Ansys 2023 Product Releases and Updates

Ansys Discovery 2023 R2 includes breakthrough new features that help our customers innovate and explore new product concepts faster and more accurately than ever before. Engineers and designers no longer need to sacrifice accuracy for speed.

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In 2023 R2, Ansys Sound updates include software exposure in Python and C++, the ability to export Motion CAE vibration files directly into Ansys Sound for post-processing, and new sound source availability for broadband noise.

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Ansys 2023 R2 release of Additive Manufacturing tools packs a punch with three powerful new features that revolutionize additive manufacturing workflows.

LPBF Setup Wizard

New Wizard simplifies workflows with graphic displays, automatic result item additions, and support for multiple parts/supports and meshing options. Users will be excited about the wizard's ability to pre-populate AM Process Object settings and automatically set up contacts and AM Bond, making the creation of reliable additive manufacturing simulations more accessible.

Distortion Compensation

This feature now includes a single compensation add-on to complement the iterative optimization add-on. The update streamlines compensating for distortions in AM processes, saving time and effort. The ability to translate the part to the base in distortion compensation also enables effective Sintering compensation, making it easier to produce accurate and reliable parts.

AM Creep Properties

Mechanical now includes creep properties for all eight additive materials in engineering data. The update streamlines heat-treatment simulations with creep effects and provides a better residual stress reduction for AM heat treatment. This enhances accuracy and reliability in heat-treatment simulations for AM processes.

2023 R2 delivers valuable enhancements to our AVxcelerate Sensors with camera and radar model improvements to perform accurate simulations. This release addresses critical perception challenges related to custom chromatic aberration for the camera and the integration and placement of radar sensors. Also, further enhancements are made to the simulation ecosystem by automating the asset preparation process.

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Speed up R&D with Ansys 2023 R2 by better connecting processes, data, and technology into a simulation digital thread. 

New features build on SPDM, optimization, MBSE, and material intelligence capabilities to better integrate simulation into the broader Digital Engineering infrastructure.

We launched Ansys 2023 R2, which extends its digital twin offering with enhanced fusion capabilities for transient data and improved post-processing for Hybrid Analytics. This release improves ROM performance, visualization, and post-treatments. Ansys 2023 R2 enables the co-simulation of Twin Builder and Maxwell for parallel runs, plus an improved licensing scheme supporting HPC. 

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Ansys 2023 R2 strengthens embedded software interoperability capabilities with ARINC 661, software architecture & FACE in Aerospace & Defense, speeding project timelines for the cockpit display system—support for AUTOSAR classic interoperability standard in automotive features memory mapping capabilities.

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Continuing to push the boundaries of performance, productivity, and capability for CFD simulations

The 2023 R2 release delivers significant enhancements that improve performance through the multi-GPU solver, increase end-user productivity with automation and insights, and extend the capabilities to address ever-growing complexity in customer CFD applications.

• Unleash the power of multiple GPUs with new support for rotating components with sliding mesh, compressible flows, and EDM combustion simulations
• Quickly view and edit model and solver settings, monitors, and post-processing settings without having to load the mesh – opening a 6 billion cell case in as little as 80 seconds
• Access additional solver settings within PyFluent for DPM, radiation, species transport, VBM, mesh interfaces, and more, broadening the range of applications for automation
• Significant enhancements for aerospace applications include a Virtual Blade Model, a built-in Aero-Optical workflow, and a new ability to account for weak ionization at hypersonic speeds to predict communications blackout in Ansys Fluent
• Automate meshing for hydro-turbines, including the ability to mesh Kaplan and Francis turbines with square trailing edges with Ansys TurboGrid
• A new Volume of Fluids (VOF) capability is now available in Ansys Forte, providing an enhancement allowing the simulation of oil injection in screw compressors and pumps
• Ansys Rocky includes new post-processing capabilities, featuring streamlines, flow tracers, and innovative boundary interaction statistics such as wet time and heat transfer

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Find more materials more easily with the Ansys 2023 R2 release. Featuring a step-change in Granta MI™ UX, making it easier to search and filter, accessing larger datasets 3x faster.

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With the 2023 R2 release, Ansys Optics delivers innovation to our industry-leading software tools, addressing our customers' needs for state-of-the-artoptical design and workflow optimization. We're helping customers save time and money while enabling them to bring products to market faster.

For Ansys Optics, 2023 R2 adds the Optics Launcher with self-service trials,which provides our customers with a launch pad for all their Ansys Optics applications.

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The 2023 R2 release of Ansys Lumerical introduces a series of powerful new capabilities to extend usability, accuracy, performance, and functionality across its family of products. Here are a few new capabilities in our 2023 R2 release:

• Ansys Lumerical CML Compiler further simplifies the process of compact model generation via its new CML Compiler GUI featuring intuitive controls and menu options
• Ansys Lumerical Multiphysics Suite & Cadence EPDA flow enables optimization of the layout and performance of photonic components via the new Geometry Wizard
• Ansys Lumerical FDTD accelerates design cycles by enabling GPU-powered simulations, especially for photonic integrated component design and metasurface applications. A single GPU Nvidia RTX4000 can offer a 6x speedup versus a 12-Core CPU 
• Ansys Lumerical streamlines workflows and facilitates remote job execution with the new remote Python API
• Ansys Optics Launcher and its intuitive in-product experience enable fast access to all Ansys Optics product trials and application gallery example files from any of the Ansys Lumerical, Ansys Zemax, or Ansys Speos products
• Ansys Lumerical RCWA enables advanced simulation and analysis by new field monitors, oriented meshing, interface position autodetection, and distributed sweeps. It's advantageous for diffraction gratings, metalenses, optical metrology, holography, metamaterials, and IR sensors
• Ansys Lumerical FDTD and RCWA enable designs of larger metalenses up to 25 mm in diameter and speeds up their simulation by 10-100 times using faster workflows with more intelligent memory management, new features in RCWA GUI, GPU-powered FDTD, and faster GDS file export capabilities 
• Ansys Lumerical FDTD, CHARGE, Ansys Zemax OpticStudio, and Ansys Speos have increased the accuracy and range of analysis for a complete end-to-end Camera Image Sensor virtual prototyping solution. Ansys FDTD enables accurate quantum efficiency (EQE) calculations by including the marginal rays from OpticStudio in the camera pixel simulations
• Ansys Lumerical INTERCONNECT brings performance improvements by allowing double the number of channels or frequencies with the same simulation run time, especially useful for achieving higher frequency resolution of the biphoton wavefunction for HOM measurement
• Ansys Lumerical INTERCONNECT now enables the modeling of nonlinear LiNbO3 waveguides by supporting second harmonic generation, both short pulse and CW pump operations, and tuning with periodic polling

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In the 2023 R2 release, Ansys medini analyze extends the efficient, holistic application of safety, reliability, and cybersecurity analysis methods. We've launched a new safety collaboration platform that enables seamless teamwork with a new web-based Digital Safety Manager (DSM).

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In 2023 R2, the structures product line delivers new features and capabilities that allow users to perform more accurate, efficient, and actionable structural simulation analyses, including:

• Interface with Mechanical pythonically to automate capabilities and connect with other technologies using PyMechanical.
• Perform accurate and robust turbomachinery simulations leveraging new enhancements, including imported load support for multistage cyclic symmetry analyses, a new forced response add-on using standardized capabilities, and a new advanced nonlinear multi-harmonic solver.
• Explore a variety of drop test height and angle variations, with added support to concurrently solve multiple drop test analyses with the Ansys LS-DYNA solver.
• Create a desired local region sub-model on a PCBA using the Sherlock pre-plug-in for Ansys Mechanical.
• Export Ansys Motion's vibration results into Ansys Sound for acoustics analysis and psychoacoustic indicators for automotive, A&D, and heavy machinery applications. 

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Ansys 2023 R1 expands Discovery’s astonishing live physics, innovative user experience, and robust modeling tools, making it a critical piece of the Ansys digital simulation thread and the best place to start simulation for every engineer and analyst. 

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In 2023 R1, Ansys Sound updates include new enhancements to the Sound Analysis & Specification (SAS) module, allowing users to access integration & differentiation tools to convert, display and analyze (time, spectrum, spectrogram) vibration signals. Updates to the Virtual Reality Sound (VRS) module include the ability for users to accurately play multichannel sound files on multiple speaker setups for any configuration, making the sound comparison as easy as possible. Finally, updates to the Active Sound Design for Electric Vehicles (ASDforEV) module includes access to a new sound design method called Granular Synthesis to rapidly sketch and tune active sounds from a single sound sample.

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Ansys 2023 R1 continues expanding toolsets for Additive Manufacturing users, streamlining design, simulation, and manufacturing workflows. Adding new wizards for distortion compensation and scan pattern-based calibration automates the simulation setup process, reducing the need for lengthy manual setup.

Automated optimization for the first-time-right printing

An enhanced and automated Distortion Compensation wizard within Ansys Mechanical reduces setup time by 50% by eliminating time-consuming manual processes for optimized geometry to print for metal AM. An optimized loop removes the need to run iterations manually by enabling users to set tolerance ranges, allowing the algorithm to provide an optimized geometry.

Increased fidelity

Boost the fidelity of simulations by simulating the exact laser paths used for Laser Powderbed Fusion (LPBF) by integrating the Build File Reader into Mechanical. Loading the identical scan paths enhances print success and process understanding by removing the need to ignore the anisotropic deformation of a part or estimate a generic laser path.

Simplification of the calibration process

Using the new Scan Pattern-based Calibration Wizard in Mechanical simplifies the calibration process for anisotropic simulation. Leverage the increased fidelity with Scan Pattern and Build File-based simulations without increasing the manual effort to establish valid calibration criteria.

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From customized data labeling, improvements in the accuracy of Radar & Lidar sensor outputs, backend distributed & controlled processing, to an effortless handshake with the driving simulator – 2023 R1 updates are sure to impress AVxcelerate users.

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Ansys 2023 R1 builds on the capabilities of materials, SPDM, optimization, and MBSE to amplify simulation benefits by improving engineering efficiency, supporting collaboration, and accelerating innovation. The Ansys Connect collection boasts UX improvements, new integrations, and ease-of-use features to connect the latest processes, tools, and data readily for different engineering teams.

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The latest release of STK continues to expand and enhance integration across Ansys multiphysics solvers, boosting confidence in early concept system design, improving decision-making, and improving the efficiency of the engineering process.

• Enhanced Radar Clutter Modeling
• Integrated EOIR Thermal Model Loading from Aviator
• Cislunar Support

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In 2023 R1, Ansys Twin Builder continues to innovate and provide our customers with the right technology, increasing their digital twin prediction.

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In the 2023 R1 release, Ansys Electronics demonstrates technology leadership in computational electromagnetics. Improvements in simulation performance, meshing, integrations with other Ansys tools, automated workflows, and modeling capabilities extend our leadership in electromagnetic simulation and computational multiphysics for designing high-speed PCBs, electric machines, antennae, radar, and other electronic systems.

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Ansys 2023 R1 strengthens the interoperability in A&D with ARINC 661, software architecture & FACE, and Automotive (AUTOSAR). Cloud availability through Ansys Gateway powered by AWS brings greater flexibility in deploying SCADE products. In addition, test generation assistance improvements speed up the software V&V workflow.

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• Unleash the power of multiple GPUs for a broad spectrum of applications with the full release of the multi-GPU solver in Ansys Fluent
• Address sustainability challenges with accurate hydrogen modeling throughout its value chain in Ansys Fluent
• Automate workflows and craft customized solutions efficiently with an embedded PyConsole in Ansys Fluent
• Major advancements for aerospace applications for all flight regimes in Fluent Aero, a Virtual Blade Model, and a built-in Aero-Optical workflow in Ansys Fluent
• Automatically create a high-fidelity CAD for an extended set of blade features in TurboGrid
• More accurate IC engine simulations with Arc Channel Tracking (ACT) spark model in Ansys Forte
• DEM-SPH workflow enhancements and extended Fluent two-way coupling in Ansys Rocky

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Enhanced UX

Ansys 2023 R1 brings a more configurable, adaptable, and localized authoritative source of truth for materials with features like the new CAD connector to guarantee traceability between CAD material records and simulation models.

Proactive Sustainability: now on the cloud

The latest eco data and Eco Audit tool help explore and iterate rapidly–now available with Granta Selectoron Ansys Gateway powered by AWS.

Help Simulation Accuracy with Materials

The latest metals, polymers, PCB, and electromagnetic absorbing data support automotive and high-tech innovation with applications from AV to 5G.

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Easily create and toleratecomplex surfaces in sequential mode, trace single rays in nonsequential mode, simulate and optimize complex 2D gratings, and maintain lens surface equations in stored optical parts.

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• Modernized CAD view in FDTD
• Learn and use Ansys Lumerical RCWA easier with anew GUI
• Access all optics examples from the new Ansys Optics Launcher
• Experience the power of the cloud via the new Ansys Gateway powered by AWS
• Accurately simulate your macroscopic optics design coupled to its nano-scale building blocks via new streamlined workflows between Ansys Lumerical, Zemax, and Speos
• Predict the behavior of active devices via the new self-consistent Ansys Lumerical MQW and Ansys Lumerical CHARGE simulations
• Verify PIC designs via layout-driven workflows in KLayout using the new streamlined layout import feature for component-level design
• Speed up your electro-optical co-simulation of photonic circuits by 5X
• New INTERCONNECT solver models quantum behavior in photonic integrated circuits

For details, please see our release notes. 

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• MTTF (Mean Time to Failure) and MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) values in both FTAs and RBDs
• Beta version of CFT with integrated component fault tree editing in SysML and quantitative evaluation support
• The extended HARA risk graph with the ASIL none value for automotive

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In 2023 R1, the Structures Product Line delivers new features and capabilities that allow our users to perform more accurate, efficient, and customizable simulation analyses, including:

• An AI/ML Resource Prediction feature to provide estimates on expected solve time and memory usage required to solve an Ansys Mechanical simulation.
• Efficiently modify a CAD model without losing the associativity of the model’s features after setup, using geometry-based re-associativity with the Scoping Wizard that detects and reestablishes scoping in Mechanical.
• Improvements to LS-DYNA Incompressible Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (ISPH) for improved data processing, better visualization, data transfer to Mechanical and Fluent, and more.
• Comprehensive battery safety workflow in LS-DYNA simulates thermal runaway following thermal and mechanical abuse. Predict the combined structural, electrical, electrochemical, and thermal (EET) responses of automotive batteries – validated through experiments.
• Enhancements to the Ansys Sherlock parts library include over 400,000 new parts added, allowing users to build more accurate models for analysis. Additionally, improved integrations between Sherlock, Mechanical & Icepak can handle multiple PCB assemblies for motherboard or daughter board applications.

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