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Turn Flow into Insight with Ansys Fluid Simulation

Empower your engineering designs with world-class Ansys products for CFD, thermal, and multiphysics fluid analysis. From concept to final product, ensure your systems are efficient, reliable, and high-performing.

Ansys Fluids is a comprehensive fluid simulation platform designed to help engineers analyze, validate, and optimize fluid systems. Whether it’s internal flow, external aerodynamics, heat exchangers, or multiphase systems, Ansys Fluids provides powerful tools. Engineers can predict flow behavior, optimize thermal performance, reduce prototyping costs, and accelerate product development cycles.

Core Products

Ansys CFD

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Ansys Blademodeler

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Ansys VistaTF

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Ansys Rocky DEM

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Ansys CFD - ️Simulate the Physics

Perform detailed CFD analysis with turbulence, heat transfer, and multiphase capabilities.

Overview:

Ansys CFD is the core fluid simulation environment for analyzing steady and transient flows, turbulence, heat transfer, and multiphase systems. Engineers can simulate compressible, incompressible, reacting, or non-reacting flows with high accuracy.

 

Used for: aerodynamic studies, valve and pump design, HVAC and electronics cooling, and coupled fluid–structure interactions.

Key Benefit: Predict performance under real operating conditions, reduce prototyping time, and improve flow efficiency early in design.

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What's in it for Engineers


Fluid Dynamics Mastery
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Fluent's advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) capabilities allow engineers to model and optimize airflow, heat transfer, and fluid interactions. This is especially useful in industries like aerospace, automotive, and HVAC, where air or fluid flow is crucial to performance.

Detailed Turbulence and Heat Transfer Simulation:
Fluent enables engineers to simulate complex flow and turbulence scenarios, optimizing the efficiency of systems like jet engines, turbines, and HVAC units.

Multiphase and Combustion Simulation:
For applications involving combustion (e.g., engines), Fluent provides highly accurate simulations of fuel combustion and exhaust, improving fuel efficiency and lowering emissions.

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License Tiers – Flexibility for Every Engineer

Ansys CFD is available in multiple license tiers — Pro, Premium, and Enterprise — designed to suit different levels of simulation depth and complexity.

Ansys CFD Pro → Ideal for users focusing on steady-state analysis, design validation, and everyday engineering simulations.

Ansys CFD Premium → Unlocks advanced turbulence, transient, multiphase, and heat-transfer modeling for deeper insight into complex flow behavior.

Ansys CFD Enterprise → The complete suite combining all high-fidelity solvers (Fluent, CFX, Polyflow, Forte) with automation, optimization, and multiphysics coupling for industry-grade CFD analysis.

Key Benefit: Whether you are running quick design checks or enterprise-level multiphysics projects, Ansys CFD provides the right tier to match your simulation needs and budget.

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Ansys Blademodeler - Design the Geometry

Create optimized turbomachinery blades and impellers ready for performance validation.

Ansys BladeModeler provides dedicated tools for 3D design and parameterization of turbomachinery components such as impellers, rotors, and stators. It enables engineers to create fluid-optimized geometries that integrate seamlessly with downstream CFD and VistaTF analysis.

Used for: compressors, pumps, turbines, and fans.

Key Benefit: Achieve faster, more accurate blade design with direct data transfer to CFD for aerodynamic and performance validation.

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Ansys VistaTF -️ Predict Flow Performance

Run 1D meanline analysis to estimate pressure, velocity, and efficiency at early stages.

Ansys Vista TF is a 1D throughflow and meanline design tool that delivers rapid turbomachinery performance predictions. It helps designers evaluate key flow parameters such as efficiency, pressure ratio, and velocity distribution early in the design stage.

Used for: preliminary design and optimization of pumps, compressors, and turbines.

Key Benefit: Accelerate concept development with quick, reliable flow predictions that guide detailed CFD validation.

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Ansys Rocky DEM -️ Optimize Material Interaction

Capture particle dynamics, erosion, and wear for long-term equipment reliability.

Ansys Rocky DEM is a particle-based simulation platform for modeling granular, bulk, and coupled fluid–particle flows. It captures realistic particle motion, breakage, and erosion, offering deep insights into material interactions under process conditions.

Used for: slurry and sediment transport, erosion prediction, mixing, and bulk material handling.

Key Benefit: Optimize system performance, minimize wear, and extend equipment lifespan through accurate particle-flow visualization.

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Highlights of Fluids Simulation

Steady-State & Transient CFD Analysis

Predict fluid flow behavior under a wide range of operating conditions with high-fidelity accuracy.

engineers ensure structural integrity, safety, and performance — long before physical testing.

Key Capabilities:

Solve laminar and turbulent flows using RANS, LES, and DES models

Compressible, incompressible, and multiphase flow simulations

Capture unsteady flow phenomena such as vortex shedding, flow separation, and pulsating flows

Model complex boundary conditions, moving walls, and rotating reference frames

Benefits

Predict pressure, velocity, and temperature distributions before prototyping

Reduce design iterations and accelerate development

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Turbomachinery & Blade Analysis

Design, analyze, and optimize rotating machinery for maximum efficiency and reliability.

Key Capabilities:

Performance prediction for compressors, turbines, fans, and pumps

Blade loading, tip clearance, and secondary flow analysis

3D blade and impeller modeling with integrated BladeModeler geometry tools

Coupled flow-thermal simulations under varying RPM and operating conditions

VistaTF for transient rotor-stator interaction and forced response analysis

Benefits

Maximize pump and turbine efficiency and reliability

Predict cavitation, surge, and stall in pumps and compressors

Reduce mechanical wear and improve lifecycle performance

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Valve & Flow-Control Device Analysis

Optimize valves, nozzles, and flow-control devices for efficiency and safety.

Key Capabilities:

Transient and steady flow simulations in globe, ball, butterfly, and check valves

Cavitation and erosion prediction under high-pressure drops

Valve actuation and flow throttling simulations

Coupled fluid-structure interaction to analyze mechanical stress on valve bodies

Benefits

Reduce pressure losses and improve energy efficiency

Prevent cavitation-induced damage and extend service life

Optimize valve designs without physical testing

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Applications Across Industries

Fluid simulations play a crucial role in aerospace, automotive, chemical, energy, and industrial sectors. At SolidTrust Technologies, our solutions are tailored to meet the unique requirements of every domain.

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Relevant FAQs

Can I perform steady-state and transient CFD simulations? +

Yes, Ansys CFD allows both steady-state and transient simulations for single-phase, multiphase, compressible, and incompressible flows.

Does Ansys support advanced turbulence modeling? +

Yes, including RANS, LES, DES, and hybrid turbulence models for capturing complex flow behavior.

Can I simulate pumps, turbines, and compressors? +

Yes, BladeModeler and VistaTF enable performance prediction, rotor-stator interaction, and tip clearance analysis for turbomachinery.

Can valves and flow-control devices be modeled? +

Yes, including pressure drop, cavitation, transient flow, and fluid-structure interaction in valves and throttling devices.

Can thermal and conjugate heat transfer effects be included? +

Yes, Ansys supports CHT and coupled thermal-fluid simulations for heat exchangers, electronics cooling, and multiphysics systems.

Can I simulate multiphase and particle-laden flows? +

Yes, CFD and Rocky DEM handle gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, reactive, and particle-laden flows with erosion and deposition prediction.

Does Ansys support aero- and hydrodynamics? +

Yes, including drag, lift, free-surface modeling, wave effects, and transient external flows for vehicles and vessels.

Can I perform design exploration and optimization? +

Yes, parametric studies, topology, and shape optimization allow rapid improvement of flow systems and energy efficiency.

Can particle interactions and granular flows be simulated? +

Yes, Rocky DEM supports discrete element modeling and coupled CFD-DEM for powders, slurries, and industrial granular processes.

Can complex geometries be validated for fluid performance? +

Yes, Ansys fluids products simulate pumps, valves, heat exchangers, and rotating machinery accurately under realistic operating conditions.

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