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, ,
Physics and
Chemistry .
ANSYS acquired the
CFX Computational Fluid Dynamics code in
2003 and announced the acquisition of
Fluent, Inc. in
2006 .
