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Get industry leading accuracy with Ansys CFX. This tool quickly solves turbomachinery problems and provides engineers with more time to focus on their design.
Ansys CFX is the industry leading CFD software for turbomachinery applications. Shorten development time with streamlined workflows, advanced physics modeling capabilities and accurate results.
Known for its extreme robustness, CFX is the gold standard CFD software when it comes to turbomachinery applications. Both solver and models are wrapped in a modern, intuitive, and flexible GUI, with extensive capabilities for customization and automation using session files, scripting and a powerful expression language. Highly scalable high-performance computing will help speed up simulations including pumps, fans, compressors and turbines.
Get industry leading accuracy with Ansys CFX. This tool quickly solves turbomachinery problems and provides engineers with more time to focus on their design.
Ansys CFX lets engineers investigate thermal properties of new and complex turbine blade geometries.
“Other codes that were tried in this application often did not converge at this node spacing [0.001mm]. The researchers validated the CFD results against a test problem consisting of a planar jet impinging on a flat plate and achieved very good correlation.”
New manufacturing methods have opened the door to more effective turbine cooling channel geometries. The new geometries will lead to better performance and efficiency but are more complex. To achieve highly accurate results, a team of Purdue engineers turned to Ansys CFX.
The engineers executed key computations with little turnaround time. With the extra time, they could perform more in-depth comparisons and run further simulations to fully optimize their product. Ansys CFX gave them the tools to land on a multi-mesh “weave” design. The new turbine design runs with much cooler blades and has been implemented at the Air Force Research Laboratory.
July 2025
In 2025 R2, Ansys CFX software updates include mixed fluid-fluid and fluid-solid interfaces, generalized model force (beta) and couple CFX and Fluent at flow boundaries via system coupling.
Domain interfaces with mixed fluid-fluid and fluid-solid connections simplify case setup. The turbine blade CHT setup is simplified since the flow passage mesh can connect to both the CHT solid mesh (fluid-solid) and the interior fluid mesh (fluid-fluid).
CFX now includes a built-in calculation of generalized force on boundaries, enabling users to better assess the convergence of the forcing term in a forced response calculation.
Couple CFX and Fluent at flow boundaries via System Coupling. Supports coupling at inlets, outlets, and opening boundaries. Helpful in connecting turbomachinery components in CFX to upstream/downstream components in Fluent.
Ansys CFX CAPABILITIES
Ansys CFX’s advanced physics modeling capabilities help engineers solve the most complex challenges in turbomachinery applications. This powerful software has been extensively validated and is renowned for its robustness and accuracy. Streamlined turbo setups and blade design tool integration ensures that you have more time to spend optimizing your design. Whether it’s used for blade design optimization or advanced material modeling, CFX is the reliable tool you can use to save both time and money.
Solve a variety of fluids-related problems with high levels of accuracy and unmatched speed
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