ANSYS® Multiphysics ™Summary of Features

ANSYS Multiphysics provides the analysis industry's most comprehensive coupled physics tool combining structural, thermal, CFD, acoustic and electromagnetic simulation capabilities into a single software product. With ANSYS Multiphysics, you are getting the entire ANSYS simulation suite in one convenient package!

What follows is an abridged feature list.

Structural

Linear
Geomertric & material nonlinearities
Contact
Static
Dynamic
Transient, natural frequency, harmonic response, response spectrum, random vibration
Buckling
Topological optimization

Thermal

Steady-state or transient
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
Phase change via enthalpy

Electrostatics

2nd Order H-elements & adaptive p-elements
Force coupling to structural analysis
Trefftz domain far field/open boundary representation

Magnetostatics

1st and 2nd order elements
2-D Magnetic Vector Potential (MVP) Formulation
3-D Edge element formulation
3-D Vector potential & scalar element formulations
Planar & axi-symmetric geometry for 2-D

Current Conduction

Joule heating
Currents can be used for magnetostatic excitation
Coupled Joule heat transfer simulation when used with other ANSYS products

Ion Optics & Charged Particle Tracing

Trace charged particles in electrostatic or magnetostatic fields, or both
No Space charge or relativistic effects
Ability to define 50 particles per run
Plot trajectories in 2-D, 3-D, or listed

Low Frequency Electromagnetics (Quasi-static formulation)

Harmonic Analysis (linear and nonlinear materials)
Time-Transient Analysis (linear & nonlinear materials)
Stranded, Coil and Massive conductors
Current & voltage fed excitation
2-D and 3-D Magnetic Vector Potential (MVP) Formulation
3-D Edge Flux Formulation
Permeable & non-permeable domains
Velocity effects
Voltage-fed conductor option for SOLID117 and SOLID97 magnetic field elements
LMATRIX support for voltage fed conductors using SOLID117 or SOLID97
Current & voltage fed excitation
Biot-Savart coils
Cyclic symmetry (periodic boundary conditions)
Electromagnetic contact for moving boundary interfaces.

Circuit Analysis & Coupling

SPICE-like circuit elements
Resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, transformers, voltage & current sources.
Easy-to-use circuit builder GUI
Coupling to electrostatic analysis
Coupling to stranded and massive conductors
Coupling for both 2-D and 3-D models
Arbitrary circuit arrangements
Static, harmonic and transient analysis

Automated Calculations

Multi-port capacitance (C) matrix computation
Multi-port inductance (L) matrix computation
Multi-port conductance (G) matrix computation
Maxwell & virtual work torque
Electromagnetic force

High Frequency Electromagnetics (Full wave formulation)

1st and 2nd order tangential vector elements
3-D brick, pyramid, prism and tetrahedral element shapes
Lossy/lossless materials
Isotropic and diagonal anisotropic material properties
Complex permittivity and permeability
Frequency dependent material properties
Perfect electric and magnetic conductors (PEC and PMC)
Impedance Boundary Condition (IBC)
Perfectly Matched Absorber (PMA)
Periodic Structures
Coupled heat generation from lossy dielectrics
Rectangular, circular, coaxial, parallel plate waveguide modal source
Plane wave source
Surface magnetic field source
Surface electric field source
Line voltage source
Point, line, surface and volume current source
Lumped RLC circuit elements
Modal analysis: Cavity
Harmonic analysis: Wave propagation, wave radiation and wave scattering
ANSYS Variational Technology (VT) Harmonic analysis fast frequency sweep S-parameter extraction OPTION
Cavity resonant frequency
Quality factor (Q)
S-parameters of a network
Joule losses
Port power
Voltage, current and impedance
Near and far electromagnetic field extension
Frequency Selective Surfaces Surfaces (FSS)
Radar cross section (RCS)
Specific Absoprtion Rate SAR
Antenna pattern
Touchstone S-parameter output

Fluids

Steady-state or transient
Incompressible or compressible
Laminar or turbulent
Newtonian or non-Newtonian
Free, forced or mixed convection heat transfer
Conjugate solid/fluid heat transfer
Surface-to-surface radiation heat transfer
Multiple species transport
Free surface boundaries
Fan models and distributed resistances
Stationary or rotating reference frames

Acoustics

Fully coupled fluid/structural
Near- and far-field
Harmonic, transient and modal

Direct Coupled Physics

Thermal-mechanical
Thermal-electric
Thermal-electric-structural
Piezoelectric
Piezoresistive
Peltier Effect
Seeback Effect
Thermocouple Effect
Electromechanical circuit simulator
Fluid/thermal

Multi-field Solver - Sequential Coupled Physics

Any of the above physics may be sequentially coupled with the Mutli-field solver.
More than two physics may be sequentially coupled.
Common examples:

Thermal/structural/FluidFluid/structural

Electrostatic/structural

Magneto/structural

Acoustics/structural

Thermal/electric

Thermal/electromagnetic

Fluid/electromagnetic