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Chapter 1: Global
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1.1. Advisories
In addition to the incompatibilities noted within the release notes, known non-
operational behavior, errors and/or limitations at the time of release are docu-
mented in the Known Issues and Limitations document, although not accessible
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1.2. Installation
ANSYS, Inc. has discontinued support for the HP-UX Itanium 64, the Sun Solaris
x64, IBM AIX 64, and the Linux 32-bit platforms for all products.
ANSYS, Inc. has discontinued support for the Linux Itanium 64 platform for the
ICEM CFD product.
Third-party products that are used as part of the installation process are now
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The ASAS product has been retired. The FATJACK, BEAMCHECK, and Splinter
products are now installed automatically with the Mechanical application.
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14.0:
ANSYS, Inc. has discontinued support for the HP-UX Itanium 64 and the IBM AIX
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have been upgraded to FLEXlm 11.9.1 (FLEXnet 11.9.1). We strongly recommend
that you upgrade to this version of the license manager, regardless of whether
you are upgrading to ANSYS Release 14.0.
You can now use the -setliclang option to change the language used by
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ANSYS HPC Pack licenses are now available for borrowing. Only a single HPC
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CFX now respects licensing preferences. Previously, CFX would always use the
lowest capability first. It will now use the licenses specified with User License
Preferences. See the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide for more information on setting
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Chapter 2: Workbench
2.1. ANSYS Workbench 14.0
2.1.1. Design Point Enhancements
The following enhancements have been made to design point behavior:
The ability to change the order of Design Point updates is also available at the
DesignXplorer level. See Design Point Update Order in the DesignXplorer help
for more information.
For more information, see Updating Design Points via Remote Solve Manager
(RSM) in the Workbench Users Guide.
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For additional information, see Using Remote Solve Manager with DesignXplorer
in the DesignXplorer help.
2.1.2. Reporting
You can now write out a report of the current project in .html/.htm format. To
write a report, choose File> Export Report. The report will be written to the
user_files directory under the project directory by default. You can control
whether the report opens by default using the Options>Project Reporting
settings.
The report contains basic project information, including a graphic of the systems
as shown in the project schematic, parameter and design point information, and
system and cell information. The specific information provided will vary depending
on the contents of the project. Additional information may be available from
the individual applications. Not all applications provide reporting information.
For more information, see Microsoft Office Excel or Microsoft Office Excel Options
in the Workbench Users Guide.
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DesignModeler Release Notes
ANSYS EKM provides access to a simulation data repository, which may exist
locally on your workstation (for individual repositories) or reside on a larger
dedicated server for enterprise-level data management.
2.1.5. Incompatibilities
There are no known incompatibilities to date in release 14.0.
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Transfer Enhancements
The transfer capabilities between ANSYS DesignModeler and ANSYS Mechanical
have been enhanced, most notably:
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DesignModeler Release Notes
Toolbar Customization
Feature toolbars have been separated into smaller groups, making it easier to
access many features/tools directly from the toolbars.
Hot Keys
New hot keys (short cut) are available for frequently repeated operations:
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F3: Apply
F4: Cancel
F6: Toggle display (shaded+edges/shaded/wireframe)
F7: Zoom to Fit
Ctrl-A: Select All
Ctrl-P: Toggle Point selection filter
Ctrl-E: Toggle Edge selection filter
Ctrl-F: Toggle Face selection filter
Ctrl-B: Toggle Body selection filter
Ctrl-Z: Undo (sketching mode only)
Ctrl-Y: Redo (sketching mode only)
Ctrl-C: Copy (sketching mode only)
Ctrl-X: Cut (sketching mode only)
Ctrl-V: Paste (sketching mode only)
New ANSYS IcePak Object Types Three new IcePak object types are supported:
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Points on Arc: specifies the number of interior points that are placed at an
equal distance within the curved edges in the polygonal profile.
Length Threshold Percentage: specifies the threshold value to represent
the curved edges using interior points.
Enforce Axis: forces the DesignModeler application to look for polygon
profiles only in the normal plane of the selected axis.
Shaft Feature
The Import Shaft Geometry feature has been introduced as part of ANSYS
DesignModeler. The feature uses a text file to generate a collection of line bodies
with circular or circular tube cross sections. You may specify the units of the data
in the text file and a base plane to orient the line bodies it creates.
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AutoCAD Support
ANSYS DesignModeler now supports the AutoCAD file format in both plug-in
(requires CAD system to be running) and pseudo-reader (does not require CAD
system to be running) modes.
Error Messages
Error reporting has been improved for the Share Topology feature and Import/At-
tach features to give more detailed error information.
AutoCAD 2012
Autodesk Inventor 2012
Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 18.0
Creo Parametric (formerly Pro/ENGINEER) 1.0
NX 8.0
Parasolid 24.0
Solid Edge ST4 (104)
SolidWorks 2011
ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler 2011+
Teamcenter 8.0, 8.1 and 8.3
NX
Autodesk Inventor
SolidWorks
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TurboSystem Release Notes
ANSYS TurboGrid is a meshing tool for turbomachinery blade rows. The release
notes for ANSYS TurboGrid are given at ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes > "TurboGrid
Release Notes".
CFX-Pre, a CFD preprocesor, and CFD-Post, a CFD postprocessor, are part of the
ANSYS CFX product. Both of these products have Turbomachinery-specific fea-
tures. The release notes for CFX-Pre are given at ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes >
"CFX Release Notes". The release notes for CFD-Post are given at ANSYS, Inc.
Release Notes > "CFD-Post Release Notes".
Release notes for the remaining TurboSystem applications are provided in the
following sections:
Note
After reviewing these release notes, you are encouraged to see Usage
Notes, which describes some known TurboSystem-related workflow
issues and recommended practices for overcoming these issues.
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2.3.1.2. BladeEditor
ANSYS BladeEditor is a plugin for ANSYS DesignModeler for creating, importing,
and editing blade geometry.
This view now shows meridional curvature for the hub and shroud. For de-
tails, see Meridional Curvature View in the TurboSystem User Guide.
Added Blade Clearance properties to the Blade feature. For details, see Blade
Feature in the TurboSystem User Guide.
User-defined layers
You can create layers based on sketch curves. For details, see FlowPath
Feature in the TurboSystem User Guide. Data layers in BladeGen models are
converted to user-defined layers when loaded into BladeEditor.
BladeEditor has been made consistent with BladeGen in that, by default, both
now read and write files that express angles in radians instead of degrees.
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Meshing Application Release Notes
Upon import of a legacy model into release 14.0, suppressed virtual topology
entities will be deleted. This includes any virtual topology entities that were
suppressed manually (for example, by right-clicking on the virtual topology entity
in the Tree Outline and selecting Suppress from the context menu), but it does
not include virtual topology entities that are suppressed because the body con-
taining them is suppressed. If entities are deleted, a warning message will be is-
sued advising you to import the model into an earlier release, unsuppress the
affected entities, and save the model for use in release 14.0. Also see the Virtual
Topology section below.
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At release 13.0, all mesh connections were pre, but at release 14.0, all mesh
connections are post. Upon import of a release 13.0 database into release 14.0,
all mesh connections are updated accordingly.
When assembly meshing algorithms are used in release 14.0, Program Controlled
inflation is not supported on solid bodies. The solid bodies will not be inflated.
If you import a release 13.0 database that specifies the CutCell meshing algorithm
and Program Controlled inflation is defined on a solid body, you must either
change the Fluid/Solid designation of the solid body to Fluid or set Use Auto-
matic Inflation to None and define local inflation controls to obtain the release
13.0 behavior. Also see the Assembly Meshing section below.
Contact regions are now resolved automatically as interfaces for use in ANSYS
FLUENT. In support of this change, if you import a legacy model with all of the
following characteristics into release 14.0, a message will be issued to advise you
that if you do not want the contact regions to be resolved, you should delete
them:
Physics Preference is set to CFD.
Solver Preference is set to Fluent.
Contact regions are defined.
However, if you do want the legacy contact regions to be resolved, you must
clear and regenerate the mesh in the release 14.0 Meshing application prior
to exporting/opening the mesh in ANSYS FLUENT.
Also see the Miscellaneous Changes and Behaviors section below for re-
lated information.
The logic for translating material properties of bodies/parts to continuum zone
types when a mesh is exported to ANSYS FLUENT format has changed in release
14.0. Body/part names and Named Selection names are no longer considered.
However, upon import of a legacy model into release 14.0, the Fluid/Solid ma-
terial property for each body will be set based on pre-14.0 rules.
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If Named Selections, part names, and/or body names are defined, they
are applied according to the following priority:
Named Selections defined for the underlying faces in a sheet body.
In such cases, a message will be issued indicating the Named Selection
definition for the faces will override the Fluid/Solid material property
for the sheet body.
Named Selections defined for sheet bodies
Part names
Body names
This means that when defined, Named Selections for underlying faces
take highest priority, then Named Selections for sheet bodies, then
part names, then body names. An exception occurs if a part name
would result in a material property of Solid but a body name would
result in a material property of Fluid. In such cases, the sheet body
is transferred as a Fluid.
If no Named Selections, part names, or body names are defined, the sheet
bodies are transferred as continuum zones and the same rules as in the
3D case are applied.
Assembly Meshing
Assembly meshing refers to meshing an entire model as a single mesh process,
as compared to part- or body-based meshing, in which meshing occurs at the
part or body level respectively. If the assembly meshing Method control (de-
scribed below) is set to None, ANSYS Workbench meshing operates at the part
level, but if it is set to CutCell or Tetrahedrons, the entire assembly will be
meshed at one time using the selected assembly meshing algorithm.
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Assemblies can also be meshed using part-based meshing methods, but in such
cases the mesher operates one part at a time, and therefore cannot mesh virtual
bodies or evaluate parts that occupy the same space.
Assembly MeshingOverview
The Assembly Meshing group of global mesh controls is now available. You can
use one of the controls, called Method, to choose either CutCell or Tetrahedrons
as your strategy for assembly meshing. CutCell is available only in the Meshing
application, and only when Physics Preference is set to CFD and Solver Prefer-
ence is set to Fluent. Tetrahedrons is available in both the Meshing application
and the Mechanical application, regardless of Physics Preference and Solver
Preference settings.
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The default for Proximity Size Function Sources has been changed to Edges.
This setting is sufficient for most models.
In principal, there are two approaches for extracting fluid domains from CAD:
1. For internal flow, cap the inlets, outlets, and any other leakage of the solid do-
main and perform a Boolean subtraction operation inside the CAD system to
extract the flow volume.
2. For external flow, create a large external domain outside of the solid object,
perform a Boolean subtraction operation inside the CAD system, and delete
any remaining interior voids inside the solid.
However, depending on the number of solids and the quality (or cleanliness)
of the original CAD, these Boolean operations may fail.
Assembly meshing provides the means of extracting and meshing the flow
volume within both these scenarios in one operation, and hence eliminates the
need for the Boolean operations. To use these approaches, capping faces or
large external domains need to be created in the CAD system. These fluid domains
are represented by virtual bodies in the Meshing application. You also need to
define a coordinate system at any location inside the extracted fluid domain.
When you insert a virtual body into the Tree Outline, a Virtual Body Group,
representing the fluid type, is created with a Virtual Body as a child object. In
the Details view settings for the Virtual Body, you associate the material point
with the coordinate system.
Often, you are interested only in the fluid flow and hence the solid mesh is not
needed. The Keep Solid Mesh control determines whether the mesh for any
body marked as a solid is discarded or kept.
Since meshing all of the solids and then discarding the solid mesh would not
be efficient, you can provide the Fluid Surface in addition to the material point
inside the Virtual Body definition, thereby eliminating the need to mesh the
solid and leading to improved meshing performance by a factor of two or more.
To aid in finding all the faces that are needed to create a Fluid Surface object,
a new Extend to Connection option has been added to the Extend Selection
drop-down menu. Before you use this tool, make sure that the global size function
option Min Size/Proximity Min Size is set appropriately and that the Find
Contacts tool has been executed.
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Due to missing rubber seals, bolt threading, or other simplifications, the solid
CAD may not be watertight. In these situations, the assembly meshing al-
gorithms can trace the leaks and display their leak paths graphically to help you
with troubleshooting.
Leakage usually occurs if any contact is larger than 1/10 of the local minimum
size. If a leak is up to 1/3 of the local minimum size, you can use contact sizing
to close the gap.
For performing diagnostics for assembly meshing problems, the Find Thin Sec-
tions and Find Contacts tools are available. These tools return lists of contact
regions based on the global size function option Min Size/Proximity Min Size,
which should be set appropriately before you invoke them. When Find Thin
Sections is executed (using RMB), each of the contact regions it returns contains
faces on the same body that will not be resolved properly based on the current
global minimum size. When Find Contacts is executed (using RMB), the tool re-
turns a list of contacts, which is used to pass feature information down to the
meshing algorithm. The Find Contacts tool is particularly useful for assemblies
in which fillets of bodies are adjacent to other bodies, forming a sharp angle.
Find Contacts will preserve the edges of these fillets independent of the feature
angle settings.
Related to these tools, the Use Range option has been added as a global
connection setting so that searches can operate on a range of values.
Assembly MeshingInflation
For the CutCell algorithm, inflation is neither Pre nor Post. Rather, it may be
considered a hybrid of the two, in that the technology used is like that of the
Pre algorithm, but inflation occurs Post mesh generation. For the Tetrahedrons
algorithm, Pre inflation is used, with inflation behaviors and limitations very
similar to those of the Patch Conforming Tetrahedron mesh method.
When an assembly meshing algorithm is being used, a mixture of global (auto-
matic Program Controlled) and local (scoped) inflation is not supported; you
must choose between the two approaches:
For inflation on virtual bodies, you must use automatic Program Controlled
inflation; you cannot use local controls to inflate virtual bodies. Thus in gen-
eral, if you are using virtual bodies to represent flow volumes in your model,
plan to use automatic inflation. Automatic inflation is specified globally by
setting Use Automatic Inflation to Program Controlled. With Program
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Controlled inflation, faces on real solid bodies will inflate into the virtual
bodies. The Fluid/Solid designation on real bodies will be respected (that is,
faces on real fluid bodies will inflate into the fluid region, but the solid region
will not be inflated).
Alternatively, you can set Use Automatic Inflation to None and define local
inflation controls. This approach is appropriate if your model contains real
bodies that represent the fluid regions.
If any global or local inflation settings are modified and you re-mesh, only
the inflation layers are regenerated. This is true for both approaches, regard-
less of which assembly meshing algorithm is selected.
Assembly meshing algorithms support 3D inflation only. Unlike 3D inflation for
part/body level meshing, for assembly level meshing the scoped body and the
face that you select to be the inflation boundary do not have to be on the same
part.
By default, Gap Factor is set to 1.5 for the CutCell algorithm. For the Tetrahed-
rons algorithm, Gap Factor is set equal to the value that is specified for non-
assembly mesh methods (0.5 by default) and is updated accordingly if that value
is changed.
The new Sharp Angle Tool lets you control the capture of features with sharp
angles, such as the edge of a knife or the region where a tire meets the road. It
can also be used for improved feature capturing in general, even if the faces
that you pick to define a control do not form a sharp angle. The Sharp Angle
Tool is available only when assembly meshing algorithms are being used and
ensures that the desired features are captured in the assembly mesh.
Mesh groups are used to merge adjacent bodies into one body. The grouping
tells the mesher to treat certain solid parts as one part and ensures that the mesh
generated on the combined parts is associated with the mesh of the selected
master body. Mesh grouping is available only when assembly meshing algorithms
are being used. Mesh Group objects appear in the Tree Outline under the Mesh
object.
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At release 13.0, all mesh connections were pre, but at release 14.0, all mesh
connections are post. The mesh connection feature leverages the Post pinch
technology to automatically generate Post pinch controls internally at meshing
time. This technology allows mesh connections to work across parts so that a
multibody part is no longer required.
The Snap to Boundary option, which was already available for edge-to-face
pinch controls, is now supported for edge-to-face mesh connections as well.
When Snap to Boundary is set to Yes (the default) and the distance from a
slave edge to the closest mesh boundary of the master face is within the specified
snap to boundary tolerance, nodes from the slave edge are projected onto the
boundary of the master face. In addition, you have more control over the snap
type and snap tolerance. By default the snap tolerance is set equal to pinch tol-
erance, but setting the Snap Type option to Manual Tolerance lets you override
it. Alternatively, you can set Snap Type to Element Size Factor to enter a factor
of the local element size of the master topology. For edge-to-edge pinch controls
or edge-to-edge mesh connections, the snap tolerance is set equal to the pinch
tolerance internally and cannot be modified.
When used on parts and bodies that have been joined by mesh connections or
post pinch controls, the Clear Generated Data option now works as follows,
where the "base" mesh, which is stored in a temporary file, is the mesh in its
unsewn (pre-joined) state:
If a base mesh is available, the mesh is reverted to the base mesh and the reques-
ted parts/bodies are cleared.
If no base mesh is available, the entire mesh is cleared and a warning message
is issued. Reasons the base mesh may not be available include situations in which
you have deleted your temporary files, exported a .mechdat file for someone
else to use, or moved your project database to a different computer.
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Meshing Application Release Notes
quence for any geometry update or re-mesh operation. You can populate the
worksheet either by recording meshing steps as you perform them or by adding
meshing steps to the worksheet manually. In each meshing step, the bodies as-
sociated with a given Named Selection are meshed. For greater flexibility, you
can activate and deactivate steps in the worksheet to control whether they are
processed or skipped during mesh generation and other worksheet operations.
The worksheet is dockable. Once you toggle it on, you can move it to the desired
location which will persist whenever the Mesh object or one of its child objects
is highlighted in the Tree Outline. For example, you may want to dock the
worksheet alongside the Geometry window, allowing you to view both at once.
The Triangle Surface Mesher control has no effect on parts or bodies being
meshed with the Patch Independent Tetra mesh method. The Patch Conform-
ing Options group of controls is inaccessible when an assembly meshing al-
gorithm is selected.
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A new Prism option is available for Mapped Mesh Type. The Prism option
generates a mesh of all prism elements for the part the method is scoped to.
This option is sometimes useful if the source face mesh is being shared with a
tet mesh, as pyramids are not required to transition to the tet mesh.
Improved handling of edge splits.
Edge, face, and body sizing are supported. When using edge sizing, you can
specify a Type of either Element Size or Number of Divisions. For face and
body sizing, Type is always Element Size. The Sphere of Influence and Body
of Influence options are not supported for Uniform Quad/Tri and Uniform Quad.
The Uniform Quad/Tri and Uniform Quad mesh methods support mesh connec-
tions and pinch controls (post pinch only).
When Use Advanced Size Function is set to On: Proximity and Curvature, you
now have the option to specify a global Proximity Min Size to be used in
proximity size function calculations, in addition to specifying a global Min Size.
By default, Proximity Min Size is set equal to the default of Min Size. Any feature
that operates based on minimum element size (for example, Defeaturing Toler-
ance, Pinch Tolerance, and Find Thin Sections), will now be based on the smaller
of the two minimum size values.
When Use Advanced Size Function is set to On: Proximity, only Proximity
Min Size is available.
In cases where you applied a hard size that is smaller than the minimum size,
there may be a poor size transition in proximity to the entity with the hard size.
To obtain a proper size transition, reduce the Defeaturing Tolerance used by
the Automatic Mesh Based Defeaturing control (or turn off Automatic Mesh
Based Defeaturing entirely).
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Virtual Topology
The following enhancements related to virtual topology have been made at re-
lease 14.0:
You can select specific regions (i.e., bodies or faces) before running automatic
virtual cell creation so that it operates on the selected regions only. The software
groups adjacent entities appropriately to form the virtual cell(s).
To facilitate more efficient virtual topology operations, Virtual Cell and Virtual
Split Edge objects no longer appear in the Tree Outline. This provides improved
usability in cases involving very large numbers of virtual entities. The Virtual To-
pology object still appears in the Tree Outline and can be used for setting
global virtual topology options. Other enhancements described in this section
can be used for creating, deleting, and editing virtual entities.
A new Virtual Topology Properties dialog has been implemented. You can use
this dialog to edit the properties of multiple selected virtual topology entities,
and your changes will be applied to all selected entities at one time. You can
access the dialog via right-mouse button click or by choosing the Edit button
on the Virtual Topology context toolbar.
You can insert multiple virtual cells at one time when creating virtual cells
manually. Select one or more faces or one or more edges and from the selected
set of faces or edges, the software creates the virtual cell(s). During this process,
adjacent selected entities are grouped appropriately to form virtual cell(s), while
any single selected entity (that is, one that is selected but is not adjacent to any
other selected entity) forms its own virtual cell.
You can select two vertices on a face to split the face, thereby creating 1 to N
virtual faces. To facilitate split face operations, you can create a virtual hard vertex,
which allows you to define a hard point according to your cursor location on a
face, and then use that hard point in a split face operation. In support of these
features, two new objects are available (Virtual Split Face and Virtual Hard Vertex).
Similar to Virtual Cell and Virtual Split Edge objects, Virtual Split Face and Vir-
tual Hard Vertex objects do not appear in the Tree Outline.
When you define a virtual split edge by selecting Insert> Virtual Split Edge
from the context menu or by choosing Split Edge on the Virtual Topology
context toolbar, the split location is set to 0.5 by default. You can change the
value later by using the Virtual Topology Properties dialog, or by modifying
the edge split interactively as described below.
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Using the F4 key, you can interactively adjust previously defined virtual split
edges and virtual hard vertices. In either case, any virtual split faces affected by
the change are adjusted accordingly.
A Statistics group has been added to the Virtual Topology Details view. Here
you can view counts of the virtual faces, virtual edges, virtual split edges, virtual
split faces, virtual hard vertices, and total virtual entities that exist within the
model.
The virtual topology feature is more flexible, with the addition of more options
for deleting virtual topology entities. Regardless of which object is highlighted
in the Tree Outline (for example, Geometry, Virtual Topology, Mesh, etc.), you
can now select virtual entities in the Geometry window, right-click, and delete
the selected virtual entities (and dependents if applicable). When the Virtual
Topology object is highlighted, you have the additional option of selecting the
Delete button on the Virtual Topology context toolbar. You also have the option
to delete all virtual entities at one timeeither by RMB click on the Virtual To-
pology object in the Tree Outline, or by RMB click on any virtual topology entity
in the Geometry window.
Left/right arrow buttons have been added to the Virtual Topology context
toolbar so that you can cycle through virtual topology entities in the sequence
in which they were created and display them in the Geometry window.
Suppression of virtual entities has been disabled.
POLYFLOW Export
The following enhancements related to POLYFLOW Export have been made at
release 14.0:
Named Selections are supported. When you export a mesh file from the Meshing
application to POLYFLOW format (File> Export from the Meshing application
main menu, then Save as type POLYFLOW Input Files), the Named Selections
that were defined will appear in the exported mesh file.
PMeshes are supported. You can create Named Selections to specify specialized
modeling conditions on edges for 2-D or shell geometry; and edges and faces
for 3-D geometry. The exported mesh file will contain the mesh nodes and ele-
ments associated with those Named Selections in PMesh format.
CGNS Export
Release 14.0 provides greater control over CGNS export operations. Using the
Options dialog box, you can choose a file format (ADF or HDF5) and CGNS
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version (3.1, 3.0, 2.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, or 2.1). The defaults are ADF and 3.1 respect-
ively.
FLUENT Export
The following enhancements related to FLUENT Export have been made at release
14.0:
Body/part names and Named Selection names are no longer considered when
assigning continuum zone types for use in ANSYS FLUENT. For databases created
in release 14.0, the following logic is used to translate the material properties of
the bodies/parts in the model to continuum zone types:
1. If Physics Preference is set to CFD and you do not set the Fluid/Solid
material property as described in steps 2 and 3 below, all zones are exported
to ANSYS FLUENT mesh format as FLUID zones by default.
2. The Fluid/Solid material property assigned in the DesignModeler application
is considered next. This setting overrides the default behavior described in
step 1.
3. The Fluid/Solid material property assigned in the Meshing application is
considered next. This setting overrides the default behavior described in
step 1 and the Fluid/Solid material property assigned in the DesignModeler
application.
For information about this change and migration of legacy models into re-
lease 14.0, see the Resuming Databases from Previous Releases section
above.
Using the Options dialog box, you can choose either the Binary or ASCII file
format for greater control over FLUENT export operations.
At the time of mesh export, a boundary zone type of INTERFACE is now assigned
automatically to the contact source and contact target entities that compose
contact regions. When reading the mesh file, ANSYS FLUENT creates a mesh in-
terface for each contact region automatically. For related information, also see
the Resuming Databases from Previous Releases section above, and the Mis-
cellaneous Changes and Behaviors section below.
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will be no change in the Tree Outline. If in a later operation, the fillet is re-added
to the CAD model and refreshed, the virtual cell will be restored. When a virtual
entity becomes underdefined due to a geometry operation, a message is issued
indicating that the last operation resulted in an incomplete virtual entity and
advises you to check your model.
The Send to Solver option, which used to be available in the Mechanical applic-
ation only, is now available in the Meshing application as well. When you are
defining Named Selections, the Send to Solver option lets you control whether
the selected Named Selection is passed to the solver. The default is Yes for
Named Selections that you create, and No for Named Selections that are gener-
ated automatically by the Mesh worksheet.
Pre-inflation with patch conforming is now 2030% faster.
When you export a mesh to ANSYS FLUENT mesh format, contact source and
contact target entities in contact regions are now resolved as INTERFACE zones
and mesh interfaces are created for the contact regions automatically. This
eliminates the steps required in previous releases, which involved defining Named
Selections for the contact regions in the Meshing application and then in ANSYS
FLUENT, ensuring the INTERFACE zone type was assigned properly and creating
a mesh interface for each contact region manually. For related information, also
see the Resuming Databases from Previous Releases and FLUENT Export
sections above.
The Smooth Transition option for the Inflation Option control is now supported
when defining 2D local inflation.
The Auto Detect Contact On Attach option, which used to be available in the
Options dialog box within the Mechanical application, has been moved. This
option, which controls whether contact detection is computed upon geometry
import, can now be accessed by selecting Tools> Options from the ANSYS
Workbench main menu, and then selecting either the Mechanical or Meshing
category as appropriate. The option is enabled by default in both applications.
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By default, a model's node and element numbering will not be condensing when
actions such as body suppression occurs. Thus gaps in numbering can occur in
the solver input file. This change was done in order to preserve the integrity of
nodal based named selections. The ability to compress the numbers can be
achieved by a setting in the Details view of the Mesh Numbering folder.
The default values used for contact Formulation, Update Stiffness, and Behavior
have changed. The new defaults were chosen to give best solution to a wide
range of contact situations. See Connection Enhancements below for further in-
formation.
The Auto Detection Value for a contact pinball region is only available for contacts
that are generated automatically.
The Bending option for the Shell Entry will not be available in the Stress/Strains
details view, however you can calculate this result using User defined results.
For a more meaningful result, see the new Bending and Membrane Stress Results.
An Imported Body Temperature object in a 3D analysis no longer supports
scoping surface bodies with other geometry types. You will now be required to
create a separate Imported Body Temperature object for surface bodies. This
change was made to support applying temperatures to the Top, Bottom, or Both
face selections of surface bodies.
When using an Imported Body Temperature or an Imported Heat Generation
object to transfer and apply loads from an upstream Mechanical analysis, the
following changes have been made to the Data View worksheet to allow for
more efficient data transfers:
The addition or removal of rows in the worksheet is no longer controlled by
the program. You can add rows in the worksheet to specify additional data
for a different analysis time.
When resuming legacy databases, rows in the worksheet will be removed if
the Source Time value of the row matches that of the previous row. This has
been done to prevent importing redundant data.
The Active column will no longer be available for activating or deactivating
the load at different steps. Activation or deactivation of these loads can now
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be done from the Graph or Tabular Data window of the object. Legacy
databases will be migrated to handle this change.
The Auto Detect Contact On Attach option, which used to be available in the
Options dialog box within the Mechanical application, has been moved. See
Miscellaneous Changes and Behaviors in the Meshing Application Release
Notes for details.
In an effort to reduce disk space usage, by default, Nodal Forces are not written
to the result file. However, this output is required to perform post-processing
tasks on the results for most contact force reactions. This default setting can be
changed under the Output Controls category of the Mechanical Application
Options dialog box (Tools>Options).
By default, changes to solution level command objects will not invalidate an up-
to-date solution.
Following the import of a Load History, the Magnitude field displays the label
"Tabular Data". If this Load History data is duplicated, the newly created data is
independent of the original load.
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General Enhancements
The following general enhancements have been made at release 14.0:
Support for Cyclic Symmetry on Surface Bodies. Analyses that include cyclic
symmetry can now be performed on surface bodies as well as solid bodies.
Expanded Criterion Based Named Selections. More options have been to added
for creating named selections by criteria (Worksheet Scoping). Additional options
include:
Criterion based on radius
Ability to build up selections from other Named Selections.
Tolerance used for numerical evaluation.
Whether a row is included as a part of the criterion.
Implementation of Materials as Criterion.
Implementation of Smallest and Largest as available Operators.
Mesh Based Named Selections. Mesh based Named Selections are available as
an alternative to geometric based selections and include the following features:
Scope Named Selections based upon things such as interactive picking, node
Ids, location, midside nodes, and corner nodes.
Convert geometric Named Selection to mesh based Named Selection using
the Convert To option.
Apply the mesh based Named Selections to certain boundary conditions and
results.
View properties of the selection in the Selection Information Window or Export
to a file.
Performance Enhancements
Release 14.0 has given special attention to the performance of Mechanical in
various areas in order to provide a better responding product for both small and
large models:
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Analysis Enhancements
The following analysis enhancements have been made at release 14.0:
Damped Modal Analysis Results. Results for damped modal analyses are now
available directly in Mechanical, including, for a damped analysis, the option to
allow or ignore the time decay animation for complex modes.
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Geometry Enhancements
The following geometry enhancements have been made at release 14.0:
Expanded Contact to Line Bodies. Edges and vertices of line bodies can now
be scoped to the contact side of a Contact Region.
Expanded Support for Normal Lagrange Formulation. The Normal Lagrange
contact formulation is now available for all contact regions regardless of scoping
type or underlying geometry.
Stabilization Damping Factor. The Damping Stabilization Factor is now available
to damp relative motion and provides a certain amount of resistance to reduce
the risk of rigid body motion because of open contacts.
Program Controlled Defaults Added To Behavior Contact Property. The Be-
havior contact property now includes a Program Controlled default setting that
automatically adjusts depending on the presence of rigid body faces (3-D) or
edges (2-D).
Program Controlled Defaults Added To Formulation and Update Stiffness
Contact Properties. Formulation and Update Stiffness properties now each in-
clude Program Controlled default settings that automatically adjust depending
on the presence of rigid body contacts.
Contact Detection. Nodal detection is now supported for 3D face-face contacts
and 2D edge-edge contacts.
Joint Availability. Joints are now available for use in harmonic, random vibration,
and response spectrum analyses.
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Mesh Connections Common to Selected bodies. This new option highlights the
mesh connections that are common to the bodies selected in the Graphics
viewer.
Mesh Connection Across Parts. The Mesh Connection feature leverages the
Post Pinch technology to automatically generate Post Pinch controls internally
at meshing time. This technology allows Mesh Connections to work across parts
so that a multi-body part is no longer required.
Graphics Enhancements
The following graphical enhancements have been made at release 14.0:
Loads/Supports/Conditions Enhancements
The following loads/supports/conditions enhancements have been made at re-
lease 14.0:
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Pipe Pressure for Line Bodies. Pressure can now be applied to line bodies
defined as pipes. The Pipe Pressure load can be applied as a constant, tabular,
or function load.
Pipe Temperature for Line Bodies. Temperature can now be applied to line
bodies defined as pipes. The Pipe Temperature load can be applied as a constant,
tabular, or function load.
Direct FE is a new Menu of options in the Mechanical Application that contains
specific Finite Element (FE) boundary conditions in the form of forces, supports,
and conditions, and includes:
Nodal Orientation. A nodal coordinate system can be created for later use
in applying nodal rotations to displacements. This is represented by a Orient-
ation object and is available in the Direct FE menu.
Nodal Force - A force can now be applied to individual nodes or a group of
nodes by scoping Nodal Force to a node-based Named Selection.
Nodal Pressure - A pressure can now be applied to individual nodes or a
group of nodes by scoping Nodal Pressure to a node-based Named Selection.
FE Displacement - A node-based displacement can now be applied.
FE Rotation - A fixed rotation can now be applied to the nodes of a body.
Lock at Load Step. A joint can now be locked at a specific load step during a
multi-step analysis. This feature is available for both a static or a transient analysis.
PSD Loading to Multiple Remote Displacements (and Fixed Supports). For a
Modal Analysis, you can now apply a PSD Excitation load to all remote displace-
ments or to all remote displacements and all fixed supports.
Ansoft-Mechanical Data Transfer. Imported Loads from HFSS, Maxwell, or Q3D
now support the ability to import data from multiple times/frequencies and apply
them at different times using a single Imported Load object.
Mechanical-Maxwell Stress Feedback. Deformation results can now be exported
from a structural analysis in Mechanical and used in a Maxwell analysis.
Activation/Deactivation Support for Imported Loads. Imported loads can now
be activated or deactivated on a step basis from the Graph or Tabular Data
window of the object.
Heat Flux and Heat Generation Import from External Files. Heat Flux and Heat
Generation data, specified in the External Data system, can now be imported
and applied in a steady-state or transient thermal analysis.
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Imported Body Temperature Loads Enhanced for Surface body Selections. Tem-
peratures imported into a structural analysis can now be applied to the Top,
Bottom, or Both face selections of surface bodies.
Convection. A convection load (film coefficient and ambient temperature) can
be applied as a tabular load or a function of x or y or z and/or time.
Mapping Enhancements
The following mapping enhancements have been made at Release 14.0:
Scan For File Changes, a context menu option on an External Data System's
Setup cell, checks each Data Source file and validates that inputs are correct.
Named Selection Creation. Automatic named selection creation for unmapped,
mapped, and outside nodes.
Mapping Settings. Imported loads settings have been changed:
Triangulation. Weighting setting Radial Basis Functions has been changed
to Triangulation to better describe the technique used in calculating source
point load contributions.
Distance Based Average. A new weighting option Distance Based Average
has replaced Closest Point allowing input from the user to specify how many
closest points to use when calculating source point contributions.
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Solution Enhancements
The following solution enhancements have been made at release 14.0:
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Results Enhancements
The following results enhancements have been made at release 14.0:
Display Finite Element Beams, Weak Springs and Constraint Equations. The
Solution Information object now includes properties to control the ability to
display internal beams, weak springs and constraint equations that are generated
during solution.
Results Scoping Extended to Meshing Entities. Using criteria based named
selections, scoping for several results is now available on underlying meshing
entities, in addition to geometric entities.
Forces/Moment Reactions . Force Reaction probes and Moment Reaction probes
are now available for use in Harmonic and Modal analyses. In Random Vibration
and Response Spectrum analyses, they can only be scoped to Remote Displace-
ment boundary condition.
Bending and Membrane Stresses. Two new result objects, Bending Stress and
Membrane stress, are added to calculate membrane and bending stresses and
strains. These results are available only when you solve using the Mechanical
APDL solver for surface bodies and solid bodies that are meshed using the thin-
solid option.
Force Reaction Probe Support for Cylindrical Coordinates. Force Reaction
probes can now be displayed in either cylindrical or Cartesian coordinate systems.
PSD Probes Scoping Extended to Remote Points. Scoping for Response PSD
probes is now available at remote points.
Duplication for User Defined Results. User defined results can now be duplic-
ated, with and without the result, and across analysis systems.
Force Reaction Result Trackers. Force Reaction result trackers that can be
scoped to boundary conditions and geometry are available for explicit dynamics
analyses. Geometry scoped Force Reaction trackers can show results for the fol-
lowing force components:
Support - specifies that the tracker show results for the forces that will be
generated due to supports that are present in the model.
Euler/Lagrange Coupling - specifies that the tracker show results for the forces
exerted by any material in bodies assigned with an Eulerian reference frame
that interact with the scoped region.
Contact - specifies that the tracker show results for the total force resulting
from the contact forces acting on the scoped area.
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All - specifies that the tracker show results for the sum of all three compon-
ents.
Design Assessment. The following enhancements have been made to the Design
Assessment system:
The Design Assessment system can now accept upstream connections from
the following systems: Static Structural, Modal, Harmonic Response, Random
Vibration, Response Spectrum, Explicit Dynamics and Transient Structural.
Solution Combination can be performed with Static Structural, Modal, Har-
monic Response, Random Vibration, Response Spectrum and Transient
Structural systems.
Additional BEAMST results are available in the DA Result object when the
BEAMCHECK assessment type is specified.
FATJACK (within Design Assessment) enhanced for additional analysis types:
Stress History, Spectral, Deterministic.
Units support for attribute input.
Script locations can be defined relative to various locations.
User defined results are now available.
Upstream results are programmatically accessible, enabling direct access
through the API to custom results.
Solve and Evaluate script output is now displayed within Design Assessment.
Design Assessment results are now available at nodes, and nodes on elements.
Results can also be assigned units and can be presented in vector or tensor
forms. The units systems of upstream results can be obtained and mesh data
is now provided in the Design Assessment analysis units rather than geometry
units.
Design Assessment can now access shell thickness information, including
varying thickness definitions.
Design Assessment is now available for Linux platforms.
Result Suppression. Result objects including result Probes can now be suppressed.
These suppressed result objects are excluded from the solution.
Create Contour Result From Result. You can now create a contour result from
a Frequency Response result type in a Harmonic Analysis. This feature creates
a new result object in the tree with the same type, orientation, frequency, and
phase angle as the frequency result type.
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Expanded User Defined Result Types. Element attribute numbers such as ma-
terial or type used for the Mechanical APDL solution can now be accessed using
User Defined Result Types.
Generate Path from Edge Result. You can now generate a Path form results
scoped to contiguous edges.
Enhanced Chart. The Chart object has been enhanced to provide scaling (such
as semi-log) and plot options. Additionally, the charts can now plot harmonic
Frequency Response objects in order to easily compare and collate result data.
For Windows users, the solution file folder can be displayed using the Open
Solver Files Directory feature.
Convenience MAPDL Parameter: The Mechanical input file to the MAPDL solver
now contains a parameter that points to the user_files directory in the Workbench
project structure. This can be used by those familiar with MAPDL commands to
perform useful file operations.
The two techniques produce similar (but not necessarily identical) contours.
New at 14.0, when Mechanical post-processes MAPDL and AUTODYN result files,
the equivalent strain formulations are the same as those in MAPDL POST1. That
is, Mechanical will use Technique Two at 14.0.
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Before 14.0, Mechanical used Technique One, except for Equivalent Total Strain
results(Solution->Strain->Equivalent Total). Equivalent Total Strain results were
always derived via Technique Two.
The user defined results EPELEQV, EPPLEQV, EPCREQV, EPTTEQV, and EPTOEQV,
which represent the pre-14.0 formulation, are no longer listed in the Worksheet
at 14.0.
The Worksheet (for structural analyses) will list (if they exist) EPELEQV_RST, EP-
PLEQV_RST, EPCREQV_RST, EPTTEQV_RST, and EPTOEQV_RST, which represent
Technique Two.
Exceptions
1. Technique Two has NOT been installed into the post-processing of result files
for other solvers (e.g. SAMCEF and SNECMA).
2. For cyclic symmetric models in modal environments, the older (pre-14.0) formu-
lation is still in effect.
3. If the MAPDL/AUTODYN result files were created by a revision previous to 14.0
(e.g., 13.0), then equivalent strain contours (and probes) will employ the older
(pre-14.0) formulation. Hence, if you resume a pre-14.0 database with pre-14.0
result files and insert an equivalent strain, then Technique One will be attempted.
4. If you resume a pre-14.0 database which already contains an equivalent strain
result/probe in the Solution tree, then the older (pre-14.0) formulation remains
in effect.
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A new Optimization Domain section allows you to define the parameter space
for each input parameter by setting the Lower Bound and Upper Bound. For
the NLPQL optimization method, you can also set an Initial Value to specify
where optimization starts for each input.
The Optimization Study section has been renamed Optimization Objectives
and contains the following modifications:
The Seek Midpoint option for continuous input parameters has been changed
to Seek Target. The default target is the midpoint.
You can now set Constraint Handling preferences at the parameter level
for constrained parameters (i.e., parameters for which a constraint objective
is defined).
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For more detailed information on project reporting functionality, see Using Design
Exploration Project Reports in the DesignXplorer help and Project Reporting in
the Workbench Users Guide.
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On the Local Sensitivity Curves chart, you can view the placement of each Man-
ufacturable Value along the curve. For continuous parameters with Manufactur-
able Values:
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On the Local Sensitivity chart, each bar is defined by the Min-Max of the Manu-
facturable Values and the average calculated from the support curve; this chart
allows you to view the differences in the output Min-Max according to whether
Manufacturable Values are considered or discounted. For continuous parameters
with Manufacturable Values:
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For more information, see Design Point Log Files and Extended CSV File Format
in the DesignXplorer help.
Note
When updating design points via RSM, if you exit the project or switch
to another project during the update, the design point log file will
not be updated when you resume the update.
For more detailed information, see Using Remote Solve Manager with
DesignXplorer in the DesignXplorer help.
Specify Job Submission Method for Design Point Updates via RSM
In the Parameter Set Properties view, use the new Default Job Submission
property to specify how design points sent to Remote Solve Manager for update
will be submitted. Submission options are as follows:
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One Job for All Design Points: All design points being sent for update are
submitted as a single job.
One Job per Design Point: Each design point being sent for update is submitted
as a separate job.
Specify Maximum Number of Jobs: Design points being sent for update are
distributed among and submitted in multiple jobs, up to the maximum number
of jobs specified.
For more information, see Updating Design Points via Remote Solve Manager
(RSM) in the Workbench Users Guide.
Note
The failure of design points to update or merge back into the project
will not affect any design points that updated and merged success-
fully. If you encounter any failed design points, simply resubmit those
design points for updating. When submitting design points as separate
jobs using this release, you may encounter occasional failures with
the design point updates. These failures are most likely to occur if
submitting design points from a DesignXplorer design exploration
system and generally occur when ANSYS Workbench attempts to
merge the results back into the project.
For more detailed information on the Pending state, see Using Remote Solve
Manager with DesignXplorer in the DesignXplorer help.
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played, see Design Point States in the Workbench Users Guide.
For more information, see Sparse Grid in the Design Explorer help.
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curve to represent the impact of each input parameter on one or two output
parameters.
For more information, see Using the Local Sensitivity Curves Chart in the
DesignXplorer help.
For more information, see Using the 2D Slices Response Chart in the
DesignXplorer help.
This functionality is currently available for the Predicted vs. Observed chart, the
Sensitivities chart, the Local Sensitivity chart, the Local Sensitivity Curves chart,
the Correlation Matrix chart, and the Determination Matrix chart.
For more information, see Using DesignXplorer Charts in the DesignXplorer help.
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Serial
Shared memory parallel
Distributed parallel on Linux clusters via PBS and LSF, and on Windows clusters
via Windows HPC and LSF
CFX also has extended support for CFX external files (e.g., BC profiles, .csv vari-
ables, etc.). See Using Remote Solve Manager with ANSYS CFX in the CFX docu-
mentation for a complete list of which files are and are not supported.
Limitation: In release 14.0, RSM does not support Windows clusters via LSF for
the submission of FLUENT solutions.
Limitation: Note that this option is not available if you are sending CFX jobs to
a Microsoft HPC Compute Server; in this case, the shared cluster directory is always
used.
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Files in Working Directory property that allows you to specify whether the
temporary job files will be saved or deleted upon completion of the associated
job. You can save these temporary job files and use them for troubleshooting
purposes.
For more information, see Starting RSM Services Automatically at Boot Time for
Linux in the Remote Solve Manager documentation.
One Job for All Design Points: All design points being sent for update are
submitted as a single job.
One Job per Design Point: Each design point being sent for update is submitted
as a separate job.
Specify Maximum Number of Jobs: Design points being sent for update are
distributed among and submitted in multiple jobs, up to the maximum number
of jobs specified.
For more information, see Updating Design Points via Remote Solve Manager
(RSM) in the Workbench Users Guide.
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The failure of design points to update or merge back into the project
will not affect any design points that updated and merged success-
fully. If you encounter any failed design points, simply resubmit those
design points for updating. When submitting design points as separate
jobs using this release, you may encounter occasional failures with
the design point updates. These failures are most likely to occur if
submitting design points from a DesignXplorer design exploration
system and generally occur when ANSYS Workbench attempts to
merge the results back into the project.
For additional information, see Using Remote Solve Manager with DesignXplorer
in the DesignXplorer help.
This functionality is available for RSM remote server machines on which both
Workbench and necessary CAD software have been installed.
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For more information, see Adding a Compute Server in the Remote Solve Manager
help.
Submission of Fluent via RSM to a LSF batch queue is supported on Linux only.
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Viscoelastic- These material models are available for Static Structural and Transient
Structural analysis.
Prony Shear Relaxation
Prony Volumetric Relaxation
Williams-Landel-Ferry Shift Function
Tool-Narayanaswamy Shift Function
Tool-Narayanaswamy with Fictive Temperature Shift Function
Material Strength Limits- These material models are available for Static Structural,
Transient Structural, Modal, Linear Buckling, Random Vibration and Response
Spectrum analysis.
Orthotropic Stress Limits
Orthotropic Strain Limits
Tsai-Wu Constants
Puck Constants
LaRc03/04 Constants
In the thermal materials library, the default value for Thermal Conductivity
changed from 0.26 W/m-sec to 0.026 W/m-sec for the air material.
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features that are available in ANSYS EKM 14.0 are listed below in EKM (p. 57)
and EKM Desktop (p. 59).
2.9.1. EKM
If you have used previous versions of EKM, version 14.0 offers many significant
changes and improvements that are listed below:
Product Installation and Setup: An EKM server can now be installed and
set up on a local machine for a single user, or on shared hardware for mul-
tiple users using the ANSYS 14.0 installation media.
EKM Individual Server: This setup type allows an EKM server to be set up
for an individual user on their own machine. In this single-user mode, a user
can access their private repository on their individual server, as well as
have access to the full capabilities of EKM.
EKM Shared Server: This setup type allows an EKM server to be set up on
a shared device that can be accessed by multiple users in a collaborative
mode. Multiple users can access a shared repository in their LAN (Local Area
Network) or across a WAN (Wide Area Network). A shared basic EKM server
can be quickly and easily set up with minimal effort in your LAN for a
workgroup of typically up to 10 users. A shared advanced EKM server can
be set up in a non-cluster or cluster configuration in a WAN for a large
workgroup of any number of users. A shared advanced EKM server can be
configured in a variety of topologies that best meet your organizations
needs. In addition to accessing shared repositories, users accessing a shared
server also have access to the full capabilities of EKM.
Integration with ANSYS Workbench: When you install ANSYS Workbench,
the EKM Desktop client is automatically installed on your hardware. You can
save your current Workbench project directly to a selected repository, and
search for a Workbench project and open it from a selected repository. After
updating the local copy of your Workbench project, you can then send
changes to the copy of the project that resides in the EKM repository. Other
users who have updated the same Workbench project can get your changes
in order to access the most-up-to-date version. Tighter integration with
Workbench facilitates collaboration with ongoing projects and allows multiple
users to leverage on the work that is being done by their colleagues.
ANSYS Workbench Project Representation in EKM: When a Workbench
project is saved to an EKM repository from Workbench or EKM Desktop, the
project is automatically saved as a Workbench Project Archive File type
(with .wbpz extension), making it easier to manage and act on the project
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A private search query for any user can be added to the built-in Sys-
tems/Public Shared Queries folder so that it can be accessed
by all users
A Quick Compare report option now allows you to compare multiple
files using default settings with a single click; improvements to custom-
ized comparison report formats have also been made
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New Folder
New Catalog
A progressive workflow that standardizes and simplifies the setup and coordinated
execution, interruption, restart and post-processing of coupled analyses
A workflow designed to minimize the effect on the setup and execution of the
participating solvers (e.g. solver specific physics and capabilities like parallel
processing are unaffected by System Coupling)
Comprehensive control over the coupled analysis, including transient and
steady/static couplings, and multiple coupling iterations per coupling step
Comprehensive control over data transfers, including any number of force and
displacement transfers on surface regions, and data transfer specific under-relax-
ation and convergence targets
Complete support for the execution of coupled analyses outside and independent
of the Workbench environment
2.11. IC Engine
IC Engine is a new analysis system for release 14.0. It is a customized tool for
setting up and solving the flow inside an IC Engine with moving geometry. It is
used for the quantification of flow rate, swirl and tumble, and other flow para-
meters during the engine cycle. The IC Engine system uses the ANSYS FLUENT
solver for fluid flow analysis.
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hours to a couple of days. Furthermore, getting all the required inputs to accur-
ately model the physics in the in-cylinder simulation is tedious and difficult.
The IC Engine reduces the time for setting up the in-cylinder simulation from a
few hours to a few minutes by automating the decomposition of the geometry
and the mesh generation. The dynamic mesh setup and solver setup are also
done automatically. The IC Engine system requires minimum inputs to complete
the simulation. This significantly reduces the effort required to setup the IC Engine
case and eliminates the need for a long, tedious, and error prone manual prepar-
ation of the geometry, mesh, and solver set up.
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Chapter 3: Mechanical APDL
Release 14.0 of the Mechanical APDL application contains all of the capabilities
from prior releases plus many new features and enhancements. Areas where you
will find changes and new capabilities include the following:
Also see Known Incompatibilities (p. 96) and The ANSYS Customer Portal (p. 3)
for important information about this release.
For information about changes to the ANSYS Workbench Products, see the ANSYS
Workbench Products Release Notes.
3.1. Structural
Release 14.0 includes the following new features and enhancements for structural
analyses:
3.1.1. Contact
3.1.2. Elements and Nonlinear Technology
3.1.3. Linear Dynamics
3.1.4. Materials and Fracture
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3.1.1. Contact
Release 14.0 includes the following enhancements for structural analyses involving
contact:
3.1.1.1. Contact Stabilization Damping
3.1.1.2. Squeal Damping
3.1.1.3. Surface-Projection-Based Contact for 2-D Models
3.1.1.4. Surface-Projection-Based Contact with MPC Contact
3.1.1.5. Geometry Correction for 2-D Contact and Target Surfaces
3.1.1.6. Bonding Temperature
3.1.1.7. Other Contact Enhancements
For standard contact or rough contact, you can use real constants FDMN and
FDMT to define contact damping scaling factors along contact normal and tan-
gential directions. KEYOPT(15) of the contact elements offers further controls on
the effect of stabilization damping.
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For more information, see Forced Frictional Sliding Using Velocity Input in the
Contact Technology Guide.
For more information, see Using the Surface Projection Based Contact Method
(KEYOPT(4) = 3) in the Contact Technology Guide.
In general, the new method provides significantly more accurate and smoother
stress distributions near the contact interface of dissimilar meshes compared to
the other existing contact options (KEYOPT(4) = 1 and 2), especially for higher-
order elements involved in contact.
For more information, see Modeling Solid-Solid and Shell-Shell Assemblies in the
Contact Technology Guide.
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For more information, see Geometry Correction for Contact and Target Surfaces
in the Contact Technology Guide.
For more information, see Using TBND in the Contact Technology Guide.
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3.1.2.1. Rezoning
Rezoning for 3-D analyses now supports tabular loading. For more information
about loads and boundary conditions, see Rezoning Requirements in the Advanced
Analysis Techniques Guide.
Nearly all structural materials are now supported. (The exceptions are CAST (cast
iron), CONCR (concrete), MPLANE (microplane), SMA (shape memory alloy), and
SWELL (swelling)). Material models can be combined, as described in Material
Model Combinations in the Material Reference.
The new MAPVAR command defines tensors and vectors in user-defined state
variables for rezoning.
The frequency is obtained automatically, directly from the specified ocean inform-
ation (OCDATA and OCTABLE). As with a standard harmonic analysis, a damping
matrix must be added separately if desired. Ocean loads are calculated with the
assumption that the structure is stationary.
For more information, see the HROCEAN command documentation and Harmonic
Ocean Wave Procedure (HOWP) in the Mechanical APDL Theory Reference.
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For more information, see Applying Ocean Loading from a Hydrodynamic Ana-
lysis in the Advanced Analysis Techniques Guide, the documentation for the
OCREAD command, and Diffracted Wave on Line and Surface Elements (Kw = 8)
in the Mechanical APDL Theory Reference.
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The new NOD2 option allows you to vary shell thicknesses versus node number
in the form of a 2-D array, relating thickness to node number directly. The size
of the array is proportional (2X) to the number of nodes with thicknesses and is
independent of node numbering. This capability is particularly useful for tapered
shells, where a single part may have large node IDs, but a relatively small number
of nodes relative to the entire model.
3.1.2.6. Enhanced Body Force Loading for Pipe and Elbow Elements
You can now define element body force loads for pipe and elbow elements, al-
lowing you to specify radial and axial temperature variations on those elements.
You can also specify a table name for beam and pipe elements that allow multiple
temperature inputs per node; you need only define the tabular load for the first
node (Node I), as loads on the remaining nodes are applied automatically. For
more information, see the documentation for the BFE command.
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3.1.3.1. Damping
Material-dependent damping proportional to the mass is now available in full
harmonic and transient analyses (Lab = ALPD on the MP command). In these
analyses, the damping proportional to the stiffness is now specified via Lab =
BETD on the MP command (replacing the obsolete DAMP label). For mode-su-
perposition methods, the material-dependent damping ratio is now input via
Lab = DMPR on the MP command (replacing the obsolete DAMP label). For
more information, see Damping in the Structural Analysis Guide.
Eigenvalues and mode shapes from a linear perturbation modal analysis can be
used in downstream analyses of mode-superposition harmonic and transient
analysis, as well as in power spectral density (PSD) and response-spectrum ana-
lyses. The prestressed effects from the linear perturbation modal analyses are
retained and passed into the downstream analyses.
In mode-superposition harmonic analyses that use the modal stresses in the ex-
pansion pass of the modal analysis (MXPAND,,,,YES,,YES), the nodal and reaction
forces now contain the damping and inertial components.
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3.1.3.5. Rotordynamics
You can now import variable bearing characteristics used for bearing element
COMBI214 real constants into table parameters from an ASCII file via the import-
bearing1 macro. The file format is described in Bearing Characteristics File
Format in the Rotordynamic Analysis Guide.
The critspeedmap macro is now available to generate the critical speed map
of a rotor. For a usage example, see Example: Critical Speed Map Generation in
the Rotordynamic Analysis Guide.
The bearing element COMBI214 now supports stiffness and damping character-
istics dependent upon the eccentricity. The table parameters definition is given
in Using the COMBI214 Element in the Rotordynamic Analysis Guide.
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bine the summed modal static forces and inertia forces (both stiffness and mass
forces, which are the forces acting on the supports).
The modal assurance criterion values obtained via the RSTMAC command can
be retrieved as APDL parameters for further processing. See the *GET command.
Some material properties are not available via the material property menus of
the GUI. For a list of such material properties, see GUI-Inaccessible Material
Properties.
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and user-defined. A material data table can be used to define the fracture criterion
and associated material properties.
Support for the new crack growth simulation technology is available via the
PLANE182 and SOLID185 elements. The new CGROW command defines all ne-
cessary parameters for the crack growth simulation.
For more information, see VCCT-Based Crack Growth Simulation in the Structural
Analysis Guide.
For more information, see Chaboche Material Curve Fitting in the Material Refer-
ence.
For more information, see Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Material Model in the
Material Reference.
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The model is well suited for simulating engineering materials consisting of various
aggregate compositions with differing properties (for example, concrete modeling,
in which rock and sand are embedded in a weak matrix of cements).
For more information, see Microplane Material Model in the Material Reference.
Initial state application has always been element-based, but a new node-based
option is available for current-technology elements. For layered elements, you
can apply an initial state to each layer at every node within the element. For
beam elements, you can apply an initial state to each cell number at every node
within the element. For all other elements, the initial state is applied at each
node within the element.
For more information, see Initial State in the Basic Analysis Guide and the docu-
mentation for the INISTATE command.
For more information, see Material Model Combinations in the Material Reference,
AHYPER and PRONY (Anisotropic Hyperelasticity and Viscoelasticity (Implicit))
Example in the Structural Analysis Guide, and Large Strain Visco-Anisotropic Hy-
perelasticity in the Mechanical APDL Theory Reference.
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Unlike an exponential model, a bilinear model gives correct results for linearly
debonding material interfaces, and makes it possible to simulate Mode I or Mode
II dominated (or mixed-mode) debonding.
For more information, see Interface Delamination and Failure Simulation in the
Structural Analysis Guide, Cohesive Zone Material in the Material Reference, and
Cohesive Zone Material (CZM) Model in the Mechanical APDL Theory Reference.
3.1.4.10. Swelling
Swelling is a material enlargement (volume expansion) caused by neutron
bombardment or other effects (such as moisture). The swelling strain rate is
generally nonlinear and is a function of factors such as temperature, time, neutron
flux level, stress, and moisture content. Several options are now available for
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modeling swelling effects (TB,SWELL), and element support has been greatly
expanded. For more information, see Swelling Model in the Material Reference.
The material damage initiation and evolution laws are specified via two new
material models (TB, DMGI and TB,DMGE, respectively). Currently, only failure-
criteria-based initiation laws and instant-stiffness-reduction evolution laws are
supported (TB, FCLI).
The new damage models are compatible with linear elastic orthotropic materials,
which are commonly used for representing the homogenized properties of fiber-
reinforced composites.
For more information, see Damage Initiation Criteria and Damage Evolution Law
in the Material Reference.
3.2. Coupled-Field
Release 14.0 includes the following enhancement in the area of coupled-field
analysis:
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The ETCONTROL command can now be used with PLANE223, SOLID226, and
SOLID227 to control the element technology in structural-thermal and structural-
thermoelectric analyses.
For more information, see PLANE223, SOLID226, and SOLID227 in the Element
Reference. Also see Structural-Diffusion Analysis, Thermal-Diffusion Analysis, and
Structural-Thermal-Diffusion Analysis in the Coupled-Field Analysis Guide.
3.3. Acoustics
A number of enhancements to acoustic analysis are available in this release. You
can now:
Simulate temperature-dependent nonuniform ideal gas medium via the BF, TREF,
TOFFST, MP, MPTEMP and MPDATA commands.
Simulate the propagation of sound in viscous medium via the MP command.
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Apply the various analytic sources (in an acoustic radiation or scattering analysis)
to the inside or outside of the model via the AWAVE command. Analytic sources
include plane wave, monopole/pulsating sphere, dipole, bare loudspeaker, and
back-enclosed loudspeaker sources.
Apply the various mass sources to the model via the BF, BFK, BFL, BFA and BFV
commands. Mass sources include point, line, surface, and volume sources.
Apply the surface normal velocity to the exterior surface of the model via the
SF and SFA commands.
Apply the impedance boundary to the acoustic-structural interface via the SF
and SFA commands.
Apply the impedance sheet load to the inside of the model via the BF and BFA
commands.
Apply the Robin boundary condition to the exterior surface of model for radiation
or scattering analysis via the SF and SFA commands.
Select the symmetric algorithm for FSI modal analysis via KEYOPT(2) = 2, or for
full harmonic FSI analysis via using KEYOPT(2) = 3, when using fluid elements
FLUID30, FLUID220 and FLUID221.
Select the total-field method for acoustic scattering analysis with analytic wave
sources and PML or Robin boundary condition.
Select the pure scattered-field method for either acoustic scattering or radiation
analysis with analytic wave sources and PML or Robin boundary condition via
the HFSCAT command.
Define a sloshing surface via the SF and SFA commands.
Plot and print near- and far-field pressure, sound pressure level, directivity, sound
power level, far-field scattered pressure, and target strength values via the PL-
NEAR, PLFAR, PRNEAR, and PRFAR commands.
Plot and print the nodal sound pressure level (SPL) and contour pattern via the
PLNSOL, PRNSOL, NSOL, PLVAR and PRVAR commands.
Plot and print nodal velocity for modal and harmonic analyses via the PLNSOL,
PRNSOL, PLESOL, PRESOL and PLVECT commands.
The pressure L2-norm squares are stored in the element summable miscellaneous
table for fluid elements FLUID30, FLUID220 and FLUID221.
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The FSI surface between the acoustic elements and solid structural elements can
be automatically identified if the SF command is not issued.
The equivalent source surface for near- and far-field can be automatically identi-
fied if the SF command is not issued.
If you issue the SOLVE command, view factors are calculated in parallel
mode if no view factors were previously calculated.
If you issue a VFOPT,NEW command, view factors are calculated in serial
mode.
3.5. Solvers
Release 14.0 includes the following new enhancements that improve solution
procedures and features.
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Support for GPU acceleration has been added. See GPU Acceleration Enhance-
ments for more details.
You can now avoid combining the local or distributed results files into a single,
global results file upon completion of the solution. The file-combination control
is also available for other solution files. See the DMPOPTION and RESCOMBINE
commands for more information.
Support for the new subspace iteration (SUBSP) eigensolver (for eigenvalue
buckling analyses only) is available. See the BUCOPT command for more inform-
ation.
Support for TRANS126, INFIN110, INFIN111, PLANE121, and PLANE230 element
types has been added.
Support is available for the EFLG option on the NLDIAG command.
Analyses involving contact elements are much more robust when restarting the
analysis (that is, when performing a multiframe restart).
New error-handling logic has been added to avoid deadlocks (hung jobs) if any
unexpected error occurs during the parallel job execution. If such an error occurs,
diagnostic information is now printed into one of the output files written by
each Distributed ANSYS process.
Radiosity surface elements SURF251 and SURF252 are now supported.
Support includes both multicore servers and clusters (that is, single-machine
and multiple-machine hardware). In this release, only one GPU per machine
or computing node is supported. For example, when using Distributed ANSYS
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When using the sparse solver, the solver kernel running on the GPU hardware
is up to 25 percent faster than the prior release. When using the PCG/JCG
solvers, the solver kernel that is run on the GPU hardware is up to 40 percent
faster than the prior release.
The performance of the sparse solvers (both shared memory and distributed
memory; EQSLV,SPARSE) has been enhanced when running on "AVX SIMD"
capable Intel and AMD processors (for example, Intel Xeon processors code-
named "Sandy Bridge"). In some cases, the solver performance can be up to 50
percent faster than the previous release when running on this specific hardware.
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The performance of the multiframe restart procedure has been greatly improved,
particularly when many boundary condition specifications exist (D, F, CE, etc.)
or when many load steps are involved. In some cases, the performance of the
restart action is now five times faster than the previous release.
The performance of the shared memory sparse solver (EQSLV,SPARSE) has been
enhanced. In some cases, the solver performance can be up to 40 percent faster
than the previous release, regardless of the processor hardware used.
The PCG solver now supports the Lagrange multiplier method of the MPC184
family of elements. The imposed Lagrange multipliers are transferred into multiple
point constraints so that the PCG solver can be used to obtain a solution. To
activate this functionality, the LM_Key field on the PCGOPT command must be
set to ON.
For more information, see Linear Perturbation Analysis in the Structural Analysis
Guide and the theoretical discussion of linear perturbation in the Mechanical
APDL Theory Reference.
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3.7. Commands
This section describes changes to commands at Release 14.0.
Some commands are not accessible from menus. The documentation for each
command indicates whether or not a menu path is available for that command
operation. For a list of commands not available from within the GUI, see Menu-
Inaccessible Commands in the Command Reference.
3.7.1. New Commands
3.7.2. Modified Commands
3.7.3. Undocumented Commands
3.7.4. Archived Commands
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BFE -- Defines an element body force load. Support is now available for pipe
and elbow elements. You can also specify a table name for beam and pipe ele-
ments that allow multiple temperature inputs per node.
BUCOPT -- Specifies buckling analysis options. The Subspace iteration eigensolver
has been added to the list of available eigensolvers. Also, the default behavior
has been changed to find the lowest magnitude negative and positive modes
centered around 0.0. Previously, the lowest magnitude positive modes were
found by default.
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*EXPORT -- Exports a matrix to a file (APDL Math). You can now export a matrix
in the DMIG file format.
FS -- Stores fatigue stress components at a node. Now allows the input of time.
*GET -- Retrieves a value and stores it as a scalar parameter or part of an array
parameter. Capabilities have been extended after a Campbell analysis (Entity =
CAMP). You can now retrieve the stability (real part of the eigenvalue) for each
mode and rotational velocity step as well as the instability key. Also, modal as-
surance criterion values can now be retrieved as parameters using Entity =
RSTMAC.
GRP -- Specifies the grouping mode combination method. The new ForceType
option allows you to specify the forces being combined.
MP -- Defines a linear material property as a constant or a function of temperat-
ure.
You can now define a mass matrix multiplier for damping proportional to
the mass with Lab = ALPD. The stiffness matrix multiplier is now defined
with Lab = BETD. These options replace the Lab = DAMP option.
This command and the MPxxxxxx family of commands have been enhanced
to provide additional support for coupled-field analyses.
MODCONT -- Specifies additional modal analysis options. The functionality of
the IgnoreThermalStrain key has been replaced by the THEXPAND com-
mand.
*NRM -- Computes the norm of the specified matrix or vector (APDL Math). The
new Normalize argument allows you to normalize a vector created by the
*VEC command.
NRLSUM -- Specifies the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) sum mode combination
method. The new ForceType option allows you to specify the forces being
combined.
PCGOPT -- Controls PCG solver options. The new LM_Key option allows use of
the PCG solver when MPC184 Lagrange multiplier method elements are present
in the model.
PERTURB -- Sets linear perturbation analysis options. Support for linear perturb-
ation eigenvalue buckling and full harmonic analyses has been added. In addition,
the new MatKey = TANGENT is an alternate material option which specifies that
material properties in the perturbation analysis be accounted for by using the
tangent (material Jacobian) on the material constitutive curve at the restart point
of the base analysis.
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Commands
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Elements
For information about commands that have been undocumented in prior releases,
see the archived release notes on the ANSYS Customer Portal.
SSTIF
PSOLVE
3.8. Elements
This section describes changes to elements at Release 14.0.
Some elements are not available from within the GUI. For a list of those elements,
see GUI-Inaccessible Elements in the Element Reference.
3.8.1. Modified Elements
3.8.2. Undocumented Elements
TARGE169 and TARGE170 -- These target segment elements now have an option
to define the symmetry condition of a constrained surface. This option applies
when a force distributed constraint uses a single pilot node for the target element.
The new KEYOPT(6) allows you to define the symmetry condition with respect
to the nodal coordinate system of the pilot node.
TARGE169, CONTA171, and CONTA172 -- These 2-D surface-to-surface target and
contact elements now support a geometry correction feature that can be applied
to circular contact and target surfaces to reduce discretization errors associated
with linear elements.
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Other Enhancements
Suggested Cur-
Undocumented
rent-Techno- Recommendations
Legacy Element
logy Element
TRANS109 PLANE223 Set KEYOPT(1) = 1001.
SOLID117 SOLID236 --
For information about other elements that have been undocumented in prior
releases, see the archived release notes on the ANSYS Customer Portal.
3.9.1. Documentation
ANSYS, Inc. continues to refine the Mechanical APDL documentation set. To that
end, the following changes and enhancements to the documentation have oc-
curred with this release:
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It is assumed that the rocket has been launched and that hot gases are flowing
through the nozzle, subjecting the inside and outside of the nozzle body to
convection heat loading. The heat loading leads to a significant thermal gradient
through the thickness of the body that manifests as high thermal stresses. Solid
thermal and structural elements accurately simulate the multiphysics of the
problem. While a fully coupled element could solve the problem, a loose coupling
method is used instead. Because the body material could be homogenous or a
layered composite, the simulation requires a solid element type with both homo-
geneous and layered material capabilities.
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Other Enhancements
In this example problem, the hot-rolling process to form the I-beam is simulated
statically using rezoning to repair a severely distorted mesh in a 3-D large-de-
formation analysis. The analysis also uses contact technology and symmetric
expansion.
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3.9.2. Preprocessing
Memory and CPU time have been significantly reduced when large element
and/or node IDs are used, especially when large gaps exist in the element or
node numbering.
3.9.3. Postprocessing
The following enhancements have been made to the POST1 general database
results postprocessor.
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3.9.3.2. Fatigue
The time at which fatigue stresses occurred (from the SET command or manually
input via the FS command) is now captured. Time is not used in the fatigue
calculation and is only for reference purposes.
The database (-db) memory space may grow dynamically as well if system re-
sources (RAM and paging space) are sufficient. To use a fixed space instead,
specify a negative value for -db on the command line, or specify a negative value
for the database in the Command Launcher. If you use a fixed space and the
database requires more space, the program writes to Jobname.page as in
prior releases.
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Perform a dot (or inner) product of two vectors (new *DOT command).
Perform a Fast Fourier transformation of a specified matrix or vector (new
*FFT command).
Initialize a vector or dense matrix (new *INIT command).
Link to an existing matrix, thus providing a means to manipulate a submatrix
of the original matrix (*DMAT command).
Export a matrix in the DMIG file format (*EXPORT command).
Normalize a vector (*NRM command).
Resize an existing matrix or vector (*DMAT and *VEC commands).
Compute absolute values of complex numbers via the new CXABS parametric
function.
Access real and imaginary parts of complex numbers.
List all APDL Math objects (*STATUS,MATH command).
For more information, see "APDL Math" in the ANSYS Parametric Design Language
Guide.
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Known Incompatibilities
%AWP_ROOT140%\commonfiles\MPI\Platform\8.1.2\Windows\HP-
MPICOMPAT\hpmpicompat.bat
The command displays the "ANSYS 13.0 SP1 Help" dialog box.
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The substructure file access routine provided with the release (documented in
the Programmer's Manual) has been upgraded to reflect this change, and can
read current results files as well as files from prior releases.
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Chapter 4: AUTODYN
The following new features are exposed in ANSYS AUTODYN for Release 14.0:
Also, rigid bodies run in parallel support the force boundary condition.
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Chapter 5: ICEM CFD
5.1. Highlights of ANSYS ICEM CFD 14.0
Release 14.0 development efforts included enhancement of ANSYS ICEM CFD as
a standalone application as well as continued development of its underlying
technology exposed within the ANSYS Workbench-based Meshing application.
The focus has been on defect reduction and usability with nearly 200 defect and
feature requests resolved in key areas. Specific enhancements are outlined in
the following sections.
5.2.1. General
Cart3D is no longer available in ANSYS ICEM CFD.
Visual3 (post-processing) is no longer available in ANSYS ICEM CFD. You can use
ANSYS CFD-Post instead.
A number of MultiZone improvements have been made.
The Shape source option in the model tree (Blocking > Edges > Shape source)
displays the edge linking factor (if any).
Two new unstructured mesh selection bar menus have been added:
Select all surface elements > Triangles, Quads
Select all volume elements > Tetrahedra, Hexahedra, Prisms, Pyramids
The parts information also includes details of hidden geometry/mesh component
parts.
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A button to reverse curve direction has been added under Curve Mesh Setup
(Mesh > Curve Mesh Setup).
Selection and display speed have been improved.
Improved geometry support.
Added support for Creo Parametric 1.0.
5.2.2. Blocking
The Inherit Part Name option has been added for the extrude faces and 2D to
3D rotate and translate operations.
The creation of sheet blocks (2D blocks) has been improved.
The Index Sets option in the Index Control window contains options for saving
and managing index sets based on the index control values.
The up/down arrow buttons in the Scan Planes window allow you to scroll
through the Block/Grid index.
The blocking edge information also reports the number of edge segments (if
any).
The shared wall information is also available.
Projected blocking faces are displayed based on their association.
The block split can now be extended through all blocks or all visible blocks.
An unstructured block can be split using a structured sheet block.
Reset Association (Blocking > Associate > Reset Association) has two new
options: Vertices > Only visible and Faces > Only visible.
Link Edge (Blocking > Edit Edge > Link Edge) has a new option called Inter-
active that includes a slider to adjust the edge linking factor.
Split Edge and Move Vertex have been enhanced so that they can be used
when edges are displayed in the Projected Edge Shape, Projected Mesh
Shape, and Shape source modes also.
Split Edge is now enabled to split in the Output Blocks mode also.
Split Edge contains an option to split all edges into linear edges.
The Change Edge Split Type option allows you to change the edge split type
to spline, linear, or control point.
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Key New Features/Improvements
While setting the blocking edge length explicitly (Move Vertex > Set Edge
Length), you can select multiple vertices to be frozen when the edge length
is modified.
The Select next edge segment option allows you to select the next edge seg-
ment cyclically, when the blocking edge comprises multiple segments. The selec-
tion of edge segments is available for the Associate Edge to Curve, Associate
Edge to Surface, and Disassociate from Geometry operations.
The Run Check/Fix Blocks option allows you to check for inconsistencies in the
internal block data structures and fix them if possible.
The Min overview option for Pre-Mesh Quality reports the minimum quality
for all applicable quality metrics in the message window.
The Aspect Ratio metric has been improved.
Multiblock output contains an option to select the blocks to output.
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You can use the File > Save Geometry As Version... > Version 13 File option
to make sure the Tetin file can be read back into the older version of ANSYS
ICEM CFD.
5.4. Documentation
All documentation for ANSYS ICEM CFD 14.0 is accessible using the Help menu.
Please contact us if you would like to attend training. Please visit the ANSYS
ICEM CFD website for more information.
5.4.1. Tutorials
Some tutorial examples are available within the Help. Additional tutorials, input
files, as well as the solved tutorials are available at http://www.ansys.com/tutorials.
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Chapter 6: TurboGrid
This section summarizes the new features in ANSYS TurboGrid Release 14.0.
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Chapter 7: FLUENT
7.1. Introduction
The ANSYS FLUENT 14.0 release notes contain information on New Features in
ANSYS FLUENT 14.0 (p. 107), Supported Platforms for ANSYS FLUENT 14.0 (p. 114),
Known Limitations in ANSYS FLUENT 14.0 (p. 115), Limitations That No Longer Apply
in ANSYS FLUENT 14.0 (p. 119), and Updates Affecting Code Behavior (p. 120).
Solver-Numerics
Second order advection scheme is the default setting for all models, except
for the mixture and Eulerian multiphase flows, which will remain first order
by default
Hybrid initialization method as default with enhanced initialization option
settings (Steps in Using Hybrid Initialization)
Convergence acceleration available for meshes containing highly stretched
cells for the implicit density based solver (Convergence Acceleration for
Stretched Meshes (CASM))
High order term relaxation available when applying higher order spatial
discretization (High Order Term Relaxation (HOTR))
Preconditioned conjugate gradient method (CG) available as a stabilization
method for the AMG linear equation solver (Setting the AMG Method and
the Stabilization Method)
Modifications to the expert settings for the pseudo transient method. Note
that the old case settings for the pseudo transient method in the Expert
tab of the Advanced Solution Controls dialog box are now obsolete and
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Solver-Meshing
Remeshing
Option to preserve interior surfaces for postprocessing following poly-
hedral mesh conversion via a TUI command (Converting the Domain to
a Polyhedra)
Ability to switch from hanging node mesh representation to polyhedral
mesh representation via a TUI command (Converting Cells with Hanging
Nodes / Edges to Polyhedra)
Ability to remesh 3D wedge/prism cells in a boundary layer mesh as part
of cell zone and face region remeshing methods (Cell Zone Remeshing
Method and Face Region Remeshing with Prism Layers)
Ability to print the poor element statistics in the console via the Solution
Methods task page (Repairing Meshes and Robustness on Meshes of
Poor Quality)
Ability to automatically convert the cells that have hanging nodes /
edges as a result of the CutCell zone remeshing to polyhedral cells (Using
the CutCell Zone Remeshing Method)
Dynamic Meshes
Ability to include polyhedral cells in dynamic mesh problems (Limitations)
Ability to specify that the diffusion coefficient is a function of the cell
volume, when diffusion-based smoothing is used to update a dynamic
mesh (Diffusivity Based on Cell Volume)
Ability to specify a piston pin offset for in-cylinder dynamic mesh applic-
ations (In-Cylinder Settings).
Moving Meshes
Automatic calculation of rotational axis origin for nested sliding mesh
reference frames
Ability to associate zone specific boundary motion with data from system
couplings
Models
Turbulence
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Ability to efficiently solve reacting flow in shell and tube heat exchangers
(including curvilinear configurations) with long and thin channels (React-
ing Channel Model)
Solidification and Melting Model
Thermal and solutal buoyancy options available as full features (beta
features in Release 13) (Modeling Thermal and Solutal Buoyancy )
Discrete Phase Model
Stochastic secondary droplet (SSD) model available as full feature (beta
feature in Release 13) (Modeling Spray Breakup)
Discrete Element Method (DEM) available as full feature (beta feature in
Release 13) (Modeling Collision Using the DEM Model)
Implementation of a boiling rate equation for multicomponent particles
to be able to simulate multicomponent vaporization when the total vapor
pressure at the droplet surface exceeds the cell pressure
Improvements for handling particle interactions with moving walls for
general meshes
Extension visualization of particle data, including filtering of particle
tracks, sizing of particle spheres with any particle variable, and displaying
DEM specific data to understand the particle physics (Specifying Particles
for Display and Particle Filtering)
Ability to control the coupled heat-mass solution of droplets and mul-
ticomponent particles (Including Coupled Heat-Mass Solution Effects on
the Particles) and to include vaporization options (Enabling Pressure
Dependent Boiling and Including the Effect of Droplet Temperature on
Latent Heat)
VOF
Ability to model surface tension using continuum surface stress method
(beta feature in Release 13) (Including Surface Tension and Adhesion
Effects)
Coupled with volume fractions option for solving equations (Coupled
Solution for VOF and Mixture Multiphase Flows, Selecting the Pressure-
Velocity Coupling Method, and Controlling the Volume Fraction Coupled
Solution)
Eulerian Multiphase Model
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Critical heat flux for wall boiling models available as full feature (beta
feature in Release 13), including boiling model parameters (Including
the Boiling Model)
Yao and Morel extension of the volumetric interfacial area transport
model to include mass transfer and nucleation effects (beta feature in
Release 13) (Defining the Interfacial Area Concentration)
Two new drag functions are available for granular flow: the Huilin and
Gidaspow drag law and the Gibilaro drag law (Specifying the Drag
Function)
The Immiscible Fluid Model from previous releases of ANSYS FLUENT
has been renamed to Multi-Fluid VoF Model.
The Full Multiphase Coupled pressure-velocity coupling scheme from
previous releases of ANSYS FLUENT has been renamed to Coupled with
Volume Fractions and is now selected by choosing Coupled in the
Solution Methods task page and enabling the Coupled with Volume
Fractions option (Selecting the Pressure-Velocity Coupling Method).
Eulerian Wall Film Model
Eulerian wall film model available as full feature (beta feature in Release
13) ("Modeling Eulerian Wall Films")
Heat transfer support for the Eulerian wall film model ("Modeling Eulerian
Wall Films")
Population Balance
Ability to include growth and nucleation phenomena for the Inhomogen-
eous Discrete population balance model
Availability of the DQMOM method in serial only (beta feature in Release
13) (Enabling the Population Balance Model)
Acoustics
Ability to use the Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings model to include con-
vective effects (The Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings Model in the Theory
Guide) and specify the locations of moving receivers (Specifying Acoustic
Receivers)
Material Properties
Convection/diffusion controlled vaporization for droplets (Spalding mass
transfer)
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Mesh Morpher/Optimizer
Ability to define the objective function that is minimized by the mesh
morpher/optimizer as a custom function of output parameters, i.e., values
from flux, force, surface integral, or volume integral reports (Setting Up the
Mesh Morpher/Optimizer)
Ability to define constraints on the boundary zones, in order to limit the
freedom of particular zones that fall within the deformation region(s) during
the morphing of the mesh (Setting Up the Mesh Morpher/Optimizer)
Ability to specify commands that are executed before or after the calculation
is run for each design stage generated by the mesh morpher/optimizer
(Setting Up the Mesh Morpher/Optimizer)
Parallel Processing
Improved distributed/shared memory hybrid AMG algorithm leading to
significant improvements in solver scalability.
Architecture-aware partitioning has been improved and is performed by
default when the case file is read (Partitioning in the Users Guide).
Ability to extend exterior cell creation based on interface face and node
coverage (Extended Neighborhood in the UDF Manual).
Ability to use Laplacian-coefficient-based AMG coarsening to partition cases
with highly stretched cells (Partition Methods in the Users Guide)
FLUENT now makes use of Platform MPI technology (formerly referred to as HP-
MPI) from Platform Computing Corporation ("Parallel Processing")
Support for PBS Professional in interactive mode (Starting ANSYS FLUENT Us-
ing FLUENT Launcher in the Users Guide).
Changes to supported platforms. (refer to the updated tables in "Parallel Pro-
cessing").
Increased performance of view factor calculations utilizing the GPGPU
hardware (beta feature).
Enable FLUENT UDFs to execute on GPUS (beta feature).
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User Interface
Ability to set boundary conditions of same type using wildcards
Workbench
Ability to perform one-way or two-way coupling with FLUENT and Ansoft
products (Maxwell) (Performing FLUENT and Ansoft Coupling in Workbench)
Output parameter support for drag, lift, and moments (Creating Output
Parameters in the Users Guide).
Automatic compilation of UDF libraries by FLUENT ("Compiling UDFs" in the
UDF Manual).
Source term parameters no longer need to only be specified using SI units
(FLUENT in Workbench User's Guide).
New text user interface commands (/solve/set/number-of-iterations;
/solve/set/number-of-time-steps; and /solve/set/max-iterations-per-time-
step) to set the number of iterations or time-steps (applicable to FLUENT in
Workbench) (FLUENT Text Command List).
Add-Ons
Ability to extend a CFD analysis with detailed sensitivity data using the
FLUENT Adjoint Model add-on (FLUENT Adjoint Solver Module Manual).
Ability to perform battery modeling using FLUENT Battery Model add-on
(FLUENT Battery Module Manual).
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Known Limitations in ANSYS FLUENT 14.0
File import/export (for a list of supported files, please refer to the table in this
section, under Third-party software)
Data export to Mechanical APDL result file is not available on the linx64 and
linia64 platforms. (Mechanical APDL data export to .cdb file is available on
all platforms)
When exporting EnSight Case Gold files for transient simulations, the solver
cannot be switched between serial and parallel, and the number of compute
nodes cannot be changed for a given parallel run. Otherwise, the exported
EnSight Case Gold files for each time step will not be compatible
EnSight export with topology changes is not supported
To properly view Fieldview Unstructured (.fvuns) results from a parallel ANSYS
FLUENT simulation
Mesh files must be exported from the parallel solver via the TUI command
fieldview-unstruct-grid
Mesh and data files should all be exported from parallel ANSYS FLUENT
sessions with the same number of nodes
Tecplot file import does not support the Tecplot360 file format
Mesh
Boundary zone extrusion is not possible from faces that have hanging nodes
The following features are incompatible with polyhedral cell types:
Moving/deforming mesh
Models
ANSYS FLUENT supports the Chemkin II format for Oppdif flamelet import
only
The surface-to-surface (S2S) radiation model does not work with sliding and
moving/deforming meshes
The work pile algorithm is not compatible with the wall film boundary condi-
tion
The shell conduction model is not applicable on moving walls
The heat exchanger model is not compatible with mesh adaption
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GT-POWER 7.0
HOOPS 17.15
I-DEAS IDEAS NX Series 11
LSTC-DYNA 970.0
MPCCI 3.0.5
MPI-HP/Platform 8.1.2
MPI-Intel 4.02
MPI-OpenMPI 1.3.3
NASTRAN Bulk data input file - MSC.NAS-
TRAN 2007
PATRAN 3.0
PTC MECHANICA PTC/Mechanica Wildfire 4.0
TECPLOT 9.0 (Export). Tecplot file format,
version 11.2 (Import)
VKI 3.6.0
WAVE 8.3
Other
The IRIS Image and HPGL hardcopy formats are no longer supported in ANSYS
FLUENT
When using ANSYS FLUENT with the Remove Solve Manager (RSM):
Only one copy of a saved project that is in the pending state can reconnect
successfully.
System Coupling is not supported.
Ansoft Coupling is not supported.
UDFs are supported with limitations as detailed in Submitting FLUENT
Jobs to RSM in Workbench User Guide
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Note
The shell conduction model can now be used with the non-premixed and
partially premixed combustion models.
The CutCell zone remeshing method can now be used on polyhedral cells.
2nd order discretization in time with moving and deforming meshes is now
supported as a beta feature. Note that bounded 2nd order discretization in
time with moving and deforming meshes remains unavailable.
Non-reflecting boundary conditions are now supported in the pressure-
based solver as a beta feature.
Please note that text that is in bold font represents key words that may facilitate
your search for the changes in code behavior.
Solver-Numerics
Change to second order spatial discretization as the default method for the
pressure based solver.
The second order discretization scheme will provide improved solutions
compared to the first order scheme used in previous releases. However, cases
may take more iterations to converge and/or need changes to the solver
settings for optimal convergence.
Previously setup cases are not affected and will retain the old default. New
cases will use the updated default method.
Change in default method of boundary limiting.
The new default boundary gradient limiting procedure improves solutions,
particularly for cases with coarse meshes near boundaries. It also improves
convergence by avoiding out of bound values during iterations. To revert to
pre-FLUENT 14 code behavior, use the following rpvar command:
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Updates Affecting Code Behavior
(rpsetvar recon/bc-minmax-id-new 1)
Solver-Meshing
Several dynamic mesh algorithms related to remeshing and smoothing have
been improved. These changes can result in slightly different meshes for dynamic
mesh simulations that can effect the solution.
The polyhedra conversion algorithm has been improved. Using the same mesh
as a starting mesh, the polyhedra conversion might produce a slightly different
polyhedra mesh.
The quality based mesh smoothing (in the Smooth/Swap menu) has been
improved and might return meshes of better quality.
Turbulence
The new default near-wall treatment for the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence
model is now the enhanced wall treatment with the Low-Re damping option
enabled. The Low-Re damping option has been removed from the GUI. To revert
to FLUENT 13 settings, first turn off the enhanced wall treatment for the Spalart-
Allmaras model via the /define/models/viscous> sa-enhanced-wall-
treatment? text command.
A new text command is then available that allows you to turn the Low-Re
Damping on or off: /define/models/viscous> sa-damping?
Improvements have been made to scale-resolving turbulence simulations em-
ploying an underlying one- or two-equation RANS model (i.e. SAS or DES) and
using a synthetic turbulence generator at an inlet or at a RANS/LES interface.
Results may vary from previous releases.
Rough wall treatment has been improved for epsilon-equation based
turbulence models to avoid reduction in effective roughness when the
near-wall mesh is refined. This is the new default treatment. Set the following
rpvar command to false to return to pre-FLUENT 14 code behavior.
(ke-rough-wall-treatment-r14? #f)
The implementation of the Delayed DES (DDES) shielding function, fd
(Equation 4228 in the Theory Guide), has been optimized in the SST and
Realizable k- Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) models to provide effective
shielding. The constant was changed from 8 to 20. With this change, DDES
is now the recommended shielding function for the SST k-omega model
with Delayed DES enabled and is used by default.
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Heat Transfer
For the shell conduction model at T-junctions formed with 2 walls, the heat-
conduction treatment has been corrected and will yield improved results.
Postprocessing Wall Function Heat Transfer Coefficient (WFHTC) has been
corrected. FLUENT no longer reports a value of zero for WFHTC on adiabatic
walls. The previous behavior can be recovered with the following rpvar command.
Reacting Flow
The diffusion for the spark model is now limited to cells in close proximity
to the spark region specified. This results in a more realistic prediction of
spark propagation. Historically, the spark model would affect diffusion
throughout the flow domain, and the new treatment only affects diffusion
around the location of the spark.
(check-mesh-interpolate-in-time)
A boiling rate equation for multi-component particles has been introduced,
which has been derived consistently with the existing vaporization and boiling
models in ANSYS FLUENT. This boiling rate replaces the rate equation used pre-
viously for the multicomponent particle boiling regime. The documentation has
been updated in the Theory Guide. This change cannot be reversed through an
rpvar.
For multicomponent particles, the true boiling temperature is used to limit the
Langrangian wall film model. Previously, the minimum of the component boiling
points was used. The user cannot change this selection.
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Updates Affecting Code Behavior
In the DPM energy balance, the latent heat is computed consistently in the
droplet and Lagrangian film models. Previously, the film model always used a
constant latent heat value. The user cannot revert to the old method.
Improvements to the droplet Vaporization Law numerics result in a more accur-
ate vaporization history. As a result of the improved accuracy, computed traject-
ories may be longer compared with FLUENT 13.0. In addition, computational
time may increase compared to FLUENT 13.0 if the computed vaporization time
is longer. The change can be reverted by issuing the following commands in
sequence:
(dpm-parameters-changed)
The Multicomponent Law numerics have been revised to speed up the compu-
tation. When importing case files from previous versions, you will need to disable
Coupled Heat-Mass Solution for Multicomponent droplets to take advantage
of the increased computational speed. This setting is found on the Numerics
tab of the of the Discrete Phase Model dialog box.
Several changes have been made to the Lagrangian wall film model that lead
to more consistent evaporation of the wall film for pure and multi-component
wall films. In addition, splashing of droplets has been improved to consider
only one sampling from the cumulative probability density function of the un-
derlying size distribution. These changes cannot be reversed.
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Acoustics
Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings solver: reception time calculation is improved by
interpolating the emitted timestep signal between the receiver timesteps covered
by the received signal.
ALLOCATE_NODE_SVAR(SV_N_TMP_0)
DEALLOCATE_NODE_SVAR(SV_N_TMP_0)
Many node union macros such as NODE_VISIT and NODE_MARK have
been used for flagging the nodes, so it is not really necessary to use a
node union variable to do it. For your convenience, 3 new macros have
been added. Please use CLEAR_NODE_VISITED to initialize a node
flag, SET_NODE_VISITED to mark a node, and NODE_IS_VISITED
to check the node status. You may also use function
Clear_Node_Flags (domain, NODE_VISITED_FLAG) to initialize
all nodes in the domain, and use Exchange_Node_Flags (domain,
NODE_VISITED_FLAG) to exchange node flags in parallel.
For multiphase simulations, the linearized mass transfer UDF is now used by
default. To revert to the previous behavior, use the TUI command
solve/set/expert and enter no at the Linearized Mass Transfer
UDF? prompt. Alternatively, you can use the following scheme command:
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Chapter 8: CFX
This section summarizes the new features in ANSYS CFX and CFD-Post Release
14.0.
8.1. New Features and Enhancements
8.2. Incompatibilities
8.1.2.1. CFX-Solver
To improve the efficiency of calculations for turbomachinery applications, the
Time Transformation and Fourier Transformation methods for Transient Blade
Row cases have been introduced.
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The default intersection method at Generalized Grid Interfaces has been changed
from the Bitmap method to the Direct method. This should improve the accuracy
of intersection and performance.
Prior to this release, the CFX-Solver determined the license it would check out
based on a set of internal algorithms. This sometimes was inconsistent with the
license preferences, as these were not necessarily respected by the solver.
In Release 14, license checkouts use the license preferences and follow the
checkout order you specify (consistent with product capability levels), which
enables you to control the license checkout order.
In previous versions of ANSYS CFX, CGNS 2.4 ADF files were written by CFX-
Solver Manager and scripts provided with CFX. Starting with Release 14.0, the
capability has been extended so that you can also write to CGNS 3.0 files in either
ADF or HTF5 format. Noise source strength files written by CFX-Solver are still
exported using CGNS 2.4.
In previous versions of ANSYS CFX, CGNS files that were written by CFX-Solver
Manager and then loaded into CFD-Post had variable names that were limited
to 32 characters. Whenever the name of the variable exceeded 32 characters,
the internal name for the variable, which is shorter but more cryptic, was written
instead. Starting with Release 14.0, CGNS files written by CFX-Solver Manager
may optionally use a new additional data tag that is not subject to the 32-char-
acter limit, and that holds the ANSYS CFX Solver Name for each variable. CFD-
Post reads the new tag in preference to the old tag, if the new tag exists.
Hub-to-Shroud Plots
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You can create hub-to-shroud plots based on two streamwise locations (or blade
aligned, or blade aligned linear). The plots will show a difference in the circum-
ferentially averaged variable between the two locations.
You can create high-definition movies ("HD Video 720p" and "HD Video 1080p")
that play on all typical players.
IC engine cases with changing topology are now supported. Boundaries and
domains that are not available at the selected timestep are greyed out in the
Outline tree.
CGNS Files
Face based boundary definition (in addition to nodal definition) is now supported.
Files written with CGNS library version 3.0 or below are now supported.
The calculation of time charts has been sped up significantly, in cases where
unrelated objects (such as streamlines, planes, and so on) are present in the
state.
The disk size of the stand-alone CFD-Post installation has been significantly re-
duced.
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8.2. Incompatibilities
This sections highlights differences in the behavior between Release 13.0 and
Release 14.0 of ANSYS CFX and CFD-Post.
8.2.1. CFX-Solver
The Release 14.0 version of CFX-Solver is compatible with the Release 14.0 license
server but is not compatible with the Release 13.0 license server.
CFX Distributed Parallel in ANSYS CFX 13 uses HP-MPI while CFX Distributed
Parallel in ANSYS CFX 14 uses PCMPI. These different installations of MPI can
have a conflict when installed on the same Windows machine. To avoid such a
conflict, be sure to follow the installation instructions that appear during Platform
MPI installation.
Below is a list of numerics improvements and other changes made for the CFX-
Solver in Release 14.0. The changes are believed to be generally helpful and
should be reverted only in the event of a problem.
Multiphase flow
Non-trivial turbulence dispersion force included
Coupled volume fraction solution algorithm.
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Incompatibilities
Thus, the default value of 1.0 is converted internally to 0.75. If you override the
default by a smaller value, then the new value is also multiplied internally by
0.75. This ensures that you retain some control over this parameter. The above
restrictions ensure that the numerics changes are focused on a narrow range of
problems, hence do not deteriorate convergence of other classes of problems.
The changes occur in CS 44468.
Miscellaneous
A bug has been fixed that could cause convergence differences depending on
the solver internal memory structure.
A bug has been fixed which could influence the convergence behavior of cases
with CEL expressions based on the shear strain rate.
Multiphase
A bug has been fixed that permitted coalescence of certain size groups in the
MUSIG model. This bug is platform-dependent. The fix can be reverted by setting
the expert parameter: musig mass coalescence tolerance = 0.0.
Properties
The default value for the expert parameter 'alternate saturation clipping' has
been changed to true. This resolves some incorrect behavior when inverting
property tables in which the saturation curve passes through the 2d table, and
may lead to different results for cases involving phase change (for example, real
gas cavitation and equilibrium phase change).
Miscellaneous
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Parallel
The coupled partitioning method has been improved. The requirement that each
partition owns at least one core vertex in each domain no longer exists. This can
be reverted by setting the following expert parameter: part_multizone_core_ver-
tex = T.
8.2.2. CFX-Pre
No changes have been made to CFX-Pre in this release.
8.2.4. CFD-Post
This section describes the operational changes, the procedural changes (actions
that have to be done differently in this release to get an outcome available in
previous releases), and the support changes (functionality that is no longer
supported) in Release 14.0 of CFD-Post.
Operational Changes
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Incompatibilities
in CFD-Post, only the variables from the user-specified section of the DAT file
will be read.
Reading of 13.0 FLUENT cases that have multi-configuration information can fail
in CFD-Post 14.0. A workaround is to set the FLUENT_MULTICONFIG_OFF=1
environment variable before running CFD-Post.
Procedural Changes
Support Changes
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Chapter 9: POLYFLOW
9.1. Introduction
ANSYS POLYFLOW 14.0 is the third version of ANSYS POLYFLOW to be integrated
into ANSYS Workbench. Starting in version 12.1, ANSYS POLYFLOW users were
able to create interlinked systems with geometry, meshing, solution setup, solver
and postprocessing inside ANSYS Workbench, using shared licensing and HPC.
Blow molding and extrusion application-specific versions of ANSYS POLYFLOW
were introduced to allow specific industrial processes to be simulated. With regard
to modeling, two new models were introduced: the volume of fluid (VOF) model
for free surface modeling in a fixed domain; and the discrete ordinates (DO)
model for radiation.
Note
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You can create user-defined templates via the UPDT button to paramet-
erize the values for the absissa and/or ordinate of:
multi-ramp functions of time or S (for evolution problems), when the
multi-ramp functions are applied on a parameter of a model (e.g., fac,
vn, cp)
multi-ramp functions of X, Y, or Z coordinates when defining the average
temperature, the average concentration, the initial fluid fraction for
volume of fluid (VOF) problems, or the initial thickness distribution of
films or the parison for shell models.
ANSYS POLYFLOW allows you to define force-driven mold motion for
shell surface parisons, with limitations on the maximum displacement.
A new heuristic technique has been implemented for defining the order
of elimination of the equations in the AMF linear solver (which is the
default solver in ANSYS POLYFLOW 14.0). This technique can lead to
significant reductions in CPU time and memory requirements under
certain circumstances. Improvements should be observed for fixed and
deforming domain simulations when the mini-element interpolation is
used. The new heuristic technique does not make any difference when
pressure stabilization is enabled (linear interpolation of velocities).
ANSYS POLYFLOW provides further options for decoupling the calcula-
tion of various fields:
For internal radiation, you can decouple the calculation of the velocities,
irradiance, and/or temperatures.
For transport of species, you can decouple the calculation of the velocities
and species.
ANSYS POLYFLOW allows you to export temperature and thickness data
to results files that can be used for further simulations in ANSYS
Mechanical.
ANSYS POLYFLOW allows you to simulate contact release (i.e., the de-
tachment of a free surface that has come into contact with a wall) for
a 3D or shell model, as part of a blow molding or thermoforming sim-
ulation.
ANSYS POLYFLOW allows you to convert .poly files written by ANSYS
Meshing to the POLYFLOW format.
ANSYS POLYFLOW can read and recognize 1D and 2D PMeshes exported
from ANSYS ICEM CFD and ANSYS Meshing.
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Defect Fixes
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Known Limitations
A fix was introduced to ensure that the mathematical library does not use
more processors than the number you specified.
A fix was introduced to ensure that the ordering of input parameters in
DesignXplorer is not inconsistent when template parameters are modified
in POLYDATA.
The direction of the rotation axis of a moving part (that employs the mesh
superposition technique) no longer affects its velocity.
Contact detection has been improved for shell molds.
A fix was introduced to avoid POLYDATA crashes when you modify the dir-
ection of generation during the creation of a 3D mesh from a shell result.
Running POLYFLOW in standalone mode under ANSYS licensing is now
easier, as you no longer have to set the environment variable.
DOS windows no longer pop up repeatedly when updating a series of Design
Points for POLYFLOW systems in Workbench.
The axis and speed of rotation of a moving part (that employs the mesh
superposition technique) can now be flagged as a parameter of a user-
defined template.
A fix was introduced to avoid POLYDATA crashes when you modify the type
of a mold during a contact problem.
A fix was introduced to avoid POLYDATA crashes when a change of units
is rejected.
It is now possible to define all components of the force applied on a mold
as template parameters.
It is now possible to define independent time histories for the transient
shear rate and the transient elongational rate when fitting material paramet-
ers to your data in POLYMAT.
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CutCell meshes are not compatible with mixing or volume of fluid (VOF)
tasks, viscoelastic flow sub-tasks, contact detection, internal radiation,
the Narayanaswamy model, flow-induced crystallization, or the adaptive
meshing technique. Moreover, the interpolation for the velocity field
is limited: for a pure CutCell mesh, it must be the linear element; for a
portion of a CutCell mesh that has been converted into a sliceable
mesh, it can be either the linear element or the mini-element.
Due to some modifications of the contact algorithm to accommodate
the needs of the automatic contact release feature, you may need to
make small revisions to the contact parameters of a blow molding or
thermoforming problem that was originally set up using version 13.0,
in order to run it using version 14.0.
IGES files exported by POLYFLOW always use millimeters for the unit
of length. When planning to export an IGES file from POLYFLOW, it is
highly recommended that you use millimeters in your original CAD
model or when creating the geometry in ANSYS DesignModeler. You
should then use the mm/g/s unit system in POLYFLOW. If another unit
systems is used, you may have difficulties importing the IGES file of the
deformed geometry back into ANSYS DesignModeler or any other CAD
tool.
If you are using Windows XP, POLYDATA may crash when importing a
material data file. This can be avoided if you change the default TEMP
directory to a directory that is not deeply nested in other directories
(e.g., change it to D:\temp).
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Chapter 10: Icepak
10.1. Introduction
ANSYS Icepak 14 is a release of ANSYS Icepak that has new features and defect
fixes. New features are listed in the following section of this document. A list of
defects fixed in this release is accessible on the ANSYS Customer Portal
(www.ansys.com/customerportal).
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New and Modified Features in ANSYS Icepak 14
Implemented new ANSYS Workbench color palette for Icepak objects. See
Editing the Graphical Styles of the User's Guide.
Improved interpolation method for 3D spatial power profile modeling. See
Miscellaneous Options of the User's Guide.
Implemented new and improved 2D interpolation methods for point profiles.
See Miscellaneous Options of the User's Guide.
Redesigned the power and temperature table for quick editing of network
nodal powers. See Setting Up the Power and Temperature Limit Values of
the User's Guide.
Optimized meshing design incorporates importing meshes of pre-meshed
assemblies.
Implemented layer stack-up design for PCB objects. See Adding a PCB to
Your ANSYS Icepak Model of the User's Guide.
Implemented user specified flow direction for resistances. See Adding a Res-
istance to Your ANSYS Icepak Model of the User's Guide.
Implemented CAD shapes for sources. See CAD Objects of the User's Guide.
Implemented temperature dependent piecewise linear power for 3D objects.
Implemented transient variation for fixed temperature boundary condition
for block sides.
Solving
Implement non-uniform auto save solution intervals for transient simulations.
See User Inputs for Transient Simulations of the User's Guide.
Implemented option to save .dat and .fdat files. See Using the Solve Panel
to Set the Solver Controls of the User's Guide.
User definable setting for UDS (joule heating).
Implemented solar load model for parallel processing.
Postprocessing and reporting
Implemented the option to display specific postprocessing levels and to orient
a legend vertically or horizontally. See Using the Context Menus in the
Graphics Display Window of the User's Guide.
Implemented plotting of temperatures of internal nodes of network objects
and network blocks. See Network Temperature Plots of the User's Guide.
Implemented the export of Heat Flux Vectors data into CFD-Post. See Results
Solution Control Options of the User's Guide.
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Chapter 11: CFD-Post
This chapter summarizes the new features and incompatibilities in CFD-Post Re-
lease 14.0.
You can create hub-to-shroud plots based on two streamwise locations (or blade
aligned, or blade aligned linear). The plots will show a difference in the circum-
ferentially averaged variable between the two locations.
You can create high-definition movies ("HD Video 720p" and "HD Video 1080p")
that play on all typical players.
IC engine cases with changing topology are now supported. Boundaries and
domains that are not available at the selected timestep are greyed out in the
Outline tree.
CGNS Files
Face based boundary definition (in addition to nodal definition) is now supported.
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Files written with CGNS library version 3.0 or below are now supported.
The calculation of time charts has been sped up significantly, in cases where
unrelated objects (such as streamlines, planes, and so on) are present in the
state.
The disk size of the stand-alone CFD-Post installation has been significantly re-
duced.
11.2. Incompatibilities
This section describes the operational changes, the procedural changes (actions
that have to be done differently in this release to get an outcome available in
previous releases), and the support changes (functionality that is no longer
supported) in Release 14.0 of CFD-Post.
Operational Changes
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Incompatibilities
Reading of 13.0 FLUENT cases that have multi-configuration information can fail
in CFD-Post 14.0. A workaround is to set the FLUENT_MULTICONFIG_OFF=1
environment variable before running CFD-Post.
Procedural Changes
Support Changes
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Chapter 12: AQWA
This release of the AQWA related products contains all capabilities from previous
releases plus many new features and enhancements. The following enhancements
are available in release 14.0. Please refer to the product specific documentation
for full details of the new features
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Linearized Morison drag on TUBE elements has been added to AQWA-LINE. When
AQWA-LINE stage 5 is run with a new LDRG option a set of modified RAOs is
calculated and written out to the .LIS and .PLT files. Linearized Tube Drag is also
available as an Analysis Settings option in the Workbench Hydrodynamic Diffrac-
tion system.
Two new capabilities have been added to allow the distribution of bending
moment and shear force down a truss spar structure to be plotted in the AGS.
See the AGS Help (Start > All Programs > ANSYS 14.0 > Help > AQWA > AGS
Help 14.0) for more information.
Wheeler stretching has been introduced for the calculation of wave pressure in
AQWA-NAUT (WHLS option).
Fixed Points (under Geometry) have the same behavior as Connection Points
did in the previous release
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Chapter 13: ASAS
The following enhancements are available in release 14.0. Please refer to the
product specific documentation for full details of the new features.
ASAS has been removed from the main installation and will be provided as a
separate downloadable installation. BEAMCHECK and FATJACK products will be
installed by default with Mechanical products and SPLINTER is now delivered as
part of Mechanical APDL (although this continues to require an ASAS Offshore
license). SPLINTER documentation is now included as a part of the ANSYS
Mechanical APDL Advanced Analysis Guide.
SPLINTER has been enhanced to support code checking and additional analysis
options when used in conjunction with the Mechanical APDL application.
The FATJACK User Manual is now included in the ANSYS Help Viewer.
FATJACK can be used to read harmonic load cases when a harmonic analysis
has been performed in Mechanical applications.
13.4. FEMGV
No new features for this release.
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Chapter 14: TGrid
14.1. Introduction
The TGrid 14.0 release includes material point based flow volume extraction and
other improvements to the CutCell technology, the Cut-tet meshing workflow,
improved prism meshing, enhancements to many existing features, and improved
robustness through defect fixes.
The new features in TGrid 14.0 are listed in New Features in TGrid 14.0 (p. 153).
Information about all the features is provided in the TGrid 14.0 User's Guide.
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