Automotive
This Ansys tool is the industry standard for crashworthiness simulations, used by automakers worldwide to predict vehicle deformation and passenger safety in high-speed impacts.
What is LS-DYNA?
This flagship Ansys tool is widely used to simulate structural mechanics, vibration, and thermal stresses in equipment such as turbines, pumps, and heavy machinery.
What is Mechanical?
This Ansys fluid simulation tool is commonly used for power generation and oil & gas, modeling combustion, fluid flow, and thermal performance.
What is Fluent?
This electromagnetic solver is the go-to tool for designing antennas, radar systems, and aircraft stealth technology.
What is HFSS?
This Ansys tool is often the first stop for designers and engineers, providing quick and interactive physics simulations during the design process.
What is Discovery?
Engineers in the auto industry use this Ansys tool to model tire-road interactions, powertrain dynamics, and full-vehicle motion for ride and handling studies.
What is Motion?
When simulating particulate processes like mixing, conveying, or grinding, engineers in heavy industry rely on this discrete element method (DEM) tool.
What is Rocky?
This Ansys tool enables engineers to design and analyze electric motors, generators, and transformers used in the energy sector.
What is Maxwell?
Aerospace and defense organizations rely on this Ansys solution to manage materials information across their entire product lifecycle — from design to certification — ensuring traceability, compliance, and reduced rework.
What is Granta MI?
For advanced electronics cooling analysis and thermal management, engineers turn to this Ansys tool.
What is Icepak?
Engineers looking to optimize multiple design parameters at once for vehicle performance, NVH, or durability often turn to this Ansys tool for automated design exploration and robust optimization.
What is optiSLang?
To evaluate durability and predict fatigue life of machines and equipment under repeated loading, engineers often pair Ansys solvers with this specialized tool.
What is nCode?
To create virtual replicas of power systems like turbines, generators, and grids, engineers use this Ansys solution to simulate real-world operation and predict maintenance needs.
What is Twin Builder?
Aerospace programs often need to prove compliance to strict requirements. This Ansys tool connects simulation results to requirements, ensuring verification and validation traceability throughout the design process.
What is ModelCenter?
To predict electronic component reliability before physical testing, engineers use this tool to simulate stress, thermal effects, solder fatigue, and potential failures in microelectronics.
What is Sherlock?
Automakers leveraging Ansys Speos for headlamp, sensor, and vision validation often scale up simulations using this licensing technology for high-performance computing.
What is OPTIS HPC?
For engineers designing rotating machinery such as pumps, compressors, and turbines, this Ansys tool provides specialized capabilities to model blades and turbomachinery components.
What is BladeModeler?
To ensure safe operation of critical infrastructure, energy companies use this Ansys tool for functional safety analysis and compliance with standards like IEC 61508.
What is Medini?
For mission- and safety-critical avionics and embedded systems, aerospace programs use this model-based development tool to generate certifiable code aligned with standards like DO-178C.
What is SCADE?
As chips get denser and faster, this Ansys tool is used to analyze power integrity, signal integrity, and electromagnetic coupling across advanced IC packages and PCBs.
What is SIWave?
Autonomous driving development requires virtual testing of perception, sensors, and driving scenarios. This Ansys platform enables engineers to create and validate ADAS and AV systems safely in simulation.
What is AVxcelerate?
When companies need to calibrate advanced material models for nonlinear finite element analysis, this tool provides a database of test data and automated calibration workflows.
What is MCalibration?
Offshore energy projects, including floating wind turbines and oil & gas platforms, rely on this hydrodynamic analysis tool for predicting wave, current, and mooring interactions.
What is Aqwa?
Engineers analyzing optical systems for satellites, sensors, or targeting pods often use this Ansys tool for STOP (structural, thermal, optical performance) analysis.
What is Zemax OpticStudio?
This advanced Ansys simulation suite supports the design of photonic integrated circuits (PICs), enabling co-simulation of electronic and optical components. Engineers use it for applications such as datacom, LiDAR, quantum computing, and next-gen chip-to-chip optical interconnects.
What is Lumerical?