Ansys has brought out ANSYS 12.0, its engineering simulation platform and integrated technology that supports Simulation Driven Product DevelopmentGBP. Smart Engineering SimulationGBP from ANSYS 12.0 dramatically compresses design and analysis cycles, enabling parametric studies and design optimisation across multiple physics, increasing the accuracy and completeness of virtual prototypes and capturing and re-using simulation processes and data.
The ANSYS 12.0 software suite supports fast product-design and validation in a complete, highly usable virtual environment that captures complex and coupled physical phenomena - providing a high degree of confidence in product designs. ANSYS 12.0 allows engineers to access an unequalled depth and breadth of technology to compress their design processes and to create innovative products rapidly and cost effectively - while reducing the time and money invested in physical-prototype development and testing.
At the foundation of ANSYS 12.0 is the ANSYS WorkbenchGBP 2.0 platform, a flexible simulation environment that allows engineers to easily set up, visualise and manage simulations. The ANSYS Workbench environment captures and automates repeatable processes, providing dramatic productivity gains and enabling engineers to arrive at better designs faster. Engineers can easily investigate multiple what-if scenarios, optimise their designs across multiple physical phenomena and design for six sigma.
ANSYS 12.0 software allows customers to explore a complete range of dynamic behaviour, from frequency response to large overall motion of nonlinear, flexible multi-body systems. The suite encompasses a broad solver-portfolio that spans a full range of functionality, from structural mechanics to fluid dynamics to thermal analysis to electromagnetics. ANSYS 12.0 delivers a multiphysics capability that supports the most accurate and realistic simulations of product performance in the real world - assessing compound physical effects.
ANSYS 12.0 technology allows users to set up and manage coupled physics simulations with drag-and-drop ease. Together with its existing, coupled physics technology, ANSYS 12.0 establishes a smarter approach to comprehensive multiphysics simulations. With the introduction of the fluid-flow solver ANSYS FLUENT into the ANSYS Workbench platform, CFD practitioners can now leverage a parametric and persistent modelling environment and gain access to key enabling technologies such as bi-directional CAD integration, advanced meshing and powerful post-processing.
ANSYS 12.0 software is scalable and customisable. It allows individual customers to implement best-in-class technologies at levels appropriate for their own simulation needs. ANSYS 12.0 can be configured for advanced or professional users, deployed to a single user or enterprise and executed on laptops or massively parallel computer-clusters. ANSYS 12.0 is designed for dynamic CAE collaboration. It allows engineering teams to collaborate more efficiently on product design and development. Within a single project, several engineers can assess their designs within individual disciplines or easily co-ordinate multiphysics simulations.
To manage the workflow of a group of engineers and a myriad of projects, ANSYS Engineering Knowledge ManagerGBP (EKM) provides process and data management tools that allow engineers to easily archive, search, retrieve and report their simulation data. ANSYS 12.0 allows ANSYS Workbench users to connect directly to an installed ANSYS EKM data repository designed for enterprise or workgroup requirements, or deploy a single-user version of ANSYS EKM from ANSYS Workbench to manage simulation data on a local machine.
Volkswagen (VW), a German car manufacturer, has signed a master agreement with Ansys to use its multi-physics engineering simulation solutions. The decision to use Ansys software was based on its ability to address the bandwidth of applications and the fact that the Ansys Workbench platform allows for substantial process compression.
