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Ansys Fluent
Logiciel de simulation des fluides

Ansys Fluent est le logiciel de simulation de fluides leader sur le marché, connu pour ses capacités de modélisation physique avancées et sa précision de pointe.

Logiciel CFD RAPIDE ET PRÉCIS

Ansys Fluent aide à prendre des décisions meilleures et plus rapides grâce à l'innovation

Ansys Fluent vous donne plus de temps pour innover et optimiser la performance de vos produits. Confiez vos résultats de simulation à un logiciel CFD qui a été largement validé dans un large éventail d'applications. Ansys Fluent vous permet de créer des modèles physiques avancés et d'analyser une grande variété de phénomènes fluides, le tout dans un espace personnalisable et intuitif.

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    User-Friendly Interface
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    Single Window, Streamlined Workflow
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    Best-in-Class Physics Models
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    Parallel Capabilities for Meshing and Solving

Spécifications rapides

Accélérez votre cycle de conception avec ce puissant logiciel de simulation des fluides. Ansys Fluent contient les meilleurs modèles physiques de sa catégorie et peut résoudre avec précision et efficacité des modèles complexes et de grande taille.

  • Task-Based Workflows
  • Turbulence Modeling
  • Single and Multiphase Flows
  • Reduced Order Models
  • Expressions
  • Acoustics
  • Combustion
  • Shape Optimization
  • Overset Mesh
  • Conjugate Heat Transfer
  • Fluid-Structure Interaction
  • HPC

July 2024

What's New

In 2024 R2, Ansys Fluent continues to deliver critical enhancements to improve solver performance, end-user productivity, and added capabilities to industry-specific workflows.

2024 R2 Fluids Fluent GPU update
Expanded Use Cases and Hardware Options for the Fluent GPU Solver

Support is now available to run the Fluent GPU solver on AMD GPU cards, enabling broader hardware options for our users. Added physics includes compressible flows, DO radiation, anisotropic conductivity, and more.

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New Functionality for the Fluent Web Interface

The Fluent Web interface allows you to connect or launch your Fluent simulations on a web browser and start/stop/pause your simulations in real time. Updates in 2024 R2 include limited model set-up support, a template to connect to HPC, a multi-select context menu, and more.

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Advancements for Aerospace Use Cases

Updates to the Fluent Aero workspace (dedicated to external aerodynamics studies of aerospace applications) include compatibility with the virtual blade model (VBM) with the DBNS solver. Parametric post-processing is also now available to post-process numerous design points simultaneously. Automated PUMA mesh adaption is also now available.     

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Fluent Updates for Aerospace Applications

Aerospace application updates include accuracy improvements to the two-temperature equation model for high-speed flight regimes that now match better with measured data. The Virtual Blade Model (VBM), widely used for rotorcraft and urban air mobility applications, now includes additional outputs, including Xp-force and Yp-force.

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PyFluent Improvements

PyFluent updates include an improved workflow interface for a cleaner and more efficient programming style, new API availability to access and modify volumetric solution data, and usability improvements of field-data APIs with a purpose-designed interface for more straightforward interpretation.

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AI/ML for Turbulence Modeling

Turbulence model tuning with AI/ML is now available. The adjoint solver and AI/ML calibrate GEKO coefficients against a high-fidelity LES solution, yielding LES-level accuracy at the cost of RANS.

Applications

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Gas Turbines

Gas Turbines

Ansys gas turbine simulation solution enables you to design and optimize the next generation of gas turbines.

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FAQs

Ansys Fluent is a general-purpose computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software used to model fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, chemical reactions, and more. Fluent offers a modern, user-friendly interface that streamlines the CFD process from pre- to post-processing within a single window workflow. Fluent is known for its advanced physics modeling capabilities, which include turbulence modeling, single and multiphase flows, combustion, battery modeling, fluid-structure interaction, and much more.

Also known for its efficient HPC scaling, large models can easily be solved in Fluent on multiple processors on either CPU or GPU. Multiple solver options are available, including pressure-based and density-based CPU solvers to cover low-speed to hypersonic flows and a pressure-based native GPU solver.

To install Ansys Fluent, first, you will have to download the Fluids package from the Download Center in the Ansys Customer Portal. Once the Fluids package is downloaded, you can follow the steps below.

  1. Open the Ansys Installation Launcher and select Install Ansys Products. Read and accept the clickwrap to continue.
  2. Click the right arrow button to accept the default values throughout the installation.
  3. Paste your hostname in the Hostname box on the Enter License Server Specification step and click Next.
  4. When selecting the products to install, check the Fluid Dynamics box and Ansys Geometry Interface box.
  5. Continue to click Next until the products are installed, and finally, click Exit to close the installer.

If you need more help downloading the License Manager or other Ansys products, please reference these videos from the Ansys How To Videos YouTube channel.

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Data can be exported after a Fluent calculation by selecting File - Export - Solution Data. Fluent allows users to export data to Mechanical APDL input, ASCII, ACS, CDAT, CGNS, CFF, EnSight Case Gold, and many other formats. To export data during a transient calculation, you will have to set up the case file so that the solution and particle history data are exported as the calculation progresses. This can be done by creating an automatic export definition using the Calculations Activities Task Page. Click the Create button under Automatic Export and select Solution Data Export, then select the file type, cell zones, surfaces, and quantities you would like to export.

Current customers can download Ansys Fluent from the Download Center in the Ansys Customer Portal. For those who are not current customers but are interested in trying Fluent, Ansys offers a free 30-day trial of Fluent upon request that comes with a CAD model and step-by-step pdf and mp4 tutorial. If you are a student, you can download our free student software and use it along with our free courses, support community, and a wealth of student-focused tutorials. 

Ansys offers a variety of options for users of all skill levels to learn how to use Ansys Fluent. If you are interested in enhancing your simulation and general physics knowledge of fluids, Ansys offers Ansys Innovation Courses, which are free courses that will teach you the underlying physics in a problem and how Fluent is used to help solve this problem  https://courses.ansys.com/index.php/fluids/

For introductory product-specific step-by-step tutorials, new feature videos, and general tips & tricks, we have the Ansys How to Videos on YouTube  

Finally, the Ansys Learning Hub provides you with all the training resources needed to learn Ansys Fluent from the ground up. The Learning Hub has self-paced video courses, CAD models, best practice guides, demo videos, and learning rooms for questions and discussions to learn from the Ansys experts. 

Ansys Fluent has two guided workflows to mesh a CAD model, the watertight geometry workflow and the fault-tolerant meshing workflow. Both workflows accelerate meshing by organizing the process into a user-friendly, task-based workflow that offers relevant choices and options but also has the flexibility to be customized. The watertight geometry workflow is for watertight CAD geometries that do not require much clean-up and modifications. The fault-tolerant meshing workflow is for more complicated non-water-tight CAD geometries that may require some clean-up and modifications (defects such as overlaps, intersections, holes, duplicates, etc.). 

Mesh quality can be improved in a variety of places in Ansys Fluent. If you are still in the process of generating your mesh in Fluent Meshing mode, you can insert a task after both the 'Generate the Surface Mesh' task and 'Generate the Volume Mesh' task by right-clicking on either one and inserting a new 'Improve Mesh' task. To improve the surface mesh, you will have to enter a face quality limit to target, and when improving the volume mesh, you will have to enter a cell quality limit value to target. If you are in Fluent Solution mode, you can improve the mesh quality by selecting the improve the mesh option on the Quality button under the Domain tab. When selected, you will then enter the percentage of the total cells to be improved, and the number of iterations of smoothing sweeps performed.

Poor mesh quality can also be caused by insufficient mesh resolution of geometry details or by poor underlying CAD. Local mesh refinement controls can resolve geometry details appropriately, and poor CAD models can be improved in SpaceClaim/Discovery, or you can use Fluent's Fault Tolerant meshing workflow, which is robust to CAD faults.

Ansys Fluent generates accurate and reliable fluid simulation results

Ansys Fluent unlocks new potentials for CFD analysis.  A fluid simulation software with fast pre-processing and faster solve times to help you be the fastest to break into the market. Fluent’s industry leading features enable limitless innovation, while never making a compromise on accuracy.

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Key Features

Explore the best fluid simulation tools on the market in an efficient, customizable workspace

  • Streamlined Workflows
  • Battery Modeling
  • Electric Motor Cooling
  • Turbulence Modeling
  • Multiphase Flows
  • Combustion Models

Accélérez vos pré et post-traitements grâce à des flux de travail rationalisés pour le maillage et les configurations d'applications.

Fluent a des flux de travail personnalisables, basés sur des tâches pour le prétraitement afin d'aider à accélérer le processus de génération d'un maillage de haute qualité prêt pour la CFD. Ces flux de travail sont destinés à la fois à la CAO propre et à la CAO sale. Les flux d'applications sont rationalisés afin de réduire le nombre de clics et de panneaux auxquels l'utilisateur doit faire face. Ces flux de travail incluent la modélisation multiphase, les batteries, l'optimisation des formes, l'aérodynamique et plus encore.

Advance your battery design and safety with rapid, accurate simulation. Electrochemistry can be used for age and life prediction. Battery thermal management and runaway can be simulated to ensure top performance and safety. A reduced order model (ROM) can be created by extracting key thermal characteristics to analyze temperature in seconds.

Electric motor cooling is critical as you move to higher power, high-efficiency equipment. Fluent can be used to find the appropriate cooling mechanism for an electric motor. Optimize this method, whether it's natural, water or spray cooled, to ensure motor efficiency is not impacted and magnets are not damaged.

A wide range of turbulence models are available to choose the right model for your application. Fluent offers a wide range of turbulence models including the industry-leading Generalized k-ω (GEKO) model. GEKO is a revolutionary concept with tunable coefficients that can be adjusted to different flow regimes.

Accurately simulate multiphase flows including gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, gas-solid, particle flows and even DEM. Different modeling approaches are needed as you move from single to multiphase flow applications, and Ansys understands this. To help accurately predict these challenging flows, we offer a wide range of models for gas, liquid, solid, particle flows and even DEM to get you the most accurate results.

Prévoyez avec précision les interactions entre les fluides et les solides à partir des charges de pression et/ou thermiques. Résolvez votre défi d'interaction fluide-structure pour vous assurer que votre produit est sûr, fiable et optimisé. Fluent peut résoudre les problèmes de FSI de façon autonome et se couple avec Ansys Mechanical pour les simulations de fluide les plus complexes.

Accurate combustion models allow you to gain insight into system performance and flow phenomena.

Assuring you have accurate combustion is critical for the precise mix of turbulence, chemistry and the interaction between them. Fluent offers accurate and validated reacting flow models for your combustion applications.

ANSYS FLUENT RESOURCES & EVENTS

Technical Papers

Technical Paper
Ansys Webinar
Best Practice: Generalized k-⍵ Two-Equation Turbulence Model in Ansys CFD (GEKO)D

Ansys developed a new turbulence model family called Generalize k-w (GEKO) model with the goal of turbulence model consolidation. GEKO is a two-equation model, based on the k-w model formulation, but with the flexibility to tune the model over a wide range of flow scenarios.

Technical Paper
Ansys webinar
Best Practice: Scale-Resolving Simulations in Ansys CFD

This report is intended as an addition to the code-specific Theory and User Documentation available for both Ansys Fluent and Ansys CFX. That documentation describes in detail how to select and activate these models, so that information is not repeated here. 

Technical Paper
Ansys
Best Practice: RANS Turbulence Modeling in Ansys CFD

The goal of this paper is to guide a user through the process of optimal RANS model selection within the Ansys CFD codes, especially Ansys Fluent and Ansys CFX.



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