ANSYS Academic Resources

The following books, tutorials, training, & web sites provide some useful resources to get you started using ANSYS Academic products.

Textbooks

Latest Textbooks:

ANSYS Workbench Software Tutorial with Multimedia CD (2007)

Jack Zecher & Fereydoon Dadkhah

Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Approach (2007)

Jiyuan Tu, Guan Heng Yeoh & Chaoqun Liu

Finite Element Analysis: Theory and Application with ANSYS (2007 3rd ed.)

Saeed Moaveni, Minnesota State University, Mankato

ANSYS Workbench 11.0 Tutorial (2007)

Kent L. Lawrence, University of Texas at Arlington

Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics (5th Ed, 2006)

Munson, Young & Okiishi

Engineering Analysis with ANSYS Software (2006 1st edition)

Tadeusz Stolarski, Y. Nakasone, & S. Yoshimoto.

Other Textbooks:

Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals & Applications (2006)

Y.A. Cengel & J. M. Cimbala.

Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers (2006, 2nd Ed)

James O. Wilkes

ANSYS 10.0 Tutorial (2006)

Kent L. Lawrence, University of Texas at Arlington FEA:ANSYS (traditional)

The Finite Element Method & Applications in Engineering Using ANSYS (2005)

Erdogan Madenci, Ibrahim Guven

Fatigue Life Prediction of Solder Joints in Electronic Packages with ANSYS (2003)

Erdogan Madenci, Ibrahim Guven, Bahattin Kilic

Vibration Simulation Using MATLAB and ANSYS (2000)

Michael R. Hatch, Hatch Consulting, Mountain View, California, USA

 

Tutorials, Examples & Curriculum Material

FLUENT Teaching (FLUENT 6) Tutorials from ANSYS Inc.

ANSYS ED Example Problems from ANSYS Inc.

University of Alberta - Tutorials

Penn State - David Johnson's FEA Applications Class

Cornell University - ANSYS Short Course

University of Kentucky - Tutorials

Carnegie Mellon - Self Paced Course

University of South Alabama - Tutorial

University of Texas Arlington - Examples

ANSYS Workbench Environment tutorial

University of Rochester Tutorials

Fatigue Model Tutorial

ANSYS Workbench Environment tutorials from ANSYS.NET

Aalborg Universitet Esbjerg- FEA Lectures

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign - CAD/CAE Tutorials

University of Manitoba - CFX Tutorial

Rochester Institute of Technology -FLUENT & GAMBIT Course Notes

2003/2004 academic year course notes from EMEM831, a Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications course developed by Dr. Venkataraman.  GAMBIT and FLUENT serve as computational tools in this course and are integrated into the curriculum.

Cornell University - FLUENT 6 Tutorials

FLUENT 6 tutorials developed by Dr. Bhaskaran for use by Mechanical and Aeronautical engineering students at Cornell University.

Pennsylvania State University - FLUENT & GAMBIT Tutorials

FLUENT & GAMBIT tutorials developed by Dr. Cimbala for use by Mechanical Engineering students at Penn State University.

University of Iowa - FLUENT/FlowLab teaching modules:

57:020 Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes

58:160 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics

Experimental fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and uncertainty analysis teaching modules, developed by Dr. Frederick Stern under National Science Foundation funding (NSF Award #0126589). The computational fluid dynamics curriculum materials were developed using FLUENT/FlowLab as a product platform.

Forums

USA & Canada Fluent Academic Customer Support Forum.

An interactive user forum for technical support questions about Fluent Academic products. Please note that this is a service for USA & Canadian academic customers only.

Training

ANSYS, Inc. and our channel partners worldwide provide a wide range of ANSYS Inc. product training courses. The training courses & schedules can be found here.

If you have other resources you would like to see listed here please let me know at paul.lethbridge@ansys.com

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