Ansys Release 2021 R2 is here!

Ansys Mechanical

• Unlimited modeling possibilities with journaling and scripting in the Mechanical interface. Users can now embed Python scripts directly into their models.
• Increased meshing efficiency and quality for shell mesh and new seam weld capabilities with the addition of heat effected zones.
• Streamlined multistage analysis with differing cyclic symmetry sector counts deliver tremendous time saving by reducing the model size and run time by up to 50X.
• Transient Acoustics in the Coupled Field Transient Analysis System
• Automatic ‘Static to Transient’ Analysis for Nonlinear Problems

Ansys LS-DYNA

• Empower users to run large jobs and overcome hardware capacity limitations with high-performance computing ARM and Ansys Cloud support for Ansys LS-DYNA.
• Increased exposure of LS-DYNA technologies in Ansys Mechanical – Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE), and implicit – explicit solutions that enable workflows like pre-stress loading and restarts for drop-test simulations.
• LS-DYNA solver continues to add exciting new features in many areas like IGA, advanced materials, SPG, and complex multi-physics which can be used for battery-abuse modeling, electrophysiology, and many more areas.

Ansys Motion

• Enhancements in contact performance within Motion solver led to up to 10X speed-up. For the Mechanical integration for Motion, ease of use of contact creation is also improved.
• Automated Motion to Acoustic Interface – allows users to drag and drop harmonic acoustic system onto the results of their motion system within Workbench
• Simulation Scenario permits executing an action (Stop solution, Activate/deactivate joint…) based on solution time or a functional expression.

SpaceClaim / Discovery Modeling

• New license Discovery Modeling  that allows running SpaceClaim, DesignModeler, or Discovery (in model stage only)
• Ability to launch SpaceClaim with an enterprise license increment
• New CAD Connectivity are  available for Discovery Modeling enabling bi-directional coupling

Ansys Additive Solution

• Faster solve times and improved user workflows for Additive Manufacturing users with improvements in Calibration Wizard and addition of Variable Layer Heights.
• Increased accuracy and numerical consistency owing to changes to meshing defaults and improved robustness to Additive Manufacturing bond connections.
• Significant speed improvements in Additive Manufacturing microstructure simulations by enabling users to apply more threads.
• Structural Optimization now embeds several technologies: Topology Optimization, Lattice Optimization and Shape Optimization.

Electronics Reliability Highlights

• Expanded Workbench integration capabilities, including the ability to start a new Sherlock project directly in Workbench and improved handling of PCBs that are combined with enclosures and housings.  
• Integration with Ansys LS-DYNA through a single-click automated workflow in Workbench that rapidly creates meshed models for drop-test simulations in LS-DYNA, among other analysis types.  
• Updated Sherlock Theory Guides are now available discussing the physics and mathematics behind Sherlock’s life predictions and failure analysis suite.

Ansys Mechanical

• Script recording and debug posibilities within Mechanical
• New workflow enables easy and fast simulations of injection molded reinforced plastics.
• New monitor functions and optiSLang Integration expand the capabilities of DCS
• New Coupled Field Analysis Types, piezoelectric coupling using Harmonic and Modal analyses
• Bottom Up - Substructuring - export and reuse Substructures
• Generate simple Beams within Mechanical
• Freeze and unfreeze Mesh
• Compare Materials in Mechanical

Ansys LS-DYNA

• Solverversion can be chosen from Mechanical
• Tracemapping of ECAD Data
• Use Parameters within Workbench Command Snippets
• Resulttracker for Deformation and Stresses
• Activate and Kill Smooth Partical Hydrodynamics (SPH) Bodies and Contacts to solid structures

Ansys Motion

• Soil Interaction for tracked or wheeled vehicles
• New Planetary Gear set for the drivetrain toolkit
• Extended results like Stress or strain available within the Mechanical GUI

SpaceClaim

• Sketch Constraints and Parameters
• New Probing in deviation tool

Ansys Additive Solution

• Full Release of 2D Microstructure (Science)
• Creation of EOS and Renishaw Build Files (Prep)
• Automated calibration setup in Additive Wizard (Workbench Additive)

Ansys Sherlock

• Full Release of Workbench integration
• New Mesher inside Sherlock
• First Scriping APIs released

Fluent

• Up to 5X speed ups can be seen for high-speed flows to Mach 30 and above, with improved treatment of reaction sources in the density-based solver.
• Increased accuracy for hypersonic simulations with built-in thermodynamic non-equilibrium effects, NASA-9 coefficient material properties and partial slip-wall model for rarefied flows.
• A new built-in workflow for wall recession can now model surface ablation, including hypersonic re-entry and rocket engine applications.
• Best practices are now embedded in the automated mesh adaption setup for combustion and multiphase applications, resulting in cell count reductions of up to 70%.
• Combustion enhancements help push decarbonization efforts with a new strained-FGM model for better NOx and CO predictions, as well as validation of recommended hydrogen/hydrogen blends.
• Organize multiple icing simulations within the new project management framework in the icing workspace.

CFX

• Users can harness the power of Ansys Cloud to speed up simulation time by 40X via the Command Line Interface compared to a 12-core workstation.
• GPU-accelerated animations now support streamlines, enabling users to animate results in real-time.
• More accurate and robust turbomachinery results can be achieved now that non-reflective boundary conditions are fine-tuned and validated for turbomachinery applications.
• BladeModeler now supports elastic licensing, allowing users to solve end-to-end blade design workflows on the Ansys Cloud.
• A new blade optimization parameter for throat area is available in BladeEditor, that can be combined with tolerance specifications to save time by only simulating designs within a given tolerance range.

Forte

• Accurately predict Fluid-Structure Interactions (FSI) including force & displacements through System Coupling transient-transient simulations with Ansys Mechanical.
• Up to 33% solve time reductions for multi-cycle engine cases, with detailed chemistry models, can be seen from the latest performance enhancements

Rocky

• Increase in speed and stability of applications requiring two-way Rocky-Fluent coupling, especially for models involving large particles.
• Enhancements in Rocky customization API add flexibility for heat transfer, breakage modeling, geometry wear and more.
• New connection with Ansys Motion more tightly integrates particle dynamics with multibody dynamics where rigid and flexible motions are important

Fluent

• A new CFD Pro packaging enables higher fidelity entry-level CFD analyses in either the Discovery and the Fluent interface.
• UserInterface: the new FLUENT simulation reports, UI upgrades and expressions boost the end-user productivity with new features like multi-iso-planes, customizable video export and a new graphic-window paradigm.
• Fluent Meshing: new capabilities for Watertight and Fault Tolerant workflow (extrude and translate, Offset-refinment Refgions, Overset meshes, ) and UE improvments.
• Numerics: new poor mesh Numerics. PUMA and Overset now work togehter.
• Physical Models: perforated wall model for combustion, new "diesel" and "jet-a" material properties
• high speed numerics improvements and two temperature models enable accurate simulation of strong shocks.
• Overhauled Battery-UI with new source term inputs and virtual connectors, aswell as battery-related standard UDF
• The explicit thermal coupling accelerates transient conjugate heat transfer simulations
• Physical Models: Multiphase new bi-directional VOF<->DPM transition model and LWF <->VOF
• explicit VOF and particle injection Enhancements
• new DNV wall erosion

CFX

• In 2021 R1, Ansys CFX introduces robustness improvements and the support on Ansys Cloud as well as extending the coupling with GT-Suite :
• The shaft torque calculated in CFX can now be coupled with the rotation rate calculated in GT-Suite
• The turbulence transition in GEKO enables more accurate transition prediction
• The Rotational Reference Density speeds up the convergence for rotating cavity flows
• The non-reflecting boundary conditions improve the robustness of the solver
• The integration with Ansys Cloud enables to submit jobs on the cloud directly from the CFX application
• CFX can use HexCoreMeshes from Fluent Meshing (1-to-8 transition avoidance) for better runtime and improved convergence.

Forte

• Euler-Beam or spring-mass FSI Valves model (reed valves, check valves)

LS-Dyna

• Incompressible Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics (ISPH) in Workbench LS-Dyna

Ansys Electronics Desktop

• Default settings at install change to Electronics Pro, Premium, & Enterprise license model.
• Improved otiSLang integration in AEDT
• Ansys Electronics Desktop Student

Twin Builder

• Enhancements in the Modelica Workflow​
• Improved support for ROM creation and scripting
• New Twin Export Platforms
• HFSS Dynamic Link with Push Excitation

Icepak

• New joule heating analysis solves coupled electrothermal problems with static or transient excitations
• New Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) ROM toolkit for automated ROM creation workflow
• Meshing & solver Improvements for faster and easier model generation

Mechanical

• New structural solution type for electro-thermal-stress analysis in AEDT (Beta)
• Enhancements and new options for model setup and temperature dependent materials

Granta Material Libery

• New grades of radar-absorbing materials and neodymium-based manetic materials
• Format for BH curves has been updated for more than 1000 materials to support for multiple temperatures

Electromagnetics LF

Maxwell

• Nonlinear impedance boundary support in 3D transient simulations
• Enhanced options for modeling skewing in electric motors  
• Improved implementation of temperature dependent demagnetization BH Curves
• Enhancements and new options for the pre- and postprocessing in the A-Phi solver and new 3D AC Conduction solver

Electromagnetics HF

HFSS

• Phi Plus meshing technology introduces breakthroughs in speed and capacity for 3D IC package challenges, especially those with wire bonds, and is HPC enabled.
• HFSS SBR+ solver enables efficient simulation of non-uniform dielectric structures such as radome, lenses and automotive bumper fascia.
• Increased speed for far field processing of 5G mmWave antenna design.
• Consideration of dielectric volumes in the SBR+ solver 
• Improvements for the Mesh Fusion technology (setup and meshing)(Beta) 
• DC point calculation via Q3D extractor (Beta) 
• New workflow for simulation of partial discharge processes 

HFSS 3D Layout

• New conformal meshing technology (Phi Plus mesher) specific for bondwire and 3D CAD (Beta)

Siwave

• New SI Xplorer for simplified stackup  and via wizard definition in a single, simplified UI
• Temperature dependent AC simulations
• Direct coupling of SIwave DCIR analysis with Icepak AEDT

Q3D

• Prime mesh available now for both CG and RL solvers
• Improvement of the convergence and accuracy of the CG solver
• Electric field plot on model object

Ansys Electronics Desktop

• Enhanced Minerva integration, including direct project access
• New 3D modeler orientation gadget
• Ability to schedule, submit, and monitor jobs in standalone utility

Mechanical

• Ability to set up and solve thermal and modal simulations
• EM loss coupling with HFSS, Maxwell, and Q3D Extractor

Icepak

• New ability to generate LTI ROM models for Twin Builder
• New flow links and improved workflows for network schematics

Twin Builder

• Support for Enterprise Workflow simulation process data management (SPDM: Minerva, optiSLang)
• Enhancements to ROMs and ROM Viewer (Fields Visualization, Response Surface ROM Toolkit, LPV ROM,...)
• Battery and EV Verticalization (new Toolkits, enhanced Libraries, ...)
• New Digital Twin Deployer (allows export accross platforms and .runtime checks)

Electromagnetics LF

Maxwell

• Release of new A-Phi transient solver
• Support for temperature-dependent core loss curves
• Support for spatially-varying materials characteristics and temperatures from XYZ datasets
• Ability to create field plots of time averaged loss
• Automatic generation of partial mesh and solution from full rotational model
• Enhancements to electric machine toolkit workflows and performance
• Ability to output transient electromagnetic forces to motion

Motor-CAD

• Ratio based template parameters
• Enhanced functionality for force computation
• Enhanced demagnetization computation
• Enhancements to export features: FMU for system level coupling and Export to Ansys Maxwell
• User-defined accuarcy of the saturation model used in Lab

Electromagnetics HF

General

• Enhanced useability and workflows in Network Data Explorer

HFSS

• New Mesh Assembly Technology (Beta)
• Performance Improvements for multi-port designs
• Improved iterative solver
• External airbox region for 3D Component arrays

HFSS 3D Layout

• Support for encrypted 3D Components

Siwave

• DDR Wizard (Beta)
• Differential Net Time Domain Crosstalk Scan

Q3D

• New CG Mesher
• Uniform Current Terminals

Model Prep for Simulation

• CAD Connectivity
• CAD interface support (reader or plugin)
• History tracks for modeling replay
• Constraint-based sketching
• Shared topology
• Auto skin

Simulation

• Porous media (Refine)
• Isotropic, streamwise & transverse (orthotropic), cylindrical (conical)
• Flow and temperature uniformity
• CHT improvements (Refine)
• Meshing improvements Region interface and contact improvements
• Monitors on bodies, interfaces and planes, display per body results
• Contact improvements (Explore)
• Sliding (idealized) contact and fixed joints
• New physics conditions
• Remote displacement, rotational velocity, translational acceleration and symmetry
• Topology optimization improvements
• Symmetry, new manufacturing constraints, linear contact, edit & continue and local protected distance
• Postprocessing enhancements
• Streamlets (Explore)
• Multi-field display, plane monitors, ambient occlusion, streamline count and particle animation speed
• Torque input for pretension bolts

Productivity

• Saved scenes
• 2D and 3D image export & improved report generation
• Granta MI & Selector integration
• Notes – model and physics tree
• Physics condition suppression
• Design variations – test cases
• Save w/out results & save as new version
• Contact zone rendering
• Estimated solution times

• Coupled fluid-structural thermal (CHT)
• Remote Displacement (Refine)
• Automatic Report Generation
• New Monitor types & locations (total pressure), export values
• Interference & Clearance tools
• Visualize minimum feature size (Explore)
• Discovery replaces Discovery Live

VRXperience Sound

• New capability in the Sound Composer can generate evolving broadband noise, such as the interior car sound in acceleration or deceleration.
• Easy access for users of Fluent, Mechanical, and other Ansys products with the SAS in the Ansys Unified Installer.
• Efficient workflows between VRXPERIENCE Sound, Motion and Mechanical to transfer data for future acoustic analyses for users concerned with NVH challenges. 

SPEOS

• Dynamic LiDAR Simulation with moving geometries (Beta)
• New Libraries panel
• Minerva (SPDM)

optiSlang

• Web App Generation Wizard
• New integration nodes (COMSOL, Lumerical, CATIA, Inventor, Creo)
• Metamodels in more dimensions (Signal MOP, Field MOP)
• Automated AI/ML for Metamodeling

Medini

Digital Safety Manager

• Adds tool scope to safety management
• Support for users, groups and roles
• Timeline and milestone definitions
• Assign activities and work products to users (performers)
• Safety Cockpit App
• Easy access and review status of safety projects per item

Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD)

• RBDs allow modeling and assess system reliability
• RBD transfer gates allow connections to Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Transformation from RBD to FTA

Fault Tree Analysis

• Performance improvements through algorithm improvements especially for minimal cut sets of large FTAs
• Fully automated, auto-pagination report generation

Hardware Part Library

• Auto Prediction Capability
• Import from Sherlock Part Library export
• Automatic selection of handbook failure rate data through category/failure class evaluation of imported data

Connectivity Package

• Support for Siemens Polarion ALM
• Support for Codebeamer ALM
• Enhancements for Jama, DOORS NG and PTC connectors

SCADE Suite Tools – New qualified versions

SCADE Suite

• Code Generator SCADE Suite KCG 6.6.2
• SCADE Test Environment 2021 R2
• SCADE Test Model Coverage 2021 R2
• SCADE Test Target Execution 2021 R2

Reporter 2021 R2

• Model Change Report 2021 R2

SCADE Display

• Code Generator SCADE Display KCG 6.7.1
• SCADE Test Environment 2021 R2
• SCADE Test Model Coverage 2021 R2

SCADE Architect

• Connection assistant simplifies block connections

SCADE Test for Display

• Now qualified as verification tool
• Automated functional diff and bitmap comparison

SCADE Design Verifier

• Predefined checks of float values for Infinite Values (Inf) and Not a Number (NaN)

SCADE ALM Gateway

• Qualified incremental model change  report
• Siemens Polarion
• Filter support for requirements
• DOORS

Vertical specific solutions

• SCADE Electrification Package
• Set of pre-developed SCADE operator libraries and pre-defined medini Analyze functional safety analysis artefacts
• Illustrate how Ansys tools like Twin Builder or VREPERIENCE nicely and effectively combine to address the specifics of applications
• Example models

SCADE Automotive Package

• AUTOSAR 4.2.2 and 4.3.1 support
• Qualified AUTOSAR Code Generator

Ansys Granta

• Every Granta product now integrated with Ansys Discovery
• Simplified management of gold-source materials data in the Material Information Management System "Ansys Granta MI"

Granta MI Enterprise

• Build targeted datasheets for design and simulation avoiding any data duplication
• Deeper integration between Material and Simulation Intelligence with Ansys Minerva
• Granta MI customers can now access latest substances data with Chemwatch partnership
• New Material Card Connect Tool

Granta MI Pro

• Increase in material models that can be stored and managed
• New Abaqus gateway

Granta Selector

• Updated Batery Designer Tool
• Updated Workbench behaviour

Granta Materials Data

• Greater support for non-linear simulation; true plastic stress-strain data for 25 polymers.
• Updated high-temperature true plastic stress strain curves for metals.
• New Materials in MMPDS for aerospace alloys and ASM Medical Materials

Materials Data for Simulation

• New grades of radar-absorbing materials and neodymium-based manetic materials
• Format for BH curves has been updated to support for multiple temperatures

Twin Builder

• New Digital Twin Deployer (allows export accross platforms and .runtime checks)

VRXperience Sound

• VRXperience Sound Composer to gather contributions from miscellaneous Ansys tools (Maxwell/Mechanical, Motion, Fluent, LS-Dyna)

SPEOS

• New types of LiDAR sensors and simulations available in Ansys SPEOS allowing scanning and rotating LiDAR systems modeling
• SPEOS Live Preview now compatible with additional source, material and simulation types enabling rapid insights into color bleeding, volume scattering and sunburn effect
• Extensive upgrade of scripting capabilities in SPEOS including various additional APIs paving the way for full-control Python-based simulations

Minerva (SPDM)

• Enhanced Job submission and integrations with optiSlang, LS-Dyna, SCADE, Ansys Electronics Desktop and Ansys Mechanical

SCADE

• SCADE Test: Control and HMI Software Testing Unification
• SCADE Suite: New Model Change Report
• SCADE ALM Gateway: Extended traceability information and diagram export for DOORS NG, JAMA and Polarion;
• SCADE Automotive: AUTOSAR workflow supports explicit communication,
• Vertical specific solutions: ARINC 661: Extended widget library and test improvements

• 10x faster evaluation of the screw results
• new dropdown buttons in Mechanical, which simplifies the insertion of certain safety factors.
• Model class 2 (Beams): Screws consisting of several joined line bodies can be used, even if the line bodies have different directions

Please also check info on update webinars at the product site.

• Migration to the new KISSsoft version (2019)
• Bolt verification now also for model class II: The screw is modelled as a line body. Compared to the modeling as solid body (model class III) the number of elements in the calculation is reduced. Especially for models with many screws the calculation time can be reduced considerably. (Note: This function is subject to a surcharge when upgrading from version 2019)
• Simplification of licensing through central license management

• A new load case editor for additional load combinations is now available. The proof can be performed with any number of proof groups that are proportional or nonproportional to each other.
• Optional stress linearization at the weld seam transition is available in FKM inside Ansys Weld, if a geometry does not allow the determination by "Hot-Spot" concept (IIW). 
• Simplification of licensing by central license management.

Please also check info on update webinars at the product site.

• Improvements in APDL macros
• Improvements in examples with piezoelectrical models
• New example to parametric model reduction (contact resistance as a parameter)

Please also check info on update webinars at the product site.

• Simplified workflow for parametric model reduction
• Simplification of licensing through central license management

• Elastic deformations of shaft
• Define moment and angle​ in order to Calculate tilting angle

Please also check info on update webinars at the product site.

• Migration to new Tribo-X Solver version (January 2020)
• Easier operation via new toolbar (icons, tips, grouping)
• Use of 'User Defined Result' objects for the display of the storage results
• Animation of bearing results over several load steps
• Overlay of storage results by using expressions
• Increased performance in result mapping
• Module "Linear Rotor dynamics" - Extension of the result output by the tilting stiffness and damping
• Simplified workflow to consider user-defined input data for warehouse analysis
• Simplification of licensing through central license management

• Adaptation to 12th edition of the VDI heat atlas
• Clear and comprehensive work for the simulation of heat transfer and provision of the necessary material data
• Updated methods and material data
• New chapter on latent heat storage

Please also check info on update webinars at the product site.

• Now available in eCADFEM
• New user-friendly interface
• Simplification of licensing through central license management