Core Physics
This branch of Ansys software is used to analyze stress, strain, and deformation in mechanical parts.
What is Structures? (Mechanical/FEA)
This easy-to-use tool allows engineers and non-experts run real-time simulations directly on their CAD models.
What is Discovery?
This type of engineering looks at how different components - mechanical, electrical, software, etc - all work together as a complete process.
What is Systems Engineering?
Multiphysics simulation combines more than one of these to capture how real-world systems behave.
What are Physics Domains?
Before solving, engineers break down a geometry into smaller pieces in a process called this.
What is Meshing?
Engineers use this type of simulation (general term) to predict airflow over an airplane wing or cooling inside electronics.
What is Computational Fluid Dynamics? (CFD)
Companies turn to materials intelligence tools (like Granta) to understand not just performance, but also this growing social concern in product design.
What is Sustainability? (or environmental impact)
In industries like aerospace and automotive, companies must demonstrate compliance with these regulations to ensure safety and reliability.
What are Functional Safety Standards? (i.e. ISO-26262 or DC-178C)
A smartphone must manage heat and electromagnetic signals, requiring this kind of coupled analysis.
What is Electro-Thermal simulation?
This is usually the first step in a simulation workflow, where engineers import and clean up CAD geometry before meshing.
What is Geometry Preparation?
This electronics simulation tool ensures reliable high-speed designs by analyzing signal and power integrity.
What is SIWave?
What is OptiSLang?
SCADE helps engineers design this type of critical software that controls aircraft, cars, & even medical devices.
What is Embedded Software?
In aerospace, engineers often combine CFD and Structural analysis to ensure that wings can withstand bending forces caused by airflow. This is known as what?
What is Fluid-Structure Interaction? (FSI)
After solving, engineers use this stage of the workflow to visualize stress, temperature, or flow patterns in their model.
What is Post-Processing?
In structural analysis, this failure mode describes how a material can crack and eventually break after repeated stress cycles.
What is Fatigue?
Automotive companies rely on this optics simulation tool to design advanced driver-assistance systems, including lidar and headlamp performance.
What is SPEOS?
Beyond just simulating a product once, this type of software connects to a real-world sensor data to predict performance and maintenance needs of physical assets.
What is a Digital Twin?
Engineers studying loudspeakers or mufflers often combine structural vibration and airflow to capture this phenomenon.
What is Aeroacoustics?
Engineers often run many simulation cases with different design variables, which is called this type of study.
What is a Parametric Study? (design of experiments)
In electronics simulation, this unwanted effect occurs when high-frequency devices radiate energy that can disrupt the performance of nearby systems.
What is Electromagnetic Interference? (EMI)
Augmented reality headsets and advanced chips must simulate this fundamental property of light, modeled in wave-based solvers?
What is the wave nature of light? (i.e. photonics)
Model-based systems engineering often uses this standardized language to define system requirements, structure, & behavior in a visual way.
What is SysML? (Systems Modeling Language)
In optical systems like telescopes, engineers perform this type of analysis to understand how structural and thermal effects impact overall optical performance.
What is STOP analysis? (Structural-Thermal-Optical-Performance)
To save time, engineers may connect multiple solvers into an automated sequence, so the workflow runs end-to-end without manual intervention.
What is Process Automation?