ANSYS ICEM-CFD
From CAD to mesh generation for analysis, ANSYS ICEM CFD provides sophisticated geometry acquisition, mesh generation, mesh editing and supports a wide variety of solver outputs and post-processing.
ANSYS ICEM CFD is the only Universal pre-processor for analysis including FEA, CFD and other CAE applications such as particle transport and computational electro-magnetics.
As with ANSYS Workbench applications, ANSYS ICEM-CFD can link to all popular 3D CAD systems plus a wide range of neutral formats such as Parasolid, SAT, IGES and STEP.
Used for engineering applications such as computational fluid dynamics and structural analysis, ANSYS ICEM CFD's mesh generation tools offer the capability to parametrically create grids from geometry in multi-block structured, unstructured hexahedral, tetrahedral, hybrid grids consisting of hexahedral, tetrahedral, pyramidal and prismatic cells; and Cartesian grid formats combined with boundary conditions. Key features include:
- Intuitive built-in geometry creation and highly automated functionality for the modification and repair of imported CAD data
- Ability to work with both NURBs and faceted geometry types like STL or existing meshes
- Robust tools for creating all mesh types: hexahedral, tetrahedral, prism, pyramid, quad, tri or bar elements
- Highly tolerant of imperfect/overdetailed CAD data containing sliver surfaces, gaps, holes and overlaps (Patch Independence)
- Smoothing, coarsening, refinement, element type conversion, linear or quadratic element support
- More than 100 CFD/CAE solver interface formats
- File based transfer of CFD and structural results for fluid-structure interaction simulations
- Automated batch processing through an intuitive scripting framework
