
Products
ANSYS Fluent
This powerful computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool delivers fast, accurate results across the widest range of CFD and multiphysics applications. Accomplish more in less time and with less training with the New Fluent Experience.
ANSYS CFX
ANSYS CFX is a high-performance computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool that delivers reliable and accurate solutions quickly for a wide range of applications, including leading capabilities for rotating machinery.
ANSYS Polyflow
Polyflow accelerates design while shrinking energy and raw material demands to make your manufacturing processes more cost-effective and environmentally sustainable. R&D teams use this technology extensively to design and optimize processes such as extrusion, thermoforming, blow molding, glass forming, fiber drawing and concrete shaping.
ANSYS FENSAP-ICE
FENSAP-ICE provides leading three-dimensional, state-of-the-art, design and aid-to-certification simulation software to provide enhanced aerodynamic and in-flight icing protection solutions in a cost-effective manner by addressing all five major aspects of in-flight icing.
ANSYS Chemkin-Pro
Fast, accurate combustion and reacting flow simulations help achieve performance and fuel-efficiency goals cost- effectively. Chemkin-Pro reduces chemistry analysis time by orders of magnitude without sacrificing accuracy.
ANSYS Forte
Forte rapidly predicts engine ignition and emissions. By incorporating proven ANSYS Chemkin-Pro solver technology — the gold standard for modeling and simulating gas phase and surface chemistry — Forte combines multicomponent fuel models with comprehensive spray dynamics. It delivers greater accuracy without compromising time-to-solution.
ANSYS Model Fuel Library
Advanced combustion simulation tools like ANSYS Forte and ANSYS Chemkin-Pro can take advantage of larger and more accurate fuel models and still provide fast time-to-solution. The Model Fuel Library provides a set of accurate real-fuel models that are easy to use in modern tools.
ANSYS BladeModeler
ANSYS BladeModeler software is a specialized, easy-to-use tool for the rapid 3D design of rotating machinery components. ANSYS BladeModeler is used to design axial, mixed-flow and radial blade components in applications such as pumps, compressors, fans, blowers, turbines, expanders, turbochargers, inducers and more.
ANSYS TurboGrid
ANSYS TurboGrid software includes novel technology that targets complete automation combined with an unprecedented level of mesh quality for even the most complex blade shapes. The desired final mesh size is defined (and, optionally, the blade boundary layer resolution), and all the other steps are performed automatically to produce a mesh of extremely high quality.
ANSYS VistaTF
As a 2D throughflow solver, it fills the space between 1D correlations and 3D CFD, providing rapid initial analysis of rotating machinery before proceeding to more rigorous and detailed 3D fluid flow simulations.
ANSYS CFD Premium
The basic budle of flow licenses. It allows you to run calculations in ANSYS Fluent or ANSYS CFX solver using up to 4 processor cores. In addition, the license allows you to work in the ANSYS Space Claim Direct Modeler and generate mesh in ANSYS Meshing. Additionally, the DesignXplorer optimization tool is available.
