ANSYS Inc. Release Notes

Release Notes
ANSYS, Inc. Release 19.2

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Table of Contents
Global ......................................................................................................................................................... vii
1. Advisories ......................................................................................................................................... viii
1.1. Changes to EKM ....................................................................................................................... viii
2. Compatibility with Previous Releases .................................................................................................. ix
3. Installation ......................................................................................................................................... ix
4. Licensing ............................................................................................................................................ ix
5. Documentation ................................................................................................................................... x
6. Verification Manual .............................................................................................................................. x
6.1. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual .......................................................................................... x
6.1.1. New Verification Test Cases ................................................................................................. x
6.1.2. Modified Verification Test Cases .......................................................................................... x
6.1.3. Removed Verification Test Cases ........................................................................................ xi
6.2. Workbench Verification Manual .................................................................................................. xi
6.2.1. New Verification Test Cases ................................................................................................ xi
6.2.2. Removed Verification Test Cases ........................................................................................ xii
7. Online Video Access ........................................................................................................................... xii
8. ANSYS Customer Site ......................................................................................................................... xii
I. ANSYS Structural Products ...................................................................................................................... 1
1. Mechanical Application Release Notes ............................................................................................. 3
1.1. Changes in Product Behavior ...................................................................................................... 3
1.2. General ...................................................................................................................................... 5
1.3. Graphics ..................................................................................................................................... 6
1.4. Geometry ................................................................................................................................... 7
1.5. Materials .................................................................................................................................... 7
1.6. Model Assembly ......................................................................................................................... 8
1.7. External Model ........................................................................................................................... 8
1.8. Model Transfer ............................................................................................................................ 9
1.9. Contact and Connections ............................................................................................................ 9
1.10. Mesh ...................................................................................................................................... 10
1.11. Fracture .................................................................................................................................. 10
1.12. Composites ............................................................................................................................ 11
1.13. Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation ............................................................................. 11
1.14. Analysis .................................................................................................................................. 12
1.15. Acoustics Analysis ................................................................................................................... 12
1.16. Topology Optimization ........................................................................................................... 13
1.17. System Coupling ..................................................................................................................... 14
1.18. Loads/Supports/Conditions .................................................................................................... 14
1.19. Solution .................................................................................................................................. 15
1.20. Fatigue ................................................................................................................................... 16
1.21. Rigid Body Solver .................................................................................................................... 16
1.22. Explicit Dynamics .................................................................................................................... 16
1.23. Results .................................................................................................................................... 18
2. Mechanical APDL ............................................................................................................................ 19
2.1. Structural ................................................................................................................................. 19
2.1.1. Elements and Nonlinear Technology ................................................................................. 19
2.1.1.1. Inverse Solving ........................................................................................................ 19
2.1.2. Material and Fracture Modeling ........................................................................................ 20
2.1.2.1. Rate-Independent Plasticity (Viscoplasticity) ............................................................ 20
2.1.2.2. Cast Iron and Nonlinear Kinematic Hardening .......................................................... 20
2.1.3. Linear Dynamics .............................................................................................................. 20
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2.1.3.1. Postprocessing Velocity and Acceleration from the Reduced Displacement File ......... 20
2.1.3.2. User-Defined Coordinate System for MASS21 ........................................................... 21
2.1.3.3. Component Mode Synthesis (CMS) Enhancements ................................................... 21
2.1.3.4. Energy Calculations ................................................................................................. 21
2.2. Multiphysics ............................................................................................................................. 21
2.2.1. Coupled-Field .................................................................................................................. 21
2.2.1.1. Viscoelastic Heating Effect ....................................................................................... 21
2.3. Solvers ..................................................................................................................................... 21
2.3.1. Distributed ANSYS Enhancements .................................................................................... 21
2.3.2. Other Solver Changes and Enhancements ........................................................................ 22
2.4. Commands ............................................................................................................................... 22
2.4.1. New Commands ............................................................................................................... 22
2.4.2. Modified Commands ........................................................................................................ 22
2.4.3. Undocumented Commands ............................................................................................. 23
2.5. Elements .................................................................................................................................. 23
2.5.1. Modified Elements ........................................................................................................... 23
2.6. Documentation ........................................................................................................................ 24
2.6.1. Technology Demonstration Guide ....................................................................................... 24
2.6.2. Documentation Updates for Programmers ........................................................................ 24
2.6.3. Feature Archive ................................................................................................................. 24
2.7. Known Limitations .................................................................................................................... 24
2.8. Known Incompatibilities ........................................................................................................... 24
3. Autodyn .......................................................................................................................................... 27
3.1. New Features and Enhancements .............................................................................................. 27
4. Aqwa ............................................................................................................................................... 29
4.1. Aqwa Solver Modules ............................................................................................................... 29
4.2. Aqwa Graphical Supervisor (AGS) .............................................................................................. 29
4.3. Hydrodynamic Analysis Systems ................................................................................................ 29
5. ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) .................................................................................................. 31
5.1. New Features in ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 19.2 ............................................................. 31
5.1.1. Sampling Point in Mechanical ........................................................................................... 31
5.1.2. Draping ........................................................................................................................... 31
5.1.3. ANSYS Material Designer Workflows ................................................................................. 31
5.1.4. ACP Performance Improvements ...................................................................................... 31
5.2. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 19.2 ................................................. 31
5.3. Known Limitations and Incompatibilities ................................................................................... 32
5.3.1. OpenGL Drivers on Linux .................................................................................................. 32
6. Material Designer ............................................................................................................................ 33
6.1. Types of RVEs ............................................................................................................................ 33
6.2. Material Properties .................................................................................................................... 33
II. ANSYS Fluids Products .......................................................................................................................... 35
1. Fluent .............................................................................................................................................. 37
1.1. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Fluent 19.2 ............................................................................... 37
1.2. New Features in ANSYS Fluent 19.2 ........................................................................................... 37
1.2.1. Meshing Mode ................................................................................................................. 37
1.2.2. Solution Mode ................................................................................................................. 38
1.3. Updates Affecting ANSYS Fluent 19.2 Code Behavior ................................................................. 47
1.3.1. Meshing Mode ................................................................................................................. 47
1.3.2. Solution Mode ................................................................................................................. 47
2. CFX .................................................................................................................................................. 55
2.1. Supported Platforms ................................................................................................................. 55
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2.3. Updates Affecting Code Behavior .............................................................................................. 55

3. TurboGrid ........................................................................................................................................ 57
4. BladeModeler .................................................................................................................................. 59
4.2. BladeGen .................................................................................................................................. 59
4.2.1. New Features and Enhancements ..................................................................................... 59
4.3. BladeEditor ............................................................................................................................... 59
5. CFD-Post .......................................................................................................................................... 61
6. Polyflow .......................................................................................................................................... 63
6.1. New Features ............................................................................................................................ 63
6.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS Polyflow 19.2 ............................................................. 63
7. Forte ................................................................................................................................................ 65
7.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations ................................................................................................ 65
8. Chemkin-Pro ................................................................................................................................... 67
8.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations ................................................................................................ 67
9. FENSAP-ICE ..................................................................................................................................... 69
9.1. New Features and Enhancements in ANSYS FENSAP-ICE ............................................................ 69
9.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS FENSAP-ICE ............................................................... 70
9.3. Beta Features ............................................................................................................................ 70
III. ANSYS Electronics Products ................................................................................................................. 73
1. Icepak .............................................................................................................................................. 75
1.1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 75
1.2. New and Modified Features in ANSYS Icepak 19.2 ...................................................................... 75
1.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS Icepak 19.2 ................................................................ 75
IV. ANSYS Geometry & Mesh Prep Products ............................................................................................. 77
1. DesignModeler ................................................................................................................................ 79
2. CAD ................................................................................................................................................. 81
3. Meshing ........................................................................................................................................... 83
3.1. Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases ................................................................. 83
3.2. Mesh Copy ............................................................................................................................... 83
3.3.Topology Protection .................................................................................................................. 83
4. IC Engine Release Notes .................................................................................................................. 85
5. ICEM CFD ......................................................................................................................................... 87
5.1. Usability Improvements ............................................................................................................ 87
V. ANSYS Simulation Products .................................................................................................................. 89
1. Workbench ...................................................................................................................................... 91
1.1. ANSYS Workbench .................................................................................................................... 91
1.1.1. General Workbench Enhancements ................................................................................. 91
1.1.2. Design Point Update Enhancements ................................................................................. 91
1.1.3. Workbench Journaling and Scripting Enhancements ........................................................ 91
1.1.4. ANSYS Workbench-System Coupling Enhancements ......................................................... 92
1.1.5. Mechanical APDL Enhancements ...................................................................................... 92
1.1.6. ANSYS Workbench-Remote Solve Manager Enhancements ............................................... 92
1.2. ANSYS Workbench and EKM ...................................................................................................... 92
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1.3. Engineering Data Workspace ..................................................................................................... 93

1.4. External Data ............................................................................................................................ 93
1.5. External Model ......................................................................................................................... 93
1.6. Enhancement to Mechanical Model Cells ................................................................................... 93
1.7.TurboSystem Release Notes ....................................................................................................... 93
1.7.1. Supported Platforms ........................................................................................................ 94
2. System Coupling ............................................................................................................................. 95
3. ACT .................................................................................................................................................. 97
4. Remote Solve Manager (RSM) ......................................................................................................... 99
4.2. Issues Resolved in this Release .................................................................................................. 99
4.3. Known Issues and Limitations ................................................................................................... 99
5. DesignXplorer ............................................................................................................................... 101
6. ANSYS Viewer ................................................................................................................................ 103
6.1. New Features and Enhancements ............................................................................................ 103
6.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations .............................................................................................. 103
6.3. Known Issues and Limitations ................................................................................................. 103
VI. ANSYS Discovery SpaceClaim ............................................................................................................ 105
1. Enhancements ............................................................................................................................... 107
VII. ANSYS Discovery Live ....................................................................................................................... 109
1. Enhancements ............................................................................................................................... 111
VIII. ANSYS Discovery AIM ...................................................................................................................... 113
1. Advisories ...................................................................................................................................... 115
2. Enhancements in ANSYS Discovery AIM Release 19.2 .................................................................. 117
2.1. Structures ............................................................................................................................... 117
2.2. Thermal .................................................................................................................................. 117
2.3. Magnetics ............................................................................................................................... 117
2.4. Fluids ...................................................................................................................................... 117
2.5. Modeling ................................................................................................................................ 118
2.6. General ................................................................................................................................... 118
3. Limitations .................................................................................................................................... 121
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Global Release Notes
The release notes are specific to ANSYS, Inc. Release 19.2 and arranged by application/product, with
the exception of:
• Advisories (p. viii)
• Compatibility with Previous Releases (p. ix)
• Installation (p. ix)
• Licensing (p. ix)
• Documentation (p. x)
• Verification Manual (p. x)
• Online Video Access (p. xii)
• ANSYS Customer Site (p. xii)
Note that installation- and licensing-specific information is detailed in some application and product
sections.
Release notes in printable format (PDF) for the this release are provided on the product media. They
can also be downloaded here. Release notes are also accessible in the product Help (either online or
installable, as applicable).
Release notes for previous releases are available in PDF format and, since ANSYS 18.0, online, by clicking
the appropriate links below:
• ANSYS 19.1 (PDF) (online)
• ANSYS 17.2 (PDF)
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To download zip files containing the Product and Release Documentation for previous releases, see
ANSYS customer site> Downloads> Previous Releases> ANSYS Documentation and Input Files. The Release
Documentation files include the following:
• ANSYS Platform Support Strategy & Plans
• ANSYS, Inc. Installation and Licensing Tutorials
• ANSYS, Inc. Known Issues and Limitations
• ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide
• ANSYS Quick Start Installation Guide
• ANSYS Quick Start Licensing Guide
• ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes
• Linux Installation Guide
• SpaceClaim Release Notes (as applicable)
• Windows Installation Guide
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 documented in the Known Issues and Limitations
document, although not accessible via the ANSYS Help Viewer. See the ANSYS customer site (p. xii) or
online Help for information about the ANSYS service packs and any additional items not included in
the Known Issues and Limitations document. First-time users of the customer site must register to
create a password.
For a list of issues and limitations in previous releases that have been resolved in Release 19.2, refer to
the Resolved Issues and Limitations document on the ANSYS Help site.
For the most recent version of the current release's Release Notes document, see the ANSYS, Inc. Release
Notes section of the ANSYS Help internet documentation website or download it here.
Specific to ANSYS Workbench, Japanese multi-byte characters in new folder paths are not supported.
Creation of a new folder and use of the characters results in a runtime error that stops the run process.
ANSYS 19.2 will be the last release to support GAMBIT Reader.
1.1. Changes to EKM

EKM was removed from the standard installation package at Release 19.1, and is currently available as
a separate, service pack installation (EKM 19.0.1).
Going forward, the EKM release designation is R19.0.x, where x is incremented with each new EKM re-
lease.
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FAQ
Why were these changes made?
Past versions of EKM were tied to a particular version of ANSYS Workbench and solvers. For customers
adopting new ANSYS releases frequently, this presented some challenges when migrating an EKM server
to a newer version.
The R19.0.x EKM Server is not tied to a specific version of ANSYS Workbench or solvers. As an ex-
ample, the ANSYS EKM service pack works with ANSYS R19.2 and ANSYS 2019 R1.
The service pack format eliminates the need for a full upgrade of the EKM server with every release.
Where can I get the EKM download?

The R19.0.1 EKM Server download is available on the ANSYS customer site.
2. Compatibility with Previous Releases

Backwards Compatibility: ANSYS 19.2 was tested to read and resume databases from the following
previous versions: 19.1, 19.0 and 18.x. Note that some products are able to read and resume databases
from releases prior to 18.0. See the specific product sections below for more information. For those
products that cannot directly read a 17.x database in 19.2, first resume it in 18.x and then resume that
database in 19.2.
Upward/Forward Compatibility: No previous release has the ability to read and resume a database
from a more recent release.
3. Installation
The following features are new or changed at Release 19.2. Review these items carefully.
• To improve functionality, the installation includes an 18.05 upgrade of the 7zip program.
• The EKM client is included in the ANSYS product installer. The EKM client is installed as part of the
Workbench installation.
4. Licensing
The following enhancements were made to ANSYS, Inc. Licensing for Release 19.2:
• The FlexID9 drivers for dongles and related shared libraries have been updated to version 7.60.
• The current version of Java utilized by the ANSYS License Management Center is 1.8.0_172.
• The current version of OpenSSL utilized with the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect is 1.1.0h.
• Electronics customers that previously received two license files will now receive a single, integrated li-
cense file that includes licenses for all ANSYS products.
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5. Documentation
ANSYS Help
Our product documentation is now online, directly linked from the products. With online documentation,
you have access to the best and latest content, updated as soon as it is available. You also gain access
to our help, tutorials, and videos in a single, convenient location, accessible from all your Internet-con-
nected devices.
If you do not have Internet access, or if you would like a local copy of the documentation on your system,
you can download an installable version of our product documentation from the ANSYS Download
Center.
Your feedback is greatly appreciated as we continue to improve this new resource.
6. Verification Manual
Significant modifications and additions occurred in the Verification Manuals at 19.2. These changes
provide greater coverage and accuracy in the verification of the ANSYS product suite.
The Verification Manuals for the following products were updated at 19.2:
6.1. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual
6.2. Workbench Verification Manual
6.1. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual

The following sections outline the changes to the Mechanical APDL Verification Manual:
6.1.1. New Verification Test Cases
6.1.2. Modified Verification Test Cases
6.1.3. Removed Verification Test Cases

The following new verification test cases are available:
• VM299 – Sound Diffusion in a Flat Room
• VM300 – Sound Transmission Between Rooms Coupled Through a Partition Wall
6.1.2. Modified Verification Test Cases

The following verification test cases have been updated:
• VM41 – "Small Deflection of a Rigid Beam." A case has been added using the new COMBI250 element.
• VM199 – "Oil Film Bearing Supporting a Rotating Shaft and Subjected to a Static Load." A case has been
added using FLUID218 element.
• VM203 – "Dynamic Load Effect on Supported Thick Plate." The input file has been updated to remove a
legacy command, and a spectral analysis replaces the original harmonic analysis.
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• VM256 – "Evaluation of Fracture Parameters for a Center Crack in a Plate" (formerly "Fracture Mechanics
Stress for a Crack in a Plate Using the CINT Command"). The model dimensions and meshing pattern have
been updated. Calculations have been added for material force, J-integral, and T-stress fracture parameters.

All verification test cases related to ANSYS LS-DYNA have been removed as this feature is now undocu-
mented.
6.2. Workbench Verification Manual

The following sections outline the changes to the Workbench Verification Manual:

The following new verification test cases are available:
• VM-AM-001 – Additive Manufacture of Five Post Beam Using Inconel 718
• VM-AM-002– Additive Manufacture of Thin-Walled Canonical Part Using Inconel 718
• VM-AM-003 – Additive Manufacture of 3-Inch Cantilever with Supports Using Ti-6Al-4V
• VM-AM-006 – Additive Manufacture of 70-mm Cantilever with Supports Using Inconel 625
• VMEXD001 – [Explicit Dynamics] Flow of Gas Past an Infinite 2-D Wedge
• VMEXD002 – [Explicit Dynamics] 3-D Taylor Cylinder Impact
• VMEXD003 – [Explicit Dynamics] 2-D Taylor Cylinder Impact
• VMEXD004 – [Explicit Dynamics] 2-D Indirect Explosive Burn
• VMEXD005 – [Explicit Dynamics] 3-D Tension Failure Test (Cubes)
• VMEXD006 – [Explicit Dynamics] 3-D Shear Failure Test (Cubes)
• VMEXD007 – [Explicit Dynamics] Simple Pendulum with Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM)
• VMEXD008 – [Explicit Dynamics] Projector Mechanism -- Finding the Acceleration of a Point
• VMEXD009 – [Explicit Dynamics] Coriolis Component of Acceleration (Rotary Engine Problem)
• VMEXD010 – [Explicit Dynamics] Calculation of Velocity of Slider and Force by Collar
• VMEXD011 – [Explicit Dynamics] Reverse Four Bar Linkage Mechanism
• VMEXD014 – [Explicit Dynamics] Propagation of Shock and Rarefaction Waves in a Shock Tube
• VMEXD015 – [Explicit Dynamics] Regular and Mach Deflections Off of a 2-D Wedge
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• VMEXD016 – [Explicit Dynamics] 3-D Burn on Time High Explosive Detonation
• VMMECH102 – [Mechanical] Topology Design of 2-D Beam with Clamped Ends

All verification test cases related to Autodyn (VM_AD002, VM_AD003, VM_AD004, VMAD006, and
VM_AD007) have been removed and replaced with Explicit Dynamics test cases. For more information,
see Explicit Dynamics Descriptions in the ANSYS Workbench Verification Manual.
7. Online Video Access

To review an extensive library of How-To Videos that detail how to use ANSYS product features, go to
the ANSYS How-To Videos page at YouTube. Note that you can now also access the How-To videos
from the ANSYS Help home page for your product.
8. ANSYS Customer Site

If you have a password to the ANSYS customer site (www.ansys.com/customercommunity), you can
view additional documentation information and late changes. The customer site is also your source for
ANSYS, Inc. software downloads, service packs, product information (including example applications,
current and archived documentation, undocumented commands, input files, and product previews),
and online support.
All the product documentation is available in printable format (PDF). Note that the content of the files
can be copied into word processing programs.
ANSYS customer site access points:
• Tutorials and input files To access tutorials and their input files, go to the tutorials area of the cus-
tomer site.
• Documentation To access documentation files, go to the documentation area of the customer site.
• General information For general information about materials and services available to our customers,
go to the main page of the customer site.
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Part I: ANSYS Structural Products
Release notes are available for the following ANSYS Structural products:
Mechanical Application (p. 3)

Mechanical APDL (p. 19)
Autodyn (p. 27)
Aqwa (p. 29)
ACP (p. 31)
Material Designer (p. 33)
Chapter 1: Mechanical Application Release Notes
This release of the Mechanical application contains all of the capabilities from previous releases plus
many new features and enhancements. Areas where you will find changes and new capabilities include
the following:
1.1. Changes in Product Behavior
1.2. General
1.3. Graphics
1.4. Geometry
1.5. Materials
1.6. Model Assembly
1.7. External Model
1.8. Model Transfer
1.9. Contact and Connections
1.10. Mesh
1.11. Fracture
1.12. Composites
1.13. Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation
1.14. Analysis
1.15. Acoustics Analysis
1.16.Topology Optimization
1.17. System Coupling
1.18. Loads/Supports/Conditions
1.19. Solution
1.20. Fatigue
1.21. Rigid Body Solver
1.22. Explicit Dynamics
1.23. Results
Backwards Compatibility: ANSYS products strive to enable the reading and resuming of databases
from previous releases. We currently test this capability for the previous two releases and any included
point releases. This means that release 19.2 was tested and verified to be backwards compatible with
release 17.0, 18.0, and 19.0 as well as any associated point releases (17.x, 18.x, 19.x). Although not
verified for even earlier releases, ANSYS Mechanical should also allow resuming databases from them.
1.1. Changes in Product Behavior

Product Changes for Mechanical 19.2
Release 19.2 includes several new features and enhancements that result in product behaviors that
differ from previous releases. These behavior changes are presented below.
• Writing Constant Loading Values to the Input File. For most of the boundary conditions available
in Static Structural, Transient Structural, Steady-State Thermal, Transient Thermal, Electric, and Thermal-
Electric analyses, the way in which the application writes constant loading values to the input file has
changed. In previous releases, the application converted values into a table in the input file. Now, it
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writes load data directly as a constant. However, the loading conditions described below, still do not
employ this new method.
For the following boundary conditions, if defined by Components, but not all the Components
use constant values (for example, X and Y are constant but Z uses tabular data), and if the Co-
ordinate System you specify in the Details view of the boundary condition does not share the
same orientation as the Global Coordinate System, then the application sends the constant
components as tabular data.
– Force or Moment applied to a vertex using a follower element (FOLLW201).
– Rotational Acceleration/Rotational Velocity.
Furthermore, for Acceleration, all Component values must be constant. If this is not the case,
then the application sends the constant component as tabular data for both Acceleration and
Standard Earth Gravity.
• Evaluating Results Based on Display Time. In previous releases, if a result had a Display Time that
was past the analysis end time, that result as well as any other valid results were not evaluated. Now,
the application evaluates properly defined results, but not the results with incorrect end times.
• Static Acoustics: The Program Controlled option for the Solver Type property now uses the Direct
Solver setting.
• Acoustic Frequency Response: The results Sound Pressure Level and A-Weighted Sound Pressure
Level now, by default, use the Real option for the Display Type property. Note: For projects prior to
release 19.2, the Display Type setting remains as Amplitude.
• Region of Manufacturing Constraint. Now, by default, the Manufacturing Constraints Extrusion,

Cyclic, and Symmetry include exclusions.
• Animating Results. In previous releases, if you were animating a result for a file that contained a result
set with no values, the Geometry window displayed gray translucent content within the animation for
that specific step. Now, the animated graphical display ignores any result set with no data.
• Damping Controls - Structural Damping Coefficient. In the previous release, for a Harmonic Response
(Full) analysis, the Damping Control property Structural Damping Coefficient used the unit of
measure radians per second (rad/s). The property is now unitless.
• Mesh Object Display Setting. The default setting for the Display Style property of the Mesh object
has changed. The previous default setting was Body Color. This option has been changed to Use
Geometry Setting. This option displays the mesh in the Geometry window based on the setting of
the Display Style property of the Geometry object.

Release 19.1 included the following behavior changes:
• Topology Optimization Analysis. The following changes have been implemented for Topology Op-
timization Analyses:
– Solution Methodology for Stress Constraints. In previous releases, the stress values that were
calculated by the optimization solver during the topology optimization analysis were under estimated
compared to the result that you obtain from a validation of the optimized geometry. In order to more
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accurately calculate these stress constraints, the optimization solver now applies the p-Norm correction
on the stress values extracted from the results file.
– Analysis Settings - Analysis Data Management. The default value of the Max Num Of Intermediate
Files property is now equal to the value specified by the Maximum Number Of Iterations property
of the Definition Category of the Analysis Settings. In the prior release, the value was set to 3.
In addition, you can change the default setting for the Max Num Of Intermediate Files
property under the Analysis Data Management (Topology Optimization) category of the
Options > Analysis Settings and Solution preference.
– Manufacturing Constraint. If you specify your Manufacturing Constraint using the Pull Out Direction
option, the application’s new stabilization techniques may cause your results to be different compared
to those obtained before this change.
– Response Constraint. For the current release, the Global von-Mises Stress Constraint and Local
von-Mises Stress Constraint options are not supported under the DesignSpace or ANSYS Mechan-
ical Pro license.
• Moment Reactions. When you specify Moment Reaction probes for large scale deformation analyses
(NLGEOM,ON), Mechanical APDL and Mechanical use the displaced mesh when calculating moment
arms.
• Material Assignment for Geometry Update. When you first import your geometry into Mechanical,
any bodies that do not have a material assigned to it are assigned the application's default material. If
you subsequently update your geometry from the source application, Mechanical no longer assigns
the default material to new bodies. If the geometry update includes a new body without an assigned
material, the body becomes underdefined and requires you to specify a material. Previously, Mechan-
ical automatically assigned the default material to new bodies following an update.
A new property on the Geometry object, Assign Default Material, enables you to control the
default material assignment behavior for geometry updates. To revert to the old behavior set
this property to Yes.
• Materials (Group) Object. The following features are now accessed through the new Materials object.
Previously, they were accessed via the Geometry object.
– Material Plot
– Imported Material Fields
1.2. General
19.2 Enhancements
The following general enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
• Adding Analysis Systems in Mechanical. The New Analysis drop-down menu on the Standard Toolbar
has been updated to include all the available Mechanical analysis types. Using this menu also adds a
corresponding analysis system, with the appropriate connections, to the Project Schematic.
• Linking Analysis Systems. Mechanical now enables you to link and unlink analysis systems, such as
Thermal-Stress or Pre-Stressed Modal, from within the application without having to return to the
Project Schematic. This new capability automatically creates or deletes the links between the corres-
ponding systems in the Workbench Project Schematic. This feature supports all linked analyses.
• Delete an Environment. You can now delete environments from within the Mechanical application if
your Model includes more than one environment. This action also removes the corresponding system
from the Workbench Project Schematic.
• Saving and Archiving Projects. Mechanical now offers the File Menu options Save Project As and
Archive Project.
• Preference Migration. Most ANSYS Workbench preferences are now automatically migrated when
you install a new version of the application. This includes licensing settings, Options panel settings,
solver preferences, and Engineering Data settings.
• License Selection. A new category and property has have been added for the Model cell when selected
in the Workbench Project Schematic. The new property, License, enables you to specify the license
that will be used by a new instance of the Mechanical application for your model.
19.1 Enhancements
The following general enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
• Group Tree Objects. Mechanical provides new options enabling you to Cut, Copy, and then paste
grouped objects. In addition, you can also Duplicate a group. These capabilities include all child objects,
child groups, etc. contained in the group. Furthermore, you can cut/copy and paste a group from one
environment into another environment.
• Write System Coupling Files. When your Mechanical analysis includes one or more Fluid Solid Interface
boundary conditions, the Environment object provides a new option, Write System Coupling Files.
This option creates an input (.dat) file as well as a system coupling (.scp) file for you to use when
you are running a System Coupling analysis using the System Coupling console.
• Filtering the Tree. The filtering feature has a new filter type: Scoping. This option displays All tree
objects or objects that have partial scoping. Filtering for objects that are partially scoped enables you
to pinpoint tree objects that need your attention because some portion of their scoping was lost due
to upstream geometry updates.
1.3. Graphics
19.2 Enhancements
The following graphical enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
• Invert Visibility. Invert Visibility is a new context (right-click) menu option that enables you to display
all bodies that have been hidden and inversely hide all of the current visible bodies.
• Export Views. A new Export category is available in the preferences dialog. The Views category provides
the property File Directory. This property enables you to specify a default location to where you will
export and/or import the graphical views that you have created, exported, or imported.
19.1 Enhancements
The following graphics enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
Materials
• Hiding Bodies by Type. There is a new context-menu option Hide (or Show) bodies that allows you
to quickly hide (or show) bodies based on their type: Solid Bodies, Surface Bodies, or Line Bodies.
This option is available in the Geometry window as well as on the Body, Geometry, and Part objects
when more than one body type exists.
1.4. Geometry
19.2 Enhancements
The following geometry enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
• Import an STL file using Construction Geometry. The Construction Geometry feature has a new
option: STL. The STL option enables you to import and view an STL file in your simulation.
19.1 Enhancements
The following geometry enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
• Switching Between 2D and 3D Analysis Types. Using the Analysis Type property available in the
properties of the Workbench Project Schematic for the Geometry cell, you can now switch between
2D and 3D analysis types even after you first attach the geometry. In previous releases, the Analysis
Type property could not be changed once you attach a geometry.
• Geometry Update. The Geometry object has a new category and property: Update Options and Assign
Default Material. This property controls default material assignment behavior when geometry is updated
in Mechanical. When you first import your geometry into Mechanical, any bodies that do not have a
material assigned to it are assigned the application's default material. If you subsequently update your
geometry from the source application, and this property is set to No (default), Mechanical does not
assign the default material to new bodies. If the geometry update includes a new body without an as-
signed material, the body becomes underdefined and requires you to specify a material.
• Line Body Definition. Now, when you are defining a line body, you can specify the Model Type
property as Link. This options specifies the element type as LINK180. This option is a suitable option
when analyzing uniaxial tension-compression scenarios.
• Importing STL files: You can now import STereoLithography (.stl) files into the Mechanical application
via the Geometry cell of your analysis system on the Workbench Project page. STL files are very com-
monly used in 3D printing applications. For this file type, the mesh can only be generated using Cartesian
Mesh Method. And, it you should use Element Face scoping for connections, loads and, results.
1.5. Materials
19.2 Enhancements
No material enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
19.1 Enhancements
The following material enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
• Materials (Group) Object. Mechanical now provides a Materials object. This object contains all of the
materials (in object form) available for your analysis. It is also used to insert and specify the following
features:
– Material Assignment (see below)
– Material Plot
– Imported Material Fields
• Material Assignment. The new Material Assignment object enables you to assign materials to bodies
and while doing so, share the same material ID across bodies in the solver input file.
1.6. Model Assembly

19.2 Enhancements
No Model Assembly enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
19.1 Enhancements
For Release 19.1, only the following Model Assembly enhancements were made:
• Transformation Type. A new Transformation Type option is available: Mirroring. This option enables
you to import a mirror copy of your mesh-based upstream model, about a specified plane, from an
upstream Model Assembly system.
1.7. External Model

19.2 Enhancements
The following External Model enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
• Automatic Material Assignment. When you import a finite element data file that specifies the mater-
ials, and more than one body has the same material assignment, Mechanical automatically creates a
Material Assignment object for the associated bodies to ensure that each body has the same unique
material identifier.
• Import Composite Plies. You can now import composite ply data from Mechanical APDL (.cdb) and
NASTRAN Bulk Data (.bdf, .dat, .nas) files.
• Workbench Model Cell Properties. The Mesh Conversion Options category has a new property:
Create Geometry. Active be default, this property instructs the application to create a geometry for
your mesh file when imported into Mechanical. If deselected, application imports the mesh only (ele-
ments and nodes). Not creating a geometry dramatically increases your import time as well as significantly
reducing the amount of memory used during the process.
• Promoting Connections to Remote Points. The promotion feature is now available for imported
Flexible Remote Connectors and/or Rigid Remote Connectors. This feature enables you to automatically
create a Remote Point object from Worksheet connections that you can then use to scope other objects.
• Accessing Imported Mesh-Based Databases through ACT. Now, when importing a NASTRAN command
database using External Model, this imported data is available through the ACT extensions and console
window.
• Imported Boundary Conditions. External Model now enables you to:
Contact and Connections
– Import thermal convection and heat flux loads for Mechanical APDL (.cdb) and Abaqus Input (.inp)
files for Surface Load Boundary Conditions.
– Specify Convection and Heat Flux on imported Surface Load boundary conditions.
– Import gravity boundary conditions in the form of an Acceleration object for external CDB, ABAQUS,
and NASTRAN files.
19.1 Enhancements
For Release 19.1, the following External Model enhancements were made:
• The External Model system now supports the capability to transfer the following data/objects:
– Surface Load Boundary Conditions
– Spring Bushing for NASTRAN files
• Transformation Type. A new Transformation Type option is available: Mirroring. This option enables
you to import a mirror copy of your mesh-based upstream model, about a specified plane, from an
upstream External Model system.
• Importing Nastran Finite Element Data. ANSYS Workbench and ANSYS Mechanical now enable you
to attach additional files to an imported parent .bdf, .dat, or .nas file. These support files can include
additional node and element data.
• Supported Element Types. The External Model system now enables you to import link elements into
Mechanical from Mechanical APDL common database, ABAQUS Input, and Nastran Bulk Data files.
• Import Summary. For the Import Summary object, for Table 1, when your model includes over 50
data items, only the first 50 are displayed. The table then provides navigational options you can use to
present the data items as desired. And, if your model contains a large number of bodies, you can now
scroll through the data items in Table 2.
1.8. Model Transfer

19.2 Enhancements
No model transfer enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
19.1 Enhancements
The following model transfer enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
• Transferring System Data from AIM. You can now transfer joints from the AIM application to the
Mechanical application.
1.9. Contact and Connections

19.2 Enhancements
The following contact and connection enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
• Remote Point. Mechanical now enables you to “chain” Remote Points by scoping a Remote Point
object to one more or more defined Remote Point objects.
• Element APDL Name: The Beam, Joint, and Spring features have a new property: Element APDL Name.
This optional property enables you to manually define an APDL parameter (in the input file) and assign
its value to the element of the Beam, Joint, and Spring. This facilitates easy programmatic identification
of the element for later use/reference in a Command object.
• Connections Folder. The Connections folder object has a new property: Face Angle Tolerance. When
working with Face/Face automatic contact detection, this property enables you to adjust the tolerance
of the alignment angle between the faces.
19.1 Enhancements
The following contact and connection enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
• Beam-Beam Contact. The Scope category of the Contact Region object has a new property: Beam-
Beam Detection. This property enables you to specify the maximum number of target segments inter-
acting with each contact detection point simultaneously. In addition, the Internal Pipe Contact option
of this property enables you to model a beam (or pipe) sliding along the inside of another hollow beam
(or pipe).
• Contact Result Tracker. The Contact Result Tracker now enables you to specify the following output
types:
– Total Force (X/Y/Z) from Contact Pressure
– Total Force (X/Y/Z) from Tangential Stress
– Sliding Indication
1.10. Mesh
Refer to the 19.2 Release Notes of the Meshing (p. 83) application for new features and enhancements
associated with Meshing in the Mechanical application.
1.11. Fracture
19.2 Enhancements
The following fracture enhancements have been made at Release 19.2:
• SMART Crack Growth Solution Process. The SMART Crack Growth feature now supports shared memory
solution.
• Generating Results from the Worksheet Solver Component Names Summary. When you are per-
forming Fracture analyses that include a crack, the application automatically generates three Named
Selections for the top and bottom face nodes as well as for the crack front nodes (if the Crack Faces
Nodes property is set to On) when you generate the fracture mesh. The application displays these
Named Selections in the Solver Component Names summary page of the Worksheet following your
solution. You can right-click these three table cells and create results that display contour colors at the
scoped nodes (as defined by the Named Selections). For these results, the application displays contour
colors at the scoped nodes only. The remainder of the part displays as grey and translucent.
Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation
19.1 Enhancements
The following fracture enhancements have been made at Release 19.1:
• Smart Crack Growth. The Smart Crack Growth object has a new property: Stop At Max Crack Exten-
sion. Using this property, you can specify the maximum distance for crack propagation. Once the
maximum crack extension limit is reached, the application stops the solution process. In this instance,
the solution is incomplete and the Solution folder will not be in solved state because the solution is
not complete for all time points. If the maximum crack extension limit is not reached during solution,
then the solution process completes normally.
1.12. Composites
19.2 Enhancements
The following composite simulation enhancements have been made at Release 19.2:
• Composite Sampling Point Tool. The Composite Sampling Point Tool is a new post-processing
feature for composite parts you model with ANSYS Composite PrepPost. This tool shows the through-
the-thickness result distribution in the laminate for selected points. It is another feature of ACP Post
that is now also available in Mechanical.
19.1 Enhancements
No composite enhancements were made at Release 19.1.
1.13. Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation

19.2 Enhancements
The following Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation enhancements have been made at Release
19.2:
• A new Workbench Additive Manufacturing Analysis Guide is now available, providing guidance and
step-by-step procedures for AM simulations.
• Several verification test cases have been added demonstrating additive manufacturing process simula-
tions. See the Workbench Verification Manual.
• The Topology Optimization analysis has a new additive manufacturing-based constraint option: AM
(Additive Manufacturing) Overhang Constraint. By specifying Overhang Angle and Build Direction
on the constraint, users can optimize their parts and create self-supporting structures, minimizing or
even eliminating the need for supports during the additive manufacturing process.
• User-defined solution steps, called User Steps, may now be added into the AM Process Sequence
worksheet after the build and cooldown steps for either the Transient Thermal or Static Structural
analysis. User Steps are useful for modeling phenomena such as clamping or additional heating.
• Output controls for build steps now include options to reduce results file sizes. The Store Results At
property has new options Last Heating and Cooling Steps and Every N Layers, in addition to the All
Time Points option.
19.1 Enhancements
Release 19.1 introduced the Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation capability to ANSYS Mech-
anical.
1.14. Analysis
For Release 19.2, the following analysis enhancements were made:
• The Harmonic Response Mode Superposition (MSUP) analysis now supports:
– Tabular loading for Remote Force and Moment loads using the new property, Loading Application.
This property enables you to specify between applying the load using load vectors or tables in the
Harmonic analysis.
– The ability to import surface force densities with multiple frequencies.
• Eqv. Damping Ratio From Modal: This Damping Controls property is available for a Harmonic Response
Analysis when the Solution Method property is set to Mode Superposition and Transient Structural
Analysis linked to a Modal Analysis. For these analyses, if you define the Constant Damping Coefficient
in the Engineering Data Workspace, then this property must be set to Yes so that the application always
accounts for the material-based constant damping coefficient effect in your MSUP harmonic and MSUP
transient solutions by always expanding from the modal solution.
• Substructure Analysis. The Condensed Part feature to define substructures now supports Modal
analyses.
1.15. Acoustics Analysis

19.2 Enhancements
For Release 19.2, the following Acoustics analysis enhancements were made:
• Prestressed Harmonic Acoustics Analysis. ANSYS Mechanical now enables you to perform a Fluid
Structure Interface (FSI) Harmonic analysis on a prestressed structure using a Static Acoustics Analysis.
• FSI Cyclic Symmetry for Acoustics Analyses. Mechanical now supports Cyclic Symmetry and Pre-
Meshed Cyclic Symmetry regions for all acoustics-based analysis systems: Harmonic, Prestressed Har-
monic, Modal, Prestressed Modal, and Static.
• Low Reduced Frequency Model. Harmonic Acoustics and Structural Acoustics analyses supported a
new acoustic model: Low Reduced Frequency Model. This acoustic model enables you to account for
the interaction between an acoustic pressure wave in a viscous fluid and a rigid wall for specific structures
according to Low Reduced Frequency (LRF) approximation.
19.1 Enhancements
For Release 19.1, the following Acoustics analysis enhancements were made:
• Static Acoustics Analysis. Mechanical now offers a new analysis type: Static Acoustics. You use a
Static Acoustics analysis to apply stresses to a downstream Modal Acoustics analysis. The combination
creates a Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) analysis.
Topology Optimization
• Diffuse Sound Field Transmission Loss. This is a new result type for Harmonic Acoustics analyses. It
is used in combination with the Diffuse Sound Field excitation condition. It enables you to predict the
transmission loss of the structural panel specified by the excitation.
• Acoustic Far-field Microphone Results. Microphone Results now enable you to specify as many as
nine microphone locations using the new Worksheet Definition Method option.
• Equivalent Radiated Power and Equivalent Radiated Power Level Results. Two new result options
are available for 3D Harmonic Acoustics (requires Structural Physics Region) analyses. These results
enable you to estimate the radiated structure-borne sound power from a vibrating structural surface.
• Default Materials. Air and Water Liquid are now default materials for Acoustic analyses. They are listed
in the new Materials object in the tree Outline.
1.16. Topology Optimization

19.2 Enhancements
The following Topology Optimization analysis enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
• AM (Additive Manufacturing) Overhang Constraint. The Topology Optimization analysis has a new
additive manufacturing-based constraint option: AM Overhang Constraint. This constraint enables
you to eliminate the use of supports for additive printing for the specified Overhang Angle and Build
Direction.
• Lattice Optimization Analysis. The Topology Optimization analysis now enables you to create light-
weight parts using lattice structures. Lattice optimization is a physics driven optimization that is based
on a set of loads and boundary conditions provided by either a single preceding analysis or multiple
preceding analyses.
• Topology Optimization is now supported on the Linux platform. However, SpaceClaim does not support
the Linux platform. As a result, geometry revisions need to be performed on the Windows platform
prior to validating your design.
• Topology optimization now supports the optimization of inertial and thermal loads defined in a linked
Static Structural analysis or combined Static Structural and Modal analysis.
• The Definitions category of the Analysis Settings object for a Topology Optimization analysis has
two new properties:
– Region of Manufacturing Constraint. The options for this property are Include Exclusions (default)
and Exclude Exclusions. When you specify Include Exclusions, the application also incorporates
the Exclusion Region to satisfy the Pull Out Direction, Extrusion, Cyclic, and Symmetry manufac-
turing constraints.
– Region of Min Member Size. The options for this property are Include Exclusions and Exclude
Exclusions (default). When you specify Include Exclusions, the application also incorporates the
Exclusion Region to meet the minimum member size specified through the Member Size manufac-
turing constraint.
19.1 Enhancements
The following Topology Optimization analysis enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
• Topology Optimization Results. Result histories are now available for the Topology Density and To-
pology Element Density results. This means they can now be evaluated for specific iterations or animated
over the solution. The Iteration property enables you to specify an iteration number.
• Manufacturing Constraint. The Manufacturing Constraint condition now provides a Scope category
of properties in the Details view for the Pull Out Direction, Cyclic, and Symmetry options of the
Subtypes property. The scoping options enable you to scope these constraints to bodies and mesh
elements, either geometry-based or Named Selections.
• Response Constraint. The Response Constraint condition now provides a Scope category of properties
in the Details view. This category enables you to scope the Local von-Mises Stress Constraint to
edges, faces, bodies, and mesh elements. In addition, you can scope the Displacement and Reaction
Force constraints to vertices, edges, faces, bodies, and mesh nodes. For element and node scoping,
you can specify one or more elements or nodes.
• Solution Scalability. Topology optimization solution scalability has been improved when your Topology
Optimization analysis is linked to a single upstream Modal analysis. For standard topology optimization
models, performance improvement of as much as 10 percent has been observed with the optimization
run using higher core counts, such as 20 cores.
• Solution Methodology. The solver now uses the elemental mean value of the equivalent (von-Mises)
stress when a stress constraint is added. These values are extracted from the result file. When restricting
the maximum stress value of a set of elements, a new technique is applied that approximates the
maximum more accurately. The normalized maximum approximation uses an adaptive scaling factor
for the p-Norm.
1.17. System Coupling

19.2 Enhancements
No System Coupling enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
19.1 Enhancements
System Coupling. At Release 19.1, Mechanical can now participate in command-line coupled multiphysics
simulations run entirely from the command-line using the System Coupling Service 2.0, a second-gen-
eration coupling engine that provides enhanced control of coupled analyses.
1.18. Loads/Supports/Conditions
19.2 Enhancements
The following loads/supports/conditions enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
• Fixed Support. You can now scope a Fixed Support to nodes or element faces.
• Internal Heat Generation. You can now scope an Internal Heat Generation loading condition to
elements.
• Heat Flow. You can now scope a Heat Flow loading condition to element faces.
Solution
• Tabular Loading for Harmonic Response MSUP analysis. During a Harmonic Response MSUP analysis,
for Remote Force and Moment loads, the new property, Loading Application enables you to specify
between applying the load using load vectors or tables in the Harmonic analysis.
19.1 Enhancements
The following loads/supports/conditions enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
• Temperature. You can now scope a Temperature boundary condition to nodes, element faces, and
elements.
• Thermal Loading Conditions. The following thermal boundary conditions now support element face
scoping:
– Convection
– Radiation
– Heat Flux
• Using Imported Loads for One-Way FSI.
– If the Interpolation type property on the Imported Loads (Group) is specified as Mechanical-Based
Mapping, then you can use the Ctrl key to select multiple options from the CFD Surface or the CFD
Domain properties drop-down menus when defining your Transfer Definitions.
– A new property is available when importing loads from a CFD analysis. The new property, Source
Time, enables you to select which time steps are imported from your upstream CFD analysis and
displayed in the Data View table. From the CFD analysis, you can easily import data for specific times,
all times, or for a time range.
– Based on your Data View table content, a new context menu (right-click) option is available: Sync
Analysis Times. This option synchronizes the values of the Data View table with the Step Controls
of the Analysis Settings object.
1.19. Solution
19.2 Enhancements
The following solution enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
• Bearings Support for Large Deflection. You can now set the Large Deflection property to On when
performing Static Structural or Transient Structural analyses that include Bearings.
• Solution Information Object Options. When you specify the Participation Factor Summary option
for the Solution Output property, the associated property, Summary Type displays. The Summary
Type property has a new option: Ratio of Effective Mass to Total Mass. This option enables you to
display the ratio of Effective Mass versus Total Mass in the Worksheet.
19.1 Enhancements
The following solution enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
• Solution Statistics. The Solution Output property of the Solution Information object has a new option:
Solution Statistics. This option presents a quick summary of the solution process in the Worksheet.
The summary includes solution and HPC metrics as well as recommendations to improve the solution
time and performance.
1.20. Fatigue
The following fatigue enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
• Fatigue Mean Stress Theory. The Mean Stress Theory option for the Stress Life Fatigue Tool now
supports the ASME Elliptical theory.

The following fatigue enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
• Fatigue Results. Fatigue results, that is, the Fatigue Tool, now supports temperature dependent S-N
Curves. The Engineering Data workspace material properties Alternating Stress Mean Stress and Al-
ternating Stress R-Ratio are no longer available properties in the Life category. These properties have
been replaced by the property S-N Curve, along with the new Mean Stress and R-Ratio Field Variables
as well as Temperature. These properties enable you to create your desired fatigue material properties
for Static Structural and Transient Structural analyses.
1.21. Rigid Body Solver

19.2 Enhancements
The following Rigid Body Solver enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
• The new Motion Loads ACT extension allows you to transfer dynamic loads from an Rigid Dynamics
transient system to a Static Structural system in order to perform static stress analysis. The functionality
is similar to the Motion Load export but works on an updated configuration of the bodies.
19.1 Enhancements
The following Rigid Body Solver enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
• The Rigid Dynamics solver now supports Model state dependent loads through the use of the Variable Load
ACT extension. Joint loads and remote forces can be dependent on the Model state, and can be applied
conditionally. The extension is only available on Windows platforms.
1.22. Explicit Dynamics

The Explicit Dynamics analysis system is a Workbench integrated provision of the Autodyn FE (Lagrange)
and multiple-material Euler solvers, and Euler-Lagrange Coupling (providing FSI).
19.2 Enhancements
The following Explicit Dynamics Solver enhancements have been made at Release 19.2:
Explicit Dynamics
• The Explicit Dynamics solver supports the import of Pressure loads using External Data.
• The Explicit Dynamics solver has the ability to define the static damping constant per step.
• The Explicit Dynamics solver allows solver options to be defined per body using Body Control objects.
The following LS-DYNA Solver enhancements have been made at Release 19.2:
• Support of the MPC option for Bonded Contact
If used with a bonded contact, it will create a bonded contact of formulation; CONSTRAINED_OFFSET
for example, TIED_NODES_TO_SURFACE_CONSTRAINED_OFFSET.
• New Contact options in the Contact Property object
Two new Contact Options, Tied_Shell_Edge and Interference, have been added for Contact .
The tied shell edge option allows to tie edges of surface bodies to surface bodies and complement
the existing bonded contacts.
The interference option enables removal of contact overclosure, and enables the solving of interference
fit during the dynamic relaxation, or during the explicit phase of the calculation.
• Bolt pretension
Bolt pretension can now be used during the explicit phase of the analysis. It was previously only
available in the dynamic relaxation phase.
• Customization
Workbench LS-DYNA can now be customized by using ACT for preprocessing features.
• Solver Upgrade
LS-DYNA has been upgraded to the version 10.1, which contains many enhancements and defects
fixes.
19.1 Enhancements
The following Explicit Dynamics Solver enhancements have been made at Release 19.1:
• The Explicit Dynamics solver now has the ability to use load steps during the solution. Boundary condi-
tions and loads can be activated and deactivated per load step.
• The Explicit Dynamics solver supports Result Plot Trackers during the solve (see the Results (p. 18) entry
in these release notes).
The following LS-DYNA Solver enhancements have been made at Release 19.1:
• The Workbench LS-DYNA extension supports the import of Pressure loads using External Data.
1.23. Results
19.2 Enhancements
The following result enhancements were made at Release 19.2:
• Volume. Mechanical now provides a Volume result type as well as a Volume probe.
• Create Temperature Results from Tabular Data Window. For thermal analyses, Mechanical now
provides the context menu option Create Temperature Results on the Tabular Data of the Solution
folder and it enables you to automatically create multiple temperature results based on the selected
rows of the Tabular Data window.
19.1 Enhancements
The following result enhancements were made at Release 19.1:
• Equivalent Radiated Power and Equivalent Radiated Power Level Results. Two new result options
are available for 3D Harmonic Response and Harmonic Acoustics (requires Structural Physics Region)
analyses. These results enable you to estimate the radiated structure-borne sound power from a vibrating
structural surface.
• Contact Result Tracker. The Contact Result Tracker now enables you to specify the following output
types:
– Total Force (X/Y/Z) from Contact Pressure
– Total Force (X/Y/Z) from Tangential Stress
– Sliding Indication
• On Demand Stress/Strain (Windows Platform Only). The use of the On Demand Stress/Strain property,
of the Solution object, does not require an upstream ACP system.
• Result Plot Tracker. The Solution Information object provides Result Plot Tracker options that enable
you to view result contours in real time as the solution progresses. Furthermore, you can add Result
Plot Trackers at any point during the solution process. In the previous release, this feature was only
available for Topology Optimization analyses. Now, this feature has been expanded to include Static
Structural, Transient Structural, Steady-State Thermal, Transient Thermal, and Explicit Dynamics analyses.
New result options include Deformation, Stress, Strain, and Temperature.
• Linearized Stress Results. The Linearized Stress results have a new property: Zero Through-Thickness
Bending Stress. This property is only available for 3D analyses. When activated, the application ignores
the calculations for out-of-plane bending stresses.
• Animation. In addition to the .AVI file format, you can now export animations as either .MP4 files or
.WMV files.
Chapter 2: Mechanical APDL Release Notes
Release 19.2 of the Mechanical APDL application offers most of the capabilities from prior releases plus
many new features and enhancements. Areas where you will find changes and new capabilities include
the following:
• Structural (p. 19)
• Multiphysics (p. 21)
• Solvers (p. 21)
• Commands (p. 22)
• Elements (p. 23)
• Documentation (p. 24)
Also see Known Incompatibilities (p. 24) and the ANSYS Customer Site (p. xii) for important information
about this release.
Backward Compatibility: Mechanical APDL Release 19.2 can read database files from all prior Mechan-
ical APDL releases. Due to ongoing product improvements and defect corrections, however, results
obtained from old databases running in new releases may differ somewhat from those obtained previ-
ously.
2.1. Structural
Release 19.2 includes the new features and enhancements for the following structural analysis disciplines:
2.1.1. Elements and Nonlinear Technology
2.1.2. Material and Fracture Modeling
2.1.3. Linear Dynamics
2.1.1. Elements and Nonlinear Technology

Release 19.2 includes the following enhancements to elements and nonlinear technology used in
structural analyses:
2.1.1.1. Inverse Solving
2.1.1.1. Inverse Solving

An inverse-solving capability is now available for obtaining the undeformed reference geometry based
on deformed input geometry, the loads applied to it, and the materials used in the configuration. The
solutions include the stresses and strains on the input geometry.
Most analyses begin with the geometry, position, or shape of a part at a load-free condition; then, a
traditional forward-solving analysis obtains the deformed shape, stresses, and strains in the working
condition under load. In some cases, however, the initial part design defines its shape and position
Mechanical APDL
already in a working condition under load, but the initial shape and/or position is unknown; in such
cases, an analysis using inverse solving finds the initial shape and position of the part.
The new capability is useful in applications such as biomechanical simulations where the input geometry
consists of medical images and the model is already deformed and under load. The goal is to determine
the stresses and strains on the input geometry and, more importantly, the deformed shape with further
loading and stresses and strains produced. An inverse-solving analysis recovers the undeformed reference
geometry, followed by a forward-solving analysis to apply further loading.
For more information, see Nonlinear Static Analysis with Inverse Solving in the Structural Analysis Guide,
the INVOPT command, and Inverse Formulations in the Theory Reference.
2.1.2. Material and Fracture Modeling

Release 19.2 includes the following enhancements to material modeling and fracture analysis technology
used in structural analyses:
2.1.2.1. Rate-Independent Plasticity (Viscoplasticity)
2.1.2.2. Cast Iron and Nonlinear Kinematic Hardening
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.
2.1.2.1. Rate-Independent Plasticity (Viscoplasticity)

The Perzyna, Peirce and Exponential Visco-Hardening models (EVH) for viscoplasticity now use a sum
of multiple terms in the plastic strain rate definition. The new forms can capture multiple rate-dependent
plastic deformation phenomena (such as the transition from diffusional flow to power law flow to rate-
independent plasticity) that can occur when a material is subject to a wide range of stress and temper-
atures. The new capability is especially useful for modeling the wide range of thermal and mechanical
loading in thermo-mechanical fatigue simulations. For more information, see Rate-Dependent Plasticity
(Viscoplasticity) in the Material Reference.
2.1.2.2. Cast Iron and Nonlinear Kinematic Hardening

The Cast Iron material model (TB,CAST) can now be combined with Chaboche nonlinear kinematic
hardening to simulate cast iron behavior in cyclic loading. The enhanced material model is useful for
thermo-mechanical fatigue simulations where cast iron parts can experience cyclic thermal and mech-
anical loading (such as in internal combustion engines). The model can also be used in cases with only
mechanical (and no thermal) cyclic loading. For more information, see Cast Iron in the Material Reference.
2.1.3. Linear Dynamics

Release 19.2 includes the following enhancements for structural analyses involving linear dynamics:
2.1.3.1. Postprocessing Velocity and Acceleration from the Reduced Displacement File
2.1.3.2. User-Defined Coordinate System for MASS21
2.1.3.3. Component Mode Synthesis (CMS) Enhancements
2.1.3.4. Energy Calculations
2.1.3.1. Postprocessing Velocity and Acceleration from the Reduced Displacement File
Following a mode-superposition transient analysis, you can now postprocess the velocity and acceleration
solutions directly from the reduced displacement file, Jobname.RDSP. For more information, see Expand
the Mode-Superposition Solution in the Structural Analysis Guide.
Solvers
2.1.3.2. User-Defined Coordinate System for MASS21

The structural mass element, MASS21, now supports a user-defined element coordinate system. Use
the new KECN real constant to input the coordinate system reference number.
2.1.3.3. Component Mode Synthesis (CMS) Enhancements

The following enhancements are available for component mode synthesis analyses:
• You can now specify the beginning node number of the virtual nodes created to store the generalized co-
ordinates in a component mode synthesis (CMS) analysis. Define the node number via the CMSOPT or SE
command.
• Damping-ratio commands DMPRAT and MDAMP can now include damping in the reduced damping matrix
for all CMS methods.
2.1.3.4. Energy Calculations

The following enhancements are available for the element energy calculations:
• The damping energy calculation is now supported for material-dependent damping and structural damping.
• Additional energy quantities are available during postprocessing of the expansion pass in substructuring
and component mode synthesis (CMS) analyses.
2.2. Multiphysics
Release 19.2 includes the following enhancements for analyses involving multiphysics environments:
2.2.1. Coupled-Field
2.2.1. Coupled-Field
The following coupled-field analysis enhancement is available in this release:
2.2.1.1. Viscoelastic Heating Effect
2.2.1.1. Viscoelastic Heating Effect

The coupled-field elements can now model the viscoelastic heating effect in structural-thermal analyses.
Viscoelastic heating leads to an increase in temperature during cyclic deformation of linear viscoelastic
materials, and when viscoelastic behavior is combined with hyperelastic materials, such as in rubbers.
The new capability is useful for predicting the heating of the rubber material employed in seals, gaskets,
and tires. For more information, see Structural-Thermal Analysis in the Coupled-Field Analysis Guide.
2.3. Solvers
Release 19.2 includes the following improvements to the solution process:
2.3.1. Distributed ANSYS Enhancements
2.3.2. Other Solver Changes and Enhancements
2.3.1. Distributed ANSYS Enhancements

The following enhancements are available for distributed-memory parallel processing (Distributed ANSYS):
Mechanical APDL
• Interface elements INTER202, INTER203, INTER204, and INTER205 now use distributed-memory parallelism
throughout the Distributed ANSYS solution.
• Scaling performance is improved for modal and buckling analyses that use the Block Lanczos or Subspace
eigensolver.
2.3.2. Other Solver Changes and Enhancements

Restarts involving constraint equations containing many thousands of terms are now significantly faster.
2.4. Commands
This section describes changes to commands at Release 19.2:
2.4.1. New Commands
2.4.2. Modified Commands
2.4.3. Undocumented Commands
Some commands are inaccessible from menus and are available via the command input area or batch
file input only. The documentation for each command indicates menu path information, if available.
2.4.1. New Commands

The following new commands are available:
• INVOPT – Enables/disables inverse solving for a load step.
• *RENAME – Renames an existing APDL Math vector or matrix.
2.4.2. Modified Commands

The following commands have been enhanced or otherwise modified:
• CMSOPT – Specifies component mode synthesis (CMS) analysis options. The new nStartVN argument
enables you to specify a starting node number for virtual nodes created to store the generalized coordinates
of the superelement.
• DMPRAT – Sets a constant modal damping ratio. The command can now be used to include damping in
component mode synthesis (CMS) analyses.
• EXPASS – Specifies the expansion pass of an analysis. The new KeyStat argument controls whether
pseudo-static correction terms are included in the expanded displacements; they are included by default.
• *EXPORT – Exports a matrix to a file in the specified format. This APDL Math command now supports the
ASCII CSV (comma-separated values) format for the exported file.
• MDAMP – Defines the damping ratios as a function of mode. Previously, the command could be used to
include damping in a component mode synthesis (CMS) analysis only when the CMS method was fixed-in-
terface. Now, the command can be used for all CMS methods.
• *MULT – Performs the matrix multiplication M3 = M1(T1)*M2(T2). The T1 and T2 arguments have been revised.
Inputting the TRANS label activates a non-conjugate transpose for the corresponding matrix (M1 or M2).
Inputting the CTRANS label activates the conjugate transpose, applicable when the corresponding matrix
is complex.
Elements
• SE – Defines a superelement. The new nStartVN argument enables you to specify a starting node number
for virtual nodes created to store the generalized coordinates of the superelement.
• *SMAT – Creates a sparse matrix. This APDL Math command can now allocate a diagonal square matrix, and
it can now create a matrix based on the compressed sparse row (CSR) format. Also, the NOD2BCS and
USR2BCS labels have been renamed to NOD2SOLV and USR2SOLV, respectively.
2.4.3. Undocumented Commands

The following commands have been undocumented:
Command Reason
TB,UNIAXIAL Functionality has been replaced by the
enhanced cast iron model (TB,CAST).
MFANALYSIS MFLCOMM The multi-field solvers (MFX and MFS) are obsolete.
MFBUCKET MFLIST ANSYS, Inc. recommends System Coupling in place
MFCALC MFMAP of the MFX method and unidirectional pressure
MFCI MFORDER mapping in place of the MFS method.
MFCLEAR MFOUTPUT
MFCMMAND MFPSIMUL
MFCONV MFRC
MFDTIME MFRELAX
MFELEM MFRSTART
MFEM MFSORDER
MFEXTER MFSURFACE
MFFNAME MFTIME
MFFR MFTOL
MFIMPORT MFVOLUME
MFINTER MFWRITE
MFITER
For information about commands that have been undocumented in prior releases, see the archived
release notes on the ANSYS Customer Site (p. xii).
2.5. Elements
This section describes changes to elements at Release 19.2:
2.5.1. Modified Elements
Some elements are not available from within the GUI. For a list of those elements, see GUI-Inaccessible
Elements.
2.5.1. Modified Elements

The following elements have been enhanced:
• MASS21 – This structural mass element has a new KECN real constant for specifying a user-defined element
coordinate system when KEYOPT(2) = 4.
• SOLID186 (with KEYOPT(3) = 0) and SOLID187 – These 3-D structural solid elements now support inverse
solving as a special feature.
Mechanical APDL
• PLANE222, PLANE223, SOLID226, SOLID227 – These coupled-field elements now support the calculation of
thermoviscoelastic effects when used in a structural-thermal analysis.
• REINF263, REINF264, REINF265, ELBOW290 – These structural elements now support linear perturbation as
a special feature.
2.6. Documentation
ANSYS, Inc. continues to refine the Mechanical APDL documentation set. To that end, the following
changes and enhancements to the documentation have occurred:
2.6.1. Technology Demonstration Guide

The following example problem has been improved in the Technology Demonstration Guide:
• Forced Response Analysis of a Mistuned Bladed Disk with Aerodamping (TD-45) – This example problem
demonstrates the free vibration and forced response analyses of a tuned and mistuned NASA Rotor 67 fan.
In addition to the cyclic modeling and linear perturbation methods previously demonstrated, the aero
coupling solution approach has been added to demonstrate the effects of aerodamping.
2.6.2. Documentation Updates for Programmers

Routines and functions documented in the Programmer's Reference have been updated to reflect the
current source code. To see specific changes in a file, ANSYS, Inc. recommends opening both the old
and current files (using a text editor that displays line numbers), then comparing the two to determine
which lines have changed. You can copy the updated files to your system by performing a custom in-
stallation of the product.
2.6.3. Feature Archive

Legacy features, commands, elements, and theory information continue to move to the Feature Archive.
While ANSYS, Inc. intends to support legacy capabilities for the immediate future, some may be undoc-
umented in future releases. Consider moving to their recommended replacements.
2.7. Known Limitations

No known limitations exist at Release 19.2.
2.8. Known Incompatibilities

The following incompatibilities with prior releases are known to exist at Release 19.2:
• The uniaxial stress-strain relation specifications data table (TB,UNIAXIAL) has been undocumented. The
enhanced cast iron data table (TB,CAST) replaces its functionality.
• Contact element real constants PMIN and PMAX, which were used to specify an initial contact surface ad-
justment, have been undocumented. Instead, ANSYS, Inc. recommends using the CNCHECK,ADJUST and
CNCHECK,MORPH commands to physically move contact nodes to the target surface.
• The contact element potential energy (SENE) output calculation has been changed to include only the
elastic energies (energy from the enforcement of contact non-penetration and contact-sticking conditions).
Previously, SENE reported the total contact energy, which also included the frictional energy dissipation
Known Incompatibilities
and contact damping energy; these dissipative energies are now excluded from the potential energy calcu-
lation.
• Prior to this release, if an absolute pinball radius was not specified, the internal constraint equations of MPC
bonded contact pairs were often built based on the individual pinball radius of each contact element. In
this release, a consistent pair-based pinball radius is used instead. Therefore, slight differences in results
may be observed for certain models involving MPC bonded contact pairs.
• In mode-superposition transient analyses and mode-superposition harmonic analyses that include a sub-
structuring superelement or a component mode synthesis (CMS) superelement (fixed-interface or free-inter-
face methods only), pseudo-static correction terms are now included by default in the expanded displace-
ments. For more information, see the EXPASS command.
Chapter 3: Autodyn Release Notes
The ANSYS Autodyn product encompasses of all of the following explicit solvers: FE (Lagrange), Euler,
FCT, ALE, and SPH, and various means to couple them together. All are integrated into the Autodyn
Component system, while the FE (Lagrange) and Euler—including Euler-Lagrange coupling—are also
integrated into the Explicit Dynamics Analysis system.
3.1. New Features and Enhancements

The following new features and enhancements are available in release 19.2. Refer to the product specific
documentation for full details.
• The Autodyn solver supports per-step control of the static damping constant from an Explicit Dynamics
analysis.
Chapter 4: Aqwa Release Notes
This release of the Aqwa related products contains all capabilities from previous releases. The following
enhancements are available in release 19.2. Refer to the product specific documentation for full details
of the new features.
4.1. Aqwa Solver Modules
4.2. Aqwa Graphical Supervisor (AGS)
4.3. Hydrodynamic Analysis Systems
4.1. Aqwa Solver Modules

The following new features provide extended capabilities in the Aqwa solver modules:
Allow multiple cable breaking in Librium and Fer: You can specify one or more mooring lines to be
broken in Aqwa Librium and Fer. These lines will then have no effects on the structure responses during
the analysis.
4.2. Aqwa Graphical Supervisor (AGS)

No new features at release 19.2.
4.3. Hydrodynamic Analysis Systems

The following new features provide extended capabilities in the Hydrodynamic Analysis Workbench
systems:
Allow multiple cable breaking in Stability and Frequency Statistical Analysis: In Stability or Frequency
Statistical analyses, you can specify one or more mooring lines to be broken. These lines will then have
no effects on the structure responses during the analysis.
Chapter 5: ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP)
The following enhancements are available in release 19.2. Refer to the product specific documentation
for full details of the new features.
5.1. New Features in ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 19.2
5.2. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 19.2
5.3. Known Limitations and Incompatibilities
5.1. New Features in ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 19.2

The following new features were added to ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) for the 19.2 release.
5.1.1. Sampling Point in Mechanical
5.1.2. Draping
5.1.3. ANSYS Material Designer Workflows
5.1.4. ACP Performance Improvements
5.1.1. Sampling Point in Mechanical

The Sampling Point feature that is used in ACP is now also available in Mechanical. It enables you to
perform a through-the-thickness analysis of composite structures. The lay-up, strains, stresses, and failures
can be visualized in 2D graphs. The laminate stiffnesses are shown in a polar plot. The calculations are
based on failure criteria of ACP Post, similar to the Composite Failure Tool.
5.1.2. Draping
Draping simulations are more robust and the performance is as much as 10 times faster. In addition,
the new Layup Computation option, Use Draping Offset Correction, enables you to account for the
layup thickness during a draping simulation. This providing more accurate results, especially for thick
laminates (e.g. sandwich structures) with ply tapering and drop-offs.
5.1.3. ANSYS Material Designer Workflows

A new application is now available: ANSYS Material Designer. This application enables you to compute
homogenized material properties. They can be constant or variable, dependent on different parameters
such as Shear Angle. To support the necessary workflows, ACP now includes a new material property,
Fabric Fiber Angle, and a Material 1 Direction. These changes do not affect existing models. For addi-
tional information, see the new Material Designer User's Guide. In particular, refer to the Workbench
Workflow Examples section.
5.1.4. ACP Performance Improvements

ACP-Pre and ACP-Post include performance improvements to modeling ply and solid model update.
5.2. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) 19.2

Platform/OS levels that are supported in the current release are posted on the ANSYS website.
ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP)
5.3. Known Limitations and Incompatibilities

The following known incompatibilities with previous releases for ANSYS Composite PrepPost in Release
19.2.
5.3.1. OpenGL Drivers on Linux

On Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS Linux > 7.2 systems, ACP 3D acceleration can have issues with the
standard (nouveau) graphic drivers installed. Make sure to use the latest drivers from NVIDIA or ATI
when running ACP.
Chapter 6: Material Designer
A new application is available in release 19.2: ANSYS Material Designer allows you to simulate the micro-
structure of composite materials and lattice structures. It generates a representative volume element
(RVE) and analyzes it in order to compute homogenized (averaged) material properties. The computed
materials can then be used in subsequent analyses as any predefined or user-defined materials would
be.
In particular, the models are parametrized and you can automatically compute variable materials that
depend on certain key parameters (like, for instance, the fiber volume fraction or shear angle). The use
of variable materials in subsequent analyses does not introduce heavy computational costs thanks to
efficient material data interpolation. This is in strong contrast to other multi-scale approaches where
the micro-scale model is simulated for each integration point in the macro-scale model.
For the details, see Material Designer User's Guide.
6.1. Types of RVEs

The following types of RVEs are supported:
• Lattice structures
• Regular unidirectional (UD) fiber reinforced composites
• Misaligned unidirectional fiber reinforced composites
• Chopped fiber reinforced composites
• Woven composites
• User defined RVEs
6.2. Material Properties

The following material properties can be computed:
• Linear elasticity
– Orthotropic elasticity
– Anisotropic elasticity
• Density
• Orthotropic secant coefficients of thermal expansion
• Thermal conductivity
• Specific heat
Part II: ANSYS Fluids Products
Release notes are available for the following ANSYS Fluids products:
Fluent (p. 37)

CFX (p. 55)
TurboGrid (p. 57)
ANSYS BladeModeler (p. 59)
CFD-Post (p. 61)
Polyflow (p. 63)
Forte (p. 65)
ANSYS Chemkin-Pro (p. 67)
FENSAP-ICE (p. 69)
Chapter 1: Fluent Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for ANSYS Fluent 19.2.
1.1. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Fluent 19.2
1.2. New Features in ANSYS Fluent 19.2
1.3. Updates Affecting ANSYS Fluent 19.2 Code Behavior
Backwards Compatibility: In most instances, ANSYS Fluent 19.2 can read case files and data files from
all past Fluent releases. However, due to product improvements and defect fixes, results obtained from
old cases running in new releases may differ to some degree from the previously obtained results. Ad-
ditionally, infrequent changes made in UDF macros over time could lead to some user-defined functions
failing to compile without modification. See the product documentation for more information.
1.1. Supported Platforms for ANSYS Fluent 19.2

Information about past, present, and future operating system and platform support is viewable via the
ANSYS website.
ANSYS Fluent supports the IBM OpenPOWER platform as a beta feature. Future support and extensions
will be based on user feedback and interest. For further details, see IBM OpenPOWER Support in the
Fluent Beta Features Manual.
1.2. New Features in ANSYS Fluent 19.2

The following sections list the new features available in ANSYS Fluent:
1.2.1. Meshing Mode
1.2.2. Solution Mode
1.2.1. Meshing Mode

New features available in the meshing mode of ANSYS Fluent 19.2 are listed below.
Clean CAD Work Flow
• A guided workflow is available for creating a volume mesh from an imported watertight CAD
geometry. The workflow includes CAD Import, creating a surface mesh, creating capping surfaces,
extracting potential fluid regions and generating a volume mesh. You can also customize the
workflow, save and re-use, see Working With Fluent Guided Workflows in the Fluent User's Guide
for more information.
User Interface
• The quick search bar at the top of the Fluent application window allows you to quickly locate
the commands or controls that you are looking for in the ribbon, file menu, and console. Clicking
a search result is equivalent to clicking the control in the ribbon.
• You can quickly visualize a layer of cells of the volume mesh in the clipping plane using the
Draw Cell Layer option in the Clipping Planes section of the Ribbon. Once the Draw Cell
Fluent
Layer option is enabled, use the Freeze Cell Layer check box to keep the displayed layer of
cells in place while you perform additional mesh display operations.
To draw a layer of cells on the clipping plane for specific cell zones, select the cell zone(s) under
Mesh Objects in the Tree and use the Draw Cell Layer option in the context menu.
• Note that you can no longer (by default) use the Clipping Planes tools to simultaneously clip
cell layers drawn using the Bounds tools.
Mesh Generation
• The Poly-hexcore method is now available in the Auto Mesh dialog for Mesh Objects and in
the new Watertight CAD Workflow. This hybrid method uses ANSYS’s Mosaic™ technology to
combine a hexahedral core region with a polyhedral transition to the boundary. For many cases,
Poly-hexcore can yield reduced mesh size, higher mesh quality, and better solver performance
compared with traditional Hexcore and all-Poly meshes.
Graphics
• (Linux only) ANSYS Fluent automatically selects the best graphics driver and defaults to using the X11
graphics driver when it does not detect the required graphics support.
• You can use the Hardcopy format option in Preferences to specify the default image format for saving
picture files of the graphics window.
• The display/set/picture/jpeg-hardcopy-quality text command allows you to specify

the quality vs. file size for JPEG images that you save of the graphics window.
• ANSYS Fluent now supports additional graphics drivers:
– (Windows) DirectX 11, DirectX 9, OpenGL2
– (Linux) OpenGL2

New features available in the solution mode of ANSYS Fluent 19.2 are listed below. Where appropriate,
references to the relevant section in the User's Guide are provided.
User Interface
• The quick search bar at the top of the Fluent application window (also available via Ctrl + F) allows you
to quickly locate the commands or controls that you are looking for in the ribbon, file menu, and console.
Clicking a search result is equivalent to clicking the control in the ribbon.
Remote Visualization
• The remote visualization client console is now a Python 2.7 interpreter. See Python, Scripting and
Transcripts in the Remote Client in the Fluent User's Guide for additional information. You can read, start,
and stop Python transcripts through the Remote Visualization Client. For additional information, see
Starting and Stopping a Transcript in the Fluent User's Guide
• You can have the remote client run text commands in the background, without waiting for them to
complete, by using an & at the end of text commands entered through the Send Command to Server
dialog box.
New Features in ANSYS Fluent 19.2
Reduced Order Models
• You can create reduced order models for the following steady-state applications:
– Cavitation
– Erosion rate
– Corrosion rate
– Conjugate Heat Transfer without radiation
Refer to Creating Reduced Order Models (ROMs) in the Fluent User's Guide and Using ROMs in
the ANSYS DesignXplorer User's Guide for details.
Solver-Numerics
• The text command solve/set/rotating-mesh-flow-predictor? that can speed up transient

simulations that involve a rotating fluid zone with large time steps, is now enabled by default. It has
also been extended to include nested rotation and translation (zones that move relative to other zones,
that are themselves moving) using either mesh motion or moving deforming meshes for rigid body
motion.
• A new stabilization method is now available as another option for improving convergence of
the linear solver and providing stability for the algebraic multigrid (AMG) solver: the generalized
minimal residual method (GMRES). GMRES is recommended when you cannot reach convergence
with the bi-conjugate gradient stabilized method (BCGSTAB). (Setting the Stabilization Method)
• It is now possible to enable a modified version of velocity reconstruction for the Rhie-Chow face
flux interpolation. This can help avoid solution divergence or unphysical results for simulations
that involve a non-uniform mesh (that is, one that has large differences in the volumes of
neighboring cells). (Velocity Reconstruction for Non-Uniform Meshes)
Solver-Meshing
• When using overset meshes, compressible flows are supported not only with the density-based
solver, but now with the pressure-based solver as well. (Compatibilities)
• When postprocessing overset cases, surface integrals (including force and moment reports) are
now exact when taken over boundary zones that overlap: they no longer include any double
counting in the overlap regions. Note that errors will still persist for surface integrals taken on
a surface created for postprocessing (such as a plane surface or a rake surface) in a region with
overlap.
• When using the polyhedral unstructured mesh adaption (PUMA) method in a 3D case, you can
now adjust the minimum value allowed for the orthogonal quality of cells during the adaption
by using the following text command: adapt/set/min-cell-quality. This may be useful
if your solution is diverging. (Mesh Adaption Controls)
• For dynamic meshes that use either diffusion-based smoothing with finite element discretization
or the linearly elastic solid mesh smoothing model, a new algebraic multigrid (AMG) stabilization
method is available for the smoothing calculations: the generalized minimal residual method
(GMRES). GMRES is recommended when you cannot reach convergence with the default bi-
conjugate gradient stabilized method (BCGSTAB). (Diffusion-Based Smoothing and Linearly
Elastic Solid Based Smoothing Method)
Fluent
• When creating a dynamic mesh zone of type Deforming through the graphical user interface
(GUI), note that the Meshing Options tab of the Dynamic Mesh Zones dialog box is now im-
proved for clarity and ease of use. For details, see Deforming Motion.
• When using the six degrees of freedom (Six DOF) solver as part of a dynamic mesh, note the
following improvements:
– When defining a moving object using a set of properties with the One DOF Rotation option enabled,
it is now possible for your simulation to account for cases in which the center of rotation is not coin-
cident with the center of gravity. This allows you to define and track these separate centers independ-
ently, and to include moments due to gravity in your simulation automatically. (Setting Rigid Body
Motion Attributes for the Six DOF Solver and Rigid Body Motion)
– Setting up one DOF translation / rotation through a user-defined function (UDF) is greatly simplified,
as the DEFINE_SDOF_PROPERTIES macro can now define the settings previously only available
when using a set of properties (defined using the Six DOF Properties dialog box). For an example
of such a UDF, see DEFINE_SDOF_PROPERTIES in the Fluent Customization Manual.
• The user interface has been improved for cases that include non-conformal mesh interfaces, so
that you can easily see the association between an interface zone and the additional wall zone
created by default for the portion of the boundary where the two interface zones do not overlap.
Each so-called "non-overlapping zone" is now displayed as a child of the interface zone in the
tree; they are also noted and accessible in the Interface dialog box, and can be printed in the
console through the define/boundary-conditions/non-overlapping-zone-name
text command. For more information about mesh interfaces, see Non-Conformal Meshes.
• There are now additional options to improve numerics for non-conformal interfaces that can be
accessed from the define/mesh-interfaces/non-conformal-interface-numer-
ics/change-numerics? text command. Use of these options can be expected to improve
convergence for many cases that contain fluid:solid and solid:solid mesh interfaces. For more
information about these options, see define/ in the Fluent Text Command List.
Solution Convergence
• Convergence checking from the Convergence Conditions dialog box now includes any enabled Re-
sidual Monitors in its checks, both for All Conditions are Met and Any Condition is Met. Refer to
Convergence Conditions in the Fluent User's Guide for additional information.
Models
• Turbulence
– You can now specify a curvature correction coefficient CCURV on the Viscous Model dialog box.
This coefficient enables you to influence the strength of the curvature correction, if needed for a
specific flow. The coefficient is constant by default, however, you may specify a custom coefficient
via UDF. See Curvature Correction for the Spalart-Allmaras and Two-Equation Models.
• Heat Transfer and Radiation
– When using mesh coarsening with the Monte Carlo radiation model, you can now specify the
Target Cells Per Volume Cluster to determine how much mesh coarsening occurs. For details,
see Setting Up the MC Model.
– You can now specify a band-specific diffuse fraction when using the Monte Carlo radiation
model.
– The solar load model now supports mapped mesh interfaces. Note that the solar loading is
only considered for those portions of mapped mesh interfaces that are completely overlapping.
• Combustion and Species Transport
– The CHEMKIN Mechanism Import dialog box has been renamed Import CHEMKIN Format
Mechanism, and the following labels have been renamed:
Old Name New Name

Gas-Phase CHEMKIN Gas-Phase
Import Surface CHEMKIN Mechanism Import Surface Mechanism
Same as ' Gas-Phase CHEMKIN' Same as ' Gas-Phase'
– All contained in Kinetics Input File is now a default thermodynamic database option for
surface species.
– The Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM) PDF table data structure now uses shared memory
for parallel simulations. As a result, you may observe up to a 90% reduction in FGM PDF table
RAM footprint. The actual memory reduction will depend on the size of the FGM table and
the total number of cores and machines used. For example, for a simulation using N number
of cores on a single machine, the memory reduction will be proportional to N-2 and the FGM
table allocation size.
– For the NTGK and ECM battery models, you can now define temperature-dependent model
parameters using a 2D lookup table for each parameter.
– The parameter estimation tool for the NTGK and ECM models can now take testing data from
different temperature levels.
– For the Dynamic Cell Clustering (DCC) chemistry acceleration method, new parameters (Max.
Clusterization, Min. Clusterization, and Reactants Threshold (mass fraction)) have been
added to control computational cost and accuracy.
– For partially-premixed combustion FGM simulations, the following quantities are now available
for postprocessing:
→ Field variables:
• Heat Release Rate (in the Pdf... category)
• Forward Reaction Rate of PDF scalar-n (in the Premixed Combustion... category)
• Reverse Reaction Rate of PDF scalar-n (in the Premixed Combustion... category)
→ Plot variables in the PDF Table dialog box:
• Mean Forward Reaction Rate of Scalar species-n
• Mean Reverse Reaction Rate of Scalar species-n
Fluent
• Mean Mass Fraction of species-n (replaces Mean Mole Fraction of species-n)
– You can now use the DEFINE_PDF_TABLE user-defined function (UDF) to calculate Flamelet Gen-
erated Manifold (FGM) transported scalar equations forward and reverse rates and interpolate the
PDF table for the following additional variables:
→ Mean forward and reverse reaction rates with FGM tables
→ Mean heat release rate
→ Mean progress variable finite rate source term
See DEFINE_PDF_TABLE in the Fluent Customization Manual for descriptions of updated

arguments and a new example of the UDF usage.
• Discrete Phase Model
– The Use DPM Domain option of the Hybrid parallel DPM tracking mode, providing strongly
improved parallel scalability, is now compatible with the following situations:
→ if the Contour Plots for DPM Variables option is enabled
→ if the Enable Node Based Averaging option (under the Numerics tab) is enabled
→ if the case includes a wall / shadow pair
→ if the Distributed Memory on a Cluster option (in the Parallel Settings tab of the Fluent
Launcher) is not enabled
For details about this option and continuing limitations, see Parallel Processing for the Discrete
Phase Model and Limitations on Using the Hybrid Parallel Method, respectively.
– The Madabhushi breakup model is now available as a full feature. The model is suitable for
numerical simulations of liquid jets in subsonic crossflow. This was available as a beta feature
in ANSYS Fluent Release 18.2. Additional controls have been added to improve model perform-
ance and accuracy. (Madabhushi Breakup Model)
– For coupled DPM simulations that use low values of particle/droplet under-relaxation factors
to deal with convergence difficulties, you can now speed up the solution process by using
the define/models/dpm/interaction/linear-growth-of-dpm-source-term?
text command option. The option linearly ramps up DPM source terms to their final values.
This may be helpful in cases such as coupled transient analysis, where mass, energy, and mo-
mentum balances must be maintained through each flow time step. For details, see Under-
Relaxation of the Interphase Exchange Terms in the Fluent User's Guide.
– When sampling trajectory files, you can now use the new Sort Sample Files option to sort
file contents. For steady particle tracking, files will be sorted first by injection and then by
particle ID. For unsteady particle tracking, the files will be sorted by the simulated time at
which the particle passes the sampling plane surface or face zone. See Sampling of Trajectories
in the Fluent User's Guide for details.
– For unsteady particle tracking, a new unsteady injection file format can now be used. For every
line in the file, ANSYS Fluent will create a single particle parcel at a single instance in simulated
time. Point properties for file injections have been added to allow you to control the way in
which the injection file is processed during simulation. (Point Properties for File Injections)
• Multiphase Models
– The following capabilities are now available with the Mixture multiphase model:
→ Explicit volume fraction formulation
→ Surface tension and wall adhesion
→ Turbulence damping
– The following capabilities are now available for all multiphase models:
→ Patching the reconstructed volume fraction
→ Smoothing of initial volume fraction field
These capabilities were previously available only for the VOF model and Eulerian multiphase
model with the Multi-Fluid VOF Model option enabled.
– For NITA cases, you can now specify explicit relaxation for the following variables:
→ Density
→ Body Forces
→ Vaporization Mass (when mass transfer models are used)
– For multiphase flows with three or more phases, you can now use different evaporation-con-
densation mass transfer mechanisms for different phase pairs.
– As a consequence the following controls have been removed from the Multiphase Model
dialog box:
→ Evaporation-Condensation Model Options group box
→ Evaporation-Condensation option (Eulerian Parameters group box)
The Lee and Thermal Phase Change models can now be selected in the Evaporation-Condens-
ation Model dialog box (accessed from the Mass tab of the Phase Interaction dialog box).
– New text user interface (TUI) commands to set properties for individual phases and define
their interaction have been added under the new define/phases/set-domain-proper-
ties text command menu. These new TUI commands allow you to set or edit each phase
domain property individually and provide improved TUI command version compatibility. You
can use commands in the define/phases/set-domain-properties/phase-domains
menu as an alternative to the existing text prompts available under the
define/phases/phase-domain menu. You can use commands in the
define/phases/set-domain-properties/interaction-domain menu as an al-
ternative to the existing text prompts available under the define/phases/interaction-
domain menu to set or edit phase interaction settings
Fluent
– For porous media applications, you can now specify relative permeability and capillary pressure
using tabular data. See Capillary Pressure Data in a Tabular Format in the Fluent User's Guide
for details.
– The Second Order and Body Force Weighted pressure discretization scheme, previously
available for the VOF and Mixture multiphase models, are now available across all multiphase
models. These schemes can be more robust than the default PRESTO! scheme in the following
circumstances:
→ Second Order: cases with skewed meshes, particularly when non-iterative solver is employed.
→ Body Force Weighted: cases with large body forces
– For Mixture and Eulerian Multiphase applications, a new drag model, Ishii-Zuber, has been
implemented. The model accounts for bubbles of different shapes such as spherical, ellipsoidal,
and cap shaped bubbles. The existing Grace drag model has been extended and can now be
used with densely distributed particle flows. Both drag models can be used to predict drag in
flows where a swarm of bubbles moves together in high volume fractions. See Ishii-Zuber
Drag Model and Grace et al. Model in the Fluent Theory Guide for details.
– For multiphase cases that model cavitation in turbulent flows, a generalized and more accurate
treatment of the turbulent diffusion replaces the old treatment used in previous releases. This
treatment automatically enables the turbulent diffusion between phases participating in
cavitation, provided that one of the phases is selected as primary. For details, see Mass
Transfer Mechanisms in the Fluent User's Guide.
– For simulations that involve the VOF-to-DPM model transition, you can now have ANSYS Fluent
write a file that contains information for each liquid lump converted to DPM particle parcels.
The file can be used as an injection file in a separate simulation that uses the Euler/Lagrange
approach. See Setting up the VOF-to-DPM Model Transition in the Fluent User's Guide for details.
– The DEFINE_DPM_OUTPUT user-defined function (UDF) can now be used to control the
contents of the file written by the VOF-to-DPM lump conversion mechanism file. An example
of the UDF usage with the VOF-to-DPM model transition tool is provided. (Example)
• Eulerian Wall Film Model
– You can now model the film partial wetting effect. See Setting Eulerian Wall Film Boundary,
Initial, and Source Term Conditions in the Fluent User's Guide for details.
Material Properties
• For the User Defined Real Gas Model (UDRGM), two new arguments have been added to the
UDRGM C functions:
– cell: Cell or face index, depending on whether the thread is a cell or face zone
– thread: Pointer to the thread structure
Using these arguments, you can access arbitrary thread data and solution variables other than
those provided as arguments. This may be useful for applications that involve multi-temperature
property models, such as plasma simulation in circuit breakers, low pressure plasma in semicon-
ductor industries, etc. See Writing the UDRGM C Function Library in the Fluent User's Guide for
more information.
Cell Zones and Boundary Conditions
• The Synthetic Turbulence Generator is now available as a Fluctuating Velocity Algorithm. The
method is inexpensive in terms of computational time compared with the other existing methods while
achieving high quality turbulence fluctuations. See Synthetic Turbulence Generator.
• For the Vortex Method, a Fluctuating Velocity Algorithm, you can now enable Satisfy Mass Conser-
vation to remove unexpected pressure fluctuations and artificial disturbances (noise) when solving
acoustics. See Vortex Method.
Data Import and Export
• When using the double-precision solver, you can now specify that the data written in the hier-
archical data format (HDF) is single precision. This allows you to sacrifice some precision in order
to reduce the size of the .dat.h5 files. (Reading and Writing Files Using Hierarchical Data
Format (HDF))
• The CDAT file format is now compatible with EnSight (as well as CFD-Post) and the options for
selecting this format for export have been updated to CDAT for CFD-Post & EnSight (previously
CFD-Post Compatible). This change is reflected in both the graphical user interface and the text
user interface.
• The RadTherm file type has been renamed to TAITherm to match the change in product name. This
change is reflected in both the graphical user interface and the text user interface.
Adjoint Solver Module
• Mass-flow outlets and pressure far-field boundaries are now supported with the adjoint solver.
• A new stabilization scheme is available for the adjoint solver. This GMRES-like Residual Minim-
ization Scheme is unique amongst the adjoint solution advancement strategies, since the
overall adjoint residual is guaranteed to decrease when it is used. It can be expensive in memory.
(Residual Minimization Scheme)
• When defining observables, it is now possible to:
– specify that a volume integral is integrated over a specified cell register (Editing Observable Definitions)
– select total temperature as the field variable for a surface integral or volume integral (General Observ-
ables)
• When using the adjoint Design Tool, a new morphing method is now available: the direct inter-
polation method. When compared to the morphing method available in earlier releases (now
referred to as the polynomials-based approach), the direct interpolation method can better
handle design conditions, converges faster, and is easier to set up, though the interior mesh
quality may not be as good. For details, see Smoothing and Mesh Morphing and Design Tool
Numerics.
Graphics, Postprocessing, and Reporting
• You can specify whether moment report definitions report the moment or the moment coefficient.
Moment report definitions created in previous versions of Fluent are read into Fluent19.2 as reporting
moment coefficients, which matches the values reported in previous releases.
Fluent
• You can now display registers containing up to 20,000 cells (previous limit was 10,000) without
experiencing any visual delays, and the display in general will be much faster than was possible
in previous releases.
• For single phase cases, the contributions from the mass and energy source terms (if specified)
are now reported in the User Source field in the Flux Reports dialog box. See Generating a Flux
Report in the Fluent User's Guide for details.
• For multiphase cases, the contributions from the mass and energy source terms (if specified) are
now reported in the User Source field in the Flux Reports dialog box for the relevant phase. For
the Eulerian multiphase model, the contribution from user sources is also reported for the mixture.
See Flux Reporting with Multiphase in the Fluent User's Guide for details.
• The default settings for various graphics objects have been updated for improved display:
– Contours are now filled and smooth with Contour Lines available as an option.
– Vectors now display with 3D arrows.
• Colormaps for graphics objects may now be enabled/disabled through the Colormap dialog box (when
the dialog box is accessed through a graphics object).
• You can use the Hardcopy format option in Preferences to specify the default image format for saving
picture files of the graphics window.
• The display/set/picture/jpeg-hardcopy-quality text command allows you to specify

the quality vs. file size for JPEG images that you save of the graphics window.
• ANSYS Fluent now supports additional graphics drivers:
– (Windows) DirectX 11, DirectX 9, OpenGL2
– (Linux) OpenGL2
Note that “OpenGL2” here refers to the application-level driver version, which is used for all
recent OpenGL API versions up to and including OpenGL 4.6.
• Data sampling for steady statistics is now available in steady state cases for select solution vari-
ables and Custom Field Functions in steady-state cases. While notionally steady, some simulations
tend to exhibit oscillatory or quasi-transient behavior. In such cases, this allows you to compute
iteration-averaged Mean and RMS values that are better behaved and useful in flow predictions.
To learn more about steady statistics, refer to Data Sampling for Steady State Statistics in the
Fluent User's Guide.
Workbench
• The new algorithm for writing feedback temperature files for Fluent/Maxwell coupling in Workbench
is significantly faster than in previous releases, especially for large cases (10M + elements).
Add-Ons
• Battery Module
Updates Affecting ANSYS Fluent 19.2 Code Behavior
– For the ECM model parameter estimation tool, new controls have been added to help achieve
better fitting results:
→ Four parameter (4P) model in the reduced Chen's circuit with only one RC
In previous releases, the parameter estimation tool always used the 6P parameter model
with two RC loop circuits to fit model parameters.
→ Jiang-Hu and Levenberg-Marquardt and fitting methods
The Jiang-Hu method uses HPPC testing data only from the relaxation period, while Leven-
berg-Marquardt method uses data from both pulse and relaxation periods.
See Using Parameter Estimation Tools in the Fluent Advanced Add-On Modules for details.
General
• ANSYS Fluent can now participate in command-line coupled multiphysics simulations run entirely
from the command-line using System Coupling, providing enhanced control of coupled analyses
and easier deployment in cluster environments. For more information, see System Coupling (p. 95)
and Performing System Coupling Simulations Using Fluent.
Platforms
• ANSYS Fluent supports the IBM OpenPOWER platform as a beta feature. Future support and ex-
tensions will be based on user feedback and interest. For further details, see IBM OpenPOWER
Support in the Fluent Beta Features Manual.
Beta Features
• There are also some exciting new enhancements available as beta features that you may be interested
in trying out. Detailed documentation is in the Fluent 19.2 Beta Features Manual.
1.3. Updates Affecting ANSYS Fluent 19.2 Code Behavior

The following sections list the code changes in ANSYS Fluent 19.2.
1.3.1. Meshing Mode
1.3.1. Meshing Mode

This section contains a list of code changes implemented in the meshing mode of ANSYS Fluent 19.2
that may cause behavior and/or output that is different from the previous release.
Graphics

This section contains a list of code changes implemented in the solution mode of ANSYS Fluent 19.2
that may cause behavior and/or results that are different from the previous release.
Fluent
Solver-Numerics
• For transient simulations that involve a rotating fluid zone (including nested rotation and translation
using either mesh motion or moving deforming meshes for rigid body motion), an option that allows
for better prediction of the flow field at every time step is now available and enabled by default. This
option can speed up the transient calculation (especially for large time steps), and should not change
the results compared to previous versions (unless the previous solution was not properly converged).
To revert to the previous calculation method, use the following text command: solve/set/rotat-
ing-mesh-flow-predictor? and answer no.
• Hybrid initialization is improved, in order to provide better initial solutions and to reduce the
need for standard initialization or patching. This may cause differences in the convergence be-
havior compared to previous releases. Note that while most cases should require fewer iterations
to converge, the number of needed iterations may increase for some cases that use globally
scaled residuals; by starting off with a better initial solution, the initial residual may be smaller,
leading to a larger scaled residual and hence more iterations to reach the same convergence
criteria. (This will not be an issue when using locally scaled or unscaled residuals.) To revert to
the less accurate / less robust previous behavior, enter the following Scheme command: (rp-
setvar 'hyb-init/legacy-hybrid-initialization? #t).
The improvements include the following:
– The treatment of pressure-inlet boundaries is improved, resulting in initial velocities that better reflect
whether the flow is subsonic or supersonic, and that are more accurate for multiphase and/or incom-
pressible flow. Note that the new subsonic / supersonic treatment is only applicable if the Use Spe-
cified Initial Pressure on Inlets option is disabled in the Hybrid Initialization dialog box.
– Cases with pressure far-field boundaries should be more robust and exhibit better convergence, as
such boundaries will better reflect whether the flow is entering or leaving the domain.
– A fix has been introduced to avoid non-physical variations in the initial velocity magnitude (wiggles)
near inflow and outflow boundaries, particularly for duct-like flow.
– The Mach limiter is now applied to the initial velocity in cases that use the Non-Premixed Combustion
or Partially Premixed Combustion model with the Compressibility Effects option enabled.
– Fewer cases should require the enabling of the Use External-Aero Favorable Settings option in
the Hybrid Initialization dialog box.
– The residuals for initialization scalars are now reported unscaled or scaled with the option of global
or local scaling as defined in the Residual Monitors dialog box (like the other equations).
• When using the Second Order Implicit or Bounded Second Order Implicit for the Transient
Formulation for a simulation with a fixed or sliding mesh, by default the variable time step size
formulation will now be enabled. This means that when running a series of simulations in which
you vary the time step size, the results should be more accurate than in earlier releases if you
previously used the fixed time step size formulation. Other consequences of using this new default
setting may include minor changes in the convergence behavior, as well as minor changes in
the results of simulations that use the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) model or the acoustic models.
To revert to the previous default setting of the fixed time step size formulation, enter the following
text command: solve/set/second-order-time-options no. For details on the variable
time step size formulation, see Second-Order Time Integration Using a Variable Time Step Size
in the Fluent Theory Guide.
• There are improvements to solver behavior related to fluid-solid and solid-solid non-conformal
interfaces in which there are gaps or overlaps between the meshes. As a result, you may see in-
creased solver robustness in these cases.
Solver-Meshing
• When using the six degrees of freedom (Six DOF) solver as part of a dynamic mesh, if you define
a moving object using a set of properties with the One DOF Rotation option enabled, it is now
possible for your simulation to account for cases in which the center of rotation is not coincident
with the center of gravity (CG). As a result, the center of rotation defined in the set of properties
no longer overwrites the CG location for the rigid body dynamic mesh zone that uses the set of
properties. If you previously relied on this overwriting, you must now ensure that the CG is ap-
propriately defined.
• When writing motion history files as part of a dynamic mesh case that uses the six degrees of
freedom (six DOF) solver, note that the naming convention for the resulting files has changed:
if the specified file name includes a period, any subsequent text will be treated as an extension
for the file; otherwise, a .6dof extension will be automatically appended to the file name, in
order to make it easy to identify such files. (Six DOF Solver Settings)
• The handling of sliding meshes in parallel sessions has been improved, resulting in faster solution
calculations and better scalability. These improvements are not applicable for cases that also
involve dynamic meshes.
• Solutions for overset meshes may change compared to previous versions due to the following:
– The solution update of orphan cells and cells that change status from dead to solve is improved. This
can result in improved stability and, in some cases, the ability to take modestly larger time step sizes.
However, the general recommendations to keep the instances of cell status change from dead to
solve to a minimum still holds (see Overset Meshing Best Practices).
These changes can be reverted by entering the following Scheme command prior to reading
the case and data files and/or creating the overset interface: (rpsetvar 'over-
set/donor/fill-update-connectivity? '(#f #f #f)) .
– Previously for multiphase cases, the interpolation of pressure at receptors involved the use of the
pressure gradient of the donor cells by default, in order to improve the interpolation accuracy. This
has been disabled, and the high-order pressure interpolation option is now available only through
the solve/set/overset/high-order-pressure? text command. This change improves the
general stability of simulations involving multiphase flows with relative motion, especially in small
gaps. For multiphase flows, you can recover the previous default behavior by entering the following
Scheme command: (rpsetvar 'ost/press/skip-high-order? #f).
When you want to revert to the previous behavior, it is recommended that both of these Scheme
commands be used together prior to reading the case and data files and/or creating the overset
interface.
• When postprocessing overset cases, results will be more accurate compared to previous releases
for surface integrals (including force and moment reports) when taken over boundary zones that
overlap. These integrals are now exact, as they avoid any double counting in the overlap regions.
Note that errors will still persist for surface integrals taken on a surface created for postprocessing
(such as a plane surface or a rake surface) in a region with overlap.
Fluent
• When creating a non-conformal mesh interface that does not use the Matching option, a smaller
default tolerance factor is now used, so that smaller faces are included in the calculation of the
intersection between the interface zones that make up the boundary. This will result in a small
increase to the intersection area (making it slightly closer to the area values of the original inter-
face zones), which in sensitive cases can lead to increases in the overall solution accuracy. To
use this new tolerance for cases created in previous releases, enter the following Scheme com-
mand prior to creating the mesh interface: (rpsetvar 'nonconformal/smallest-area-
tolerance-factor 1e-5). To revert back to the larger tolerance factor used in previous
releases when starting with a mesh file, enter the following Scheme command prior to creating
the mesh interface: (rpsetvar 'nonconformal/smallest-area-tolerance-factor
5e-3).
• When converting a 3D mesh that contains tetrahedral and/or wedge cells to polyhedra in parallel,
note that the mesh/polyhedra/options/migrate-and-reorder? text command is no
longer enabled by default, as the resulting action requires significant additional memory which
may not be required in the current session (for instance if the case will be saved and submitted
to run on a remote cluster). When this text command is disabled, you should take appropriate
action before calculating to ensure optimum performance, as described in the console message
printed after conversion or in Converting the Domain to a Polyhedra.
• When creating a non-conformal mesh interface, the naming convention has changed for the
wall zones created by default for the portions of the boundary where the two interface zones
do not overlap. These "non-overlapping zones" are now named in the following manner: <interface
zone name> - non-overlapping; previously, the convention was <mesh interface name> - side <side
number> - wall - <interface zone name>. If you prefer the previous or another convention, you
can revise the names of the non-overlapping zones after they are created using the
define/boundary-conditions/zone-name text command.
Convergence
• Convergence checking from the Convergence Conditions dialog box now includes any enabled Re-
sidual Monitors in its checks, both for All Conditions are Met and Any Condition is Met. Refer to
Convergence Conditions in the Fluent User's Guide for additional information.
Turbulence
• Improvements have been made in the calculation of wall distance values (that is, the normal
distances between cell centroids and wall boundaries) that is used in some turbulence models:
– It is now faster compared to previous versions. This will be most noticeable for meshes that need to
calculate the wall distance values repeatedly, including sliding mesh or dynamic mesh cases that use
such turbulence models—such cases may exhibit a speed increase on the order of 10%.
– A small refinement has been made in the algorithm that corrects the wall distance values for meshes
with high-aspect-ratio quadrilateral, hexahedral, and/or polyhedral cells that are adjacent to a wall.
In the rare cases that this refinement causes a significant change to the solution compared to previous
versions, the results should be more accurate.
The turbulence models that use wall distance values (and thus benefit from these improvements)
include the following:
– Spalart-Allmaras model
– k-epsilon models with the enhanced wall treatment or Menter-Lechner near-wall treatment
– BSL or SST k-omega models
– transition models: Transition SST, Transition k-kl-omega, and Intermittency Transition model
– Large Eddy Simulation (LES)
– hybrid models: SAS, DES, SDES, and SBES
Multiphase with Multiple Species
• For all multiphase, multi-species cases created in release 19.2 and beyond, the mass fractions of
species will not be available in ANSYS CFD-Post, unless you add the mass fraction of a species
as an additional quantity to be saved in the data file (through the Data File Quantities dialog
box).
The mass fraction of a species may be displayed incorrectly in ANSYS CFD-Post if the volume
fraction of a cell is zero. This applies for all ANSYS Fluent files written prior to release 19.2.
Reacting Flow
• A consistent blending of modeling parameters is now used for turbulent combustion closure
with the SBES model. This may result in solution differences which, in general, should be more
accurate.
• For cases that involve CHEMKIN-CFD Solver, the following mixture material properties are now
automatically set to the chemkin method after the CHEMKIN mechanism is imported:
– Cases with imported transport property data: Specific Heat, Viscosity, Thermal Conductivity, Mass
Diffusivity, and Thermal Diffusion
– Cases with no transport property data: Specific Heat.
This may lead to a slightly different solution compared to previous releases.
Discrete Phase Model
• The Use DPM Domain option of the Hybrid parallel DPM tracking mode will no longer be sup-
pressed in the following situations, thus allowing the intended results of this setup: better load
balancing and scalability, at the expense of some additional memory overhead.
– if the Contour Plots for DPM Variables option is enabled
– if the Enable Node Based Averaging option (under the Numerics tab) is enabled
– if the case includes a wall / shadow pair
– if the Distributed Memory on a Cluster option (in the Parallel Settings tab of the Fluent Launcher)
is not enabled
To revert to the behavior of previous releases, disable the Use DPM Domain option in the Par-
allel tab of the Discrete Phase Model dialog box.
• The formulation for the multicomponent particle boiling model has been revised to correct de-
ficiencies in liquid mass fraction predictions. As a consequence, you may observe solution changes
compared to prior releases, especially at the end of the particles tracks.
Fluent
Multiphase Models
• For multiphase turbulent flows that involve cavitation, a new more accurate treatment for modeling
turbulent diffusion replaces the old treatment used previously. For flows with more than two phases,
the turbulent diffusion is only enabled between the primary and the secondary phase that participate
in the cavitation process. This may result in improved numerical stability and more accurate simulation
results.
• For simulations that use the Eulerian multiphase model, any data files saved in the Hierarchical
Data Format (HDF)—that is, .dat.h5 files—will have a smaller file size compared to those saved
in previous releases. This reduction is due to the removal of redundant information that is
common to all Eulerian phases, and will be proportional to the number of Eulerian phases in the
simulation.
Parallel Processing
• When meshes with solid and fluid cells (such as those used in conjugate heat transfer simulations)
are automatically partitioned using the Metis method, a model-weighted partitioning that ac-
counts for the solid cells will now be applied, with a solid cell weight ratio of 0.1 (relative to the
fluid cell weighting). This will lead to better parallel load balancing and improve performance
and convergence of the simulation. Note that the resulting partitions will change compared to
previous releases. To revert to automatic partitioning without such model weighting, enter the
following Scheme command prior to reading the mesh: (rpsetvar 'partition/auto/mwp?
#f). For further details about automatic partitioning, see Partitioning the Mesh Automatically.
• Data files for problems that involve unsteady particle tracking and/or the composition PDF
transport combustion model are now written in such a way as to allow faster read times in par-
allel sessions of the current version of Fluent. The speed increase will be greater as the number
of particles and/or core count increases. This improvement is available for standard data files
and for those using the Hierarchical Data Format (that is, for .dat and .dat.h5 files, respect-
ively); it is not supported for discrete phase model cases that use the Shared Memory method
for parallel processing. To benefit from this speed increase with case and data files created in
earlier versions, read them in the current version and write them anew.
• Process binding (affinity) is no longer ignored when running Fluent in parallel on Linux in non-
exclusive mode (that is, when multiple users / jobs have access to your machine), which can
enable faster solution calculations. For such cases, the default setting specifies that processes
are bound to a core if no other jobs are running on the machine; otherwise they are bound to
a socket (and processes are free to move among the cores on that socket). You can use the
-affinity=core command line option to specify that processes are always bound to a core.
You can disable affinity by using the -affinity=off command line option. For further details,
see Parallel Options in the Fluent Getting Started Guide. Note that the affinity can also be set using
the FLUENT_AFFINITY environment variable in Fluent Launcher.
Adjoint Solver Module
• The default behavior of the adjoint solver has been improved in several areas. The changes
generally lead to improved accuracy, stability, and/or convergence compared to the previous
version of ANSYS Fluent:
– A modified version of Rhie-Chow averaging may cause minor changes to turbulent flow simulations
near walls, but the effects will not be significant. This modified version is the same as that used by
default in the general solver starting in Release 19.0.
– A non-conservative form of the adjoint equations is now used, which should improve the algebraic
multigrid (AMG) convergence and overall stability for the adjoint solver.
– An enhanced method is used to build the AMG matrix for the adjoint solver, which should improve
convergence.
– The "early protection" scheme used by the AMG solver is disabled for the adjoint calculations, which
may cause convergence to be improved or divergence to be avoided. This scheme was enabled by
default in both the general solver and the adjoint solver starting in Release 19.0; it is still enabled by
default in the former, as its effect on those calculations is more likely to be positive.
If you suspect that an individual case is being negatively impacted by these adjoint solver en-
hancements, you can undo them by using the following text command: adjoint/ex-
pert/undo-r19.2-default-changes?. The prompts will allow you to undo some or all
of the changes. It is recommended that you start by disabling the non-conservative form of the
adjoint equations as a first step, as of all the enhancements this is the one most likely to decrease
convergence.
Graphics, Reporting, and Postprocessing
Remote Visualization
• The Format field for the colormap in graphics objects is now split into Type and Precision. This
change is only visible when you are in the client.
• The REMOTING_CLIENT_TIME_OUT, REMOTING_SERVER_TIME_OUT, and REMOTING_OB-

SERVER_TIME_OUT environment variables are discontinued. Use REMOTING_CONNEC-
TION_TIME_OUT as a replacement.
• Server info files are now saved in the current working directory if you do not provide a path when
launching with the -sifile command line option or if one is not specified through the SERV-
ER_INFO_DIR environment variable. In previous releases, server info files were saved to the temp folder
if a path was not provided via the methods listed.
Fluent in Workbench
• When the parallel version of Fluent or Icepak is coupled with Maxwell 3D in Workbench, the imported
surface losses reported by the solver may be more accurate, and will now always match those reported
by the serial version of the solver.
Chapter 2: CFX Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Release 19.2 of ANSYS CFX.
2.1. Supported Platforms
2.3. Updates Affecting Code Behavior


This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 19.2 of ANSYS CFX.
• You can specify operating point runs, which carry out a set of simulations in order to produce an operating
map. For details, see Operating Maps and Operating Point Cases in the CFX-Solver Modeling Guide.
• When running a Transient Rotor Stator simulation with the Fourier Transformation pitch change model, you
can now use Harmonic Analysis to reduce computational time compared to a time-marching simulation.
For details, see Profile Transformation and Fourier Transformation using Harmonic Analysis in the CFX-Solver
Modeling Guide.
• You can define Injection Regions to conveniently create fluid mass sources or sinks at a set of positions on
selected surfaces or within the volume of a selected domain. For details, see Injection Regions in the CFX-
Pre User's Guide. An application of Injection Regions is Blade Film Cooling. For details, see Blade Film Cooling
in the CFX-Solver Modeling Guide.
• There are additional options available in the Edit Profile Data dialog box. In particular, there are additional
types of transformations available; for details, see Other Profile Transformation Options in the CFX-Pre User's
Guide. There is also a new option, Rotation Axis, for specifying the axis used when expanding profile
data; for details, see Profile Data Expansion (Option = Expansion) in the CFX-Pre User's Guide.
• Starting with Release 19.2, charts displayed in CFX-Solver Manager show monitor data units if the latter exist
in the monitor data. Monitor data units exist by default in all runs created using Release 19.1 or later.
2.3. Updates Affecting Code Behavior

This section contains a list of changes that may cause the solution results from ANSYS CFX to differ
between Release 19.2 and Release 19.1.
• The free-stream damping defaults for the energy equation in solids with a specified domain motion have
been modified in order to improve convergence and to avoid unphysical temperature undershoots or
overshoots. This can cause small differences in the resulting temperature field.
Chapter 3: TurboGrid Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Release 19.2 of ANSYS TurboGrid.


This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 19.2 of ANSYS TurboGrid.
• You can inspect the span curves that are used to construct the 3D mesh. For details, see Span Curve Visibility
Commands in the TurboGrid User's Guide.
• By default, TurboGrid produces a mesh that has a non-conformal mesh interface in the blade tip region. In
the Topology Set object, you can select Tip Topology Option > Conformal Tip Enabled to produce a
conformal mesh in the tip region that is filled with unstructured wedge elements and that involves no mesh
interface. For details, see Tip Topology Option in the TurboGrid User's Guide.
Chapter 4: ANSYS BladeModeler Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Release 19.2 of BladeGen and BladeEditor.
4.2. BladeGen
4.3. BladeEditor

4.2. BladeGen
4.2.1. New Features and Enhancements
This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 19.2 of ANSYS BladeGen.
Release 19.2 of BladeGen has no new features or enhancements.
4.3. BladeEditor
This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 19.2 of ANSYS BladeEditor.
• There is a new surface construction option,“Axial Element”, that enforces a geometric constraint to help
design a blade that can be pulled from its mold. For details, see Blades made using Camberline/Thickness
Sub-features in the TurboSystem User's Guide.
Chapter 5: CFD-Post Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Release 19.2 of ANSYS CFD-Post.


This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 19.2 of ANSYS CFD-Post.
• You can produce operating map charts, which show the results of a set of related simulations in a single
chart. Operating map charts can be viewed in a new viewer: the Operating Points Viewer. For details, see
CFD-Post Operating Points Viewer in the CFD-Post User's Guide. You can also include operating map charts
in reports.
For related modeling information, see Operating Maps and Operating Point Cases in the CFX-Solver
Modeling Guide.
• When a CFX results file is loaded, CFD-Post supports the evaluation of some user functions that were defined
in the command language for the results file. Interpolation, profile data and table functions can all be eval-
uated. For details, see User Functions in CFD-Post in the CFD-Post User's Guide.
Chapter 6: Polyflow Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for ANSYS Polyflow 19.2.
6.1. New Features
6.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS Polyflow 19.2
6.1. New Features

The new features in ANSYS Polyflow 19.2 are as follows:
• The maximum number of zones available for adaptive remeshing has been changed from 20 to 10.
• The documentation for the normal and tangential velocity condition has been clarified for 2D and
3D cases. For more information, see Normal and Tangential Velocity Condition in the Polyflow User's
Guide.
• For the Arrhenius Law, the documentation for the temperature unit for the parameter “alfa" has been
corrected to a value of 1 instead of -1. For more information, see Arrhenius Law in the Polymat User's
Guide.
• Adaptive meshing defaults have been improved regarding contacts. In most cases, they allow you
to reach the final time of the calculation without too much element distortion and provide good
contact accuracy. For more information, see User Inputs for Adaptive Meshing and Basing the Calcu-
lation on Angle and Curvature in the Polyflow User's Guide.
• Polydata performs checks so that every remeshing that requires a sliceable mesh is defined on a
support that can actually be sliced. For more information, see Maintaining a Constant Shape for a
Portion of the Die in the Polyflow User's Guide.
• For all non-isothermal simulations, with the exception of elasticity and radiation, you have the option
of setting the Operating temperature in the Numerical parameters menu. For more information,
see Nonisothermal Operating Temperature in the Polyflow User's Guide.
• It is now possible to take advantage of adaptive meshing when using the multi-material feature.

For information about past, present, and future operating system and platform support, see the Platform
Support section of the ANSYS Website.
6.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS Polyflow 19.2

This section lists limitations that existed in previous releases, but that were removed in ANSYS Polyflow
19.2.
Chapter 7: Forte Release Notes
The enhancements and defect corrections listed below for Release 19.2 are since ANSYS 19.1.
7.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations

This section lists new features and enhancements in Release 19.2 ofANSYS Forte CFD, organized by
topic.
Simulation Interface
• Added a visual display of the shape and location of user-defined source terms in the 3-D display window.
• For inlet boundary conditions, a new option is available to specify mass flow rate directly.
• Improved the Compression Ratio Utility, to avoid interference with project settings and allow CR calcu-
lations to persist in the working directory for future reference.
Job Submission, Monitoring, and Running Options
• Added a command-line interface (CLI) option to “prepare” a job from an *.ftsim file in a local directory
rather than creating the *.analysis/xxx directory structure.
• Improved units-handling consistency between ANSYS Workbench and Forte.
• Added more complete information about Solution Adaptive Mesh controls in the MONITOR and
FORTE.log files. [DE171829]
Engineering Models and Computation
• Completed parallelization of all spray-model components, providing improved parallel scaling and
simulation turn-around time.
Visualization and Analysis
• Units labels for all variables are now available when post-processing using ANSYS EnSight.
• Improved the rendering of contour plots around mesh-refinement boundaries in ANSYS EnSight.
• Added pre-defined Plot Queries to the data read into ANSYS EnSight, allowing 2-D plotting of Forte’s
spatially averaged data, which is also available through the Forte Monitor window.

For a list of issues that have been resolved in Release 19.2, refer to the Resolved Issues and Limitations
document on the ANSYS Help site.
Chapter 8: Chemkin-Pro Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Release 19.2 of Chemkin-Pro:

Chemkin-Pro
• New wall-heat-transfer option for Internal Combustion (IC) engine simulations, which allows the wall
heat transfer to be defined as a function of a temperature wall function formulation with user-defined
turbulence boundary layer information.
• For heat-transfer models that require near-wall viscosity as an input, a new option allows the use of
kinetic-theory-derived viscosity from the Chemkin transport property data when available, as well as
other options, such as Sutherland’s law or a Power Law.
Model Fuel Library
• Made changes to the Model Fuel Library documentation:
– Added a new user guide, Model Fuel Library Getting Started Guide, which includes some material
that formerly was in the Model Fuel Library Manual. The new manual is available from the ANSYS
Help site.
– The Model Fuel Library Manual is now named the Model Fuel Library Validation Manual, and is
available from your ANSYS 19.2 installed software (included as a link to in the Chemkin-Pro Help and
Start menus).
Energico
• The Energico tutorials are now available in a standard manual, along with the Energico Quick Start
lesson. To access tutorials and their input files, go to the tutorials area of the customer site.

Chapter 9: FENSAP-ICE Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for ANSYS FENSAP-ICE 19.2.
9.1. New Features and Enhancements in ANSYS FENSAP-ICE
9.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS FENSAP-ICE
9.3. Beta Features
9.1. New Features and Enhancements in ANSYS FENSAP-ICE

Automatic Remeshing Using Fluent Meshing
Automatic remeshing of iced surfaces in a multishot simulation can now be handled with Fluent
Meshing via the custom remeshing option inside the user interface of ICE3D. Fluent Meshing is a
powerful tool that can handle automatic 3D remeshing of complex ice shapes. Custom remeshing
scripts, using FENSAP and Fluent as airflow solvers, are provided along with a sample Fluent journal file
that executes this remeshing step by using the original grid and the ice geometry STL files created by
ICE3D. The benefits of this feature are:
• Longer multi-shot simulations without flow solver failure due to grid quality problems.
• Automatic 45-minute ice accretion on aircraft is possible.
• Most mesh limitations no longer apply. Pyramids and variations in number of prism layers are supported.
• Topological changes on surfaces such as gap and hole blockage due to ice, ice bridging between two walls
separated by air, etc. can be handled.
• Improved convergence of FENSAP and DROP3D at each shot on the isotropic grids created by Fluent
Meshing.
• Internal turbomachinery icing problems that involve blade/end-wall icing can be handled.
CFD-Post Macros
It is now possible to post-process ICE3D results more easily in CFD-Post using two macros:
• Ice Cover – 3D – View macro: This macro uses ICE3D output files and displays them within CFD-Post’s 3D
Viewer, allowing you to view computed ice shapes, explore solutions, save figures, and generate animations.
• Ice Cover – 2D – Plot macro: This macro uses ICE3D output files to create 2D plots using CFD-Post’s
ChartViewer. You can easily generate X-Y plots of the computed ice shapes and solutions, export data points
of all plotted curves and save 2D plots as figures.
Multishot Ice Accretion Simulation After CHT3D
It is now possible to conduct a multishot ice accretion simulation after an anti-icing CHT3D calculation.
In this case, the anti-icing heat flux provided by CHT3D is kept constant during the ice accretion process.
This feature provides a better representation of the ice layers that form when an anti-icing system is
operational. It is only available when the airflow solver is FENSAP.
FENSAP-ICE
ICE3D Grid Displacement Enhancements
• The appearance of spurious ice spikes erroneously produced by ICE3D has been corrected. Remeshing will
no longer fail due to the formation of these spikes.
• The issue of high rates of ice growth at sliding CAD boundaries, such as inlets, exits, and sliding walls has
been corrected.
• The ice displacement algorithm no longer stalls at a certain percentage of the total displacement vector.
The stall was due to a very low and conservative setting of the minimum displacement time step.
General Enhancements
• General symmetry planes are now supported in mesh morphing by ALE or remeshing via OptiGrid.
• Speed-up of the initialization of the variable roughness distribution for very large grids in FENSAP.
• Vapor transport calculations can now be stopped using vapor mass deficit criterion.
• ASCII files write-time on Windows platforms was unusually slow and it severely affected the overall speed
of the solvers. The problem has been corrected.
• General symmetry boundary conditions planar consistency check has been made less restrictive by switching
to mean-normal-deviation checks instead of facet-by-facet normal checks.
• The FENSAP boundary family IDs back-and-forth conversion using fensap2fluent and fluent2fensap can now
be preserved with the introduction of the -zonebc flag.
• MPI functions of FENSAP and DROP3D can now transfer data blocks that are larger than 2GB between CPUs,
allowing calculations on grids larger than 100 million nodes.
9.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS FENSAP-ICE

document on the ANSYS Help website.
9.3. Beta Features

IPS Design Optimization for Piccolo Tubes
A new ANSYS Workbench system called IPSOPT has been introduced to optimize the design of a piccolo
tube anti-icing system located inside the leading edge of a wing. This optimization is a multidisciplinary
tool that involves other ANSYS Workbench systems and works with both FENSAP and Fluent airflow -
icing systems. A tutorial has been added to guide you in setting-up these systems. This tutorial is ac-
cessible via the FENSAP-ICE Beta Features Manual.
External Reinjection
Crystals and Supercooled Large Droplets (SLD) that hit aircraft surfaces can rebound and impinge further
downstream on the aircraft. A new model has been added to DROP3D to calculate particle reinjection
from the primary impact surfaces and reintroduce them in the computational domain. The process is
iterative such that particles re-impinging on a new area may bounce again and again until they either
permanently stick to a surface and become part of the local collection efficiency, or leave the computa-
tional domain entirely. The benefits of this feature are:
Beta Features
• Accounting for crystals that may bounce on the external surfaces of an aircraft, such as the nose, wings
and nacelle components. The additional mass that bounces off cold surfaces can be used to evaluate
the icing severity on air data probes or to determine possible increase in concentration into the engine
intake.
• The analysis of reinjecting particles provides useful information when analyzing air data probes, engine
intakes to evaluate the increase in concentration that can lead to accretion.
• The splashed and bounced SLDs' possible re-impingement on unprotected zones of wings and other
components can now be included in the icing calculations.
Part III: ANSYS Electronics Products
Release notes are available for the following ANSYS Electronics products:
Icepak (p. 75)

Chapter 1: Icepak Release Notes
Release 19.2 of the ANSYS Icepak application offers most of the capabilities from previous releases plus
many new features and enhancements.
• Introduction (p. 75)
• New and Modified Features in ANSYS Icepak 19.2 (p. 75)
• Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS Icepak 19.2 (p. 75)
1.1. Introduction
ANSYS Icepak 19.2 is a release of ANSYS Icepak that has new features and resolved issues and limitations.
1.2. New and Modified Features in ANSYS Icepak 19.2

• Import/Export
– Added the capability to import/export STL (CAD) in object geometry dialog.
– Added the capability to import IPC2581 files.
– Expanded support for importing the following trace file formats during IDF import: .tgz, .def, and .xml.
– Added the capability to import inclined PCB objects.
• Meshing
– Added the capability to enforce 2D cut cell meshing in a specified coordinate direction.
• Solver Settings
– Added the capability to enable or disable participation in solar loading on a per object basis.
1.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in ANSYS Icepak 19.2

document on the ANSYS Help website.
Part IV: ANSYS Geometry & Mesh Prep Products
Release notes are available for the following ANSYS Geometry & Mesh Prep products:
DesignModeler (p. 79)

CAD Integration (p. 81)
Meshing (p. 83)
IC Engine (p. 85)
ICEM CFD (p. 87)
Chapter 1: Geometry Release Notes
Release 19.2 has no new features or enhancements.
Chapter 2: CAD
Note
• Support for GAMBIT Reader will be discontinued after the Release of ANSYS 19.2.
• The capability to save Workbench project data to Teamcenter will no longer be supported after
the Release of ANSYS 19.2.
This section summarizes the new features in CAD Integration Release 19.2.
For more information, see the CAD Integration section of the ANSYS Help.
Geometry Interfaces Update for New CAD Releases
Geometry interfaces are updated to support new CAD releases including:
• AutoCAD 2019 (Plug-In)
• CATIA V5-6R2018 – (CADNexus CAPRI CAE Gateway V3.40.0)
• CATIA V5-6R2018 (Reader support on Windows)
• CATIA V5-6R2018 (Reader support on Linux)
• CATIA V6 R2017x (Reader support on Windows)
• Creo Elements / Direct Modeling 20.1 (Plug-In)
• Creo Parametric 5.0 (Plug-In)
• Inventor 2019 (Plug-In)
• NX 12.0 (Reader support on Windows)
• Solid Edge 2019 (Plug-In support on Windows)
• SOLIDWORKS 2018 (Reader support on Windows)
For detailed version support information, see CAD Integration> Geometry Interface Support in the CAD
Integration section of the ANSYS Help.
Information about past, present and future CAD, operating system and platform support is viewable
via the ANSYS, Inc. website (Support> Platform Support).
Chapter 3: Meshing Application Release Notes
Release 19.2 of the Meshing application contains many new features and enhancements. Areas where
you will find changes and new capabilities include the following:
3.1. Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases
3.2. Mesh Copy
3.3.Topology Protection
Many of the enhancements detailed in the Mechanical Application Release Notes (p. 3) are also relevant
to the Meshing application.
3.1. Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases

This release includes the following changes in product behavior:
• At Release 19.2, there are two levels of topology protection, namely, hard and soft protection.
• For Named Selections, when the Protected option is set to Program Controlled, the scoped object(s) will
be considered soft protected. Hence, the scoped objects will not receive additional protection by the
mesher, even if the Named Selection is used for boundary conditions, symmetry, other types of loads for
the solver, as well as match controls and hard sizing controls for meshing.
3.2. Mesh Copy

A new feature, Mesh Copy, enables you to copy mesh from one body to another.
• This option helps to reduce the mesh setup time for repetitive bodies/parts.
• Association to CAD is maintained after performing mesh copy.
• The anchor body is meshed and the mesh is then copied to the target bodies.
3.3. Topology Protection

At Release 19.2, there are two levels of topology protection, namely, hard and soft protection.
• For Named Selections and/or Contact regions, when the Protected option is set to Yes, the scoped object(s)
will be considered hard protected. Hence, the scoped objects will receive additional protection by the
mesher and the outer boundaries of a collection of hard protected topologies will be maintained during
meshing.
• For Named Selections, when the Protected option is set to Program Controlled, the scoped object(s) will
be considered soft protected. Hence, the scoped objects will not receive additional protection by the
mesher, even if the Named Selection is used for boundary conditions, symmetry, other types of loads for
the solver, as well as match controls and hard sizing controls for meshing.
Mesh-based defeaturing will have priority and the outer boundaries of these topologies may be
altered by the mesher.
Chapter 4: IC Engine Release Notes
Release 19.2 has no new features.
The documentation for IC Engine has moved to the Fluent in Workbench User's Guide, with the sections
relevant to Forte moving to the Forte User's Guide. To access documentation files, go to the document-
ation area of the customer site.
Chapter 5: ICEM CFD
Release 19.2 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.
ANSYS ICEM CFD 19.2 includes new features and improvements in the following areas:
5.1. Usability Improvements
5.1. Usability Improvements

The following enhancements were made to improve usability:
• The ability to blank free faces on 3D free blocks has been added.
Part V: ANSYS Simulation Products
Release notes are available for the following ANSYS Simulation products:
Workbench (p. 91)

System Coupling (p. 95)
ACT (p. 97)
RSM (p. 99)
DesignXplorer (p. 101)
ANSYS Viewer (p. 103)
Chapter 1: Workbench
The ANSYS Workbench platform offers many new features and enhancements. Areas where you will
find changes and new capabilities include the following:
1.1. ANSYS Workbench
1.2. ANSYS Workbench and EKM
1.3. Engineering Data Workspace
1.4. External Data
1.5. External Model
1.6. Enhancement to Mechanical Model Cells
1.7.TurboSystem Release Notes
1.1. ANSYS Workbench

Enhancements were made to the following areas for Release 19.2:
1.1.1. General Workbench Enhancements
1.1.2. Design Point Update Enhancements
1.1.3. Workbench Journaling and Scripting Enhancements
1.1.4. ANSYS Workbench-System Coupling Enhancements
1.1.5. Mechanical APDL Enhancements
1.1.6. ANSYS Workbench-Remote Solve Manager Enhancements
1.1.1. General Workbench Enhancements

The following general enhancements were made:
• The first time you run ANSYS Workbench following the installation of a new version of the software, the
application automatically migrates your user preferences to the new version. This includes preferences such
as licensing settings, Options panel settings, solver preferences, and Engineering Data settings.
• You can now duplicate multiple systems on the Workbench Project tab.
• You can now delete any set of systems in a shared-model scenario, including the entire set or the head
system.
• If you delete an upstream system that is providing equivalent inputs, the system is deleted and its downstream
systems automatically regenerate their deleted containers.
1.1.2. Design Point Update Enhancements

No enhancements were made in Workbench with regard to Design Points.
1.1.3. Workbench Journaling and Scripting Enhancements

The following enhancements were made in regard to Workbench journaling and scripting:
Workbench
• As commands run from an AIM or Workbench journal or script, progress bars now display in the Progress
view so that you can monitor command processing statuses.
• From a Workbench script, you can now use the method RunScript to run the Python script for a
specified ACT extension in the Mechanical editor:
Simulation.RunScript(FilePath="Path/to/script.py", IsMeshing=False, ExtensionName = "MyExtension" )
The Workbench script can then access functions defined in the extension, similar to when you
select the extension from the ACT Console.
1.1.4. ANSYS Workbench-System Coupling Enhancements

The System Coupling Service 2.0 is now available in Workbench. This integration allows you to use its
expanded coupling functionality in the Workbench environment. For more information, see System
Coupling 2.0 in Workbench (p. 95) in the System Coupling release notes.
1.1.5. Mechanical APDL Enhancements

No enhancements were made in Workbench with regard to Mechanical APDL.
1.1.6. ANSYS Workbench-Remote Solve Manager Enhancements

No enhancements were made in Workbench with regard to Remote Solve Manager (RSM).
1.2. ANSYS Workbench and EKM

EKM connection and repository actions that were temporarily hidden in Workbench 19.1 have been re-
enabled in Workbench 19.2.
This includes actions such as:
• Save to Repository
• Open from Repository
• Send Changes to Repository
• Get Changes from Repository
• Manage Connections
• Launch EKM Web Client
To use these functions, you must install an EKM 19.0.1 server. For more information, see Changes to
EKM (p. viii).
Note
Job submission from Workbench to an EKM portal is not supported.
TurboSystem Release Notes
1.3. Engineering Data Workspace

For Release 19.2, the following enhancements have been made to the Engineering Data Workspace:
• When you are working with the ANSYS Composite PrepPost application, the application now provides
a new Toolbox category: Composite. This category includes the properties Ply Type and Fabric Fiber
Angle.
• The material properties Orthotropic and Isotropic Secant Coefficient of Thermal Expansion now supports
frequency, coordinate, and user defined field dependency.
1.4. External Data

No enhancements were made to the External Data add-in.
1.5. External Model

For Release 19.2, External Model has no new features or enhancements. However, you may wish to refer
to the External Model (p. 8) section of the Mechanical release notes for enhancements in the Mechan-
ical application that are based on importing data through the External Model system.
1.6. Enhancement to Mechanical Model Cells

For Release 19.2, the Mechanical Model cell has the following enhancement:
• License Selection. A new category and property has have been added for the Model cell when selected
in the Workbench Project Schematic. The new property, License, enables you to specify the license
that will be used by the current instance of the Mechanical application for your model.
1.7. TurboSystem Release Notes

TurboSystem is a set of software applications and software features that help you to perform turboma-
chinery analyses in ANSYS Workbench. For details, see Introduction in the TurboSystem User's Guide.
These release notes cover:
• Turbo Setup system
• Performance Map system
• Vista AFD, Vista CCD, Vista CPD and Vista RTD
• Turbo Mesh cell
• Vista TF
These release notes do not cover:
• ANSYS BladeModeler (see ANSYS BladeModeler Release Notes (p. 59))
• TurboGrid (see TurboGrid Release Notes (p. 57))
• CFX-Pre (see CFX Release Notes (p. 55))
Workbench
• CFD-Post (see CFD-Post Release Notes (p. 61))
Note
After reviewing the TurboSystem release notes, you are encouraged to see Usage Notes,
which describes some known TurboSystem workflow issues and recommended practices for
overcoming these issues.
1.7.1. Supported Platforms

Platform/OS levels that are supported in the current release are posted on the Platform Support section
of the ANSYS Website.

This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 19.2 of TurboSystem.
Release 19.2 of TurboSystem has no new features or enhancements.
Chapter 2: System Coupling
System Coupling 2.0 in Workbench
The latest version of the coupling service, System Coupling 2.0, is available for System Coupling in
Workbench. This integration combines the flexibility and all-purpose infrastructure of the Workbench
System Coupling component system with the core coupling capabilities offered by System Coupling 2.0.
A new Coupling Engine property enables you to easily convert an existing 1.0 coupling project for
use with System Coupling 2.0. For projects created with Release 18.2 or earlier, however, slight
modifications are needed to ensure that all the necessary participant information is available to the
coupling service.
For more information, see Using System Coupling in Workbench.
Command-Line System Coupling 2.0

Extensions to command-line System Coupling's capabilities provide you with more options and increased
control of the creation and/or execution of coupled multiphysics simulations outside the Workbench en-
vironment.
In addition to the core coupling functionality offered by System Coupling 2.0, command-line System
Coupling now offers the following capabilities:
• Support for mixed Steady-Transient analyses
• Optimized commands for a more streamlined workflow
• Command-line execution of coupled analyses set up in Workbench
• Automated restarts, including automatic selection and coordination of all restart files
• Ability to use custom serial and parallel execution control arguments for both the coupling engine and
coupling participants
For more information, see Using Command-Line System Coupling.
Chapter 3: ACT
The following enhancements are available in ANSYS ACT 19.2. For ACT 19.1 and 19.0 enhancements,
see the release notes for ACT 19.1 and ACT 19.0.
Import of Project Archive Files with Data from ACT Extensions

You can import project archive files *(*.wbpx) that contain data from ACT extensions into Workbench. For
more information, see Importing Project Archive Files in the Workbench User's Guide.
Scripting Enhancements for ANSYS Mechanical

Scripting enhancements for Mechanical have been made in the following areas:
• Direction properties
• Tree
• Message window
• Object tags
For more information, see 19.2 Scripting Enhancements for Mechanical in the ACT APIs for Mechan-
ical Guide.
Chapter 4: Remote Solve Manager (RSM)
The following sections contain release information for ANSYS Remote Solve Manager 19.2:
4.2. Issues Resolved in this Release
4.3. Known Issues and Limitations

A new ARC Configuration application provides an easy, automated way to set up and deploy an ANSYS
RSM Cluster (ARC). Using one, simple interface, you can establish communication between machines
in your network, start ARC services on cluster nodes, and create cluster queues. See Configuring an
ANSYS RSM Cluster (ARC) Using the ARC Configuration Application.
Alternatively, a new arcdeploy command provides the same, automated functionality via the command
line. See Configuring an ANSYS RSM Cluster (ARC) Using the Command Line (arcdeploy).
4.2. Issues Resolved in this Release


All issues and limitations known at the time of release are listed in the Known Issues and Limitations
section of the Remote Solve Manager User's Guide.
Chapter 5: DesignXplorer
The following enhancements are available in ANSYS DesignXplorer 19.2. Unless noted otherwise, refer-
enced topics are in the ANSYS DesignXplorer User's Guide.
ROM Production and Consumption

The ability to produce and consume ROMs (reduced order models) was a DesignXplorer beta feature in
19.1. Now a full feature in 19.2, a DesignXplorer ROM Builder system can be dropped into the Workbench
Project Schematic. After defining the input parameters and content of the ROM in the Setup cell of the
Fluent system, you set up building of the ROM in the cells of the ROM Builder system.
Currently, ROMs can be produced from Fluent steady analyses and then consumed in the ROM
Viewer. ROMs can also be exported in the FMU 2.0 file format for consumption in the ROM Viewer
now available in ANSYS Twin Builder. ROM consumption refers to being able to evaluate models in
2D or 3D to rapidly explore the variation of results. For more information, see Using ROMs.
ROM Quality Metrics

DesignXplorer 19.2 also adds quality metrics for ROMs. Using goodness of fit and verification points, you
can assess and improve the quality of your ROM. If goodness of fit is poor, you can enrich your ROM and
enhance its accuracy by manually adding refinement points. For more information, see Quality Metrics for
ROMs.
Import of Design Points and ROM Snapshots into ROM Builder Systems (Beta)
When beta features are enabled, you can import design points and ROM snapshots into ROM Builder
systems. For more information, see the DesignXplorer Beta Features Documentation .
DesignXplorer Extension Compatibility Updates

In the Response Surface Reader extension, you can load a DesignXplorer DXROM file in Microsoft Excel
using the Excel DX-ROM Add-in. The DXROM file now includes error prediction for quantifying the error
of evaluated response points and supports version 2.0 of FMU files.
Compatibility updates for other DesignXplorer extensions are in progress and will be released
promptly upon completion.
To access DesignXplorer extensions, go to the ANSYS App Store and filter the apps available by
typing DesignXplorer in the Search Apps field and clicking the search button. To further filter
the results, you can make a selection in the Product Version field.
Chapter 6: ANSYS Viewer
The following sections contain release information for ANSYS Viewer 19.2:

No enhancements were made to ANSYS Viewer.


All issues and limitations known at the time of release are listed in the Known Issues and Limitations
section of the ANSYS Viewer User's Guide.
Part VI: ANSYS Discovery SpaceClaim
The release notes are intended to provide an overview of Release 19.2 of ANSYS Discovery SpaceClaim.
Chapter 1: Enhancements
For detailed information specific to SpaceClaim 19.2, see the ANSYS Discovery SpaceClaim 19.2 Release
Notes accessible via Customer Portal> Downloads> Current Release> Tools> Documentation> Release.
Part VII: ANSYS Discovery Live
The release notes are intended to provide an overview of Release 19.2 of ANSYS Discovery Live.
Chapter 1: Enhancements
For detailed information specific to ANSYS Discovery Live 19.2, see the ANSYS Discovery Live 19.2 Release
Notes accessible via Customer Portal> Downloads> Current Release> Tools> Documentation> Release.
Part VIII: ANSYS Discovery AIM
The following enhancements are available in Release 19.2 of ANSYS Discovery AIM. The release notes
are intended to provide an overview of this product release.
Chapter 1: Advisories
In addition to any incompatibilities noted within the release notes, known non-operational behavior,
errors and/or limitations at the time of release are documented in the ANSYS, Inc Known Issues and
Limitations document, accessible via the ANSYS customer site (account required). First-time users of the
customer site must register to create a password. See the ANSYS customer site for information about
ANSYS service packs, and any additional items not included in the Known Issues and Limitations document.
Chapter 2: Enhancements in ANSYS Discovery AIM Release 19.2
The following enhancements were made to ANSYS Discovery AIM Release 19.2.
2.1. Structures
The following enhancements related to structures are available in ANSYS Discovery AIM Release 19.2:
• There is a new solver setting for initial contact treatment. By default, the solver checks for gaps and overlaps
before solve if nonlinear contact exists in the model and generates a warning message. You can also direct
AIM to automatically fix gaps and overlaps for nonlinear contacts. Individual contacts can be controlled using
the contact behavior. This is useful to ensure initial contact occurs even if any gaps are present (as long as
they are within the pinball region).
• You now have the ability to linearize stress on a line and visualize as a contour or as a line chart which displays
membrane, bending, membrane plus bending, peak, and total stress along a line. This functionality enables
ASME code evaluation of stress results.
2.2. Thermal
The following enhancements related to thermal are available in ANSYS Discovery AIM Release 19.2:
• You can now set multi-step solutions for thermal and thermal-stress. Set up a series of steady-state steps or
load cases, control suppression and/or factor for both thermal and structural conditions, and define load
history or load cases for thermal and thermal-stress simulation.
• Thermal template enhancements simplify the setup of thermal simulations. Included is a new option for
material assignments. You can define that heat transfer is simulated, along with solid regions and material
assignments.
• To simplify location specification of thermal boundary conditions, the new DefaultConvectingSurfaces

function provides automatic selection of all external surfaces except those to which another solid thermal
boundary condition is applied.
2.3. Magnetics
The following enhancements related to magnetics are available in ANSYS Discovery AIM Release 19.2:
• AIM now supports electrostatic physics, used to simulate static electric fields. Accessed via a new option in
the electromagnetics template, electrostatic physics includes electric charge and voltage boundary conditions
and electric potential, electric field, and charge reaction results.
2.4. Fluids
The following enhancements related to fluids are available in ANSYS Discovery AIM Release 19.2:
Enhancements in ANSYS Discovery AIM Release 19.2
• You now have the ability to export data for additional calculations and post-processing. Min/Max charts
and contour and vector results can be exported to a CSV file.
• Adaptive meshing is enabled by default for blow molding simulations to automatically improve mesh
quality and contact accuracy.
2.5. Modeling
The following SpaceClaim tools and options are now supported when modeling in ANSYS Discovery
AIM Release 19.2:
• Detailing Tools - Located on the Details tab, the Font group and several tools from the Annotation group
are now available:
– Font - For formatting text, the Font group enables you to change text characteristics (such as font, font
size, and style) of notes, dimensions, and tables.
– Annotation > Dimension - Enables you to add a measurement to your design, drawing sheet, or 3D
markup. You can also use annotation dimensions with the Pull and Move tools to drive changes to your
design.
– Annotation > Note - Enables you to place a note on the active annotation plane or drawing sheet.
• Orient Mesh - Located in the Reverse Engineering group on the Tools tab, Orient Mesh enables you to
select roughly planar areas of triangles or cylindrical areas of triangles to align to the World Origin axes.
• Thicken - Located in the Modify group on the Facets tab, Thicken enables you to add thickness to a surface
faceted body.
• Tweak Face - Located in the Edit group on the Design tab, Tweak Face enables you to edit any face or
surface to change its surface geometry.
For additional details, you can access the Geometry Modeling Help from within the Geometry Modeler
by clicking the question mark in the upper right-hand area of the window, or by hovering over the tool
of interest and pressing F1.
2.6. General
The following general enhancements are available in ANSYS Discovery AIM Release 19.2:
• You can add additional physics to extend or adjust a simulation: fluid-solid heat transfer to a fluids-only or
structural stress computation to a fluids-only or thermal solid heat transfer simulation. This is accessed
through Guide Me in the context menu.
• The number of fidelity levels on the Solution fidelity slider, which determines the global solution fidelity,
has been reduced from eight to five. This change simplifies the process of setting the level to more efficiently
determine a mesh independent solution.
• The new solution fidelity refinement feature enables you to increase the fidelity of the solution by capturing
localized geometric details of the model that may otherwise be missed by the global solution fidelity setting.
You define fidelity refinement objects by specifying the size of the details you want to capture on a body,
face, or edge, and internally, AIM generates a mapping of the fidelity refinement objects to mesh Sizing
controls.
General
• Automatic physics-aware meshing has been improved to provide better support for multiple design point
updates.
• The curvature size function is now the default for structural, thermal, and electric physics, regardless of
whether automatic physics-aware meshing or manual meshing is being used. The curvature size function
is optimized to refine fillets and holes for improved resolution of stress concentrations, without significantly
increasing the model size.
• If you are using automatic physics-aware meshing with structural, thermal, or electric physics and generation
of a hex mesh fails, a body sizing control is applied automatically and mesh generation is retried.
• Enhancements to the Connect to Discovery Live template include the ability to apply additional physics
(fluid-solid heat transfer or structural stress computation); support for the transfer of fluid enclosures for
external flow cases; support for the transfer of additional thermal conditions (convection in air and volumetric
heat sources); and support for the transfer of additional fluid conditions (convection, convection-radiation,
total pressure for inlets, and rotating fluid walls).
• A summary tree provides a visual representation of your study and supports navigation.
• Streamlines and material rendering are now included in results preview, as well as the ability to turn the
min/max labels on or off.
• As commands run from an AIM or Workbench journal or script, progress bars now display in the Progress
view so that you can monitor command processing statuses.
• The new Enable exploded view icon allows you to create imaginary distance between bodies in your model.
This functionality, available in Physics-related tasks for Fluid, Thermal, Electromagnetics, or Structural
physics, enables you to more easily view and select the faces and bodies in your model. Using the exploded
view, you can easily review region interfaces, contacts, joints, and springs that may otherwise be difficult
to visualize.
• You can force a continuation from a partially updated state by marking the task as up-to-date.
Chapter 3: Limitations
The Known Issues and Limitations document is accessible via the ANSYS customer site (account required).
Via Knowledge Resources> Online Documentation, open the General section to view the current Known
Issues and Limitations document. First-time users of the customer site must register to create a password.

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2.3. Updates Affecting Code Behavior .............................................................................................. 55

1.3. Engineering Data Workspace ..................................................................................................... 93

• Advisories (p. viii)

• Compatibility with Previous Releases (p. ix)

• Installation (p. ix)

• Licensing (p. ix)

• Verification Manual (p. x)

• Online Video Access (p. xii)

• ANSYS Customer Site (p. xii)

• ANSYS 19.1 (PDF) (online)

• ANSYS 19.0 (PDF) (online)

• ANSYS 18.2 (PDF) (online)

• ANSYS 18.1 (PDF) (online)

• ANSYS 18.0 (PDF) (online)

• ANSYS 17.2 (PDF)

• ANSYS 17.1 (PDF)

• ANSYS 17.0 (PDF)

• ANSYS 16.2 (PDF)

• ANSYS 16.1 (PDF)

• ANSYS 16.0 (PDF)

• ANSYS Platform Support Strategy & Plans

• ANSYS, Inc. Installation and Licensing Tutorials

• ANSYS, Inc. Known Issues and Limitations

• ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide

• ANSYS Quick Start Installation Guide

• ANSYS Quick Start Licensing Guide

• ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes

• Linux Installation Guide

• SpaceClaim Release Notes (as applicable)

• Windows Installation Guide

ANSYS 19.2 will be the last release to support GAMBIT Reader.

1.1. Changes to EKM

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6.1. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual

6.1.1. New Verification Test Cases

• VM299 – Sound Diffusion in a Flat Room

• VM300 – Sound Transmission Between Rooms Coupled Through a Partition Wall

6.1.2. Modified Verification Test Cases

6.1.3. Removed Verification Test Cases

6.2. Workbench Verification Manual

6.2.1. New Verification Test Cases

• VM-AM-001 – Additive Manufacture of Five Post Beam Using Inconel 718

• VM-AM-002– Additive Manufacture of Thin-Walled Canonical Part Using Inconel 718

• VM-AM-003 – Additive Manufacture of 3-Inch Cantilever with Supports Using Ti-6Al-4V

• VM-AM-004 – Additive Manufacture of 4-Inch Cantilever with Supports Using Ti-6Al-4V

• VM-AM-005 – Additive Manufacture of 5-Inch Cantilever with Supports Using Ti-6Al-4V

• VMEXD001 – [Explicit Dynamics] Flow of Gas Past an Infinite 2-D Wedge

• VMEXD002 – [Explicit Dynamics] 3-D Taylor Cylinder Impact

• VMEXD003 – [Explicit Dynamics] 2-D Taylor Cylinder Impact

• VMEXD004 – [Explicit Dynamics] 2-D Indirect Explosive Burn

• VMEXD005 – [Explicit Dynamics] 3-D Tension Failure Test (Cubes)