What Does It Simulate?
Name That GTM
Ansys Products
Acronym Attack
Future of Engineering
100

This simulation process predicts how air flows around an object.

What is CFD?

100

Engineers use simulation in this industry to improve EV battery performance and/or fuel efficiency.

What is automotive?

100

This is Ansys' flagship CFD product, that is best known as an all-purpose CFD tool.

What is Fluent?

100

FEA

What is Finite Element Analysis?

100

This technology is helping engineers automate design exploration and make predictions from large data sets.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

200

This simulation process predicts whether a part will bend, deform, or break under load.

What is structural simulation? (FEA)

200

This industry relies heavily on simulation for aircraft aerodynamics, radar systems, and mission-level communication.

What is Aerospace & Defense?

200

This product is known for being best-in-class for explicit structural analysis.

What is LS-Dyna?

200

EMI

What is Electromagnetic Interference?

200

This technology trend allows engineers to access computing resources without the need to own local hardware.

What is Cloud Computing?

300

This simulation process is used to design antennas, radar systems, and wireless devices.

What is electromagnetic simulation?

300

Semiconductor chips, smartphones, and wireless devices belong to this industry.

What is High-Tech?

300

This product is widely used for antenna, electromagnetic, and radio frequency simulations.

What is HFSS?

300

MBSE

What is Model Based Systems Engineering?

300

This major engineering trend is driving increased demand for battery simulation and power electronics.

What is Electrification?

400

This simulation process predicts how heat moves through a product.

What is thermal simulation?

400

Wind turbines, power grids, and renewable energy systems are key applications here.

What is Energy?

400

This is a platform level product that is used as a single-source of truth for materials data management.

What is Granta?

400

HPC

What is High Performance Computing?

400

This engineering initiative seeks to develop independent, self-governing vehicles, drones, & robots.

What is Autonomy?

500

This simulation process combines a virtual model with a real-world asset to predict highly accurate future performance.

What is a Digital Twin?

500

Engineers use simulation to improve refrigeration systems like liquid cooling lines for high power computing. (not necessarily a GTM, but rather an application)

What are AI Data Centers?

500

This product helps automate design exploration and optimization (among many other things).

What is optiSLang?

500

SPDM

What is Simulation Process & Data Management?
500

This strategy connects all aspects of the engineering process digitally (simulation, AI, cloud, digital twins, etc) to help customers innovate & validate faster.

What is Digital Engineering?