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Release Notes
ANSYS, Inc. Release 2022 R1

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Table of Contents
Global ......................................................................................................................................................... xi
1. Advisories ......................................................................................................................................... xiii
2. Compatibility with Previous Releases ................................................................................................. xiii
3. Installation ........................................................................................................................................ xiii
4. Licensing .......................................................................................................................................... xiv
5. Documentation ................................................................................................................................ xiv
6. Verification Manual ........................................................................................................................... xiv
6.1. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual ....................................................................................... xiv
6.1.1. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual: New Verification Test Cases .................................... xiv
6.1.2. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual: Removed Verification Test Cases .............................. xv
6.2. Workbench Verification Manual ................................................................................................. xv
6.2.1. Workbench Mechanical: New Verification Test Cases .......................................................... xv
6.2.2. Workbench: Removed Verification Test Cases ..................................................................... xv
7. Online Video Access ........................................................................................................................... xv
8. Ansys Customer Site .......................................................................................................................... xv
1. Ansys Structural Products ....................................................................................................................... 1
1. Mechanical Application Release Notes ............................................................................................. 3
1.1. New Tutorials Demonstrating Multistage Cyclic Symmetry Analysis .............................................. 4
1.2. Technology Showcase: Example Problems ................................................................................... 4
1.3. Changes in Product Behavior ...................................................................................................... 4
1.4. General ...................................................................................................................................... 5
1.5. Performance ............................................................................................................................... 5
1.6. Graphics ..................................................................................................................................... 6
1.7. Geometry ................................................................................................................................... 6
1.8. Materials .................................................................................................................................... 7
1.9. External Model ........................................................................................................................... 7
1.10. Data Transfer and Mapping ....................................................................................................... 8
1.11. Contact and Connections .......................................................................................................... 8
1.12. Mesh ........................................................................................................................................ 8
1.13. Fracture .................................................................................................................................... 8
1.14. Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation ............................................................................... 9
1.15. Analysis .................................................................................................................................... 9
1.16. Symmetry ................................................................................................................................. 9
1.17. Structural Optimization ........................................................................................................... 10
1.18. Ansys Motion .......................................................................................................................... 10
1.19. Loads/Supports/Conditions .................................................................................................... 11
1.20. Solution .................................................................................................................................. 11
1.21. Rigid Body Solver .................................................................................................................... 12
1.22. Explicit Dynamics .................................................................................................................... 12
1.23. Hydrodynamics ....................................................................................................................... 13
1.24. Results .................................................................................................................................... 13
1.25. Scripting ................................................................................................................................. 14
2. Mechanical APDL ............................................................................................................................ 15
2.1. Structural ................................................................................................................................. 15
2.1.1. Contact ............................................................................................................................ 15
2.1.1.1. Dual-Shape Function Projection Method for Contact Detection ................................ 16
2.1.1.2. Adaptive Small Sliding ............................................................................................. 16
2.1.1.3. Shell Assembly Improvements ................................................................................. 16
2.1.1.4. Spot Weld Improvements ......................................................................................... 17
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2.1.1.5. Pretension Sections for General Axisymmetric Elements ........................................... 17

2.1.1.6. Contact Robustness ................................................................................................. 17
2.1.2. Elements and Nonlinear Technology ................................................................................. 18
2.1.2.1. Enhancements for Penalty-Based Joint Elements ...................................................... 18
2.1.2.2. Smeared Reinforcing Bending Stiffness .................................................................... 18
2.1.2.3. ESYS Support for Cohesive Elements ........................................................................ 18
2.1.2.4. Enhanced Moment Convergence ............................................................................. 18
2.1.2.5. Initial-Mesh Loading and Constraint for Nonlinear Adaptivity ................................... 18
2.1.2.6. Inverse Solving for Uniaxial-Stiffness Elements ......................................................... 18
2.1.3. Material and Fracture Modeling ........................................................................................ 19
2.1.3.1. Hyperelasticity with Embedded Fibers ..................................................................... 19
2.1.3.2. Piecewise Linear Shift Function for Viscoelasticity ..................................................... 19
2.1.3.3. User-Defined Pseudo-Elastic Damage Model ............................................................ 20
2.1.3.4. Element Support for Anisotropic Hyperelasticity ...................................................... 20
2.1.3.5. Multilinear Isotropic and Kinematic Hardening Enhancement ................................... 20
2.1.3.6. Direct Tabular Entry of the Rate-Dependent Isotropic Hardening Option ................... 20
2.1.3.7. User-Defined Free Strain for Porous Media ............................................................... 20
2.1.3.8. BCC Support for Crystal Plasticity ............................................................................. 20
2.1.3.9. Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) with Plasticity ................................................................ 21
2.1.3.10. Material Customization Enhancements .................................................................. 21
2.1.3.11. Enhanced Linear Multivariate Interpolation ............................................................ 21
2.1.3.12. Hyperelastic Curve-Fitting with the Ansys Material Solver (AML) ............................. 21
2.1.3.13. Crack Closure for Fatigue Crack-Growth (FCG) Analysis ........................................... 21
2.1.3.14. Adaptive Crack-Initiation Analysis .......................................................................... 21
2.1.3.15. Dynamic Crack-Increment Control for Crack-Growth Analysis ................................. 21
2.1.3.16. Material Model Enhancements for Crack-Growth Analysis ....................................... 22
2.1.4. Linear Dynamics .............................................................................................................. 22
2.1.4.1. Multiple Harmonic Indices in Multistage Cyclic Symmetry Analysis ........................... 22
2.1.4.2. Solution Comparison Using the Frequency Response Function (FRF) Correlation
Method .............................................................................................................................. 22
2.1.4.3. Modal Expansion Supported for Models with Superelements and Finite Element
Parts ................................................................................................................................... 23
2.1.5. Transient Dynamics .......................................................................................................... 23
2.1.5.1. Enhanced HHT Time Integration Algorithm .............................................................. 23
2.2. Multiphysics ............................................................................................................................. 23
2.2.1. Acoustics ......................................................................................................................... 23
2.2.2. Thermal ........................................................................................................................... 24
2.2.2.1. New Element Key Options ....................................................................................... 24
2.2.3. Coupled-Field .................................................................................................................. 24
2.2.3.1. Enhanced Strain Formulation for PLANE222 and SOLID225 for Structural-Thermal
Analysis .............................................................................................................................. 24
2.2.3.2. Coupled-Field Analysis Enhanced Robustness .......................................................... 24
2.2.3.3. PML for 2-D Harmonic Piezoelectric Analysis ............................................................ 24
2.3. Solvers ..................................................................................................................................... 24
2.3.1. Distributed Ansys Enhancements ..................................................................................... 25
2.3.1.1. Hybrid Parallel Processing ........................................................................................ 25
2.3.1.2. Upgraded Support for MPI Versions ......................................................................... 25
2.3.1.3. Improved Performance for Models with Unsymmetric Matrices ................................ 25
2.3.2. PCG Solver Support for MPC184 Joint Elements ................................................................ 25
2.3.3. Eigensolver Enhancements for Buckling Analysis .............................................................. 25
2.4. Other Enhancements ................................................................................................................ 26
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2.4.1. Automatic Inertia Relief .................................................................................................... 26

2.4.2. File Compression .............................................................................................................. 26
2.5. Commands ............................................................................................................................... 26
2.5.1. New Commands ............................................................................................................... 26
2.5.2. Modified Commands ........................................................................................................ 26
2.5.3. Undocumented Commands ............................................................................................. 28
2.6. Elements .................................................................................................................................. 28
2.6.1. Modified Elements ........................................................................................................... 28
2.6.2. Undocumented Elements ................................................................................................. 29
2.7. Documentation ........................................................................................................................ 29
2.7.1. Updates for Programmers ................................................................................................. 29
2.7.1.1. Subroutine userMullins ..................................................................................... 29
2.7.1.2. Subroutine userfreestrain .............................................................................. 29
2.7.2. Feature Archive ................................................................................................................ 30
2.8. Technology Showcase: Example Problems ................................................................................. 30
2.9. Mechanical APDL Release 2022 R1 Update Guide ....................................................................... 30
2.9.1. Backward Compatibility ................................................................................................... 31
2.9.2. Feature Updates Causing Result or Behavior Changes ....................................................... 31
2.9.2.1. Auto-Hybrid Feature May Automatically Invoke Hybrid Parallel Processing ................ 31
2.9.2.2. Default Value for Contact Element Real Constant TOLS ............................................. 31
2.9.2.3. Calculation of Contact Strain Energy ........................................................................ 31
2.9.2.4. Calculation of the Consistent Elastoplastic Tangent .................................................. 31
2.9.3. Known Incompatibilities ................................................................................................... 32
2.9.4. Known Issues ................................................................................................................... 32
2.9.4.1. Models Running on AMD Processors May Crash ....................................................... 32
2.9.4.2. Program May Run Slow for DMP Simulations with > 64 AMD CPU Cores on Win-
dows .................................................................................................................................. 32
2.9.4.3. Traceback Error When Running Mechanical APDL via VNC ......................................... 33
2.9.4.4. Output File May Be Incorrect for Manual Hybrid Parallel ............................................ 33
2.9.4.5. Auto-Hybrid May Cause the Program to Crash in Some Analyses ............................... 33
2.9.4.6.When Running on Clusters, Small Models or Analyses Using Auto-Hybrid Parallel May
Fail .................................................................................................................................... 33
2.9.5. Resolved Issues and Defects ............................................................................................. 33
2.9.6. Features Removed or Archived ......................................................................................... 34
3. Autodyn .......................................................................................................................................... 35
3.1. New Features and Enhancements .............................................................................................. 35
4. Aqwa ............................................................................................................................................... 37
4.1. Aqwa Solver Modules ............................................................................................................... 37
4.2. Aqwa Graphical Supervisor (AGS) .............................................................................................. 37
4.3. Hydrodynamic Analysis Systems ................................................................................................ 37
5. Ansys Composite PrepPost (ACP) .................................................................................................... 39
6. Material Designer ............................................................................................................................ 41
7. Additive Manufacturing .................................................................................................................. 43
7.1. Additive Prep ............................................................................................................................ 43
7.2. Additive (Print and Science) ...................................................................................................... 43
7.2.1. Changes in Product Behavior ............................................................................................ 43
7.3. Workbench Additive ................................................................................................................. 44
7.3.1. Changes in Product Behavior ............................................................................................ 45
8. Sherlock .......................................................................................................................................... 47
8.1. New Features ............................................................................................................................ 47
8.2. General Enhancements ............................................................................................................. 47
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8.3. API Updates .............................................................................................................................. 50

8.3.1. New APIs .......................................................................................................................... 50
8.3.2. API Updates ..................................................................................................................... 50
8.4. Other Changes and Comments ................................................................................................. 50
8.5. Updates to the Material Library ................................................................................................. 51
8.5.1. Additions to the Material Library ....................................................................................... 51
8.5.2. Changes to Material Values ............................................................................................... 51
8.6. Bug Fixes .................................................................................................................................. 54
2. Ansys Fluids Products ........................................................................................................................... 59
1. Fluent .............................................................................................................................................. 61
1.1. Supported Platforms for Ansys Fluent 2022 R1 ........................................................................... 61
1.2. New Features in Ansys Fluent 2022 R1 ....................................................................................... 61
1.2.1. Meshing Mode ................................................................................................................. 61
1.2.2. Solution Mode ................................................................................................................. 64
1.2.3. Fluent Applications .......................................................................................................... 74
1.3. Updates Affecting Ansys Fluent 2022 R1 Code Behavior ............................................................. 76
1.3.1. Meshing Mode ................................................................................................................. 76
1.3.2. Solution Mode ................................................................................................................. 76
1.3.3. Fluent Applications .......................................................................................................... 81
1.4. Features To Be Removed in a Future Release .............................................................................. 81
2. CFX .................................................................................................................................................. 83
2.1. Supported Platforms ................................................................................................................. 83
2.3. Known Issues ............................................................................................................................ 83
3. CFD-Post .......................................................................................................................................... 85
4. TurboSystem Release Notes ............................................................................................................ 87
5. TurboGrid ........................................................................................................................................ 89
6. BladeModeler .................................................................................................................................. 91
6.2. BladeGen .................................................................................................................................. 91
6.2.1. New Features and Enhancements ..................................................................................... 91
6.3. BladeEditor ............................................................................................................................... 91
6.3.1. New Features and Enhancements ..................................................................................... 91
6.3.2. Incompatibilities .............................................................................................................. 92
7. Polyflow .......................................................................................................................................... 93
7.1. New Features ............................................................................................................................ 93
7.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in Ansys Polyflow 2022 R1 ........................................................ 93
8. Forte ................................................................................................................................................ 95
8.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations ................................................................................................ 97
9. Chemkin-Pro ................................................................................................................................... 99
9.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations ................................................................................................ 99
10. FENSAP-ICE ................................................................................................................................. 101
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10.1. New Features and Enhancements in Ansys FENSAP-ICE .......................................................... 101

10.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations ............................................................................................. 102
11. EnSight ........................................................................................................................................ 103
11.1. New Features and Enhancements in Ansys EnSight ................................................................ 103
11.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations ............................................................................................. 105
3. Ansys Electronics Products ................................................................................................................. 107
1. Icepak ............................................................................................................................................ 109
1.1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 109
1.2. New and Modified Features in Ansys Icepak 2022 R1 ................................................................ 109
1.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in Ansys Icepak 2022 R1 ......................................................... 109
4. Ansys Optical Products ....................................................................................................................... 111
1. Speos Release Notes ..................................................................................................................... 113
1.1. New Features .......................................................................................................................... 113
1.2. Enhancements ........................................................................................................................ 114
1.3. Changes ................................................................................................................................. 116
1.4. Resolved Issues and Limitations .............................................................................................. 116
2. Speos for NX Release Notes .......................................................................................................... 117
2.1. New Features and Enhancements ............................................................................................ 117
2.2. Changes ................................................................................................................................. 118
3. Speos for Creo Parametric Release Notes ..................................................................................... 119
3.2. Changes ................................................................................................................................. 119
4. Speos Labs Release Notes ............................................................................................................. 121
4.2. Changes ................................................................................................................................. 121
5. Speos HPC Release Notes .............................................................................................................. 123
5. Ansys Acoustics Products .................................................................................................................... 125
1. Ansys Sound Release Notes .......................................................................................................... 127
1.1. Ansys Sound: Analysis & Specification ...................................................................................... 127
1.1.1. New Feature ................................................................................................................... 127
1.1.2. Enhancements ............................................................................................................... 127
1.1.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations ...................................................................................... 128
1.2. Ansys Sound: ASDforEV ........................................................................................................... 128
1.2.1. Presentation ................................................................................................................... 128
1.2.2. Main Features ................................................................................................................. 128
1.3. Ansys Sound: Jury Listening Test .............................................................................................. 129
1.3.1. Change .......................................................................................................................... 129
1.4. Ansys Sound: Car Sound Simulator .......................................................................................... 129
6. Ansys Systems Products ...................................................................................................................... 131
1. AVxcelerate Data Preparation and VRXPERIENCE VR Release Notes ............................................ 133
1.1. New Feature ........................................................................................................................... 133
1.2. Enhancement ......................................................................................................................... 134
2. AVxcelerate for Lighting and Sensors Release Notes ................................................................... 135
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2.1. Enhancements ........................................................................................................................ 135

2.2. Change ................................................................................................................................... 135
3. AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator Release Notes .............................................................................. 137
3.1. New Features .......................................................................................................................... 137
3.2. Enhancements ........................................................................................................................ 140
3.3. Change ................................................................................................................................... 140
7. Ansys Geometry and Mesh Prep Products .......................................................................................... 143
1. DesignModeler .............................................................................................................................. 145
1.1. DesignModeler Product Advisories .......................................................................................... 145
1.2. DesignModeler Enhancements ................................................................................................ 145
1.3. DesignModeler Caveats and Known Issues .............................................................................. 145
2. CAD ................................................................................................................................................ 147
3. Meshing ......................................................................................................................................... 149
3.1. Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases .............................................................. 149
3.2. Quality Based Meshing ........................................................................................................... 150
3.3. Enhancements in PULL ........................................................................................................... 151
3.4. Enhancements in Weld Control .............................................................................................. 151
3.5. Enhancements in MultiZone Mesh Method ............................................................................. 151
3.6. Enhancements in Explicit Physics Preference ........................................................................... 151
3.7. Enhancements in Named Selection Worksheet ........................................................................ 152
3.8. Enhancements to Sizing Controls ............................................................................................ 152
3.9. Enhancements in Batch Connections ....................................................................................... 152
3.10. Enhancements in Feature Detection ...................................................................................... 152
4. ICEM CFD ....................................................................................................................................... 153
4.1. Enhancements to Multizone Blocking on Faceted Geometries ................................................. 153
4.2. Changes in Product Behavior from Previous Releases .............................................................. 153
8. Ansys Simulation Products ................................................................................................................. 155
1. ACT ................................................................................................................................................ 157
2. Ansys Viewer ................................................................................................................................. 159
2.3. Known Issues and Limitations ................................................................................................. 159
3. Distributed Compute Services (DCS) ............................................................................................ 161
3.1. Design Point Service (DPS) ...................................................................................................... 161
3.2. Distributed Compute Gateway (DCG) ...................................................................................... 162
4. DesignXplorer ............................................................................................................................... 165
5. optiSLang ...................................................................................................................................... 167
5.1. General Enhancements ........................................................................................................... 167
5.2. Integrations ............................................................................................................................ 168
5.3. Algorithms .............................................................................................................................. 168
5.4. User Interface ......................................................................................................................... 169
5.5. Customization and API ............................................................................................................ 169
5.6. optiSLang Web Service ............................................................................................................ 170
5.7. Statistics on Structures (SoS) ................................................................................................... 170
6. Remote Solve Manager (RSM) ....................................................................................................... 171
6.2. Issues Resolved in this Release ................................................................................................. 171
6.3. Known Issues and Limitations ................................................................................................. 171
7. System Coupling ........................................................................................................................... 173
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7.1. Global Control of Quasi-Newton Solution Stabilization ............................................................. 173

7.2. Custom Solver Input Files for Fluent and Mechanical Participants ............................................. 173
7.3. Automatic Relative Paths for Participant Working Directories ................................................... 174
7.4. Chart View with Simulation Time on the X Axis ........................................................................ 174
7.5. Non-Overlap Handling for Profile-Preserving Mapping to Surfaces ........................................... 174
7.6. Initial Snapshot Generation Controls ....................................................................................... 175
7.7. Expanded Participant Variable Definitions ............................................................................... 175
7.8. Mapping Performance Improvements ..................................................................................... 176
7.9. Migration of Expert Settings to Data Model ............................................................................. 176
7.10. Co-Simulation Output Enhancements ................................................................................... 177
7.11. Data Model, Command, and Command-Line Argument Changes ............................................ 178
7.12. Participant Library Extensions ............................................................................................... 178
7.13. Known Issues and Limitations ................................................................................................ 179
8. Workbench .................................................................................................................................... 181
8.1. Ansys Workbench ................................................................................................................... 181
8.1.1. General Workbench Enhancements ............................................................................... 181
8.1.2. Design Point Update Enhancements ............................................................................... 181
8.2. Engineering Data Workspace ................................................................................................... 181
8.3. Injection Molding Data ........................................................................................................... 182
9. 3D Design Products ............................................................................................................................. 183
1. Discovery Release Notes ............................................................................................................... 185
1.1. Discovery Product Advisories .................................................................................................. 185
1.2. Enhancements Overview ........................................................................................................ 185
1.2.1. Fluid-Solid Heat Transfer ................................................................................................. 186
1.2.2. Compressible Flow ......................................................................................................... 188
1.2.3. Structural Physics Conditions .......................................................................................... 188
1.2.4. Natural Frequency .......................................................................................................... 190
1.2.5. Materials ........................................................................................................................ 191
1.2.6. Defined Variations .......................................................................................................... 191
1.2.7. Results ........................................................................................................................... 192
1.2.8. Monitors and Charts ....................................................................................................... 193
1.2.9. Modeling Tools ............................................................................................................... 195
1.2.9.1. Wrap ..................................................................................................................... 195
1.2.9.2. Extend ................................................................................................................... 196
1.2.9.3. Midsurfacing ......................................................................................................... 197
1.2.9.4. Beams ................................................................................................................... 201
1.2.9.5. Facets Tools ........................................................................................................... 203
1.2.9.6. Layers .................................................................................................................... 204
1.2.9.7. Dynamic Cursors and Constraint-based Sketching .................................................. 205
1.2.9.8. Shared Topology .................................................................................................... 206
1.2.9.9. Object Selection .................................................................................................... 207
1.2.10. Faceted Bodies ............................................................................................................. 210
1.2.11. New Settings to Enable Beta Features ........................................................................... 211
1.2.12. Project Management .................................................................................................... 211
1.2.13. Import and Export Support ........................................................................................... 212
1.2.14.Transferring To and From Discovery ............................................................................... 212
1.2.15. UI/Graphics ................................................................................................................. 212
1.2.15.1. Opening an Internal Component in a Dedicated Window ...................................... 212
1.2.15.2. HUD .................................................................................................................... 213
1.2.15.3. Color Palettes ...................................................................................................... 213
1.2.15.4. Notifications ........................................................................................................ 214
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1.2.15.5. Tree View ............................................................................................................. 214

1.2.16. In-product Guidance .................................................................................................... 215
1.2.16.1. Interactive Tours .................................................................................................. 215
1.2.17. History Tracking ........................................................................................................... 215
1.2.18. Script Editor ................................................................................................................. 216
1.3. Caveats and Known Issues ....................................................................................................... 219
2. SpaceClaim Release Notes ............................................................................................................ 221
2.1. Enhancements Overview ........................................................................................................ 221
2.1.1. UI/Graphics .................................................................................................................... 221
2.1.2. Constraint-based Sketching ............................................................................................ 222
2.1.3. Drawing Sheets .............................................................................................................. 222
2.1.4. Prepare .......................................................................................................................... 222
2.1.5. Scripting ........................................................................................................................ 222
2.1.6. Import/Export ................................................................................................................ 222
2.1.7. Meshing ......................................................................................................................... 222
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Global Release Notes
The release notes are specific to Ansys, Inc. Release 2022 R1 and arranged by application or product,
with the exception of:
• Advisories (p. xiii)
• Compatibility with Previous Releases (p. xiii)
• Installation (p. xiii)
• Licensing (p. xiv)
• Documentation (p. xiv)
• Verification Manual (p. xiv)
• Online Video Access (p. xv)
• Ansys Customer Site (p. xv)
In some cases, installation- and licensing-specific information is detailed within the documentation for
a given application or product.
Release notes in printable format (PDF) for this release are provided on the product-distribution media.
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Release notes for prior releases are available (online or in CHM, HTML, or PDF format, depending on
the release):
• Ansys 2021 R2
• Ansys 2021 R1
• Ansys 2020 R2 (PDF) (online)
• Ansys 19.2 (PDF) (online)
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• Ansys 18.1 (PDF)
• Ansys 14.0 (HTML)
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Archived Product and Release Documentation

Product and 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
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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. xv) 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 2022 R1, refer
to the Resolved Issues and Limitations document on the Ansys Help site.
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Notes section of the Ansys Help internet documentation website or download it here.
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the release of Ansys 2020 R2.
2. Compatibility with Previous Releases

Backwards Compatibility: Ansys 2022 R1 was tested to read and resume databases from the following
previous versions: 2020 R1, 2020 R2, 2021 R1, and 2021 R2. Note that some products are able to read
and resume databases from releases prior to 2020 R1. See the specific product sections below for more
information. For those products that cannot directly read a 17.x, 18.x, or 19.x database in 2022 R1, first
resume it in a supported version and then resume that database in 2022 R1.
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 2022 R1. Review these items carefully.
• The unified installer program now includes support for Speos for Creo Parametric version 8.
Support for version 4.0 has been removed.
• The unified installer program now includes support for Speos for NX versions 1980 and 2007.
Support for versions 11, 12 and 1899 have been removed.
• The Ansys Sound: SAS application has been added to the unified installation program.
• The Discovery Additive application has been removed from the unified installation program.
• The single “Ansys Installation and Licensing” online help page has been split into separate pages.
For release 22.1 and higher, the help pages are split into ”Ansys Installation” and ”Ansys Licensing”.
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4. Licensing
The following enhancements were made to Ansys, Inc. Licensing for Release 2022 R1:
• To support the expanded licensing technology functionality and provide improved access to the
licensing documentation, the single “Ansys Installation and Licensing” online help page has been
split into separate pages. For release 22.1 and higher, the help pages are split into ”Ansys Install-
ation” and ”Ansys Licensing”.
• HPC license sharing has been modified to allow 4 free tasks across all variants irrespective of the
number of solver types in HPC parametric context flow.
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. Note that, if you are accessing our help directly at https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/ by
logging in with your Ansys Customer Portal user name (email) and password, the site does not currently
accept passwords that contain letters topped by umlaut marks.
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.
Ansys Help (https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/) will not be supported on the Internet Explorer browser after
the release of Ansys 2020 R2.
6. Verification Manual
The Verification Manuals for the following products were updated at 2022 R1:
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. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual: New Verification Test Cases
6.1.2. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual: Removed Verification Test Cases
6.1.1. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual: New Verification Test Cases

The following verification Mechanical APDL test cases have been added:
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6.1.2. Mechanical APDL Verification Manual: Removed Verification Test Cases

No Mechanical APDL verification test cases have been removed.
6.2. Workbench Verification Manual

The following sections outline the changes to the Workbench Verification Manual:
6.2.1. Workbench Mechanical: New Verification Test Cases
6.2.2. Workbench: Removed Verification Test Cases
6.2.1. Workbench Mechanical: New Verification Test Cases

The following Workbench Mechanical verification test cases have been added:
VM-WB-MECH-109 – Piezoelectric Rectangular Strip Under Pure Bending Load

A piezoceramic (PZT-4) rectangular strip is given. The material is oriented so that its polarization
direction is aligned with the Y axis. The strip is subjected to the pure bending load. Determine
the electro-elastic field distribution in the strip.
The following Workbench LS-DYNA verification test cases have been added:
VM-LSDYNA-WB-007 – Long Bar With Compressive Load

A multibody of four bars connected end to end has one of the end faces fixed, and a pressure
is applied to the opposite face. The multibody is used to nullify the numerical noise near the
contact regions. Find the maximum equivalent stress for the whole multibody as well as the
safety factor for each part using the maximum equivalent stress theory with tensile yield limit.
VM-LSDYNA-WB-008 – Plastic Compression of a Pipe Assembly
There are two coaxial tubes. The inner one is made of 1020 CR steel. The outer tube is made
of 2024-T4 aluminum alloy. They are compressed between heavy, flat end plates. Determine
the load-deflection curve of the assembly as it is compressed into the plastic region by an axial
displacement.
6.2.2. Workbench: Removed Verification Test Cases

No Workbench verification test cases have been removed.
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
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and archived documentation, undocumented commands, input files, and product previews), and online
support.
All product documentation is available in printable format (PDF). You can also copy content from
within the files into a word-processing program.
Ansys customer site access points:
• Tutorials and input files
To access tutorials and their input files, go to the tutorials area of the customer 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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Licensing
At Release 2022 R1, Ansys Mechanical products have transitioned to the new Ansys Common Licensing
model. Additional license increments have been added. The previous bundled license increments that
enable multiple applications (for example, ansys, mech2, mech1) remain unchanged. For more inform-
ation, see Summary of New and Changed Features in the Ansys, Inc. License Management Guide.
Release notes are available for the following Ansys Structural products:
Mechanical Application (p. 3)

Mechanical APDL (p. 15)
Autodyn (p. 35)
Aqwa (p. 37)
ACP (p. 39)
Material Designer (p. 41)
Additive Suite (p. 43)
Sherlock (p. 47)
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. New Tutorials Demonstrating Multistage Cyclic Symmetry Analysis
1.2.Technology Showcase: Example Problems
1.3. Changes in Product Behavior
1.4. General
1.5. Performance
1.6. Graphics
1.7. Geometry
1.8. Materials
1.9. External Model
1.10. Data Transfer and Mapping
1.11. Contact and Connections
1.12. Mesh
1.13. Fracture
1.14. Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation
1.15. Analysis
1.16. Symmetry
1.17. Structural Optimization
1.18. Ansys Motion
1.19. Loads/Supports/Conditions
1.20. Solution
1.21. Rigid Body Solver
1.22. Explicit Dynamics
1.23. Hydrodynamics
1.24. Results
1.25. Scripting
Backwards Compatibility: Ansys 2022 R1 was tested to read and resume databases from the following
previous versions: 2020 R1, 2020 R2, 2021 R1, and 2021 R2. Note that some products are able to read
and resume databases from releases prior to 2019 R2. See the specific product sections below for more
information. For those products that cannot directly read a 17.x, 18.x, or 19.x database in 2022 R1, first
resume it in a supported version and then resume that database in 2022 R1.
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Mechanical Application Release Notes
Third Party Application Support: Note the following version support changes and requirements:
• Abaqus. Version 6.11 is no longer supported as a part of the CAE Interfaces package. It only
works with Windows 7, which will no longer be supported, starting at 2020 R1. Abaqus 6.14 is
now the sole supported version.
• Samcef. Version 17.2 of the Samcef solver replaces Samcef 15.1 as the supported solver of the
CAE Interfaces package.
Important:
Mechanical no longer enables you to resume a database (.dsdb and .wbdb) file created in
Release 11.0 or earlier that contain items that convert into Mesh or Mechanical systems. To
import these files, first import them into a version between Release 12.0 and 2019 R2, save
as file, and then resume the project in Release 2022 R1.
1.1. New Tutorials Demonstrating Multistage Cyclic Symmetry Analysis

Two new tutorials with downloadable project archives (.wbpz) have been added to provide a hands-
on description of the multistage cyclic symmetry procedure. The tutorials discuss modeling tips and
demonstrate the power of multistage to combine independent cyclically symmetric structures (stages)
with different sector counts into a single model that leverages the efficiency of the cyclic symmetry
solution procedure. See Static and Modal Analysis of a Compressor Model with 4 Axial Stages and
Static Analysis of a 2-stage disk with pinholes – Beta Options in the Mechanical Tutorials.
1.2. Technology Showcase: Example Problems

The Workbench Technology Showcase contains new example problems with corresponding downloadable
input and .wbpz project files. These examples demonstrate the power of ANSYS Mechanical to solve
real-world problems from a wide range of industries and engineering disciplines.
1.3. Changes in Product Behavior

Release 2022 R1 includes several new features and enhancements that result in product behaviors that
differ from previous releases. These behavior changes are presented below.
• Line-to-Surface Contact. For contact between the edge of the beam and the surface or element
faces of a solid body that has the Edge Contact Type property set to Line Segments, the ap-
plication includes the beam cross section effect by default. This is done by sending KEYOPT(11)=1
for the CONTA177 element. See the description for KEYOPT(11)=1 in the Accounting for Thickness
Effect (KEYOPT(11)) section of the Mechanical APDL Contact Technology Guide for more information.
• Trace Import. Previously, during a trace analysis, the application did not consider the Reference
Temperature for the bodies of the geometry that had traces mapped onto them. Only the En-
vironment Temperature was used in the solution calculation. Now, you can specify a Reference
Temperature for each body of your model and the application includes this temperature for
any trace material contained in an element on the associated body.
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Performance
• Resource Prediction. The Resource Prediction feature now uses a Neural Network algorithm
for memory prediction. As a result, you may see slight discrepancies in predicted memory for
some models as compared to past releases.
• Material Dependent Damping. For a Damped Modal analysis, the application now sends the
Material-Dependent Structural Damping Coefficient (MP,DMPS) instead of Material-Dependent
Damping Ratio (MP,DMPR).
• Options Category of Analysis Settings. The "Skip Expansion" property has been renamed. It is
now labeled "On Demand Expansion."
• Quality Factor Probe. Now, during a Coupled Field Harmonic, the electric probe, Quality
Factor, uses the energies from purely structural bodies in addition to the Piezoelectric bodies
to calculate the result.
1.4. General
The following general enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• Filtering the Tree. The Type filter option now enables you to specify Comment, Figure, and
Image objects as search criteria.
• Exporting Data to a Text File. Now, when you are exporting data, such as contour results, or
Node- or Element-Based Named Selections, the application can automatically remove any duplicate
nodes contained in the data using the new Export preference, Remove Duplicate Nodes. This
control is turned off by default.
• Mesh Selection Support for Walk Feature. The Walk feature enables you to highlight and
zoom in the geometric entities of your model. This feature now supports all mesh selection op-
tions: Node, Element Face, and Element.
• Title Bar Display. The display of content in the title bar of the application has changed. Now,
when you have multiple systems linked together in Workbench, the title displays the letter des-
ignation for the systems. For example, "System A, B, C." In addition, a new property, Window
Title, has been added to the Model object that enables you to create your own name for the
window. Furthermore, preferences have been added to the Main Window Title Theme group
under UI Options that enable you to turn off the display of the application name and the license
in use on the title bar.
1.5. Performance
The following performance enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• Automatic Deletion of Unneeded Distributed Solution Files. Now, by default, when the Delete
Unneeded Files property is set to Yes (default), the application automatically executes the
Mechanical APDL command /FCLEAN. This command deletes all of the unneeded distributed
files from the scratch directory when performing a distributed solution. This action eliminates
the need to download potentially large distributed files, and as a result, completes your solution
faster. See the description for the Delete Unneeded Files property in the Analysis Data Manage-
ment section of the user guide for more information.
• Mode Superposition Linked Harmonic and Transient Analyses. Now, for linked Harmonic and
linked Transient Mode Superposition (MSUP) analyses, to improve processing performance by
eliminating the need to create internal elements:
– The default setting for the Applied By property for the Force and Pressure loading
conditions is now set to the Direct option.
– When you have a supported topology (geometric or mesh entity) selected on your model,
and you insert a Remote Force or a Moment load, the application automatically creates
(promotes) a corresponding Remote Point for the specified load and scopes the load to
that Remote Point. This promotion feature is only available when none of the analyses
in your project have been solved.
• Options Category of Analysis Settings. The On Demand Expansion property (formerly Skip
Expansion) is now supported:
– For Modal analyses, enabling the application to automatically change settings to improve
solution performance, reduce file size, and, as applicable, modify the parameters of the
any linked downstream Harmonic Response and Transient Structural analyses to also im-
prove their performance.
– When the Delete Unneeded Files property is set to Yes. This enables you to further de-
crease the solution directory size.
1.6. Graphics
The following graphical enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• Probe Label Displays Node ID. Probe labels that are snapped to mesh nodes (using the Snap
option) now display the Node ID in the Graphics Annotations window and on the label itself.
You can toggle whether the label displays the Node ID using the Show Node ID in Snap-Probe
Labels preference in Options > Graphics > Default Graphics Options.
• Graphics Annotations Window. The Graphics Annotations Window contains new display
features. You can now:
View the node ID associated to your snap-probe label.

Specify that user-defined labels now remain visible using the new Show Always column.
Change the color of a user-defined label or a probe label using the new Color column.
1.7. Geometry
The following geometry enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• Importing Geometry into Mechanical. The new Geometry Imports folder and Geometry Import
objects provide a new workflow for importing and reloading a project’s geometry. For each im-
ported geometry, the Geometry folder is updated with corresponding parts and bodies.
• Automatic Cross Section Renaming. The application cannot complete the solution process if
cross sections share the same name and will display an Error message. You can either manually
External Model
change the duplicate name or use the new context (right-click) menu option Rename Cross
Sections with Same Name to automatically change names.
1.8. Materials
For Release 2022 R1, Mechanical now supports:
• Three Network Model. The Engineering Workspace now supports the use of the hyperelastic
material model, Three Network Model.
• Solid-Shell Element for Imported Trace. Now, when you are using the Imported Trace feature,
you can define the model’s solid body with a Solid-Shell element (SOLSH190) using a mesh
Sweep Method Control.
1.9. External Model

The following External Model enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• Imported Boundary Conditions. New properties are now available for imported boundary
conditions.
– For imported Surface Loads, the new properties, Applied By and Convection Matrix,
are now available under the Convection Properties category on imported Surface Loads.
These properties are only visible when the input file has thermal convection loads. The
Applied By property enable you to choose how to apply convection loads (options include
Direct and Surface Effect) and the Convection Matrix property enables you to choose
which convection film coefficient matrix to use (options include Diagonal and Consistent).
– For imported Constraints and Nodal Loads, the new property, Applied By, is now
available for imported node-based constraints and loads. Options include for this property
include Program Controlled (default), Direct, and Components.
• Imported Bolt Pretensions and Premeshed Bolt Pretensions. External Model now supports
the ABAQUS parameter, ELEMENT, when importing Bolt Pretensions.
• Display Imported LS-DYNA Bodies: When you import LS-DYNA .k files, a body is created for
each keyword, *PART, found during processing. A *PART represents a group of finite elements
with the same characteristics. The name defined in the keyword *PART is now the name of the
body displayed in the Outline pane.
• ABAQUS Supported Materials Keywords. External Model now supports the import of the
*HYPERELASTIC ABAQUS Material Keyword into the Engineering Data workspace. In addition, for
this keyword, the following mutually exclusive parameters (material models) are supported:
– Mooney-Rivlin
– Neo-Hookean
– Ogden
– Polynomial
– Reduced Polynomial
– Yeoh
1.10. Data Transfer and Mapping

The following data transfer and mapping enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• Rigid Transformations. Now, when you import data from an External Data system, not only can
import rigid transformation from that upstream system, but you can also add additional rigid
transformation in the Mechanical application.
1.11. Contact and Connections

The following contact and connection enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
Contact Enhancements
• Contact Region Scoping (p. 8). Now, for 3D shell bodies (only), when you are using the
Mechanical APDL solver, you can scope the Contact and Target sides of a Contact Region to
elements. This scoping capability supports the Geometry and Named Selection scoping methods.
• Beam-Beam Model. Now, using the new contact scoping property, Beam-Beam Model, you
can select which traction-based model the application uses for beam-to-beam contact.
Connection Enhancements
• Spherical Joint. Now, for the Mechanical APDL solver, the Spherical Joint type enables you to
specify friction using the Friction Coefficient and Radius properties.
• End Release Scoping. You can now scope end releases to nodes and beam (line body) elements
in addition to vertices and edges. Note that the entities cannot be mixed.
1.12. Mesh
The Mechanical meshing enhancement described below has been made for Release 2022 R1.
2D Line Coating using Mesh Pull. You can now scope the Surface Coating option of the Pull object
to the edges of a two-dimensional axisymmetric surface body to create a line body from the under-
lying mesh. You can use the generated line body to study the influence of coatings (such as paint)
on these axisymmetric structures. These line coatings are represented by the elements SHELL208
(lower order) and SHELL209 (higher order).
For all other mesh related enhancements, refer to the Meshing (p. 149) Release Notes.
1.13. Fracture
The following fracture analysis enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
Symmetry
• Defining a Semi-Elliptical Crack. You can now:
– Specify a Semi-Elliptical Crack mesh on an imported mesh.
– Automatically remesh an imported hex or hex-dominant base mesh as a tetrahedral mesh

(as required by the Semi-Elliptical Crack) using the Re-mesh Hex-dominant to Tetra-
hedral property of Fracture folder.
1.14. Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation

See Workbench Additive (p. 44).
1.15. Analysis
For Release 2022 R1, the following analysis enhancements were made:
• Linked Harmonic Response (Mode Superposition). In a linked Harmonic Response (MSUP)

analysis when upstream Modal analysis has the Solver Type property set to Reduced Damped
and Store Complex Solution property set to No, the losses associated with Material Dependent
Damping, in Engineering Data, will be contributed by Constant Structural Damping Coefficient
(MP,DMPS).
• Substructure Generation Analysis. A new analysis type has been added to the application:
Substructure Generation. This analysis type enables you to 1) create a superelement of the
entire model that includes constraints and generated load vectors, and 2) incorporate pre-stress
effects into superelement generation from an upstream Static Structural analysis.
• Reinforcement Specification. You can now specify reinforcements during a Response Spectrum
analysis.
• Coupled Field Analyses.
– The Coupled Field Static analysis now supports the Acoustics and Electric (Charge
Based) physics types. This includes specifying Piezoelectric physics, Acoustic coupling
with Structural, and Piezoelectric physics.
– During a 2D analysis, the Piezoelectric physics combination is now supported on a lower-

order mesh.
– You can now pre-stress a Coupled Field Harmonic and a Coupled Field Modal analysis
with an upstream Coupled Field Static system. See the new Prestressed Coupled Field
Harmonic and Prestressed Coupled Field Modal sections for more information.
– Imported Heat Generation. You can now import Joule heating from a Coupled Field
Harmonic analysis to a Steady-State Thermal or a Transient Thermal analysis in the form
of a Imported Heat Generation object that is contained in an Imported Loads folder.
1.16. Symmetry
The following Symmetry analysis enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• General Axisymmetric. For this feature, you can now:
– Generate an axisymmetric mesh over an imported base mesh.
– Scope a Force load to the edges and vertices of a surface body being used by the General
Axisymmetric object. This Force load behaves as a Nodal Force.
1.17. Structural Optimization

The following Topology Optimization analysis enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• Design Constraints. New options are now available that provide additional methods for specifying
constraints on your model when performing a Structural Optimization analysis. The new menu,
Design Constraints, contains two former Manufacturing Constraint menu options, Cyclic Re-
petition (formerly Cyclic) and Symmetry and the new options Uniform and Pattern Repetition.
The Uniform option enables you to specify a design that has a constant Topology Density on
all planes parallel to a user-defined plane and the Pattern Repetition option enables you to
specify that the design will have the same pattern along the specified axial plane with a user-
defined offset value.
• Maximum Principal Stress. The Structural Optimization analysis now enables you to observe
Maximum Principal Stress. This is possible using the:
– Objective object Worksheet Formulation which now has a Formulation option Stress
that enables you to specify either Equivalent von-Mises Stress (default) or Maximum
Principal Stress.
– Response Constraint type, Global Stress Constraint that was previously named "Global
Equivalent von-Mises Stress". The new option enables you to specify either Equivalent
von-Mises Stress (default) or Maximum Principal Stress as a stress type.
1.18. Ansys Motion

The following enhancements were made to the Ansys Motion ACT extension at Release 2022 R1:
• The new User Defined Mass Object enables you to overwrite the Mass, Moments of Inertia, and
Centroid of selected rigid bodies.
• Contact Group Scoping: Contact Properties, Contact Friction Properties, and Tie Properties objects
now enable you to select a Connection Group in addition to a Contact Region, which will avoid the
creation of multiple objects.
• Function Previewer: Function Expression and Spline objects now display evaluated data as a graph.
• You may now insert a Design Variable object that can be used as of a parameter within a Function
Expression.
• Path Follower: Automate the creation of segments along Curvesets.
• Co-Simulation: The Co-Simulator object now supports FMI version 2.0.
Solution
• Improved Result Accuracy: Previously calculated at the centroid of the elements, now Stresses and
Strains are evaluated at the nodes to improve result accuracy.
• Joint Probe results are now available for postprocessing.
• Custom Result Objects: Custom Result objects have been added and enable you to evaluate the
result of function expression and user subroutine output and to plot it on a graph.
1.19. Loads/Supports/Conditions
The following loads/supports/conditions enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• Imported Remote Loads for Harmonic Response. You can now import Remote Force and
Moment loading conditions into a Harmonic Response analysis in Mechanical using data exported
from the Maxwell application. You insert an Imported Remote Loads object in the harmonic
system and then specify the desired file that contains the loads exported from Maxwell.
• Imported Displacement and Imported Body Temperature. When you have a Nonlinear Adaptive
Region object present in a Static Structural analysis, the boundary conditions Imported Displace-
ment and Imported Body Temperature have a new property: Apply To Initial Mesh. You use
this property to specify whether the boundary conditions are applied directly to the initial mesh
or to the newly generated mesh.
• Imported Heat Generation. You can now import Joule heating from a Coupled Field Harmonic
analysis to a Transient Thermal analysis in the form of a Imported Heat Generation object that
is contained in an Imported Loads folder.
• New Spatial Varying Load. Heat Flux is now supported as a spatially varying load.
• Enforced Motion with On Demand Expansion. Now, for Mode Superposition analyses using
the On Demand Expansion (formerly Skip Expansion) property, the Acceleration and Displace-
ment loading conditions are now supported as Base Excitation. This property is available in the
Options category of the Analysis Settings for the appropriate simulation types.
1.20. Solution
The following solution enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• 2D Line Coating using Mesh Pull. You can now scope the Surface Coating option of the Pull
object to the edges of a two-dimensional axisymmetric surface body to create a line body from
the underlying mesh. You can use the generated line body to study the influence of coatings
(such as paint) on these axisymmetric structures. These line coatings are represented by the
elements SHELL208 (lower order) and SHELL209 (higher order).
• Performing Remote Solutions. You can now use Ansys Distributed Compute Services (DCS) to
solve your simulations on a remote resource, directly from Mechanical. This feature supports
linked analyses, such as Pre-Stressed Modal, and efficiently handles the usage of solver files on
the remote resource.
• Command (APDL) Object Evaluation. If the Command (APDL) object is inserted or edited after
a full or partial solution, then you can issue post-processing commands for the available result
sets of the solution. The solution executes without incurring the cost of a full solve, as it sends
only the post commands and will generate post.out as a solution output file.
• Polling Remote Solve Manager. You can now specify a desired interval for when data is queried
from the Remote Solve Manager. The new preference, RSM Polling Delay, controls how often
the processing from the remote solution is polled or queried for result data. The default setting
is 5 seconds, but the supported range is 1 and 6000 seconds. This control is available from the
Analysis Settings and Solution category of the Options dialog.
Polling delays enable you to decrease network traffic by reducing the number of updates dis-
played. Furthermore, this feature does not prolong solution processing. Solution completion
ends the polling process.
• Getting Results from Remote Solution. When performing a Background or Remote solution,
you can display the RSM File Manager dialog to specify the input/output files you wish to
download. This dialog now includes options beside the Input Files and Output Files labels that
automatically select all options beneath the heading as well as a Reset button that restores default
check box selections. In addition, if you change the selections of the dialog, those selections are
saved for future Mechanical session until you reset the pane. In addition, if you change the se-
lections of the dialog, those selections are saved for future Mechanical sessions until you again
make changes.
• Resource Prediction. Now, when you perform a Resource Prediction, the progress of the calcu-
lation is displayed in the Status Bar.
1.21. Rigid Body Solver

The following Rigid Body Solver enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• Time Varying Acceleration. Rigid Dynamics analyses now support time varying Acceleration.
• Data Fitting Display. When a joint load requires fitting, the result of the fitting is displayed in
the joint load chart along with the user-specified values.
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).
The following Explicit Dynamics Solver enhancements have been made at Release 2022 R1:
• Multi-Material Euler in 2D. The Multi-Material Eulerian (MME) Solver is now supported in 2D as
a virtual Eulerian domain, and can be coupled to the 2D Lagrangian solvers.
The following enhancements have been made at Release 2022 R1 for the LS-DYNA Workbench system:
• LS-DYNA Version. 12.1 is the LS-DYNA version included in Release 2022 R1.
• Imported Displacement. The LS-DYNA Workbench system now supports Imported Displacement,
allowing you to setup the model in non-trivial ways. The mesh can either be initialized towards
a final mesh, allowing the solver to prestress the model, or it can be used to specify the reference
Results
geometry in foams applications, if you have the deformed mesh instead. The solver will automat-
ically calculate the stresses at the beginning of the calculation.
• Localization. The LS-DYNA Workbench system now supports the following languages: Chinese,
French, German, Japanese.
• Cyclic Symmetry. Cyclic Symmetry is now supported in the LS-DYNA Workbench system.
• Fluent to LS-DYNA Body Temperature Transfer. Transfer of body temperatures from Fluent
to LS-DYNA is now available by linking the systems in the Workbench project schematic.
• Restart Improvements. Displacements and Remote Displacement can now be modified in a

small restart calculation using the Change Boundary Condition load. In addition, initial velocities
can be modified for parts in small restarts and full restarts.
• Scoping Enhancements. Body scoping is now allowed for Shell bodies and Beam bodies in LS-
DYNA analyses.
• Foam Material Support. New Material Models have been added in support of foam applications:
– *MAT_CRUSHABLE_FOAM
– *MAT_BILKHU/DUBOIS
– *MAT_SIMPLIFIED_FOAM/RUBBER
– *MAT_FABRIC
1.23. Hydrodynamics
The following Hydrodynamic enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• Load Mapping with Mooring Forces. In addition to the hydrodynamic pressure distribution
from hydrodynamic response calculations, time domain loads of cable tensions, joint reactions,
and tether forces can be mapped to a Static Structural system.
1.24. Results
The following result enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
• Python Result. Mechanical now offers a result option that uses Iron-python script based on the
Data Processing Framework (DPF) post-processing toolbox to evaluate output quantities.
• Accelerated Animation. The Accelerated Animation feature now supports the display of the
mesh as well as the animation of springs.
• Structural Reaction User Defined Results. For the Mechanical APDL Solver, the Solution
Worksheet offers two new User Defined Result types: COMBI250_F and COMBI250_M. These
are element-based reaction results for force and moment that use the COMBI250 element.
• Joint Probe. You can now scope a Spherical Joint to a Joint Probe when the Result Type
property is set to one of the following options:
– Elastic Moment
– Damping Moment
– Friction Moment
• Face Angle Display Preference. There is a new Graphics display preference for face angles:
Maximum Face Angle to Preserve Edges. When you have the Edges result display set to Show
Undeformed Wireframe, you could experience display issues for edges when the tolerance
angle between two faces is insufficient. This preference enables you to increase this tolerance
in order to properly display all edges of the wireframe display.
• Path Results. Path results are now supported for models using cyclic symmetry (regular and
Multistage).
1.25. Scripting
The following Mechanical API enhancements were made at Release 2022 R1:
Python Result
Mechanical now offers a result option that uses Iron-python script based on the Data Processing
Framework (DPF) post-processing toolbox to evaluate output quantities.
Setting Result Display Options
A new result display preference is now available: Graphics.ViewOptions.ResultPref-

erence. This command enables you to define a variety of result display properties, such as
Minimum, Maximum, deformation scale factors, etc. It essentially enables you to specify options
from the Display group of the Result toolbar through scripts.
Note:
For change-related information, see Mechanical API Migration Notes.
Chapter 2: Mechanical APDL Release Notes
Release 2022 R1 of the Mechanical APDL application offers most of the capabilities from prior releases
plus many new features and enhancements. Areas where you will find updates and new capabilities
include the following:
• Structural (p. 15)
• Multiphysics (p. 23)
• Solvers (p. 24)
• Other Enhancements (p. 26)
• Commands (p. 26)
• Elements (p. 28)
• Documentation (p. 29)
• Technology Showcase: Example Problems (p. 30)
For more information about this release, see the Update Guide (p. 30) section of this document and
the Ansys Customer Site (p. xv).
2.1. Structural
Release 2022 R1 includes new features and enhancements for the following structural analysis disciplines:
2.1.1. Contact
2.1.2. Elements and Nonlinear Technology
2.1.3. Material and Fracture Modeling
2.1.4. Linear Dynamics
2.1.5.Transient Dynamics
2.1.1. Contact
Release 2022 R1 includes the following enhancements for analyses involving contact:
2.1.1.1. Dual-Shape Function Projection Method for Contact Detection
2.1.1.2. Adaptive Small Sliding
2.1.1.3. Shell Assembly Improvements
2.1.1.4. Spot Weld Improvements
2.1.1.5. Pretension Sections for General Axisymmetric Elements
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2.1.1.6. Contact Robustness
2.1.1.1. Dual-Shape Function Projection Method for Contact Detection

The dual-shape function projection method (KEYOPT(4) = 4 of CONTA172, CONTA174, and CONTA177)
is an extension of the standard surface projection method (KEYOPT(4) = 3) for contact detection.
The new method uses dual shape functions instead of displacement-shape functions for the discret-
ization of contact traction. Compared to the standard projection method, it reduces dependent
terms from the adjacent nodes for contact constraints built on each contact node. It is more efficient
in terms of solution performance and memory usage, and it generally remedies potential overcon-
straint due to MPC equations.
The dual-shape function projection method is recommended for Lagrange multiplier contact (KEY-
OPT(2) = 3 or 4), MPC bonded contact (KEYOPT(2) = 2), and small sliding behavior (KEYOPT(18) =
1 or 2). For more information, see Using the Surface Projection-Based Contact Method (KEYOPT(4)
= 3 or 4) in the Contact Technology Guide.
2.1.1.2. Adaptive Small Sliding

Prior to this release, only two sliding behavior options were available: finite sliding (KEYOPT(18) =
0) and small sliding (KEYOPT(18) = 1). The finite-sliding logic is computationally demanding but
guarantees solution accuracy. The small-sliding logic improves solution robustness but can cause
nonphysical results if the relative sliding motion does not remain small within the entire solution.
You can now specify a new adaptive small-sliding option (KEYOPT(18) = 2) when the contact interface
may undergo either small sliding or finite sliding within each substep. Contact searching is performed
only once in the beginning of each substep, which is cost-effective. If the contact status is closed,
small sliding is used during that substep; otherwise, finite sliding is used. Solution time-step cutback
is performed when the slip increment within a substep at any contact detection point exceeds 50
percent of the pair-based contact/target length.
The adaptive small-sliding capability improves robustness and solution performance compared to
the finite-sliding logic. It can also improve solution accuracy compared to the small-sliding logic,
and it can handle situations when contact pairs are initially in far-field and then come into contact
during the solution.
For more information, see Adaptive Small-Sliding Option in the Contact Technology Guide.
2.1.1.3. Shell Assembly Improvements

The following enhancements are available for shell assemblies modeled with bonded MPC contact:
• Enhanced SHSD Meshing Tool – The SHSD command builds projected constraints between
shell edges and solid surfaces. Previously, SHSD only supported shell edges modelled by CON-
TA175 elements. Now, SHSD can build constraints when using CONTA177 for modeling the shell
edge. Also, the ADJUST logic of the CNCHECK command is integrated into SHSD so that elimin-
ating gap/penetration and building constraints can occur under a single command.
• Robustness Improvement for Shell Assembly Connections – Shell assembly connections using
bonded MPC contact and a force-distributed constraint option (target element KEYOPT(5) = 3,
4, or 5) are improved when large rotation is included for shell-edge-to-shell-edge and shell-edge-
Structural
to-surface contact. The total number of iterations required to achieve solution convergence is
significantly reduced.
2.1.1.4. Spot Weld Improvements

The SWGEN command now generates MPC contact pairs (force-distributed constraints) instead of
node-to-surface contact pairs at the spot weld surfaces. For each spot weld surface, an additional
pilot node is created at the spot weld node and meshed with a TARGE170 element, and CONTA174
surface contact elements are generated on the spot weld surface. The pilot nodes become the end
nodes of the beam element that connects the two spot weld surfaces.
The changes improve spot weld robustness and consistency. Spot welds can now support a large
rotation-based framework and Lagrange multiplier force-distributed constraints. Performance of
spot weld generation is also improved.
For more information, see Defining a Spot Weld Set in the Contact Technology Guide.
2.1.1.5. Pretension Sections for General Axisymmetric Elements

New at this release, pretension sections (PSMESH) can be defined for the general axisymmetric
elements (SOLID272 and SOLID273). The PSMESH command cuts the element mesh at the specified
location and generates PRETS179 elements between all Fourier nodes in the circumferential direction.
2.1.1.6. Contact Robustness

The following robustness improvements are available for analyses that include contact:
• Consistent Pinball Radius – The default pinball radius has been revised for consistency between
large and small deflection analyses. Contact properties and initial contact status are now the
same regardless of how the large-deflection key is set (NLGEOM,ON or OFF).
• Spurious Contact Detection – Spurious contact detection has been refined to improve nonlinear
solution convergence. The local contact search now determines all target segments inside the
pinball radius to find the closest segment, preventing potential spurious contact.
• Enhanced Interference Fit – When modeling interference fit, if the automatic stiffness ramp-up
option is defined in the first substep (contact element real constant STRM = -1) and the initial
contact status is open or the initial penetration is smaller than the penetration tolerance, the
program disables the stiffness ramp-up logic by resetting STRM = 0. The new behavior generally
improves solution convergence.
• Maximum Cut-Off Contact Stiffness – The maximum cut-off contact stiffness (contact element
real constant FKN) for the exponential relationship (KEYOPT(6) = 3) is no longer dependent on
the initial pressure (PZER). To improve convergence, the program now switches to the aggressive-
variation contact stiffness option (KEYOPT(6) = 2) in some scenarios. For more information, see
Exponential Pressure-Penetration Relationship (KEYOPT(6) = 3) in the Contact Technology Guide.
• Improved Convergence for Rigid-Flexible Contact – The force-convergence reference calculation

for models involving a rigid target is improved. The reference calculation now accounts for the
L2 norm of the force from the contact nodes, generally improving solution convergence for rigid-
flexible contact.
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2.1.2. Elements and Nonlinear Technology

Release 2022 R1 includes the following enhancements to elements and nonlinear technology used
in structural analyses:
2.1.2.1. Enhancements for Penalty-Based Joint Elements
2.1.2.2. Smeared Reinforcing Bending Stiffness
2.1.2.3. ESYS Support for Cohesive Elements
2.1.2.4. Enhanced Moment Convergence
2.1.2.5. Initial-Mesh Loading and Constraint for Nonlinear Adaptivity
2.1.2.6. Inverse Solving for Uniaxial-Stiffness Elements
2.1.2.1. Enhancements for Penalty-Based Joint Elements

• Penalty-based joint elements are now supported for modal-based and linear perturbation analysis.
• The penalty-based spherical joint element now supports locks, stops, and friction.
2.1.2.2. Smeared Reinforcing Bending Stiffness

For 3-D smeared structural reinforcing (REINF265) using solid base elements, the analysis can now
account for plane-stress state with transverse shear stiffness and bending stiffness (SECCONTROL,,,3).
2.1.2.3. ESYS Support for Cohesive Elements

The default element coordinate system can now be changed via ESYS for 3-D cohesive elements
INTER204 and INTER205. The ESYS orientation uses the projection of the local system on the element
neutral surface. The projection is evaluated at each integration point and may vary in direction
throughout the element. For more information, see Modifying the Element Orientation in the Element
Reference.
2.1.2.4. Enhanced Moment Convergence

The program-calculated minimum reference value for moment convergence (MINREF on CNVTOL)
is improved, resulting in enhanced solution convergence and accuracy for cases where the reference
value is very small.
2.1.2.5. Initial-Mesh Loading and Constraint for Nonlinear Adaptivity

Normal pressure loading is now supported for initial-mesh loading and constraint in a nonlinear
adaptivity analysis. The enhanced capability also supports limited large-deflection effects (NLGEOM,
ON). For more information, see Initial-Mesh Loading and Constraint in the Nonlinear Adaptivity
Analysis Guide.
2.1.2.6. Inverse Solving for Uniaxial-Stiffness Elements

In addition to the supported 3-D solid elements (SOLID185, SOLID186, and SOLID187), inverse
solving is now available for the following element types with uniaxial stiffness: 3-D truss LINK180
Structural
and nonlinear spring COMBIN39. For more information, see Inverse-Solving Limitations in the
Structural Analysis Guide.
2.1.3. Material and Fracture Modeling

Release 2022 R1 includes the following enhancements to material modeling and fracture analysis
technology used in structural analyses:
2.1.3.1. Hyperelasticity with Embedded Fibers
2.1.3.2. Piecewise Linear Shift Function for Viscoelasticity
2.1.3.3. User-Defined Pseudo-Elastic Damage Model
2.1.3.4. Element Support for Anisotropic Hyperelasticity
2.1.3.5. Multilinear Isotropic and Kinematic Hardening Enhancement
2.1.3.6. Direct Tabular Entry of the Rate-Dependent Isotropic Hardening Option
2.1.3.7. User-Defined Free Strain for Porous Media
2.1.3.8. BCC Support for Crystal Plasticity
2.1.3.9. Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) with Plasticity
2.1.3.10. Material Customization Enhancements
2.1.3.11. Enhanced Linear Multivariate Interpolation
2.1.3.12. Hyperelastic Curve-Fitting with the Ansys Material Solver (AML)
2.1.3.13. Crack Closure for Fatigue Crack-Growth (FCG) Analysis
2.1.3.14. Adaptive Crack-Initiation Analysis
2.1.3.15. Dynamic Crack-Increment Control for Crack-Growth Analysis
2.1.3.16. Material Model Enhancements for Crack-Growth Analysis
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.
2.1.3.1. Hyperelasticity with Embedded Fibers

To model the effects of fiber embedded in a matrix, you can now add a fiber strain-energy potential
to the isotropic strain-energy potentials for incompressible and nearly incompressible models. The
new capability for isotropic hyperelastic models enables you to embed one or several fibers in the
isotropic material to simulate natural fibrous materials (such as blood vessels and muscle) and
other fiber-reinforced materials (such as fiber composites). For more information, see Embedded
Fibers (TB,HYPER,,,,EXnn) in the Material Reference.
2.1.3.2. Piecewise Linear Shift Function for Viscoelasticity

A new piecewise linear shift function is available, defined as a set of points of absolute temperate
vs. . The value of the shift function is obtained by interpolating the value of
at the current absolute temperature and converting the value to . For more
information, see Piecewise Linear Shift Function in the Material Reference.
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2.1.3.3. User-Defined Pseudo-Elastic Damage Model

The Mullins effect damage model (TB,CDM) for hyperelastic materials has a new user-programmable
feature enabling you to define your own pseudo-elastic damage model to better match the fatigue
and damage behavior of cyclically loaded hyperelastic and hyperviscoelastic materials. For more
information, see Mullins Effect (TB,CDM) in the Material Reference and Subroutine userMullins
(Writing Your Own Pseudo-Elastic Mullins Effect Law) in the Programmer's Reference.
2.1.3.4. Element Support for Anisotropic Hyperelasticity

The anisotropic hyperelasticity material model now supports the coupled pore-pressure-thermal
mechanical solid (CPTnnn) elements, enabling you to better model biological materials (such as
skeleton, brain, and tissue) and other hyperelastic materials impregnated with a fluid. The new
capability for anisotropic hyperelasticity can now consider anisotropic properties for the solid parts
of such models.
2.1.3.5. Multilinear Isotropic and Kinematic Hardening Enhancement

By default, Mechanical APDL error traps for negative tangent slopes of the stress-strain curve for
multilinear isotropic and kinematic hardening models. It is now possible to allow negative tangent
slopes (TBEO,NEGSLOPE,1). For more information, see Rate-Independent Plasticity in the Material
Reference.
2.1.3.6. Direct Tabular Entry of the Rate-Dependent Isotropic Hardening Option

Equivalent plastic strain rate-dependent isotropic hardening can now be defined for bilinear isotropic
hardening (TB,PLASTIC,,,,BISO), multilinear isotropic hardening (TB,PLASTIC,,,,MISO), and nonlinear
isotropic hardening (TB,NLISO,,,,VOCE / POWER). The direct tabular entry rate-dependent model
also supports valid material model combinations, so you can use it as an alternative to rate-depend-
ent isotropic hardening combinations and TB,RATE. For more information, see Direct Tabular Entry
of Rate-Dependent Isotropic Hardening Option in the Material Reference.
2.1.3.7. User-Defined Free Strain for Porous Media

You can now define the free-strain increment (TB,CTE,,,,UFSTRAIN) in a transient analysis involving
porous media via a new userfreestrain subroutine. The free-strain rate term behaves in one of two
ways depending on whether the temperature degree of freedom is enabled. The subroutine supports
user-defined state variables. For more information, see Free-Strain Rate in the Material Reference
and Subroutine userfreestrain (Defining Your Own Free-Strain Increment) in the Programmer's Ref-
erence.
2.1.3.8. BCC Support for Crystal Plasticity

The crystal plasticity model for elasto-viscoplastic crystalline materials (TB,XTAL) now supports
body-centered cubic (BCC) materials, where the resistance due to thermal barriers remains constant.
The new capability enables you to model the mechanical behavior of materials such as iron, ferritic
steels, tungsten, chromium, and their composites at crystalline microstructure-length scales. For
more information, see Crystal Plasticity in the Material Reference.
Structural
2.1.3.9. Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) with Plasticity

In addition to simulating an SMA exhibiting superelasticity (pseudoelasticity) and shape memory
effect behavior, Mechanical APDL can now simulate the shape memory effect with plasticity beha-
vior. The newly supported SMA option includes superelasticity, the shape memory effect, and plastic
yielding. For more information, see Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) in the Material Reference.
2.1.3.10. Material Customization Enhancements

You can now combine user subroutines for material customization and use them together. User-
defined state variables (TB,STATE) are now supported by most of the subroutines that customize
material behavior. For more information, see Customizing Material Behavior in the Material Reference
and Subroutines for Customizing Material Behavior in the Programmer's Reference.
2.1.3.11. Enhanced Linear Multivariate Interpolation

The linear multivariate interpolation algorithm (used with TB and TBFIELD) now uses an improved
meshing method. Also, the algorithm is now capable of projecting the query point to the convex
hull generated prior to the interpolation process (TBIN,EXTR. For more information, see Interpolation
Algorithms in the Material Reference.
2.1.3.12. Hyperelastic Curve-Fitting with the Ansys Material Solver (AML)

Hyperelastic parameter-fitting now uses the Mechanical APDL Material Solver( AML) for most hyper-
elastic material models. Prony Series and Mullins Effect can also be now combined with all supported
hyperelastic models. For more information, see Hyperelastic Material Curve-Fitting in the Material
Reference and TBFT.
2.1.3.13. Crack Closure for Fatigue Crack-Growth (FCG) Analysis

You can now add a crack-closure effect in a SMART-based fatigue crack-growth analysis using the
Paris’ law or tabular fatigue law criterion. Elber, Schijve, Newman, and polynomial crack-closure
functions are available. For more information, see Fatigue Crack-Growth Mechanics in the Fracture
Analysis Guide.
2.1.3.14. Adaptive Crack-Initiation Analysis

It is now possible to simulate crack initialization in engineering structures via SMART (separating,
morphing, adaptive, and remeshing) technology. The SMART method for crack initiation works with
the SMART method for crack-growth. A SMART crack-initiation simulation is assumed to be quasi-
static. It can be applied to perform a static or fatigue crack-growth simulation. For more information,
see SMART Method for Crack-Initiation Simulation in the Fracture Analysis Guide.
2.1.3.15. Dynamic Crack-Increment Control for Crack-Growth Analysis

When a crack begins to grow in a SMART-based crack-growth analysis, the mesh around the crack
front determines the crack-increment size. A very small crack increment can result in an excessive
number of crack-growth increments and solution steps. Similarly, in an analysis using a larger initial
crack increment, a crack front may approach a critical regime (such as a boundary or interface) as
the crack propagates, requiring a finer mesh around the crack front and a correspondingly smaller
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crack-growth increment. Two methods are now available enabling you to control the crack increment
during the analysis. For more information, see Crack-Growth Dynamic Crack-Increment Control in
the Fracture Analysis Guide.
2.1.3.16. Material Model Enhancements for Crack-Growth Analysis

Fracture criteria (KIC and JIC) for SMART-based static crack-growth analysis can now be temperature-
and/or time-dependent (supported via new material data tables).
For SMART-based fatigue crack-growth analysis (where temperature dependence is already supported
for all fatigue crack-growth models), constants for the Paris' Law criterion and the data points for
tabular fatigue law can now also be defined as a function of stress ratio (supported via a new SRAT
field variable).
For more information, see Defining the Fracture Criterion in the Fracture Analysis Guide, TB,CGCR,
and CGROW,FCOPTION.
2.1.4. Linear Dynamics

Release 2022 R1 includes the following enhancements for structural analyses involving linear dynamics:
2.1.4.1. Multiple Harmonic Indices in Multistage Cyclic Symmetry Analysis
2.1.4.2. Solution Comparison Using the Frequency Response Function (FRF) Correlation Method
2.1.4.3. Modal Expansion Supported for Models with Superelements and Finite Element Parts
2.1.4.1. Multiple Harmonic Indices in Multistage Cyclic Symmetry Analysis

Multistage cyclic symmetry analyses can now include harmonic indices beyond the fundamental
solution harmonic. The multiharmonic approach enables you to represent a single physical stage
using an original stage associated with the fundamental solution harmonic index and stage clones
for additional harmonic indices.
When a multiharmonic stage is combined with another stage, the accuracy may improve depending
on the physics of the system. The resulting static, modal, or linear perturbation modal results can
be expanded to show the accumulated results or expanded as individual harmonics to show how
each harmonic index contributes to the entire solution.
For more information, see the Multistage Cyclic Symmetry Analysis Guide and Static Analysis of a 2-
stage disk with pinholes – Beta Options in the Mechanical Tutorials.
2.1.4.2. Solution Comparison Using the Frequency Response Function (FRF)

Correlation Method
In addition to the modal assurance criterion (MAC), you can now use FRF correlation analysis to
compare an experimental and a FE generated frequency response function (FRF). Two criteria are
supported to correlate FRFs over a frequency range:
• Cross-signature assurance criterion (CSAC) – A measure of the shape correlation between

experimental and FE generated responses and is sensitive to changes in mass and stiffness.
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• Cross-signature scale factor (CSF) – A measure of the difference in amplitude between

measured and FE generated responses and is sensitive to changes in damping.
For more information, see Comparing Nodal Solutions From Two Models or From One Model and
Experimental Data (RSTMAC) in the Basic Analysis Guide and POST1 – Frequency response function
correlation in the Theory Reference.
2.1.4.3. Modal Expansion Supported for Models with Superelements and Finite
Element Parts
If a model contains at least one superelement and finite element parts, the element results of the
finite element (non-superelement) parts can now be expanded using modal element results com-
bination (MSUPkey = YES on MXPAND). The expansion requires less solution time compared to
calculating results from the displacement solution (MSUPkey = no). It can be applied to all mode-
superposition analyses: spectrum, PSD, mode-superposition transient, and mode-superposition
harmonic. For more information, see Option: Number of Modes to Expand (MXPAND) in the Struc-
tural Analysis Guide.
2.1.5. Transient Dynamics

Release 2022 R1 includes the following enhancement for solutions involving transient dynamics:
2.1.5.1. Enhanced HHT Time Integration Algorithm

The following enhancements improve the robustness of the HHT time integration algorithm:
• When using HHT, the stiffness matrix calculation for the first iteration of a substep is improved.
• The program now continues with HHT time integration during a load-step change or during a
restart. Previously, the solution reverted to the Newmark time-integration algorithm for the first
substep of a new load step or the first substep of a restart analysis.
2.2. Multiphysics
Release 2022 R1 includes the following enhancements for analyses involving multiphysics environments:
2.2.1. Acoustics
2.2.2.Thermal
2.2.3. Coupled-Field
2.2.1. Acoustics
The following enhancement for acoustic analysis is available in this release:
• You can now define perfectly matched layers (PML) in modal and transient acoustic analyses to
model an infinite domain. Previously, only harmonic acoustic analyses supported PML.
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2.2.2. Thermal
The following enhancement for thermal analysis is available in this release:
2.2.2.1. New Element Key Options

Two new key options have been added to thermal elements SOLID278, SOLID279, SOLID291,
PLANE292, and PLANE293:
• A film coefficient matrix key option for specifying a diagonal or a consistent form of the matrix
to reduce spurious spatial oscillations in the temperature solution on surfaces with convection
loads.
• A specific heat matrix key option for specifying a diagonal or consistent form of the matrix.
2.2.3. Coupled-Field
The following enhancements are available for analyses involving coupled-field elements:
2.2.3.1. Enhanced Strain Formulation for PLANE222 and SOLID225 for Structural-
Thermal Analysis
You can now enable the enhanced strain formulation in a structural-thermal analysis by setting
KEYOPT(6) = 2 on PLANE222 and SOLID225 coupled-field elements. The enhanced strain formulation
improves solution accuracy in bending-dominated and nearly incompressible problems by preventing
shear and volumetric locking, respectively.
2.2.3.2. Coupled-Field Analysis Enhanced Robustness

Stiffness matrix calculation is improved for nonlinear coupled-field analyses using elements PLANE222,
PLANE223, SOLID225, SOLID226, SOLID227 when heat rate generation load (HGEN) and electrical
resistivity (RSVX, RSVY, RSVZ) are temperature-dependent. The enhancement generally achieves
convergence with fewer iterations and reduced solution time.
2.2.3.3. PML for 2-D Harmonic Piezoelectric Analysis

You can now define perfectly matched layers (PML) in a 2-D harmonic piezoelectric analysis (KEY-
OPT(15) = 1 on PLANE222 and PLANE223). The PML feature truncates the finite element model
where the outgoing waves propagate toward infinity, providing a more efficient solution. Previously,
the PML option was available for 3-D piezoelectric analysis only.
2.3. Solvers
Release 2022 R1 includes the following improvements to the solution process:
2.3.1. Distributed Ansys Enhancements
2.3.2. PCG Solver Support for MPC184 Joint Elements
2.3.3. Eigensolver Enhancements for Buckling Analysis
Solvers
2.3.1. Distributed Ansys Enhancements

The following updates for Distributed Ansys have been added:
2.3.1.1. Hybrid Parallel Processing
2.3.1.2. Upgraded Support for MPI Versions
2.3.1.3. Improved Performance for Models with Unsymmetric Matrices
2.3.1.1. Hybrid Parallel Processing

In addition to distributed-memory parallel (DMP) and shared-memory parallel (SMP), you can now
use hybrid parallel processing, a combination of SMP and DMP that runs master and worker processes
in parallel (like DMP) and allows multiple threads per process during solution (like SMP).
Hybrid parallel processing can reduce memory usage, make more effective use of available hardware,
and improve scalability of large models with high element load-balance ratios. Hybrid parallel pro-
cessing can be activated in either of the following ways:
• Explicitly if you specify multiple threads/process (by setting the command line option -nt >1).
• Automatically if no value has been specified for -nt and the specifics of your analysis indicates
that using hybrid parallel will improve performance.
For more information see Specifying Processes, Threads, and Cores in SMP, DMP, and Hybrid Parallel
and Using Hybrid Parallel Processing (SMP + DMP) in the Parallel Processing Guide.
2.3.1.2. Upgraded Support for MPI Versions

• For Linux, support for Intel MPI has been added for Intel MPI 2019 Update 12. Intel MPI 2018
Update 3 is still supported as the default MPI software.
• For Windows, support for Intel MPI has been upgraded from version 2019 Update 9 to 2019 Update
10.
2.3.1.3. Improved Performance for Models with Unsymmetric Matrices

Models having coupling and/or constraint equations and generating unsymmetric matrices have
faster solution times and require less memory and storage space. The improvements are more sig-
nificant with higher (> 64) CPU core counts.
2.3.2. PCG Solver Support for MPC184 Joint Elements

Use of the PCG solver with MPC184 joint elements has been expanded. Penalty-based element formu-
lation (KEYOPT(2) = 1) is now supported.
2.3.3. Eigensolver Enhancements for Buckling Analysis

The subspace (SUBSP) and Block Lanczos (LANB) algorithms for buckling analysis (BUCOPT command)
have been enhanced, especially for the RangeKey = CENTER option. Performance and robustness
are improved when a large number of eigenvalues are requested.
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2.4. Other Enhancements

The following other enhancements have been added:
2.4.1. Automatic Inertia Relief

The new AIRL command enables you to include inertia relief calculations in a static analysis without
defining any supports, providing a more automated work flow and more accurate results. Automatic
inertia relief is valid for linear static analyses run in shared memory parallel (SMP) mode. The structure
can have up to six rigid body modes. For more information, see Including Inertia Relief Calculations
in the Basic Analysis Guide.
2.4.2. File Compression

The following file-compression improvements have been implemented:
• The mode file (Jobname.mode) generated during a modal analysis is now partially compressed.
Up to 50% reduction in file size can be realized under optimal conditions.
• The file compression algorithm has been enhanced to be more efficient. As a result, the size of the
results file (Jobname.rst) is generally smaller.
• The results file (Jobname.rst) is now partially compressed for mode superposition analyses.
2.5. Commands
This section describes changes to commands at Release 2022 R1:
2.5.1. New Commands
2.5.2. Modified Commands
2.5.3. Undocumented Commands
Some commands are inaccessible from menus and are available via the command-input field or batch-
file input only. The documentation for each command indicates menu path information, if available.
2.5.1. New Commands

The following new commands are available:
• ADPCI – Defines parameters for adaptive crack-initiation analysis.
• AIRL – Activates automatic inertia relief calculations.
• CESEL – Selects constraint equations via predefined reference numbers.
• CPSEL – Selects coupled degree-of-freedom sets via predefined reference numbers.
2.5.2. Modified Commands

The following commands have been enhanced or otherwise modified:
Commands
• AMBUILD – Specifies printer parameters for the build and other options in an additive manufacturing
analysis. A new error-checking flag enables you to omit certain error checks during meshing.
• AMSTEP – Specifies the process-sequence steps in an additive manufacturing analysis. A new option
adds a bias growth factor for time steps between layer additions in the build sequence. With some
materials (Al alloys in particular), the default of evenly spaced time steps may not adequately capture
the cooldown. The bias growth factor adjusts the time spacing to better resolve temperatures as
they cool between layers.
• CINT – Defines parameters associated with fracture-parameter calculations. Support has been added
for adaptive crack-initiation analysis.
• PMLOPT – Defines perfectly matched layers (PMLs) or irregular perfectly matched layers (IPML).
The command has been expanded to enhance the attenuated wave specification.
• PSMESH – Creates and meshes a pretension section or a preload section. The command can now
create a pretension section for general axisymmetric elements (SOLID272 and SOLID273). It cuts
the model and generates the PRETS179 elements between all Fourier nodes in the circumferential
direction.
• SECCONTROL – Supplements or overrides default section properties. In a 3-D smeared structural

reinforcing analysis with solid base elements, the command can now activate the plane-stress state
with transverse shear stiffness and bending stiffness (MEMOPT = 3).
• SHSD – Creates a shell-solid interface to be used in shell-to-solid assemblies. The command func-
tionality has been improved. It now supports shell edges modelled by line-to-surface contact ele-
ments (CONTA177), and it includes an adjustment option to close initial penetration or gap (similar
to CNCHECK,ADJUST).
• SWGEN – Creates a new spot weld set. The spot weld generation procedure has been changed so
that SWGEN now generates MPC contact pairs (force-distributed constraints) instead of node-to-
surface contact pairs at the spot weld surfaces. For more information, see Creating a Basic Spot
Weld Set with SWGEN in the Contact Technology Guide.
• TB – Activates a data table for material properties or special element input. A new material data
table has been added to support adaptive crack-initiation analysis (TB,CRKI). New options for the
isotropic hyperelastic model (TB,HYPER,,,,EXnn) enable you to embed one or several fibers in the
isotropic material to simulate natural fibrous materials (such as blood vessels and muscle) and
other fiber-reinforced materials (such as fiber composites). A new option for the crystal plasticity
model (TB,XTAL) supports body-centered cubic (BCC) flow parameters. You can now include a
crack-closure effect (TB,CGCR,,,,ClosureFunc) in a SMART-based fatigue crack-growth analysis
via four (Elber,Schijve, Newman, and polynomial) new crack-closure functions. New options for the
shape memory alloy (SMA) model (TB,SMA) enable you to simulate the shape memory effect with
plasticity behavior.
• TBEO – Sets special options or parameters for material data tables. A new option allows negative
tangent slopes (TBEO,NEGSLOPE,1) of the stress-strain curve for multilinear isotropic and kinematic
hardening models.
• TBFIELD – Defines the values of field variables for material data tables. Equivalent plastic strain
rate-dependent isotropic hardening can now be defined (TBFIELD,PLSR) for bilinear isotropic
hardening (TB,PLASTIC,,,,BISO), multilinear isotropic hardening (TB,PLASTIC,,,,MISO), and nonlinear
isotropic hardening (TB,NLISO,,,,VOCE / POWER). For SMART-based fatigue crack-growth analysis,
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datapoints for Paris’ law and tabular fatigue law can now be specified as a function of stress ratio
(TBFIELD,SRAT).
• PRCINT – Lists fracture parameter (CINT) results data. The position attribute of the crack-tip node
(APOS) has been enhanced. The command now supports U-factor (crack closure) in a fatigue crack-
growth analysis.
• MACOPT – Specifies modal assurance criterion (MAC) or frequency response function (FRF) correl-
ation criteria calculation options for RSTMAC. A new option enables you to specify required inputs
for the FRF correlation method.
2.5.3. Undocumented Commands

No commands have been undocumented at this release.
For information about commands that have been undocumented in prior releases, see the archived
release notes (p. xi) for Mechanical APDL.
2.6. Elements
This section describes changes to elements at Release 2022 R1:
2.6.1. Modified Elements
2.6.2. Undocumented Elements
Some elements are not available from within the GUI. For a list of those elements, see GUI-Inaccessible
Elements.
2.6.1. Modified Elements

The following elements have been enhanced:
• COMBIN39 – This nonlinear spring element now supports inverse solving.
• CONTA172, CONTA174, CONTA177 – These contact elements have a new option for contact detection.
The dual-shape function projection method (KEYOPT(4) = 4) is an extension of the standard surface-
projection method. It is more efficient in terms of solution performance and memory usage and
generally remedies potential overconstraint due to MPC equations.
• CONTA172, CONTA174, CONTA175, CONTA177 – These contact elements have a new sliding beha-
vior option. Adaptive small-sliding (KEYOPT(18) = 2) can be used when the contact interface may
undergo either small sliding or finite sliding within each substep.
• LINK180 – This 3-D truss element now supports inverse solving.
• PLANE182 and PLANE183 – These 2-D structural solid elements now have a perfectly matched
layers (PML) option (KEYOPT(15) = 1) to truncate the infinite domain in 2-D structural static and
harmonic analyses.
• FLUID30, FLUID220, and FLUID221 – These 3-D acoustic fluid elements now support perfectly
matched layers (PML) (KEYOPT(4)) in modal and transient acoustic analyses.
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• REINF265 – This 3-D smeared structural reinforcing element, if used with solid base elements, can
now account for plane-stress state with transverse shear stiffness and bending stiffness (SECCON-
TROL,,,3).
• PLANE222, PLANE223, and SOLID225 – These coupled-field elements now have a perfectly matched
layers (PML) option (KEYOPT(15) = 1) to truncate the infinite domain in harmonic piezoelectric
analyses.
• PLANE222 and SOLID225 –You can now enable the enhanced strain formulation for these coupled-
field elements in a structural-thermal analysis via a new key option (KEYOPT (6) = 2) to improve
solution accuracy by preventing shear and volumetric locking in bending-dominated and nearly
incompressible problems, respectively.
2.6.2. Undocumented Elements

No elements have been undocumented at this release.
For information about elements that have been undocumented in prior releases, see the archived
release notes (p. xi) for Mechanical APDL.
2.7. Documentation
ANSYS, Inc. continues to refine the Mechanical APDL documentation set. To that end, the following
notable changes and enhancements to the documentation have occurred:
2.7.1. 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
installation of the product.
2.7.1.1. Subroutine userMullins

The new userMullins subroutine (accessed via TB,CDM,,,,MUSER) enables you to write your own
pseudo-elastic Mullins Effect law. The subroutine supports user-defined state variables. For more
information, see Mullins Effect (TB,CDM) in the Material Reference and Subroutine userMullins
(Writing Your Own Pseudo-Elastic Mullins Effect Law) in the Programmer's Reference.
2.7.1.2. Subroutine userfreestrain

You can now define the free-strain increment in a transient analysis involving porous media via a
new userfreestrain subroutine (accessed via TB,CTE,,,,UFSTRAIN). The subroutine supports user-
defined state variables. For more information, see Free-Strain Rate in the Material Reference and
Subroutine userfreestrain (Defining Your Own Free-Strain Increment) in the Programmer's Reference.
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2.7.2. Feature Archive

Legacy features, commands, elements, material models, 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 undocumented in future releases. Consider moving to their recommended replacements.
For information about especially notable features that have been archived, see Features Removed or
Archived (p. 34) in the Update Guide (p. 30) section of this document.
2.8. Technology Showcase: Example Problems

The analyses presented in the Technology Showcase: Example Problems demonstrate the extraordinarily
broad simulation capabilities of Mechanical APDL. The real-world problems highlight the features and
effectiveness of Mechanical APDL by presenting a series of analyses from a variety of engineering dis-
ciplines.
The problems are more substantive and complex than examples found in the standard documentation
set. The documentation thoroughly examines the physics involved with each problem and the consid-
erations necessary for translating problems into numerical models. Approximation issues, accuracy
considerations, and recommended practices are discussed. For more information, see What You Need
to Know.
Many of the Mechanical APDL Technology Showcase problems can also be performed entirely within
the Mechanical Application. For more information, see the Workbench Technology Showcase: Example
Problems.
2.9. Mechanical APDL Release 2022 R1 Update Guide

This section contains information about feature enhancements that can affect program behavior or
analysis results in ways that you may not expect. Also covered are known incompatibilities, notable issues
and defects that have been resolved, and information about replacement capabilities for features that
have been removed.
The following topics offer supplemental 2022 R1 product-update information presented by the Mech-
anical APDL development and testing teams:
2.9.1. Backward Compatibility
2.9.2. Feature Updates Causing Result or Behavior Changes
2.9.3. Known Incompatibilities
2.9.4. Known Issues
2.9.5. Resolved Issues and Defects
2.9.6. Features Removed or Archived
If you are upgrading across several releases, you may find it helpful to consult the Update Guide sections
of the archived release notes (p. xi) for Mechanical APDL.
For information about past, present, and future operating system support, see the Platform Support
section of the Ansys Website.
Mechanical APDL Release 2022 R1 Update Guide
2.9.1. Backward Compatibility

Mechanical APDL Release 2022 R1 can read database files from all prior releases. Due to ongoing
product improvements and defect resolutions, however, results obtained from old databases running
in new releases may differ somewhat from those obtained previously.
2.9.2. Feature Updates Causing Result or Behavior Changes

The following Mechanical APDL feature updates in Release 2022 R1 are known to produce program
behaviors or analysis results that differ from those of the prior release:
2.9.2.1. Auto-Hybrid Feature May Automatically Invoke Hybrid Parallel Processing
2.9.2.2. Default Value for Contact Element Real Constant TOLS
2.9.2.3. Calculation of Contact Strain Energy
2.9.2.4. Calculation of the Consistent Elastoplastic Tangent
2.9.2.1. Auto-Hybrid Feature May Automatically Invoke Hybrid Parallel Pro-

cessing
Although distributed-memory parallel (DMP) is the default parallel processing type, the specifics of
your analysis may indicate that using hybrid parallel processing will improve performance. If so,
and if you have not explicitly specified the number of threads/process (via command line option
-nt), the program invokes hybrid parallel processing automatically. For more information, see Auto-
hybrid in the Parallel Processing Guide.
2.9.2.2. Default Value for Contact Element Real Constant TOLS

The default value for the TOLS real constant (target edge extension factor) on the contact elements
is now 2 (that is, 2 percent of the target edge length) for both small and large deflection
(NLGEOM,OFF and NLGEOM,ON, respectively). Previously, the default was 10 for small deflection
and 2 for large deflection.
2.9.2.3. Calculation of Contact Strain Energy

The contact strain energy calculation has changed. Previously, a constant contact stiffness was as-
sumed when calculating energy. Now, the program accounts for the change in contact stiffness.
Contact strain energy values therefore differ from those of previous releases.
2.9.2.4. Calculation of the Consistent Elastoplastic Tangent

The consistent elastoplastic tangent calculation has been modified for the following material
models to improve the convergence behavior of the Newton-Raphson solution method:
• Geomechanical materials (TB,CONCR, TB,SOIL,,,,CAMCLAY, TB,JROCK, and TB,MC)
• Cast iron (TB,CAST)
• Crushable foam (TB,CFOAM)
• Extended Drucker-Prager combined with porous elasticity (TB,EDP + TB,PELAS)
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If your model exhibits convergence issues when using any of the material models indicated, adjust
the time-step size (DELTIM or NSUBST), line search (LNSRCH), or predictor (PRED) settings.
2.9.3. Known Incompatibilities

The following incompatibility with prior releases is known to exist at Release 2022 R1:
• Spot Welds – The behavior of the SWGEN command has changed. Previously, SWGEN created
two node-to-surface contact pairs for each new spot weld set, with a beam element connecting
the two pairs at the spot weld nodes. Each contact pair contained one CONTA175 element at
the spot weld node and a number of TARGE170 target elements (determined by the search
radius) on the spot weld surface.
SWGEN now generates MPC contact pairs (force-distributed constraints) instead of node-to-
surface contact pairs. An additional pilot node is created at each spot weld node and meshed
with a TARGE170 element. CONTA174 surface contact elements are created on the spot weld
surface as determined by the surface nodes lying within the search radius. The pilot nodes
become the end nodes of the beam element that connects the two spot weld surfaces.
2.9.4. Known Issues

The following issues are known to exist at Release 2022 R1:
2.9.4.1. Models Running on AMD Processors May Crash
2.9.4.2. Program May Run Slow for DMP Simulations with > 64 AMD CPU Cores on Windows
2.9.4.3.Traceback Error When Running Mechanical APDL via VNC
2.9.4.4. Output File May Be Incorrect for Manual Hybrid Parallel
2.9.4.5. Auto-Hybrid May Cause the Program to Crash in Some Analyses
2.9.4.6. When Running on Clusters, Small Models or Analyses Using Auto-Hybrid Parallel May Fail
For information about issues that may have been discovered after publication of this document, see
Mechanical APDL in the Ansys, Inc. Known Issues and Limitations.
2.9.4.1. Models Running on AMD Processors May Crash

Crashes due to the AMD BLIS math library may occur when running on older AMD processors that
do not support AVX2 instructions.
Workaround: Issue this command line option on the ansys221 command to use the Intel MKL
library, even on AMD processors:
-blas intel
2.9.4.2. Program May Run Slow for DMP Simulations with > 64 AMD CPU Cores
on Windows
When using more than 64 processes in a Distributed-Memory Parallel (DMP) simulation on Windows
systems with more than 64 AMD CPU cores, the program may run slower than expected due to
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processes being pinned to 64 or fewer cores. The issue does not exist on systems with Intel pro-
cessors, when running with 64 or fewer AMD cores, or on Linux.
2.9.4.3. Traceback Error When Running Mechanical APDL via VNC

When running the Mechanical APDL user interface on a remote computer accessed via virtual network
computing (VNC), a traceback error may occur upon closing the program. Although an error is
displayed, the user interface does not abort and remains fully functional. The issue occurs only on
Ubuntu and CentOS operating systems.
2.9.4.4. Output File May Be Incorrect for Manual Hybrid Parallel

When you prescribe a hybrid parallel simulation manually (either by setting command line options
-np and -nt to the desired number of processes and threads/process or by setting those values
in the Product Launcher), the number of SMP threads and the total number of cores used indicated
at the bottom of every output file may be incorrect.
Workaround: Find the correct number of processes, threads/process, and total cores requested
(and used) at the top of the output file.
2.9.4.5. Auto-Hybrid May Cause the Program to Crash in Some Analyses

In analyses where the automatic hybrid parallel logic is enabled, crashes may occur in the second
or later load steps. Check the output file to determine whether auto-hybrid has been activated
automatically.
Workaround: Disable the automatic hybrid parallel logic by forcing one thread per process (-nt
1 on the command line).
2.9.4.6.When Running on Clusters, Small Models or Analyses Using Auto-Hybrid

Parallel May Fail
For models with a small number of elements or in analyses where the automatic hybrid parallel
logic is enabled, the job may fail when running on clusters. The failure occurs in situations where
certain files are needed in the working directory of each compute node to enable the simulation
to complete successfully. For small models, it occurs when the number of elements is less than the
number of cores.
Workaround: Run the job on a single machine (or single compute node), or use shared-memory
parallel (command line option -smp). For models where the automatic hybrid parallel logic is en-
abled, disable auto-hybrid by forcing one thread per process (-nt 1 on the command line).
2.9.5. Resolved Issues and Defects

The following notable issues and defects for Mechanical APDL have been resolved at Release 2022
R1:
ID Resolution Description
For straight ELBOW290 elements that reside along the global Z direction, the
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ID Resolution Description
for NRC benchmark problems vm-nr1677-02 and vm-nr6645-01 have been updated
accordingly.
When overconstraint is detected, a warning is now issued to use the relaxation
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option.
When an out-of-bounds condition is detected for defined multilinear hardening
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(TB,PLAS,,,,MISO and/or TB,PLAS,,,,KINH) tables, a warning is now issued.
Issues encountered running Mechanical APDL using Intel MPI in DMP mode when
434327 connected to a Windows machine via VPN have been resolved with the upgrade
to Intel MPI 2019 U10 (2019.10.321).
In prior releases, the program failed to launch when using DMP on some Linux
438359 systems running CentOS/RHEL 8.1, 8.2, or 8.3 or SLES 15. This issue has been
resolved by adding an additional library, libstrtok.so, in the installation.
When using CUTCONTROL to control the time-step cutback during a nonlinear
solution, the DPPLMT option (for setting the maximum pore-pressure increment
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allowed within a time step) now exhibits correct behavior when pore pressure is
negative.
When creating a material data table for the swelling strain function (TB,SWELL),
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the program now blocks unsupported elements.
The load stiffness is now included for all components of structural surface loads
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(pressure).
2.9.6. Features Removed or Archived

No significant legacy features have been removed or archived at this release.
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 2022 R1. Refer to the product
specific documentation for full details.
• Intel Fortran Compiler Upgrade. The Fortran compilers required to compile the Autodyn User
Subroutines have been updated to Intel Fortran 2019 Update 3.
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 2022 R1. 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:
• Block Low-Rank Iterative Solver. This solver is used for solving the large scale full-matrix linear
equation of the source strength distribution. It is faster and requires less memory.
• Number of Structures and Connectors Increased. In an Aqwa model, you can now have a maximum
of 99 structures and 99 connections. All the structures can be in the hydrodynamic interaction
structure group(s).
• Aqwa-Fer Performance Improvement. A continuous function is employed to determine the spectral

frequency integration points. The accuracy and sensitivity of the statistical results of Aqwa-Fer are
improved.
4.2. Aqwa Graphical Supervisor (AGS)

The AGS can display/plot the geometry and the results of Aqwa models consisting of up to 99 structures
and 99 connectors.
4.3. Hydrodynamic Analysis Systems

The following new features provide extended capabilities in the Hydrodynamic systems in Workbench:
• Structure Limit Increased. The number of Structures that can be used in a model has been increased
to 99.
• Import Distributed Mass. A Distributed Mass object can be created to allow a tabular definition of
multiple masses, and you can import it from existing MSD and SFM files, or from a CSV file. The masses
within the table are treated as point masses for the purposes of radiation/diffraction and bend-
ing/shear/splitting forces calculations.
• Automatically Defined Diffracting and Non-Diffracting Panels. You no longer have to split the
geometry at the waterline/internal tank fluid level in SpaceClaim or DesignModeler. If you use the
Aqwa
construction geometry surface function in the mesh tool, the generated panels will not cross the
reference levels, and the Aqwa Editor can automatically define the diffracting and non-diffracting
panels based on panel position. Contact your Ansys technical support representative to obtain a more
thorough explanation of this process.
• AQWA RSM Background Run Enabled. The RSM background option can be used at a component
level for an RSM job running on the local host.
• Load Mapping with Mooring Forces. In addition to the hydrodynamic pressure distribution from
hydrodynamic response calculations (Aqwa-Naut), time domain loads of cable tensions, joint reactions,
and tether forces can be mapped to a Static Structural system.
Chapter 5: Ansys Composite PrepPost (ACP)
New Features in Ansys Composite PrepPost (ACP) 2022 R1
The following new features have been added to Ansys Composite PrepPost (ACP) for the 2022 R1 release.
Refer to the product specific documentation for full details of the new features:
• Unbound Input Parameter: Unbound Input Parameter is a new parameter type in ACP which is not
linked to another ACP object. Typically, unbound input parameters are used in combination with the
new Python Script object. For instance, you can use it to parameterize template Selection Rules of
Modeling Plies, the material sequences of Stackups and Sub-Laminates, and much more.
• Python Scripts: Scripts allow you to execute arbitrary Python code as a part of updating the model.
This allows more complex parameterization than is possible with Input Parameters alone. It also allows
you to customize and automate lay-up modeling and post-processing in ACP Pre and Post, respectively.
The Python Script object supports three execution modes:
– On Triggers: The Python script is executed at the beginning of the model update only if input
parameters or the script itself has changed
– Always: Runs with every update
– Manual: The script is executed only if you run it manually.
• Ply Book: The Ply Book allows you to create a report for production with relevant information such
as material, orientation, extension, and so on. The Ply Book has been improved in various areas such
as automatic visualization of the Rosettes (reference coordinate systems), live preview, and PDF export
(page size and landscape). In addition, some features have been improved to simplify customization.
• Plot Visualization: The visualization of direction and contour plots, such as Fiber Directions or Failure
Plot, has been improved. It is now possible to adjust the number and length of displayed vectors.
This is useful for visually checking the directions on a model and makes it easier to visualize the dir-
ections in the Ply Book. Also, there is an option for showing the directions and contour plots in front
of the model. Otherwise, they are shown on the same layer as the model.
• Python Script Examples and Wizards: The Python UI of ACP is a powerful feature which allows you
to customize and automate ACP. Examples of Python scripts are included with the Ansys installer.
For a standard installation, you can find them in the following folder:
C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\v212\ACP\script_examples
Included are two Python scripts which employ wizards to configure user-defined contour plots– one
to show the material distribution and the other to perform material-wise post-processing. An intro-
duction to the Python scripting of ACP can be found in the documentation here: Introduction to ACP
Ansys Composite PrepPost (ACP)
Scripting in the ACP User's Guide. Examples of user-defined plots are described here: User-Defined
Plot in the ACP User's Guide.
Known Limitations
General ACP and release-specific limitations can be found in Known Limitations in the ACP User's Guide.
Chapter 6: Material Designer
This release of the Ansys Material Designer product contains all capabilities from the previous release.
The following enhancements are available in release 2022 R1. Refer to the product specific documentation
for full details of the new features.
Material Designer 2022 R1 Changes in Behavior

The interpolation options have changed. Now the linear multivariate algorithm is based on the CGAL
dD triangulation rather than the Qhull triangulation for all microscale models. Previously this triangulation
was used only for Short Fiber Composite models. Furthermore, the projection to the convex hull is now
activated for the linear multivariate algorithm.
For legacy models, the settings will be updated as soon as Material Designer is started for the corres-
ponding Material Designer cell. This can lead to result changes if the generated triangulation differs.
For general information about the interpolation algorithm, see the following section: Algorithms in the
ACP User's Guide.
Chapter 7: Additive Manufacturing
Our collection of tools dedicated to additive manufacturing simulation includes something for every
type of user. Additive Prep is useful for preparing parts and supports appropriate for any of our AM
simulation solutions, or, to export a build file directly to a 3D machine. Workbench Additive is for en-
gineers and designers working within the Workbench/Mechanical framework. Ansys Additive includes
Additive Print for technicians running the machines and Additive Science for materials experts determ-
ining the best process parameters. Here are the new features and enhancements at Release 2022 R1.
7.1. Additive Prep
7.2. Additive (Print and Science)
7.3. Workbench Additive
7.1. Additive Prep

• Easier transfer of data to Workbench Additive. When you are ready to transfer data to Workbench
Additive for simulation, you no longer have to export files first and suppress supports in Additive
Prep, and then insert an STL file in Mechanical. Now, after generating supports for a part in Additive
Prep, simply join (Facets > Join) the supports together to make one support per part and then click
the transfer to Workbench button. Create your system in Workbench as usual, and when Mechanical
opens, you will see the STL Support already loaded in the project tree.
This easier transfer of data, when combined with the new custom systems for additive manufacturing
in Workbench, improves your workflow considerably.
• Updated Renishaw API. Additive Prep now uses Renishaw QuantAM API version 1.4.1.1 to create
Renishaw build files.
7.2. Additive (Print and Science)

• Expanded limits for Elastic Modulus. The limits have been expanded for Elastic Modulus to be
between 25 and 500 GPa for material customization.
• Porosity simulations. You will now see an estimate of disk usage under Geometry Configuration for
Porosity simulations. Disk space is affected by the cuboid size and the number of permutations in
your simulation.
• Newly validated material. The Ansys predefined material of 17-4PH stainless steel has been validated
for Microstructure simulations, thereby making it a valid material for all simulation types.
7.2.1. Changes in Product Behavior

Release 2022 R1 of Additive includes enhancements that result in product behavior different from
previous releases, as described below:
Additive Manufacturing
• Changes to some structural properties. Additional property data has led to improvements to the
structural properties for some Ansys predefined materials. This change may impact the property
values—all constants—of Elastic Modulus, Poisson’s Ratio, Material Yield Strength, and/or Hardening
Factor. Note that other temperature-dependent properties used by the Thermal Solver did not
change as a result of this effort. There will be minor differences in results from previous releases
for most materials, with IN718 changing the most. Consider recalibrating to obtain new Strain
Scaling Factors, as needed.
• Faster Scan Pattern simulations. Optimizations have been made to parallelize the strain calculations
and operations involved in writing out results for Scan Pattern simulations. A resulting Thermal
Solver speedup of ~1.7X has been observed. Note that prior to this release, the 'Number of Cores'
field had no impact on the performance for the Scan Pattern portion of a simulation, where it will
now improve performance.
• Faster Microstructure simulations. We continued our efforts to improve the performance of the
Microstructure Solver so you can now expect to see up to a 35% speed improvement as well as
parallel scaling up to 12 cores for Microstructure simulations. Specifically, parallelization was added
to the nucleation algorithm of the solver. To maximize performance, each core has an independent
pseudo random number generator (PRNG). You will still input a single starting random seed but
this seed is shifted for each thread to give each core's PRNG a different starting point. There are
two effects of this. The first is that the algorithm and the solver run much faster with increasing
core count. The second effect is that the results will be slightly different among simulations with
different core counts for the same random seed and with all other inputs held constant. The differ-
ence is minimal and the grain-size statistics will be very similar across core counts. To achieve the
same results as in Release 2021 R2, use a single core.
7.3. Workbench Additive

Within the Workbench/Mechanical platform, capabilities in the area of AM Process Simulation are clas-
sified as Workbench Additive. The following enhancements have been made at Release 2022 R1:
• Simulation of a DED process. Additive Manufacturing capabilities have been expanded to include
the detailed simulation of a DED (Directed Energy Deposition) process. A DED process simulation
uses real welding seams and a technique known as element clustering. Clustering is used to split
weld lines into smaller pieces of mesh, called clusters, that are exposed to one temperature in a time
step. Thus, each cluster is instantaneously made alive using the element birth and death technique.
You control the size of the cluster with a Cluster Volume option. The solve time and solution fidelity
are directly related to cluster volume. The building order of the part can be defined automatically
using a G-Code machine file or manually using Named Selections.
The DED Process Simulation capabilities are implemented as an ACT extension that includes an easy-
to-use DED Process Wizard. An Additive Suite license is required to use the DED extension.
A dedicated user guide for DED simulations is available as well as a complete step-by-step tutorial.
• AM custom systems. You can now quickly set up an additive manufacturing simulation in Workbench
using one of two new custom systems: AM Inherent Strain or AM Thermal-Structural. For these new
systems:
– Engineering Data is pre-populated with Ansys sample materials for additive manufacturing.
Workbench Additive
– Upon opening the Mechanical application, the project tree is pre-populated with the AM
Process and Build Settings objects that are required for additive simulations.
– The Inherent Strain option (under AM Process, Build Settings object) is set automatically to
either Yes or No according to your chosen custom system.
7.3.1. Changes in Product Behavior

Release 2022 R1 of Workbench Additive includes enhancements that result in product behavior dif-
ferent from previous releases, as described below:
• Heat treatment. For simplified heat treatment simulations using a relaxation temperature, the base
plate now experiences relaxation during the heat treatment. The base was inadvertently excluded
from relaxation in previous releases.
Chapter 8: Sherlock
Introduction
This document provides a summary of all new features, product enhancements, and bug fixes made in
the Sherlock 2022 R1 release.
You can find any known issues for Sherlock at the Ansys, Inc. Known Issues and Limitations page.
8.1. New Features
8.2. General Enhancements
8.3. API Updates
8.4. Other Changes and Comments
8.5. Updates to the Material Library
8.6. Bug Fixes
8.1. New Features

• Sherlock now provides the ability to import stackups, stackup layers, and board outlines from an
Ansys ECAD Database (*.def ) file. From the main menu, select Project > Import Sherlock EDB File.
See Importing Projects and ECAD Archives in the Sherlock User's Guide.
• In Sherlock, you can now import the stackup and stackup layers from a GDSII file. From the main
menu, select Project > Import GDSII File. See Importing Projects and ECAD Archives in the Sherlock
User's Guide.
• You can now export a CCA to EDB for use in Ansys Electronics Desktop. From the Project Tree, right-
click the desired CCA, then select Export to Electronics Desktop. See Exporting CCAs to Ansys
Electronics Desktop (.aedb) in the Sherlock User's Guide.

• Sherlock now provides the ability to edit the specific heat property of materials in the Materials Library.
Some materials have a specific heat property set already. This is useful for exporting to Electronics
Desktop so that it can be used for Icepak simulations.
• Improved the look and feel of icons within Sherlock for 4K displays.
• Improved font in Sherlock console for better appearance on 4K displays.
• Updated all material selectors in forms so they can be searchable.
• Improved initial loading time of the Part Viewer and editor dialogs.
Sherlock
• Updated package model forms to hide the package thickness field for BGA packages. BGA packages
use the Overmold and Laminate Thickness fields instead.
• Allowed the keyword "IGNORE" in the Part Wizard Field editor to denote a property is not to be set
for a code. See Editing Part Wizard Field Codes in the Sherlock User's Guide.
• Added a Require Material Assignment option in an FEA analysis to check if any material is unassigned.
If this option is enabled, the FEA analysis will stop as soon as it finds a material that is not assigned.
If this option is not enabled and Sherlock finds material that is not assigned, a message appears in
the Results Viewer.
• Updated the Color Settings to allow for middle copper layer and laminate layer color definitions.
• Updated the Layer Viewer to use the transparency defined in the color settings for copper, laminate,
silkscreen, and solder mask layers instead of forcing a semi-transparent color for these layers.
• Removed the user-defined grid size option from the Trace Modeling dialog to alleviate confusion
about its use and to help prevent meshing issues.
• Added the ability to import a stackup from CSV and XLS files.
• Added information tooltips to the Stackup Properties and Stackup table.
• Updated the Parts List and Part Editor so they no longer update the pad properties of QFN packages
when selecting Update Pad Properties.
• Sherlock now uses a more precise method of performing unit conversion to alleviate the inability of
double-precision numbers to accurately represent all values. This may be disabled if desired in Ad-
vanced Settings.
• Updated the Part Editor to disable the solder tab if a BGA package is selected.
• In the ECAD import dialogs, the ten most recently imported ECAD files of the given file type are dis-
played, a helpful shortcut when reimporting a file.
• As above, added the ability to see the ten most recently imported FEA result files in the FEA Analysis
dialogs. The displayed files are specific to the combination of the CCA name and the FEA Analysis
name.
• Added the option to export Trace Reinforcement Models from the Project Tree: Right-click the CCA
and select Export Trace Reinforcement Model from the context menu.
• The context menu from the Stackup Table allows the associated layers to be opened in the Layer
Viewer. The Layer Viewer may also be opened from the Stackup for selected layers by clicking the
View Stackup icon in the toolbar.
• Added a context menu for copper layers in the Layer Viewer which allows for Trace Modeling options
such as Generate Trace Model and Export Trace Model.
• Added a context menu to the Copper Layers folder in the Layer Viewer which allows for Trace
Model generation, viewing, and clearing of all copper layers on the circuit card.
• Added Quartz Controlled, Voltage Controlled, Temperature Controlled, and Oven Controlled as
sub-types for MISC CRYSTAL in failure class.
General Enhancements
• Sherlock no longer displays repeated warnings about contact elements during random vibration
results input. A summary warning will be displayed instead. Details about specific elements which
are not used can be found by enabling Result Debug.
• Updated the Package Editor so that when a BGA package is added, the package does not have to be
saved before adding ball parameters.
• When performing a Random Vibration analysis where no zero-crossing frequency is found, Sherlock
will include this information in the analysis errors to help provide insight into why the analysis was
not complete.
• Added option in Advanced Settings to display and use part body weight to update part body's ma-
terial density in FEA analyses only. Refer to Sherlock Part Properties in the Sherlock User's Guide.
• In the Part Editor, changed Material label to Substrate Material for BGA packages.
• Updated the error message displayed when running a vibration analysis in which the selected event
or analysis frequency range does not cover the natural frequency of the model.
• Added a text field in Sherlock Launcher Settings to allow you to define valid days of log file since
it was created.
• Updated Export Trace Reinforcement Model to automate the process of applying thickness, mater-
ial properties, and beams cross-section for the reinforcement layers. For additional information, refer
to FEA-02d Trace Modeling in the Sherlock User's Guide.
For projects created before 2020 R2, the Export Trace Reinforcement Model feature has known
limitations. A known workaround is as follows: Under the Files node in the Project Tree, right-click
the drill file and select Edit Properties. Confirm that the Plating Material and Fill Material properties
are set correctly. Make any necessary edits and then click the Save button.
• For BGA's, Sherlock uses the ball material defined on the Ball tab of the Parts List instead of using
the solder material defined on the Solder tab when performing Solder Joint Fatigue analysis.
• Sherlock saves console output in a log file for each session and is included with the project export.
• Updated the Imported FEA Analysis Summary page to indicate when part, lead, wire bond, and mount
point modeling are enabled instead of simply indicating N/A.
• The Parts List Validation Properties dialog now provides the option to enable or disable using the
Part Wizard when searching for parts. Previously the Part Wizard was always used for this analysis.
Also, the Part Validation Analysis will only search the AVL if one of the AVL options has been selected
for the analysis.
• Improved the Update Parts List from Part Library feature so you can disable use of the Part Wizard
by default. The partWizard.dat file found in the AppData/Roaming/Sherlock/partDB
folder will no longer exist if there are no user-defined Part Wizard patterns.
• Color Settings are now applied to the Layer Viewer immediately for the outline, components, drill
holes, mechanical parts, and modeling regions. Previously, the Color Settings were only applied im-
mediately for labels, ICT fixtures, accelerometers, assemblies, assembly points, cutouts, heat sinks,
mount points, potting regions, test points, and wire bonds.
Sherlock
8.3. API Updates
8.3.1. New APIs

The following new APIs were added. Refer to API Services in the Sherlock User's Guide.
• setPartLocation() API to set a part's location properties.
• getPartLocationUnits() API to get a list of valid part location units.
• getBoardSides() API to get a list of valid board side values.
• getPartLocation() API to get a part’s location properties.
• getMountPointTypes() API to get a valid list of mount point types.
• getMountPointShapeTypes() API to get a valid list of mount point shape types.
• getMountPointSides() API to get a valid list of mount point sides.
• getMountPointUnits() API to get a valid list of mount point units.
• getMountPointBoundaries() API to get a valid list of mount point boundaries.
• getMountPointChassisMaterials() API to get a valid list of mount point chassis materials.
8.3.2. API Updates

Fixed Sherlock client not being refreshed correctly when the following APIs are run: runAnalysis(),
updatePartsList(), importPartsList(), updateLaminate(), updateConductorLayer(), genStackup(),
addHarmonicEvent(), addHarmonicProfile(), addRandomProfile(), addRandomVibeEvent(), addShock-
Event(), addShockProfile(), addThermalEvent(), addThermalProfile(), and createLifePhase().
8.4. Other Changes and Comments

• Support for meshed parts has been removed. For projects created with meshed parts, the meshed
parts will not be displayed in the Layer Viewer or 3D Viewer. Neither will they be included in any
analysis or FEA export.
• Part Wizard patterns provided by Sherlock have been removed from this release as part of an effort
to review and update the patterns based on part data sheet changes. The Part Wizard pattern func-
tionality, and the ability to create/save custom patterns is still provided.
• Imported FEA results for Leads, Mount Points, and Wirebonds using NxNastran are not supported.
• When exporting a CCA to Electronics Desktop, AEDT may become unresponsive when the CCA has
a large number of components (>9000 approximately).
Updates to the Material Library
8.5. Updates to the Material Library
8.5.1. Additions to the Material Library

• The material POLYIMIDE was added.
• The specific heat value was added to some materials.
8.5.2. Changes to Material Values

The following changes were made to material values:
• COPPER
– WIREBOND was added to the Usage.
– Changed Fracture Strength from 70 to 200
• COPPER-RESIN: Set Tg = 140
• EPOXYENCAPSULANT:
– Set Tg = 140:
– Changed Thermal Conductivity from 0.3 to 0.735
• FERRITE: Set Fracture Strength = 50
• FR4: Set Fracture Strength = 240
• GLASS: Set Fracture Strength = 120
• GOLD: Set Fracture Strength = 200
• HENKEL HYSOL GR15F-1:
– Set Tg = 210.
– Changed Thermal Conductivity from 0.07 to 0.7.
• HENKEL HYSOL MG15F-0140: Changed Thermal Conductivity from 0.0019 to 0.66.
• HENKEL HYSOL MG15F-0140: Changed Thermal Conductivity from 0.0019 to 0.7.
• HENKEL HYSOL MG40F: Changed Thermal Conductivity from 0.0019 to 0.95.
• NITTO DENKO MP-8000CH4: Changed Thermal Conductivity from 0.0018 to 0.67.
• NYLON (PA612), NYLON (PA66): Changed Fracture Strength from 450 to 90.
• OVERMOLD-LEADED: Set Thermal Conductivity = 0.8.
• POLYPHENYLENE OXIDE, POLYPHENYLENEOXIDE: Changed Density from 1.90E-09 to 1.06E-09
Sherlock
• POLYPHENYLENE OXIDE, POLYPHENYLENE SULPHIDE, POLYPHENYLENEOXIDE, POLYPHENYLENES-

ULPHIDE: Changed Fracture Strength from 30 to 60.
• POLYPHENYLENEOXIDE: Set Thermal Conductivity = 0.403.
• SILICON: Changed Fracture Strength from 7000 to 170.
• SILICONE RTV566: Set Tg = -60.
• SILVER: Set Fracture Strength = 180.
• TANTALUM: Set Fracture Strength = 170
Removed values for Fatigue Exponent and Fatigue Coefficient for the following materials:
ARLON 92ML COOKSON SMTB1
HENKEL HYSOL GR15F-1 HENKEL HYSOL GR15F-A
HENKEL HYSOL GR360A-F8 HENKEL HYSOL GR640HV
HENKEL HYSOL GR725LV HENKEL HYSOL GR750
HENKEL HYSOL GR828D HENKEL HYSOL GR828HS
HENKEL HYSOL GR9810-1 HENKEL HYSOL GR9810-1P
HENKEL HYSOL GR9820-1 HENKEL HYSOL GR9851M
HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KL1000-3LX HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KL1000-3NP
HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KL1000-4T HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KL2500-1K
HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KL4500-1 HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KL4500-1NT
HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KL5000HT HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KL6500H
HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KL6500S HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KL7000HA
HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KL8500 HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KLG200
HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KLG650H HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KLG730
HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KLG750 HENKEL HYSOL HUAWEI KLG900H
HENKEL HYSOL MG15F-0140 HENKEL HYSOL MG21F-02
HENKEL HYSOL MG35F HENKEL HYSOL MG40F
HENKEL HYSOL MG45F-0459LS HITACHI CEL-1620 HF16
HITACHI CEL-1620 HF17 HITACHI CEL-1702 HF13
Updates to the Material Library
HITACHI CEL-9750 ZHF10 HITACHI GE-100
HITACHI GE-110 KYOCERA KE-300AH
KYOCERA KE-300K KYOCERA KE-300TS-1
KYOCERA KE-320H KYOCERA KE-850S
KYOCERA KE-850SH KYOCERA KE-850SP
KYOCERA KE-870 KYOCERA KE-G1250 AH-GL
KYOCERA KE-G1250 AH-J KYOCERA KE-G1250 AH-W3E
KYOCERA KE-G1250 TC-S3 KYOCERA KE-G1250 TC-S3U
KYOCERA KE-G1250 TC-S3W KYOCERA KE-G3000D
KYOCERA KE-G3000N-AS KYOCERA KE-G300FF
KYOCERA KE-G5000 NITTO DENKO MP-4000H7
NITTO DENKO MP-7000 NITTO DENKO MP-7000H
NITTO DENKO MP-7000V NITTO DENKO MP-7100
NITTO DENKO MP-7100H-3 NITTO DENKO MP-7250
NITTO DENKO MP-7410TA NITTO DENKO MP-8000A
NITTO DENKO MP-8000AHP NITTO DENKO MP-8000CH4
NITTO DENKO MP-8950CH SHIN ETSU KMC-103
SHIN ETSU KMC-120MK SHIN ETSU KMC-125
SHIN ETSU KMC-130 SHIN ETSU KMC-180
SHIN ETSU KMC-2520 SHIN ETSU KMC-2520H-7
SHIN ETSU KMC-2520H-8 SHIN ETSU KMC-284
SHIN ETSU KMC-6000 SUMITOMO EME-6300H
Sherlock
SUMITOMO EME-6600CS SUMITOMO EME-6600H
SUMITOMO EME-6650R SUMITOMO EME-6710S
SUMITOMO EME-7304 SUMITOMO EME-E630L
SUMITOMO EME-G600 SUMITOMO EME-G600F
SUMITOMO EME-G630L SUMITOMO EME-G631H
SUMITOMO EME-G700 SUMITOMO EME-G700L
SUMITOMO EME-G720 SUMITOMO EME-G750
SUMITOMO EME-G755 SUMITOMO EME-G760 Type YA
SUMITOMO EME-G770 SUMITOMO EME-G770 Type LP
SUMITOMO EME-G790
8.6. Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that happened when running an FEA analysis involving parts with the reference desig-
nators that were not all uppercase characters. This resulted in showing the part and lead strain to be
0. It also added a duplicate part to the Parts List, which wasn't saved, consisting of the part with an
all-uppercase reference designator.
• When importing stress results from an .rst file, errors would occur when the model contained shell
elements. This bug has been fixed.
• Fixed an issue with generating trace models from copper layers. Layers containing extremely small
features prevented the trace model from being generated.
• A bug in the Layer Viewer prevented the part type, part number, and package filters from containing
any values. This has been fixed.
• When parts were modeled with the BGA NETLIST layout, sometimes the correct ball locations were
not generated when the following conditions occurred: The part contained a non-zero rotation and
the netlist originated from an IPC-2581 file which defined pin rotation around the component. This
bug has been fixed.
• Fixed a bug that happened when creating a netlist from an IPC-2581 file in which there were duplicate,
exposed physical net locations. This resulted in some incorrect netlist coordinates.
• When creating trace areas from a pad record containing a hole, the trace area was not created correctly.
This bug has been fixed.
• When generating trace models from an image, in some circumstances a negative space region might
be created as a positive space region. This bug has been fixed.
• Fixed a bug which displayed an incorrect error message when importing a project without a specified
name.
Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug where the wrong unit could be selected for a part property if the Part Wizard field con-
tained only one code.
• When importing an ODB++ archive as a folder, a bug prevented the ODB++ archive from being im-
ported. This has been fixed.
• Added a launcher setting to disable the pre-initialization of Java 3D during startup. This setting is
enabled by default and should only be disabled if Sherlock generates a "GDI Generic Driver use de-
tected" message or fails to start the 3D Viewer.
• When running an FEA analysis with layered or layered elements PCB modeling, a bug caused an error
when modeling regions and trace modeling were enabled but no trace models had been generated.
• Fixed a bug that prevented rotation from being saved when editing part rotation.
• In the Edit Mount Point Properties form, the following bug was fixed: When mount point units were
changed from mm to m or from mm to in and Save was clicked, Sherlock gave a warning that the
mount point was not contained within the board outline.
• In the Help menu, restored a missing link to the Release Notes.
• Corrected the Displacement label for the Mechanical Shock Virtual Accelerometer Result Charts.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when attempting to export an FEA model and the selected file type did
not support the mesh type of the previously exported model.
• Fixed a bug in the Material and Solder Managers. Previously, when copying a material or solder, the
form set the Created by user to the user doing the copying. Now the original Created by user is
preserved.
• When importing an ODB++ archive in single-project mode, a bug prevented the import if a project
by the same name existed in the standard Sherlock project folder. This has been fixed.
• When importing Random Vibration results, a bug would prevent the results from being imported if
the Mechanical APDL initial memory allocation was exceeded. Sherlock would display an error like
"Invalid time/frequency value '11:41:48'". This bug has been fixed.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when generating component element nodes which would prevent the
elements of the component from connecting.
• Fixed an issue which prevented the global library version from displaying the currently running version
of Sherlock after an upgrade.
• Fixed an issue which prevented importing a Sherlock project that had been exported with System
Data or User Files options selected.
• Fixed a bug with Sherlock-Workbench integration where importing Random Vibration results did not
produce 3D Results.
• Fixed a bug in the Material Temperature Dependent Properties Calculator which always used the
Tg and shape factor of the underlying material rather than what was specified in the form.
Sherlock
• When importing FEA results from Mechanical in which materials were defined in the model without
any material properties defined, this resulted in an exception and failed to import the results. This
bug has been fixed.
• During an FEA analysis import, Sherlock sometimes could not find the PCB surface when the PCB was
transformed or was a sub-assembly which was rotated with respect to the main CCA. This bug has
been fixed.
• Fixed a bug in the Part Editor that could prevent the part overlap warning from appearing when a
part location was changed.
• Previously, the 3D Results Viewer was refreshed when applying color settings with the Apply button
but not when saving with the Save button. The Save button now refreshes the 3D Results Viewer.
• When setting Service Life in terms of hours in the Life Cycle Editor, the metric value in the Life Cycle
Chart would be converted from year to hour. This has been fixed.
• When importing parts from a parts list, required fields might be ignored during import. This bug has
been fixed.
• Fixed a bug affecting bottom components from an ODB++ board. When the bottom rotation view
setting is set to BOTTOM, this could cause the components to be shifted from the desired location
if the ODB++ did not specify the component location as the component center.
• Fixed an issue which prevented importing Abaqus results which did not define material properties
as expected.
• When generating FEA strain layers, the inner element face might be displayed in the layer plot instead
of the element face of the PCB surface in cases where the surface layer was very small. This also
prevented small elements on the PCB surface (such as thin potting or wire bonds) from being included
in the PCB layer plots. This bug has been fixed.
• Changing the Shock Event Duration in the Shock Event Editor did not update the chart in the
Shock Pulse Profile. This bug has been fixed.
• Fixed a bug which did not apply the part modeling Filter Part Results setting when importing an
FEA Analysis or an ICT Analysis.
• Fixed an error that occurred during Thermal Mech Analysis when potting regions covered mount
points.
• Fixed an error that could prevent an FEA Analysis when a CCA name contained punctuation characters.
• Fixed a bug which prevented a new mount point from being added if the first attempt to save the
new mount point resulted in a validation error.
• Fixed a Trace Modeling error that could occur when there were cutouts outside of the board outline.
• Fixed an issue when exporting STEP files with footed leads. The wrong plane might be selected for
a given face on the lead, resulting in an invalid lead geometry.
• Fixed a bug that affected changing the name of an existing accelerometer, preventing the new name
from being saved.
Bug Fixes
• The following bug was fixed: When updating a Parts List from the Part Library with the matching
option Part Number Only selected, Sherlock did not find a match even though the AVL contained
the part number of a Sherlock part.
• Fixed a bug that prevented saving a Lifecycle Event after the project had been renamed.
• Fixed an issue which prevented 3D PDF files from being generated from the 3D Results Viewer when
the selected result was reported in microstrain units.
• Fixed an issue with mirrored components which would not properly reflect the mirror attribute in
the orientation of the component on the PCB.
• Restore Defaults now works for the Color Settings tab of the Sherlock Settings dialog.
• Updated mesh generation to use the mesh size for test points and support pins, reducing the chances
of a bad mesh being created.
• Updated Solder Joint Fatigue for BGA parts with a NETLIST layout. For the ball count, Sherlock now
uses the number from the NETLIST instead of the value entered for on the ball modeling form.
• Fixed an issue when opening the Part Editor which would enable the Save buttons, indicating that
changes have been made.
• Aligning thermal image board outlines where the board outline had been changed multiple times
sometimes resulted in an incorrect selection. This bug has been fixed.
• Fixed a bug with classic Icepak export that caused an extra PCB to be created if the Sherlock project
had been imported from an ECAD file.
• Fixed a bug affecting the generation of trace models from an IPC-2851 import where Sherlock might
render thicker traces for line features or transform pads off the board. For affected projects, edit the
properties of each layer file and click Save. Then generate the trace models once more to resolve
the issue.
• Fixed an issue in FEA Export where the Min Hole Diameter was always considered to be in mm re-
gardless of the units chosen in the Export FEA Model dialog.
• Fixed the following bug in the 3D Viewer: When viewing material properties of uniform element
models, the Viewer might show the material properties for the overall PCB instead of the individual
layer.
• Updated the 3D Viewer so it no longer causes color merging issues where the colors from lower
layers blend with the surface colors. This sometimes happened during zooming or rotating.
Part 2: Ansys Fluids Products
As part of our commitment to deliver a simplified, modern license experience, Ansys is rolling out updated
license increments to our customers beginning January 2020. Ansys is making these changes so the
Ansys License Interconnect and License Preferences can be eliminated, greatly simplifying the customer
licensing experience. The new license files are fully compatible with previous versions of Ansys back to
release 17.0 when used with Ansys License Manager 2020 R1 or later.
For complete details see the Ansys, Inc. Product to License Feature Map located on the Ansys Customer
Portal.
To access this table, click here
1. Log onto the Ansys Customer Portal.
2. You will be situated on the Downloads>Installation and Licensing Help and Tutorials page.
3. Click Licensing. The most up-to-date Ansys, Inc. Product to License Feature Mapping table can
be found there.
Ansys HPC licenses can now be used to concurrently solve parametric variations, replacing the Ansys
HPC Parametric Pack license. Click here for more details.
Release notes are available for the following Ansys Fluids products:
Fluent (p. 61)

CFX (p. 83)
CFD-Post (p. 85)
TurboSystem (p. 87)
TurboGrid (p. 89)
Ansys BladeModeler (p. 91)
Polyflow (p. 93)
Forte (p. 95)
Ansys Chemkin-Pro (p. 99)
FENSAP-ICE (p. 101)
EnSight (p. 103)
Chapter 1: Fluent Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Ansys Fluent 2022 R1.
1.1. Supported Platforms for Ansys Fluent 2022 R1
1.2. New Features in Ansys Fluent 2022 R1
1.3. Updates Affecting Ansys Fluent 2022 R1 Code Behavior
1.4. Features To Be Removed in a Future Release
Backwards Compatibility: Ansys Fluent 2022 R1 can generally read case files and data files from all
past Fluent releases. Solver and model settings from previous case files are typically respected. However,
in some cases due to defect fixes and core improvements to improve robustness and/or performance,
convergence behavior and/or results obtained may be different. Such release-to-release changes are
documented in the Fluent Migration Manual, along with instructions to recover the previous behavior
when possible.
1.1. Supported Platforms for Ansys Fluent 2022 R1

Information about past, present, and future operating system and platform support is viewable via the
Ansys website.
1.2. New Features in Ansys Fluent 2022 R1

The following sections list the new features available in Ansys Fluent:
1.2.1. Meshing Mode
1.2.2. Solution Mode
1.2.3. Fluent Applications
General User Interface
1.2.1. Meshing Mode

New features available in the meshing mode of Ansys Fluent 2022 R1 are listed below.
General Notes
• The Clipping Plane tool now supports Fast Interactive Display. See Graphics Performance for
more information.
• The report/enhanced-orthogonal-quality? text command allows you to use an

enhanced definition of the orthogonal quality measure that combines a variety of quality
measures, including: the orthogonality of a face relative to a vector between the face and cell
Fluent
centroids; a metric that detects poor cell shape at a local edge (such as twisting and/or con-
cavity); and the variation of normals between the faces that can be constructed from the cell
face. This definition is optimal for evaluating thin prism cells.
In addition, when this text command is enabled, you have the ability to separate out the poly-
prism cells from the poly cells within your mesh (only supported for the .h5 format).
• As in solution mode, when importing ANSYS Prep7/cdb files or CGNS files, Ansys Fluent in
meshing mode uses the VKI libraries, requiring a VKI license.
• The settings for the Thread Control dialog box have been improved for distributed and non-
distributed cases such that improvement can be found in the following operations:
– Mesh Check
– Mesh Check Quality
– Improve Volume Mesh - (Auto Node Move)
– Compute Cell/Face Limits
See Controlling the Threads for details.
Fluent Guided Meshing Workflows
• General Improvements
– To have your own workflow templates available in Fluent meshing, use the Workflow
templates folder preference to specify a location for your customized workflow template
(.wft) files, and any corresponding Scheme (.scm) files. See Setting Preferences for
Workflows for details.
– Wildcards for filtering lists have been enhanced to include NOT (^), AND (&), and OR (|)
Boolean operations. See Filtering Lists and Using Wildcards for details.
– Based on your geometry import settings, both workflows now include the appropriate units
as part of the field label for all relevant numerical inputs. In addition, for a completed
workflow session, you can return to the beginning of the workflow, change the unit desig-
nation and update all subsequent tasks, and the numerical values will be automatically up-
dated.
– The Temporary files folder field in Fluent preferences, by default, now assigns the temporary
files folder location to be the current working directory if nothing has been specified.
In addition, when saving a mesh file in the workflows, Fluent also saves intermediate.pmdb
and .fmd files (a snapshot of all the loaded files in the part management task) and other
workflow-related files to the *_workflow_files/ folder. This makes it easier to update
tasks and import geometries since these intermediate files are all that is needed to update
tasks and the original geometries are not required.
• The Watertight Geometry Workflow
– The Add Local Sizing task now includes an additional Refine Thin Regions (Ignore Orient-
ation)? option (when face or face/edge proximity is considered). This option allows you to
New Features in Ansys Fluent 2022 R1
apply improved refinement to thin areas, such as between plates. See Adding Local Sizing
for details.
– The Create Surface Mesh task now includes an additional Ignore Proximity Across Objects?
option if you would like to ignore any small artificial gaps that may exist between two ob-
jects/bodies; especially applicable to assemblies that typically have duplicate faces and edges
in between each body. The default setting of Yes is designed to improve performance and
increase surface meshing efficiency. See Generating the Surface Mesh for details.
– The Create Surface Mesh task and the Improve Surface Mesh task now include an addi-
tional Remove Steps? option where small step-like imperfections and CAD artifacts can be
removed and smoothed out as part of the surface mesh. See Generating the Surface Mesh
for details.
– The Share Topology task now includes an additional Interface Connect share topology
method. This method is an alternative to the current Join-Intersect method, and connects
edges of overlapping face pairs, providing potential increases in speed and robustness. See
Applying Share Topology for details.
– The Update Regions task now includes a Print Summary button that will display (in the
console window) a list of the number and type of regions that are defined so far in the
workflow.
• The Fault-tolerant Meshing Workflow
– You can now investigate the effects of replacing parts to your imported CAD model by
adding the Choose Part Replacement Options task to your workflow after you have gen-
erated a volume mesh. This task will allow you to append additional CAD part files, remove
parts, or replace parts (for example, removing or replacing mirrors, fenders, or spoilers on
automobiles), to see the effects in meshing and the solution if required. See Choosing Part
Replacement Options for details.
– Several improvements have been made to the Import CAD and Part Management task:
→ You can use * or ? wildcards when importing or appending multiple CAD files.
→ Objects in the CAD Model tree are no longer grayed out and visible when they are
moved into the Meshing Model tree. You can toggle the visibility of moved objects
by using the Hide/Show Transferred Objects CAD Model context menu option.
→ Refacet operation objects now allow you to use the context menu to Draw and Hide
objects, in addition to the ability to Delete and Rename a refacet operation.
→ Basic meshing object settings are now available as operation objects so you can apply
object settings for multiple Meshing Model objects all at once. See Performing Object
Setting Operations on Meshing Model Objects for details.
See Importing CAD Geometries and Managing CAD Parts for details.
– In the Create Collar Mesh task, you can now have more control when defining the location
of your overset collar meshes using the Define Location Using field. You can have the
system automatically place the collar mesh, or you can use numerical inputs to have more
concise control. See Creating Collar Meshes for details.
Fluent
– If your geometry contains various gaps that need to be covered, you can now manually add
a Create Gap Cover task to patch or cover such openings, prior to generating a surface
mesh. See Creating Gap Covers for details.
– In the Identify Construction Surface task, you can now create a construction surface using
an existing object or zone, a bounding box, or by using an offset surface. See Identifying
Construction Surfaces for details.
– In the Generate Surface Mesh task, you can now use the Merge Interior Pockets? field to
extend the surface meshing into interior cavities. This is particularly useful for meshing objects
that may contain various internal pockets such as automobile interiors.
– In the Extract Edge Features task, when using the Intersection Loops extraction method,
you can choose to Select By either object (default) or zone.
– In the Generate Volume Mesh task, there is no longer a limitation when using the Avoid
1/8 Octree Transition in Hexcore Region? for parallel calculations.
– After you have generated your volume mesh, you can use the Manage Zones task to make
additional changes to your cell and/or face zones (such as renaming or merging) prior to
proceeding to the solver. This can especially useful for large models with numerous zones.
See Managing Zones for details.
– The Add Boundary Layers task now includes more flexibility for volume mesh refinement
along the flow boundary by providing the ability of adding split prisms to your boundary
layer definitions. See Adding Boundary Layers for details.

New features available in the solution mode of Ansys Fluent 2022 R1 are listed below. Where appro-
priate, references to the relevant section in the User's Guide are provided.
Licensing
• 1-way coupled discrete phase modeling is supported at the CFD Pro licensing level. This allows
for the flow to affect massless, inert particle trajectories.
Files
• Transcript files, both those initiated manually and those created automatically, print the start
time, end time, and total time for the session.
• Profile reading is improved so that you can now import CSV profiles written by Ansys CFX and
Ansys Mechanical. Profiles containing face-node connectivity data can also be previewed as a
surface from within the Profiles dialog box. Refer to CSV Profiles in the Fluent User's Guide for
additional information.
User Experience
• File input and output and many user interface interactions are substantially faster for cases
with many zones.
• Bulk renaming of cell zones is now available in the Adjacency dialog box. You can rename
cell zones by adding suffixes and/or prefixes, by wildcard, and by converting to the Fluent
naming convention. Refer to Renaming Zones Using the Adjacency Dialog Box in the Fluent
User's Guide for additional information.
• There are numerous enhancements to the embedded window dashboard feature, including
improved behavior for the automatically generated Solution View, dynamically updating the
embedded graphics, journaling support, and more. Refer to Embedded Graphics Window
Dashboards in the Fluent User's Guide for additional information.
• You can quickly make surfaces in the graphics window transparent using the new Make Selected
Surfaces Transparent ( ) toolbar button. Refer to Object Selection/Display Tools in the Fluent
• You can easily determine mesh face and cell counts using the Info context menu option for
the Cell Zone Conditions and Boundary Conditions branches in the Outline View tree (ac-
cessed via right-click).
• Graphics windows can now by synchronized so that manipulations such as panning and
zooming are simultaneously implemented in the other linked windows. There are options to
synchronize all windows using a toolbar button or just some of the windows using the context
menu options available in the individual windows. Refer to Synchronizing Window Views in
the Fluent User's Guide for additional information.
• Many new realistic materials are available for rendering your model with life-like appearance.
New materials include cedar, iron, copper, concrete, brick, and more. Refer to Realistic Rendering
of Materials in the Fluent User's Guide for additional information and a complete list of materials.
Console
• License use information is now printed to the console.
Solver-Meshing
• The gap model that is used to simulate flow through narrow gaps that open or close over
time is improved in the following ways:
– You can now create gap regions that decelerate the flow in the cells of the marked region
by manipulating the viscosity or source terms. Since this type allows some leakage (though
this can be negligible, based on your setup), it is more robust than the type that blocks the
flow entirely. It is recommended for meshes that undergo rotational motion, such as gears
or pumps.
– When displaying the mesh with contours, you can now allow the rendering of the mesh
surfaces inside the gap regions. Note that the solution is still not rendered inside the flow-
blocking gap regions.
– You can now enable an option to extend the gap regions if the shape of the marked cells
is negatively affecting solution stability or convergence behavior. The gap regions will then
be enlarged during marking by including additional cells in the vicinity of the gap interfaces.
Fluent
– Additional expert-level text commands are now available that can be useful in rare circum-
stances.
For further details, see Controlling Flow in Narrow Gaps for Valves and Pumps.
• Overset meshes are now compatible with the porous zone option using the superficial velocity
formulation for both the pressure-based and density-based solvers. (Overset Meshing Best
Practices in the Fluent User's Guide)
• When using the default one-to-one interface creation method to create mesh interfaces, the
following features are now available:
– When pairing more than two boundary zones into mesh interfaces, the ability to use ad-
justable tolerances to determine which of the selected zones can be paired is now available
as a full feature. Such adjustable tolerances can be helpful for cases that have gaps, thin
layers, and/or complex geometries where you intend to have mesh interfaces. (Using a Non-
Conformal Mesh in Ansys Fluent)
– When creating a mesh interface either by selecting them in the outline view tree and using
the right-click menu or by using the text interface, you are no longer limited to selecting
just interfaces or walls, but can now select any type of external boundary zone (that is, any
zone that is connected with the cells on only one side). Note that the resulting non-overlap-
ping zones for such mesh interfaces will be of the same type and have the same settings
as the original parent boundary zone (except for interfaces, which will continue to yield
walls for the non-overlapping zones. (Using a Non-Conformal Mesh in Ansys Fluent)
• The following new features are available for mesh adaption:
– When performing manual adaption, the predefined criterion for adapting boundary layers
based on cell distance is now supported as a full feature, so that you can adapt the mesh
based on a cell's proximity to one or more boundaries. It automatically creates the necessary
cell register for refinement with minimal input and, where possible, will enable anisotropic
adaption so that the cells are only split along certain directions. (Boundary Layer Adaption
Based on Cell Distance)
– A new predefined criterion for mesh adaption is now available for aerodynamic simulations
with significant pressure variations, so that the mesh is adapted based on the solution error,
as approximated using an indicator that is calculated from the Hessian (the matrix of second
derivatives) of the pressure distribution. It automatically configures suitable cell registers
with minimal input, and targets key areas for adaption in cases with a variety of different
scales and flow phenomena: for example, you can capture a shock and wake with different
strengths simultaneously, or anisotropic features like errors in stretched prism layer cells.
(Aerodynamics Adaption)
– When using the default PUMA method, anisotropic adaption can now be enabled or disabled
for individual adaption criteria, rather than only being applied globally. (Refining and
Coarsening)
• The unified remeshing method is improved for dynamic mesh simulations in the following
ways:
– The unified remeshing method can now produce wedge cells in 3D boundary layer meshes.
(Remeshing)
– You now have the option of creating additional controls that can affect the size distribution
of the cells throughout the mesh or just the wedge cells in boundary layers by creating
sizing controls definitions or prism controls definitions, respectively. It is generally not ne-
cessary to create such controls, but they may be helpful if you have strict sizing requirements
or want more information when troubleshooting size-related issues. For further details, see
Sizing Controls and Prism Controls.
• The enhanced definition of orthogonal quality is now supported as a full feature. When enabled,
orthogonal quality is defined using a variety quality measures, including: the orthogonality of
a face relative to a vector between the face and cell centroids; a metric that detects poor cell
shape at a local edge (such as twisting and/or concavity); and the variation of normals between
the faces that can be constructed from the cell face. This enhanced definition is optimal for
evaluating thin prism cells. (Mesh Quality)
Cell Zones and Boundary Conditions
• The pressure-far-field boundary condition used by the density-based solver now offers a flux-
based implementation that improves operability with dynamic meshes. (Flux-based Pressure
Far-Field)
Heat Transfer/Radiation
• You can now specify inlet and outlet flow boundaries as transparent when using the Monte
Carlo or Discrete Ordinates radiation models. Previously all flow boundaries were treated as
opaque. (Inlet and Outlet Boundary Conditions for the DO and MC Models)
• A streamlined workflow for thermal analysis of printed circuit boards (PCBs) using external
ECAD (Electronic CAD) and associated files from Ansys Icepak is now available. (Thermal Ana-
lysis of Printed Circuit Boards)
• Shell Conduction is now compatible with non-conformal mesh interfaces through the default
one-to-one auto-pairing work flow.
Acoustics
• You can now perform Ansys sound analysis (previously called VRXPERIENCE) on multiple receiv-
ers, both those consisting of a single input file and transfer function, as well as those that
merge multiple input files and transfer functions into a single receiver. Refer to Performing an
Ansys Sound Analysis in the Fluent User's Guide for additional information.
• Kirchhoff model signal files (*.ark) may now be read into the Fourier Transform dialog box
as input files.
• The ability to apply a sponge layer to one or more boundary zones (so that the density is
blended from the value calculated by the solver to a user-specified far-field value) is now
available as a full feature. Such a sponge layer can eliminate non-physical pressure wave reflec-
tions from boundary zones in transient simulations of single-phase, compressible flows with
the pressure-based solver. (Sponge Layers)
• You can now collect Fourier coefficient during runs using Runtime Discrete Fourier Transform-
ation data sampling. The amplitude of the coefficients can help identify areas in the domain
where the transient field has the largest impact on acoustics.(Runtime Discrete Fourier Trans-
formation)
Fluent
Turbomachinery
• Mixing Plane turbo interfaces now feature an improved hybrid formulation which is tuned to
handle regular as well as lip-type geometries.
• The workflow for performing an aeromechanics (blade flutter analysis) simulation has been
improved so that switching between mode shapes for different runs is faster and easier. (De-
fining the Periodic Displacement of the Blades)
• Blade film cooling simulations can now be performed using the virtual geometry feature. This
enables modeling holes on the blade as inlet/outlet with meshing individual holes. (Blade Film
Cooling for Gas Turbines)
Reacting Flows
• For species transport cases with the Eddy-Dissipation Concept turbulence-chemistry interaction,
a new model, Partially Stirred Reactor, has been added. This model addresses the issues with
the standard EDC model that over-predicts reaction rates for mild combustions and under-
predicts the rates for supersonic combustions. (The Partially Stirred Reactor EDC Model)
• For the strained Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM) model, a non-adiabatic extension is now
available. The non-adiabatic strained FGM model accounts for the impact of heat loss on flame
speed and, therefore, more accurately models turbulent combustion problems that involve
significant heat loss. (Strained Non-Adiabatic Flame Speed)
• The ability to specify non-zero species mass fluxes at walls has been added. This is especially
useful in applications that involve corrosion and ablation.
Discrete Phase Model
• For the DEFINE_DPM_SOURCE user-defined function, an example has been added for education
purposes to show the UDF usage in cases that involve the non-premixed combustion model.
(Hooking a DPM Source Term UDF to Ansys Fluent)
• For the Lagrangian wall film model, the stochastic Kuhnke model is now fully supported. The
model is derived from the Kuhnke model and has been developed and tuned for Selective
Catalytic Reduction (SCR) applications. It introduces stochastic effects into the critical temper-
ature transition process and the “partial evaporation” concept for the evaporative splash regime.
This was available as a beta feature in Ansys Fluent Release 2021 R2. (The Stochastic Kuhnke
Model)
• For cone and surface injections, you can now specify the particle diameter distribution using
tabular data. (Using the Tabulated (Discrete) Diameter Distribution)
• For the high resolution particle tracking, the following additional text commands have been
provided (Tracking Settings for the Discrete Phase Model):
– define/models/dpm/numerics/high-resolution-tracking/barycentricin-
terpolation/precompute-pdf-species? to pre-compute the species composition
in each cell prior to tracking particles in premixed or non-premixed combustion simulations.
This may improve performance for cases with many particles and relatively few cells.
– define/models/dpm/numerics/high-resolution-tracking/load-legacy-
particles? to ensure particles are in the expected cells prior to tracking. This option allows
you to use a data file containing particles that were tracked without the high-resolution
tracking option.
Multiphase Models
• The Hybrid NITA option is now available with the Mixture multiphase model. This option can
significantly reduce computational time and CPU resources. For Mixture multiphase cases with
slip velocities, you can now specify the explicit relaxation factor for Slip Velocity. This was
available as a beta feature in previous releases of Ansys Fluent.
• You can now add RGP (real gas property) tables to the Wet Steam model to describe the
thermodynamic properties of the liquid/gas mixture. (Real Gas Property (RGP) Table Files for
the Wet Steam Model )
• You can now calculate stagnation properties when using the Wet Steam model either by as-
suming the vapor (gas) phase only or the mixture. (Computing Stagnation Conditions for the
Wet Steam Model)
• For the Eulerian multiphase cases, multiple boiling mass transfer mechanisms are now suppor-
ted. For such cases, the two-resistance framework for the heat transfer in the boiling phase
pairs is now available via the Text User Interface (TUI). The framework improves the robustness
and accuracy of the solution and is especially useful in applications that involve boiling coupled
with the inhomogeneous population balance model. (Including the Boiling Model)
• For the Eulerian multiphase cases that involve boiling mass transfer, a new model, non-local
boundary field (NLBF), is now available. The model considers wall boiling as a non-local phe-
nomenon. It is suitable for meshes with y+ < 30 and allows to obtain a less mesh dependent
solution. (Including the Boiling Model)
Eulerian Wall Film Model
• For cases with the DPM Coupling option, the stochastic Kuhnke model is now fully supported.
This was available as a beta feature in Ansys Fluent Release 2021 R2. (The Stochastic Kuhnke
Model)
• For transient flow simulations, multiple film solutions can be carried out per flow time step at
defined flow iteration intervals. This will improve the film calculation accuracy by using better
converged flow solutions.
• The adaptive time stepping solution control method is now available for transient simulations.
For steady state simulations, the increase and decrease factors have been added to the adaptive
time stepping method to provide better control over the solution process.
Battery Model
• For CHT and FMU-CHT coupling analysis, you can now use an Ansys Fluent built-in functionality
to read transient profiles into your case and then use them for specification of cell heat sources
and tab electric current. The transient profiles will be automatically saved with the case. (Inputs
for the CHT Coupling Method, Inputs for the FMU-CHT Coupling Method)
• You can now specify the electric load type and value dynamically in a simulation using user-
defined functions. (DEFINE_BATTERY_ELOAD_PROFILE)
Fluent
• For the event-scheduled profile, a new event, Time duration, has been added. (Specifying
Battery Model Options)
• You can now use the Battery Pack Builder tool to construct a battery pack with series-connected
cells from existing Ansys Fluent simulations of a battery module and cold plate. (Using the
Battery Pack Builder Tool)
• For simulations that involve Newman P2D model, the new physics-based battery model is now
available. The model allows you to predict the battery aging process during a large number
of electric load cycles. Unlike empirical life models that are calibrated against experimental
data of macroscopic battery parameters, the physics-based life model accounts for the aging
effects via the fundamental physics of battery aging. (Physics-Based Battery Life Model, Simu-
lating the Aging Process of a Battery (Standalone Mode))
• You can now use the battery ROM tool kit to generate files that can be used for LTI-ROM and
SVD-ROM simulations in Ansys Twin Builder. For SVD-ROM simulations, you can also post-
process solution results using the battery ROM tool kit. (Using the Battery ROM Tool Kit)
Structural Model for Intrinsic Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI)
• In addition to constants, input parameters, and expressions, you can now specify the nodal
force (Node X-Force, Node Y-Force and Node Z-Force), displacement (Node X-Displacement,
Node Y-Displacement and Node Z-Displacement) as well as the Face Pressure using inter-
preted or compiled user-defined functions (UDFs).
Solver
• The option formerly referred to as the Pseudo Transient option is now renamed as the
Global Time Step formulation of the Pseudo Time Method option, and the related settings
are similarly renamed. A new Local Time Step formulation for this Pseudo Time Method
option is now also available, which allows you to apply a form of implicit under-relaxation to
steady-state or transient cases that use a pressure-based segregated solver (SIMPLE, SIMPLEC,
or PISO). This new formulation calculates a local pseudo time step size for each cell in the
domain based your specified pseudo time Courant number and the flow scales. (Performing
Calculations with a Pseudo Time Method )
• The ability to relocate the cell centroids of poor cells in order to enhance the orthogonality
metrics is now supported as a full feature. This is recommended when the default poor mesh
numerics settings are not sufficient to provide stability for your mesh. (Robustness with Meshes
of Poor Quality)
Density-based Solver
• The Two-Temperature model has been enhanced with the following features:
– A new robustness enhancement has been enabled by default to handle various hypersonic
flow conditions, especially those with reacting flows.
– The 11-species Gupta model is now supported, which provides a more advanced model for
species reaction in air.
– Support for polyatomic species (such as CO2), which allows for the modeling of Martian
entry problems.
• The node-based gradient in the density-based solver has been updated with an optional "ex-
tended" boundary treatment. This option enhances the stability and accuracy of the node-
based gradient when tetrahedral elements are present along domain boundaries. (Green-Gauss
Node-Based Gradient Evaluation)
Adjoint Solver Module
• Periodic morphing in the theta direction for cylindrical region conditions can now be enforced
by entering the desired number of repeats under periodic. Refer to Defining Region Conditions
in the Fluent User's Guide.
• Using the text user interface (TUI), The adjoint solver flux type can match the flux type used
for the flow solver by enteringadjoint/expert/match-fluent-flux-type?.
• Adjoint-based turbulence model optimization is now supported by the adjoint solver within
the Gradient-Based Optimizer. Turbulence model optimization combines the adjoint-method
with machine learning to tune the parameters of the turbulence model (e.g GEKO coefficients).
Using a Neural Network, the optimizer builds an augmented turbulence model by correlating
flow features with turbulence model parameters to reduce the difference between the flow
solution of a RANS simulation (e.g GEKO simulation) and the flow solution of a high-fidelity
simulation or results from an experiment.
• The spatial discretization and modal dissipation stabilization schemes have been removed.
• Using the text user interface (TUI), interpolation files for field variable data can be written and
read into user-defined memory (UDM) within the adjoint/utilities/interpolate
menu.
Graphics, Reporting, and Postprocessing
• Postprocessing operations such as displaying the mesh or contours may be up 15-25% faster
for large cases. This is a result of increasing the heap size from 6 million to 18 million. You can
further increase the heap size using the -h<heap size> command line startup option. Refer to
Graphics Options in the Fluent User's Guide for additional information.
• Enhanced interactive 2D plotting is now optionally available in Preferences. The new enhanced
plotting method supports zooming in and out, enabling/disabling curves, querying individual
points, and more. Refer to Enhanced Interactive Plots in the Fluent User's Guide for additional
information.
• You can now clear the data of multiple report files and plots at once by selecting them in the
Outline View tree using the Clear Data context menu option (accessed by right-clicking the
selected files/plots). Refer to Clearing File and Plot Histories in the Fluent User's Guide for addi-
tional information.
• Editing display states using the text user interface (TUI) is now done in a loop process, allowing
you to specify the fields you want to modify, rather than having to re-open the display/dis-
play-states/edit menu each time. Refer to Controlling the Display State and Modifying
the View in the Fluent User's Guide for additional information on display states.
• You can now save pathline and particle track pulse animations directly from their respective
dialog boxes using the Save Pulse Animation option.
Fluent
• Statistics gathered using the Zone-Specific Sampling Options dialog box now allow for
computation of minimum, maximum, root mean square error, and runtime discrete Fourier
transforms.
• Orthotropic and anisotropic thermal conductivity are now available for postprocessing with
the addition of field variables for matrix components: Thermal Conductivity XX | YY | ZZ |
XY | XZ | YZ. These variables are available when orthotropic or anisotropic are selected as
the method for specifying Thermal Conductivity for one or more materials in the Create/Edit
Materials dialog box. When orthotropic thermal conductivity is used, the thermal conductivity
matrix is symmetric, and the following variables are not made available to avoid redundancy:
Thermal Conductivity YX | ZY | ZY.
• When computing a flux report or creating a flux report definition, you can now report the
pressure work rate (which results from fluid cell zones undergoing normal zone motion relative
to an adjacent solid zone) or the viscous work rate. These rates can be subtracted from the
total heat transfer rate for insight into the other energy transfer contributions. For details, see
Generating a Flux Report and/or Flux Report Definition Dialog Box.
• FFT and input signal plots are improved with new default curve markers and colors, and sep-
arate curve and axes settings.
• The behavior for displaying periodic repeats and translations is improved and access to the
Periodic Instancing dialog box (formerly known as Graphics Periodicity) is moved to the
Periodic Instancing... buttons available in the View and Domain ribbon tabs (Display and
Turbo Model group boxes, respectively). Refer to Periodic Repeats for Graphics in the Fluent
Parallel Processing
• A new affinity option (-affinity=numa) is now available for Windows, which assigns each
process to all cores in a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) node while spreading the pro-
cesses over the most possible NUMA nodes. For further details about affinity settings, see
Parallel Options.
• An advanced partitioning method option for better convergence and scalability is now available
in the Preferences dialog box. This method can apply a Metis partitioning with Laplace
smoothing when a mesh or case file is read, in order to prevent partition boundaries from
passing through areas of high aspect ratio cells. (Overview of Mesh Partitioning)
Simulation Reports
• The following usability enhancements have been made to simulation reports:
– You can now remove a simulation report using the Delete Report option via the
Modify Report menu button.
– You can now copy a simulation report (and its settings) using the Copy Report option
via the Modify Report menu button.
– You can now rename a simulation report using the persistent Report Name field.
– You can now add license usage information to your report using the Include License
Usage option (under the Run Information category).
See Using Simulation Reports for more information.
• You can save your custom simulation report configuration settings (availability of particular
nodes, headings, graphics, notes, etc.) as a separate template file so that you can easily recreate
your specialized simulation reports for later use. You can access report templates using the
icons in the upper portion of the task page. See Customizing Your Report Settings Using
Templates in the Fluent User's Guide for more information.
• While recording a journal of your session, whenever your simulation involves setting up and
generating a simulation report, Fluent uses a locally stored report template during the journ-
aling process to keep track of your report settings.
Turbo Workflow
• The Turbo Workflow provides you with the basic steps to defining and refining the setup
and solution of your turbomachinery simulation within Fluent. See Using the Turbomachinery
Guided Workflow in the Fluent User's Guide for more information.
Expressions
• Porous zones and walls are now supported for use in force expressions. Refer to Expression
Operations and Functions in the Fluent User's Guide for additional information.
• Expressions may now be defined on user-defined surfaces such as planes and iso-surfaces.
Refer to Fluent Expressions Language in the Fluent User's Guide for additional information on
expressions.
Load Managers
• When using a load manager / job scheduler on Linux:
– It is now possible to specify that Cortex and host processes are launched before the job
submission and that only the parallel node processes are submitted to the scheduler by
using the -scheduler_nodeonly command line option or the Node Only option in the
Scheduler tab of Fluent Launcher. (Scheduler Options and Setting Parallel Scheduler Options
in Fluent Launcher)
– Tight coupling between the job scheduler and supported MPIs is now either used by default
or is able to be used in all circumstances, except when the Cortex process is launched after
the job submission (which is the default when not using -scheduler_nodeonly / the
Node Only option) and is run outside of the scheduler environment by using either of the
following options: -gui_machine or -gui_machine=<hostname> in the command line;
or Current Machine or Specify Machine in Fluent Launcher. (Scheduler Options and Setting
Parallel Scheduler Options in Fluent Launcher)
Add-Ons
• You can now load Ansys Fluent add-ons using the Physics ribbon tab (Models group). The
available add-on modules are listed in the More drop-down list.
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 2022 R1 Beta Features Manual.
Fluent

New features available in the client applications of Ansys Fluent 2022 R1 are listed below.
Fluent Remote Visualization Client
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Fluent Icing
Fluent Icing allows you to easily conduct in-flight icing simulations within a dedicated Fluent
Application Client environment. The following additional functionality has been added in this
release.
• Improvements to the User Interface & Project Management Structure
– Updated the ribbon command layout to improve access to common operations and to ad-
vanced graphics operations for the new Post-Analysis (Beta) module.
– The project list inside the Project Library panel can be now organized using subfolders.
• Journaling
– Operations in Fluent Icing can be recorded to a python journal file.
– Journal files can be executed either in graphical mode or in batch mode (no graphics re-
quired).
• Improvements to Post-processing Results
– Airflow solutions can now be saved using a Post Solution file (CFF Post format). This new
file allows for fast post-processing and can be used to save advanced post-processing fields
as provided by the Fluent environment.
– The Post-Analysis (Beta) module is an integrated post-processing environment leveraging

the capabilities of EnSight. An EnSight or available post-processing license is required.
→ Any Fluent Icing solution can be loaded to the Post-Analysis (Beta) module of Fluent
Icing from the Project View.
→ Multiple datasets can be loaded simultaneously and combined into a single scene or dis-
tributed into separate Viewports.
→ The Ice solution can be loaded as an Ice cover. By default, this will display the ice layer
over the original surface in white. The Ice cover is set in fully configurable scene (color,
threshold for ice display, transparency, etc.)
→ Sequence of solutions produced by a multishot simulation can be loaded as a single

dataset. Any time step can be displayed using the Results → Dataset - Sequence ribbon
and can be used to create and save an animation.
• Multishot Simulations
– Mesh updates across multishot simulations can now be done by automatically reconstructing
a volumetric unstructured mesh, composed of tetrahedra and prisms, around the iced surface
while preserving the other boundaries of the original mesh. This feature supports 2.5 D (one
cell along the span) and 3D meshes and uses Fluent Meshing.
– Multishot simulations can be interrupted and then resumed or restarted at a prior step by
using the Set Restart Shot option. This option is particularly useful to try out different
remeshing settings without having to recompute the prior multishot steps.
– If disabled, the multishot option Save Files at Each Shot will now save the Ice solution
(only) for each shot, enabling such a computation to be executed with a minimum of disk
space used while also having the ice solution available for post-processing.
Fluent Aero
Fluent Aero allows users to easily explore the aerodynamic performance of aircraft under a wide
range of flight regimes, from subsonic to hypersonic conditions, all within a dedicated Fluent
Application Client environment. A streamlined workflow guides the user through the creation
of a matrix of flight conditions or design points where single and multiple flight parameters,
such as AoA, Mach number, altitude, etc., can vary. Most common models, solvers, and conver-
gence settings of Fluent are tuned using the latest best practices for external aerodynamic
problems and are available in Fluent Aero’s user interface. In this manner, simulations can be
conducted in a quicker and more user-friendly environment. The full capabilities of the Fluent
Solution Workspace remain accessible when its session is displayed through the Fluent Aero
ribbon Workspace – Solution button. Tutorials are available to provide examples on how to
conduct exploratory simulations using single and multiple flight parameters.
Release 2022R1 is the initial full release of Fluent Aero. A broad range of features have been added
to the previous beta release and are described below.
• The Fluent Aero Simulation settings file run.settings has been updated and enhanced.
This new file now contains all the Fluent Aero settings used to calculate your simulations. In
this manner, it can be used to quickly set a new simulation when imported.
• Fluent Aero Workspace python scripting, journal recording, and journal playback has been
substantially updated. It is now possible to capture all actions during the set-up process of a
Fluent Aero simulation.
• A new Parametric Plot option has been added to allow you to organize and plot your data
using multiple curves on a single plot at a specific set of condition parameters. For example,
this would allow you to create a plot showing multiple Mach number curves of lift coefficient
vs. angle of attack.
• The ability to specify component specific outputs has been added, allowing you to output the
engine thrust or the drag force on individual components, for instance.
• Additional control over the standard plots and graphs has been added, allowing you to quickly
change axis settings and curve types, to add legend and titles, and to access other available
options.
• The Post-Analysis (Beta) module, which brings EnSight’s post processing features directly
into the Fluent, has been added to Fluent Aero. This enables powerful but lightweight post
processing of results, including side by side comparison of multiple design points.
Fluent
• The WindTunnel type component group now supports both velocity-inlet and mass-flow-
inlet bc types. For this type of applications, the latter is recommended and is the primary
domain inlet boundary. A mass flow rate can be used as a flow input variable.
• The Engine type component group now supports pressure-inlet and mass-flow-inlet bc
types in it’s Exhaust part, and mass-flow-outlet and pressure-outlet bc types in it’s Intake
part.
• Fluent Aero’s default convergence, air properties and physical model settings have been re-
viewed and updated. They now reflect our latest best practices when using the Density based
solver for a wide range of mach numbers (from subsonic to hypersonic conditions).
• The user interface has been substantially updated, including improvements to the ribbon,
progress bar and connection messaging.
1.3. Updates Affecting Ansys Fluent 2022 R1 Code Behavior

The following sections list the code changes in Ansys Fluent 2022 R1.
1.3.1. Meshing Mode
General
1.3.1. Meshing Mode

This section contains a list of code changes implemented in the meshing mode of Ansys Fluent 2022
R1 that may cause behavior and/or output that is different from the previous release.
Mesh Generation
• The cube cells in the meshes generated by the Rapid Octree mesher are no longer all defined
with the polyhedral cell type. The majority of these cells are now defined with the hexahedral
cell type, and only the transition cells that have hanging nodes are defined with the polyhedral
cell type. This has advantages for several algorithms in the solution mode of Fluent (such as
the QUICK scheme). As part of this change, the quality measure is now set to ortho skew (rather
than skewness) by default at the end of the meshing process, so that the mesh quality evalu-
ation for your mesh is as consistent as possible when comparing it to a topologically identical
mesh generated in the previous release. The quality measure can be changed using the follow-
ing text command: report/quality-method.
• Improvements to size field merging now better respects the body of influence sizes. As a result,
overset meshes may have a different mesh count when compared to previous releases.

This section contains a list of code changes implemented in the solution mode of Ansys Fluent 2022
R1 that may cause behavior and/or results that are different from the previous release.
Updates Affecting Ansys Fluent 2022 R1 Code Behavior
Files
• Reading mesh files that have two-sided walls that require slitting (to create the shadow zones)
is now faster. The increase in speed will be greater for files with many such wall zones.
• When using the checkpointing feature for Fluent without a job scheduler, the default location
for the checkpointing files is now the current working directory rather than /tmp for Linux or
C:\temp for Windows. For more information about checkpointing, see Checkpointing an
Ansys Fluent Simulation.
Solver-Meshing
• When you create a mesh interface using the default one-to-one interface creation method and
then delete it, the original boundary zones will no longer remain as interfaces, but will be
changed to be of the same type and have the same settings as the associated non-overlapping
zones.
Solver-Numerics
• Stop Criterion values that you define in the Convergence Conditions dialog box are now
stored as separate values for Steady and Transient simulations. When you switch from steady
to transient (or visa-versa), confirm your convergence criterion before beginning the calculation
to ensure convergence is judged according to your intended limits.
Cell Zones and Boundary Conditions
• When using the Impedance Data Fitting dialog box or the impedance utility to set up the
impedance boundary condition (IBC), the terms that approximate the reflection coefficient as
a series of poles / residues in the time domain (zero order term, number of real poles, and so
on) that Fluent calculates from experimental absorption coefficient data in the frequency domain
may be different depending on which release and/or operating system you are using. Note
that such differences will not affect the solution results, as only the curves of the fitted frequency
/ impedance data that result from the impedance parameters are used in the impedance
boundary condition, and those curves are consistent. You can verify this by comparing the
fitted frequency / impedance data, which can be written to a file (as described in Calculating
Impedance Parameters).
Reacting Flows
• For the strained Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM) model, a non-adiabatic extension is now
available. The non-adiabatic strained FGM model accounts for the impact of heat loss on flame
speed and, therefore, more accurately models turbulent combustion with significant heat loss
due to wall cooling. (Strained Non-Adiabatic Flame Speed)
Discrete Phase Model
• When exporting particle trajectories into 2D axisymmetric swirl cases, Ansys Fluent now projects
particle locations onto the XR plane (plane formed by the axial and radial directions) to ensure
they are correctly displayed.
The previous behavior for exporting Cartesian 3D coordinates that are used for tracking can
be recovered for the CFD-Post format as well as for other formats by issuing the below Scheme
command sequence in the Ansys Fluent console:
Fluent
(rpsetvar 'dpm/io/cfd-post/export-2d-in-plane? #f)
(rpsetvar 'dpm/io/export-2d-in-plane? #f)
• For DPM cases that involve the Lagrangian wall film, a new improved algorithm has been im-
plemented for the Friedrich separation model. The new algorithm uses a random number
generator to adjust the frequency at which parcels are separated from the edge, so that the
mass of the parcels remains unchanged during their release from the film into the gas phase.
As a result, the number of parcels released from the edges into the domain is reduced, while
the overall separated mass ratio is preserved, which will shorten the time required for DPM
iterations. You can expect less parcels to be released from the separating edge compared to
the previous implementation. You can revert to the old behavior by issuing the following
scheme command sequence in the Fluent console:
(rpsetvar 'dpm/random-friedrich? #f boolean)
(dpm-parameters-changed)
• For DPM cases that involve randomization of trajectory starting points (see Random Trajectories
in the Fluent User's Guide for the full list of such cases), an improved randomization is now
used for each DPM injection within a simulation. You may notice slight improved changes in
solution results and differences in the convergence behavior compared to previous releases.
The deficiencies in randomization in earlier releases are as follows:
– For cases with steady particles, randomization at every iteration was ignored for some injec-
tion types. To revert to the old behavior, use the following text command:
define/models/dpm/injections/re-randomize-every-iteration? no
– For cases with unsteady particles, randomization at every particle time step was ignored if
multiple particle time steps were executed within the same flow iteration. This occurred in
steady flow cases or when the specified particle time step was smaller than the flow time
step. To revert to the old behavior, use the following scheme command:
(rpsetvar 'dpm/random/seed-timestep-corrected? #f)
dpm/random/seed-timestep-corrected?
– Using multiple identical injections was leading to identical particle trajectories for each of
the injections. Switching back to the old behavior is possible using the scheme command:
(rpsetvar 'dpm/random/seed-injection-name? #f)
dpm/random/seed-injection-name?
• When using the default Hybrid method of parallel processing for the discrete phase model,
the parallel processing performance for the particle tracking may improve by 10–20% for cases
that also use the non-premixed or partially premixed combustion model. For further details
about the Hybrid method, see Parallel Processing for the Discrete Phase Model.
• The DPM_VOLATILE_FRACTION(tp) and DPM_CHAR_FRACTION(tp) macros are no

longer supported. Instead of DPM_VOLATILE_FRACTION(tp), use TP_VOLATILE_FRAC-
TION(tp) for a tracked particle structure and PP_VOLATILE_FRACTION(pp) for a particle
structure. Instead of DPM_CHAR_FRACTION(tp), use TP_CHAR_FRACTION(tp).
Updates Affecting Ansys Fluent 2022 R1 Code Behavior
Multiphase Models
• For the Eulerian multiphase model, a modified reverse flow treatment is now used for the
pressure boundary. The treatment corrects some deficiencies of the old treatment used previ-
ously. When deciding on the occurrence of the reverse flow condition, the new treatment
considers fluxes for all phases, whereas the old treatment was biased towards secondary phases.
The solution results will be more accurate compared to previous releases in the following
scenarios:
– Two-phase flows where there is a reverse flow in the primary phase only
– Flows with more than two phases where only some of the phases have reverse flow
• For the VOF multiphase model, the default method for the Backflow Direction Specification
Method at the pressure outlet boundary has changed to From Neighboring Cell. This change
is critical for imposing proper reverse flow conditions in rotating or swirling flows where the
old default (Normal to Boundary) produces unphysical behavior.
Species Transport
• The Diffusion Energy Source in the energy equation (see The Energy Equation in the Fluent
Theory Guide) is now included with the nist-multispecies-real-gas-models and the pressure-
based solver. For cubic equations of state the same term is now included for all conditions,
instead of only including it for supercritical temperature.
Turbulence
• The original shielding function for Stress-Blended Eddy Simulation (SBES) or Shielded DES
(SDES) contains a term which is based on the ratio , where is the turbulent length scale
and is the measure for grid spacing. This term allows the function to detect regions away
from walls which are not sufficiently refined for proper LES resolution. It was found however,
that this term sometimes causes ‘spotty’ behavior with small regions in the outer flow where
the model switches locally back to RANS mode. This is in most cases not desirable and the
argument in the shielding function is therefore deactivated. To recover the behavior previous
to 2022 R1, the following TUI command can be used to revert the change and activate the
term again:
/solve/set/previous-defaults/undo-2022r1-default-changes?
Undo the change in the shielding function for SBES or SDES? [no]
yes
• For turbulent flows, the wall treatment of the Specified Shear boundary condition in the
momentum equations has been adapted to obtain consistent results with the no-slip boundary
condition. To recover the behavior previous to 2022 R1, the following TUI command can be
used to revert the change:
/solve/set/previous-defaults/undo-2022r1-default-changes?
Fluent
Undo the use of consistent turbulent specified stress bc? [no] yes
Note:
No change of the formulation was made in the special case that all components of
the Specified Shear boundary condition are constant and have a value of zero.
Parallel Processing
• The default set of tunings for the Intel message passing interface (MPI) collectives is updated
for Linux. To restore the behavior from release 2021 R2, set the FLUENT_MPI_OPT_LEVEL
environment variable to 0 before starting Fluent.
• The following changes are made to the default settings for process binding (affinity):
– When running on Linux, Fluent by default now allows the message passing interface (MPI)
to manage process binding, which provides optimal performance on the cloud. To revert
to the behavior of the default for the previous release, add the following command line
option when starting: when running in exclusive mode (that is, when the machine is not
already loaded), add -affinity=core; when running in non-exclusive mode, add -af-
finity=sock.
– For shared memory runs on Windows with the default Intel MPI, Fluent by default now
manages affinity, assigning each process to an individual core. To revert to the behavior of
the default for the previous release, add the following command line option when starting:
-affinity=off.
For further details about affinity settings, see Parallel Options.
Graphics, Reporting, and Postprocessing
• When computing a flux report or creating a flux report definition with the energy equation
enabled and the pressure-based solver selected, the values reported for the total heat transfer
rate are now more accurate, as they now include contributions from the viscous work rate.
For details, see Generating a Flux Report and/or Flux Report Definition Dialog Box.
User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
• After you have loaded a compiled UDF, if you then load it again (by using the define/user-
defined/compiled-functions/load text command or by clicking the Load button in
the Compiled UDFs or UDF Library Manager dialog box), the UDF will now be unloaded,
compiled again, and then reloaded. In previous releases, no action would be taken. This new
functionality is useful if you decide to revise a UDF after it is loaded and want to use the revised
version, as it means that you do not have to perform the unloading and compiling steps
manually. (Compiling UDFs in the Fluent Customization Manual)
• The tp->source.htc variable has been renamed to tp->source.htcA, and the expected
content of the variable has been changed by a factor of M_PI. That is, if a UDF from previous
releases assigns a value to tp->source.htc, the value must be multiplied by M_PI and
then assigned to tp->source.htcA (instead of tp->source.htc).
Features To Be Removed in a Future Release

This section contains a list of code changes implemented in the client applications of Ansys Fluent
2022 R1 that may cause behavior and/or output that is different from the previous release.
1.4. Features To Be Removed in a Future Release

This section contains a list of features that are supported in Release 2022 R1, but will be removed in a
future release of Ansys Fluent. It is recommended that you begin to migrate any cases that use these
features at your earliest convenience.
Solution Mode
• The hanging node method for mesh adaption will be removed for 3D cases in a future release,
and it will not be possible to use it. It is recommended that you migrate your 3D cases to the
PUMA method. To change the adaption method, use the following text command: mesh/ad-
apt/set/method puma. For a list of the advantages of using the PUMA method, see Polyhedral
Unstructured Mesh Adaption in the Fluent Theory Guide.
If your hanging node adaption case uses legacy anisotropic adaption (the mesh/adapt/aniso-
tropic-adaption text command), you must also migrate to using the anisotropic adaption
available for the PUMA method, that is, the mesh/adapt/set/anisotropic-adaption?
text command (for manual adaption) or the anisotropic? setting in the mesh/adapt/man-
age-criteria/add text command (for automatic adaption).
• In a future release it will not be possible to disable the correction form of the momentum
equations for the pressure-based solver. Support for such disabling (through either the
solve/set/advanced/correction-form or solve/set/previous-defaults/undo-
2021r1-default-changes? text command) is extended to the current release, and it is re-
commended that you migrate any cases that disable it to instead use the correction form. For
a list of the advantages of using the correction form, see Using the Correction Form of Momentum
Discretization.
Chapter 2: CFX Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Release 2022 R1 of Ansys CFX.
2.1. Supported Platforms
2.3. Known Issues

Platform/OS levels that are supported in the current release are posted on the Ansys website.

This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 2022 R1 of Ansys CFX.
• You can import meshes from CFF files ("*.msh.*" and "*.cas.*") into CFX-Pre that contain at least one
3D mesh defined only in terms of Tetrahedral, Pyramid, Wedge, and/or Hexahedral elements. Note
that there is no support for importing from CFF files that contain 3D polyhedral elements or that
contain meshes that are defined only by 2D elements.
For information about importing meshes into CFX-Pre, see Importing Meshes in the CFX-Pre User's
Guide.
• You can import CCL from CFX CFF files ("*.cas.cff") into CFX-Pre.
For information about importing CCL into CFX-Pre, see Import CCL Command in the CFX-Pre User's
Guide.
• In CFX-Pre, there is added support for previewing injection regions. A new Symbol option, Injection
Shape, shows the approximate shape of the hole/slot at each injection position. For details, see
Symbol in the CFX-Pre User's Guide.
• In a transient blade row case, when using Profile Transformation with the Harmonic
Balance transient method, you can now specify two time period values. For details, see Harmonic
Balance in the CFX-Pre User's Guide.
• There is a new Run Control expert parameter: cache optimization level. For details, see Run Control
Parameters in the CFX-Solver Modeling Guide.
2.3. Known Issues

• In order to enable the loading of CGNS files into CFX-Pre, start CFX-Pre from the command line using
the "-cgns" (excluding the quotes) command line argument. This command line argument is not
CFX
supported, might cause problems, and is not recommended, when loading other types of files into
CFX-Pre that depend on HDF5, such as CFF.
Chapter 3: CFD-Post Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Release 2022 R1 of Ansys CFD-Post.

Note:
CFD-Post on SUSE 12, when running through NICE DCV 2020, requires environment variable
"QTWEBENGINE_DISABLE_SANDBOX=1".

This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 2022 R1 of Ansys CFD-Post.
Release 2022 R1 of CFD-Post has no new features or enhancements.
Chapter 4: 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. 91))
• TurboGrid (see TurboGrid Release Notes (p. 89))
• CFX-Pre (see CFX Release Notes (p. 83))
• CFD-Post (see CFD-Post Release Notes (p. 85))
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.

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 2022 R1 of TurboSystem.
• There is documentation covering the Turbomachine Neutral Data Format. See Turbomachine Neutral
Data Format Reference in the TurboSystem User's Guide.
Chapter 5: TurboGrid Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Release 2022 R1 of Ansys TurboGrid.


This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 2022 R1 of Ansys TurboGrid.
• TurboGrid can produce meshes that resolve the geometric features of partial tip clearance. For details,
see Meshing High-Fidelity Geometry in the TurboGrid User's Guide.
• Two new variables are available: Span Normalized and Streamwise Location.
• Mesh analysis now includes a new statistic: Skewness. For details, see Skewness in the TurboGrid User's
Guide.
Chapter 6: Ansys BladeModeler Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Release 2022 R1 of BladeGen and BladeEditor.
6.2. BladeGen
6.3. BladeEditor

6.2. BladeGen
6.2.1. New Features and Enhancements

This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 2022 R1 of Ansys BladeGen.
• In the BladeGen component system, the Blade Design cell property Data Transfer > Geometry
Transfer Type, which enables you to select the file format used to transfer data, now has its default
value controlled by a new Workbench preference: Tools > Options > TurboSystem > Blade Design
> Data transfer type.
6.3. BladeEditor
6.3.1. New Features and Enhancements

This section lists features and enhancements that are new in Release 2022 R1 of Ansys BladeEditor.
• The BladeEditor settings that were previously labeled as "Preferences", have been relabeled as
"Model Settings". As in the previous release, these settings apply to, and are stored with, the current
case; they do not affect new cases. For details, see Model Settings in the TurboSystem User's Guide.
In addition, new preferences have been added in the DesignModeler options to control the default
values of the aforementioned model settings. For details, see Addins in the Ansys DesignModeler
User's Guide.
• You can control how the leading/trailing edge ellipse is positioned using the "Ellipse Location"
property, which has two options: "Camberline Intersection at Blade Edge" and "Tangent to Blade
Edge". The "Camberline Intersection at Blade Edge" option represents the behavior in the previous
release. The "Tangent to Blade Edge" option is a new feature. For details, see Blades made using
Camberline/Thickness Sub-features in the TurboSystem User's Guide.
BladeModeler
6.3.2. Incompatibilities
This section describes the operational changes, the procedural changes (actions that have to be done
differently in this release to get an outcome available in Release 2021 R2), and the support changes
(functionality that is no longer supported) in Release 2022 R1 of BladeEditor.
• Two blade hold line options (see Blades made using Camberline/Thickness Sub-features in the
TurboSystem User's Guide) have been renamed. The blade hold line options were named Constant
Span, Variable, User Defined and are now named Constant Span, Linearly Varying
Span, Spline Curve.
Chapter 7: Polyflow Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Ansys Polyflow 2022 R1.
7.1. New Features
7.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in Ansys Polyflow 2022 R1
7.1. New Features

The new features in Ansys Polyflow 2022 R1 are as follows:
• For time-dependent flows, the Correct volume every time step option for Volume Conservation
is available in order to control volume correction at every time step and at every mesh adaption.
• A linear representation of the velocity field combined with a linear representation of the pressure
field in each element is set as the default interpolation for 3D generalized Newtonian flows.
While this interpolation is also available for viscoelastic flows, it is, however, not available when
the mesh superposition technique is invoked.

For information about past, present, and future operating system and platform support, see the Platform
Support section of the Ansys Website.
7.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in Ansys Polyflow 2022 R1

This section lists limitations that existed in previous releases, but that were removed in Ansys Polyflow
2022 R1.
Chapter 8: Forte Release Notes
The enhancements and defect corrections listed below are for Release 2022 R1.
8.2. Resolved Issues and Limitations

This section lists new features and enhancements in Release 2022 R1 of Ansys Forte CFD, organized by
topic.
Simulation Interface
• The Chemistry node has been redesigned to allow specification of fluid properties for non-reacting
flow, through use of a built-in database for common substances. The new Chemistry/Materials
node now includes three options for chemical species specification:
– Define by importing a Chemkin chemistry set. This is backwards compatible and is the
required choice for reacting-flow simulations. This option can now also incorporate liquid
species and their properties for non-reacting flows, using the formulations defined for
Chemkin-Pro's multiphase species definitions.
– Select one or more liquid material (and its corresponding vapor species) from the Forte
database, which includes water, oil, acetone, ethanol, and many fuels. This option is only
appropriate for non-reacting flows. Once a substance is selected, there are options to
override the properties of density and viscosity with user-specified, constant values.
– Select one or more gas species from the Forte database. This option is only appropriate
for non-reacting flow.
• When liquid species are defined in the Chemistry/Materials settings, a new Multiphase Mixtures
column will appear in the Mixtures Editor utility. This allows definition of liquid and liquid-gas
mixtures for use in Inlet and Initial Conditions settings.
– Beta in 2022 R1 – phase change may be included when liquid-species are present, which
allows simulation of cavitation, for example.
• New options have been added for wall heat transfer, including:
– Option to use a user-defined-function (UDF) to define the wall shear model.
– Option to specify heat flux, allowing the wall temperature to be calculated.
– Option to specify an external heat-transfer coefficient and ambient temperature, allowing

the wall temperature and effective heat flux to be calculated.
Forte
– Option to specify a time-dependent profile for the (spatially uniform) wall temperature.
– In addition to the default (Han and Reitz) model that governs the relationship between
heat flux and wall heat transfer, options are exposed to (a) use the model of Amsden or
(b) employ a UDF.
– Under the Output Controls node, there is now an Additional Output option, which allows
use of Ansys EnSight DVS to output spatially resolved data and selected spatially averaged
data. This option provides performance advantages when working with EnSight, compared
to the standard Spatially Resolved option. These output options can be controlled inde-
pendently from the standard option, including selection of outputs and output frequency.
– Added an option in Edit Preferences > General Settings > Validation Settings to disable
the surface-contiguity check for open boundaries. This check should only be necessary if
the open boundary is connected to more than one region.
Job Submission, Monitoring, and Runing Options
• Beta in 2022 R1: option to use Intel MPI 2019 instead of the default Intel MPI 2018 for parallel
computing.
• Added energy_source.csv spatially averaged output file, which may be viewed in the Forte
Monitor. This reports the rate of energy deposition and accumulated energy deposition for energy
sources.
• Allow the chemsolver.csv file to be written if chemistry is active anywhere or at any time in the
simulation.
• Changed the reported memory usage in Memory Diagnostics to always be RSS.
Engineering Models and Computation
• A new Two-Phase Eulerian Mixture solver option is available. It will be automatically selected when
liquid species are included in the Chemistry/Materials panel. It is only available for non-reacting flow.
• As described above, new heat-transfer options allow the specification of heat flux or heat-transfer
coefficient. In these cases, Forte will determine the temperature of the fluid at the wall.
• Added the ignition-kernel radius value to the interface of the User Defined Function (UDF) for calcu-
lating turbulent flamespeed to facilitate more general user functions.
Visualization and Analysis
• Using Ansys EnSight with the Additional Output > EnSight DVS option provides faster loading of data
into EnSight and better performance in traversing transient data within EnSight.
Tutorials and Verification Manuals
• A new Nozzle Flow tutorial is added to demonstrate the 2-phase Eulerian Mixture flow capability for
liquid fuel injection. This tutorial includes the effects of cavitation.
Resolved Issues and Limitations

For a list of issues that have been resolved in Release 2022 R1, refer to the Resolved Issues and Limitations
document on the Ansys Help site.
Chapter 9: Chemkin-Pro / Energico / Reaction
Workbench / MFL Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Release 2022 R1 of Chemkin-Pro products:

Chemkin-Pro
• Added a new Multiphase Perfectly Stirred Reactor (PSR) model to the Chemkin-Pro models palette.
This model allows simulations to include multiple liquid, solid, and gas phases, and to use the mul-
tiphase kinetics framework introduced in 2021 R1.
• New reaction-rate formulations for multiphase applications: .
– Provide product constant of a reaction using keyword KPRODUCT. This allows specification of
equilibrium level for reactions such as ion dissociation and saturation limit for dissolution of solid
in liquid, as a function of temperature.
• New multiphase tutorials have been added to the Chemkin-Pro Samples:
– Acid reaction-runaway example in a Closed Multiphase Batch Reactor.
– Urea decomposition in a Multiphase PSR reactor.
• For 0-D Batch, Perfectly Stirred Reactor, Plug-Flow Reactor, and all Flame Simulators, when used with
Particle Tracking, added the option to perform the particle energy balance that includes the mass
and enthalpy contributions of the particles to the energy equation.
Integration with Ansys Workbench
• Usage of Chemkin-Pro within Ansys Workbench now allows file pathnames with UNC syntax.

document on the Ansys Help site.
Chapter 10: FENSAP-ICE Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Ansys FENSAP-ICE 2022 R1.
10.1. New Features and Enhancements in Ansys FENSAP-ICE
10.1. New Features and Enhancements in Ansys FENSAP-ICE

• Vapor, Air, Particle Energy Coupling
– Air energy equation can now be coupled to the particle energy and vapor systems to account for
the heat transfer between air and particles due to convection and evaporation, which can change
the temperature of air and affect the local saturation vapor pressure and surface recovery temper-
atures.
– In stand-alone DROP3D, this is activated by enabling Air+droplet as the solver mode, setting the
air energy equation to energy-only, and enabling Particle thermal equation.
– For engine icing simulations, a new run mode called Coupled-Turbo is added which automatically
couples the particle thermal energy with the air energy equation.
– Consult Ansys FENSAP-ICE User Manual for further details on requirements and settings.
• 2.5D Remeshing
– The remeshing algorithm has been extended to include the workflow to output one-element-thick
(2.5D) grids as required for 2D icing calculations. With this mode enabled, the remeshing algorithm
will no longer produce 3D meshes in the spanwise direction at each shot of 2D icing calculations
which significantly increased computational cost.
Some requirements exist for the setup of 2D grids and remeshing settings, consult Ansys FENSAP-
ICE User Manual for details.
• Miscellaneous
– The Remeshing with OptiGrid option is no longer available in the ICE3D panel. The Fluent Meshing
method has been adopted as the new standard because of its robustness.
– ALE mesh deformation option uncoupled is no longer available in the user interface. This option
solves for x, y, z displacements independently and it is prone to failure due to degenerate element
volumes.
– Numerical schlieren computation is now available as a selectable solution field in Viewmerical to

observe flow features highlighted by changes in density of air. This field is best visualized with a
greyscale colormap in inverted mode.
FENSAP-ICE
– A new colormap, Spectrum – Thermal, is added to Viewmerical which mimics the color schemes
in thermal camera displays. This colormap is popular for displaying the temperature field in CFD
solutions.
– Multishot iterations can now be generated in the multishot config panel by specifying the total
number of shots and total icing time. This facilitates creation and modification of multishot runs
when many shots are involved.

document on the Ansys Help website.
Chapter 11: EnSight Release Notes
The following sections contain release information for Ansys EnSight 2022 R1.
11.1. New Features and Enhancements in Ansys EnSight
Help System
Under Windows™ and Linux™, the help system utilizes the Ansys Help Viewer and (if available), the
online Ansys Help system to provide Help and Documentation. When working in online mode, the Ansys
Help Viewer forwards help and documentation requests to the online location for help and document-
ation content. When working in offline mode, the Ansys Viewer utilizes locally stored help and docu-
mentation content.
Under MacOS™, a PDF version of the Ansys online help has been installed. However, the linking from
specific Help buttons within EnSight directly to the desired Help/Documentation location is no longer
available. You will need to navigate to the specific help or documentation content manually.
11.1. New Features and Enhancements in Ansys EnSight
Release Notes From EnSight 2021 R2 to 2022 R1

The following list highlights the enhancements and changes to EnSight in 2022 R1. In addition we have
a number of major enhancements that have reached Beta state and will likely be in a release state at
2022 R2.
• Environment Change
By default EnSight now behaves more consistent with other Ansys applications. Most notable are
that the background color and mouse mappings are changed vs. legacy EnSight usage. If desired,
the easiest way to get back to the old look and feel is to set the environment variable ENSIGHT_AN-
SYS_VERSION to 0.
• Ray Traced Output Changed to OSPRay
In 2022 R1, the default (and only) integrated ray traced output method is via OSPRay™. EnRay is no
longer used. OSPRay™ offers significant improvement in speed and visual realism over the EnRay
routine.
• Inline Preview of Ray Traced Rendering
A real-time, build in preview window within EnSight offers a preview of the ray traced rendering. This
greatly improves the adjustment and creation of the ray traced output with direct and immediate
feedback.
EnSight
• Added Area (Quad) Light Source
A new light source referred to as Quad Light type is available. This is an effective area of light (light
box) which allows for better soft shadow image lighting.
• Ray Traced Animation Saving Done Inline
The previous capability of offline saving of ray traced rendering has been removed, and the saving
of animations is now done inline with EnSight operation. This greatly reduces the disk space used
and greatly improves the robustness of the animation save operation.
• Gamma Correction
Gamma correction is now on by default. The goal of this change is to improve the realistic output
image. You can turn this off if needed.
• QEA Improvements
The Quick Edit Action area (the context sensitive icons across top of EnSight) better follow the in-
tended operations of the user through left and right click context menus. This should improve the
interactivity and workflow usage of utilizing the mouse button operations in combination with the
quick edit actions offered through the top level of icons.
• CFF Post
Enhancements in performance, rigid body motion support, and FENSAP data through the CFF Post
format have been made.
• LSTC-LSDYNA Reader
Improvements to the LSTC-LSDYNA reader to handle CPM particle data reading, extending support
for more MS solution types, and improvements in the performance of ALE datasets.
• EnSight Launcher
Support for Slurm job scheduling has been incorporated into the EnSight Launcher.
• Particle Trace Emitter Locations
Added an option to allow the number of emission points to be randomly located on the surface of
an emission part and not restricted to the number of nodes on the part.
• Vector Arrow Shafts
Vector arrows now have the option to show a cylinder shaft and can therefore be shaded vs. the
previous line shaft.
• Palette Legend Labels
For the Color Palette Legend, you can now set the number of tick marks independently of the number
of palette levels.
• Beta Features
For a list of beta features, see Ansys EnSight Beta Features for more details.

Part 3: Ansys Electronics Products
Release notes are available for the following Ansys Electronics products:
Icepak (p. 109)

Chapter 1: Icepak Release Notes
Release 2022 R1 of the Ansys Icepak application offers most of the capabilities from previous releases
plus many new features and enhancements.
• Introduction (p. 109)
• New and Modified Features in Ansys Icepak 2022 R1 (p. 109)
• Resolved Issues and Limitations in Ansys Icepak 2022 R1 (p. 109)
1.1. Introduction
Ansys Icepak 2022 R1 is a release of Ansys Icepak that has new features and resolved issues and limita-
tions.
1.2. New and Modified Features in Ansys Icepak 2022 R1

• Import/Export
– Added the ability to merge projects when importing ECXML models.
• Meshing
– Added the ability to use size function for 2D objects when using 2.5D meshing.
• Object Parameters
– Added the display of user-specified node names to the Temperature limits panel.
– Added the ability to specify the Z-axis as the flow direction for CAD fans.
– Added the ability to specify transient junction power for Network blocks.
• Parallel Solution Settings
– Added the ability to specify SLURM for job scheduler on remote Linux machines.
1.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations in Ansys Icepak 2022 R1

Part 4: Ansys Optical Products
Release notes are available for the following Ansys optical products:
Ansys SPEOS (p. 113)

SPEOS for NX (p. 117)
SPEOS for Creo Parametric (p. 119)
Ansys Optical Labs (p. 121)
SPEOS HPC (p. 123)
Chapter 1: Speos Release Notes
The following sections present the new features, enhancements and changes for Speos 2022 R1 release.
1.1. New Features
1.2. Enhancements
1.3. Changes
1.1. New Features

This section describes the new features introduced in Speos 2022 R1 release.
All Features
Possibility to create Presets, sets of parameters, and apply them to Speos objects.
Optical Part Design
• TIR Lens: New parameter Spread Control available to control the light distribution on the target.
• BETA Feature: the Optical Part Design feature,Micro Optical Stripes, is now available and allows to
create thin stripes on a light guide by design the tool bit used to create the light guide mold.
Light Field
BETA Feature: new Light Field feature available: the Light Field allows you to create a propagation result
of a sub-optical system to be reused in a more complex optical system to gain time when computing
simulation.
Materials
• BETA feature: Possibility to create and apply a Non-homogeneous material on a body to define ab-
sorption and/or refractive index variations in the body.
• The Surface State Plugin feature allows you to create a custom made *.sop plug-in and use it as a
surface optical properties in Speos.
Simulation
• BETA feature: Possibility to run direct and inverse simulation using the GPU of your computer for a
faster computation.
• BETA feature: Inverse Simulations can now consider moving geometries (Speos Light Boxes) and
moving Camera sensors thanks to the definition of a trajectory file for each moving element, to capture
the dynamics of a scene.
Speos Release Notes
• LiDAR Simulations can now consider moving geometries (Speos Light Boxes) and moving LiDAR
sensors thanks to the definition of a trajectory file for each moving element.
Parasolid Modeler
The Parasolid modeler is now officially available to faster generate geometry especially for Optical Part
Design.
Lightweight Import
The Lightweight import is now available and allows to load a lighter level of detail of data for CATIA
files (*.CATPart and a *.CATProduct) than a full load, reducing the conversion time.
Workbench
BETA Feature: In Workbench, you can now create a connection between the Solution cell of a Static
Structural system and the Geometry cell of a Speos system.
1.2. Enhancements
This section describes the enhancements introduced in Ansys SPEOS 2022 R1 release.
General
Overall improvement of the Speos performances.
UX
• Improvement of the default table shape in Speos feature definitions.
• Better support of foreign languages.
Speos Simulation Panel
• The Speos Simulation Panel is now correctly updated after performing an action in the tree.
• New useful Speos Simulation panel commands available:
– Possibility to create unlimited folders in the Speos Simulation panel to organize Speos objects
thanks to the Create Folder command.
– Possibility to create a named selection group directly from a Speos Simulation panel folder or node
thanks to the Create Named Selection command.
– Possibility to highlight in the 3D view the geometries on which a material is a applied thanks to
the Select associate geometry command.
Sensor
• Camera Sensor: possibility to separate the sensor result by source in case of several sources used.
One layer will correspond to one source in the result.
Enhancements
• Camera Sensor: Improvement of the Focus Distance calculation. Now the transition between the Real
Focus and the Virtual Focus is calculated so that an *.OPTDistortion file can contain positive and
negative Focus distance values.
• UGR calculation is now compatible with the Human Eye Sensor and any luminance sensor.
Optical Part Design
• BETA Feature:Freeform Lens: Possibility to create a Freeform Lens based on a user-target definition.
• Possibility to select a multifaces body as a support or a surface for an Optical Lens, Optical Surface,
Micro Optical Stripes.
• The Light Guide control points are now correctly measured along the guide curve, that is to say minus
the Start and End parameters.
Head-Up Display (HUD)
Possibility to select a multifaces body as a support or a surface for a Windshield HUD Optical Design
and Windshield HUD Optical Analysis.
Speos Live Preview
• The Speos Live Preview can now be displayed with the Dynamic Adaptation 2019 of Human Vision.
• General improvement of the rendering in Speos Live Preview. (472966)
Speos Light Box
• Possibility to display a Speos Light Box Import with a Bounding Box or Facets in the 3D view.
• The Simulation progress status now displays the remaining time for the Speos Light Box export.
Simulation
• Improvement on homogenization between CPU and GPU simulation results. (455771)
• The Light Expert tool now supports faceted surfaces.
• The spectral irradiance map result generated with a camera sensor is now available in the tree as a
child of an Inverse Simulation.
• The Simulation progress status now displays the remaining time for the following simulations and
actions:
– Direct Simulation
– Inverse Simulation
– Interactive Simulation
– Lidar Simulation
– Geometric Rotating Lidar Simulation
Speos Release Notes
– HUD Optical Analysis
– Speos HPC Compute Simulation
– Export of Simulation
– Linked Export of Simulation
– Live Preview
Automation
Improvement of the robustness of the ExportRaysAsGeometry method. (465284)
Ansys Cloud
When submitting a job with Speos Core to Ansys Cloud, you can now define the maximum number of
cores to use for the job thanks to the Total number of cores slider.
Workbench
Publish Parameters is now compatible with :
• The Optical Part Design control points Values (Position and Value)
• The table parameters (Aspheric Values tables of Projection Lens, Control Plane tables of Optical Surface
Advanced Sharp Cutoff and Poly Ellipsoidal Reflector, Eyebox and Projector tables of HUD Optical
Design
• Material with Surface Layer
1.3. Changes
This section describes the operational and support changes introduced in Ansys Optical Labs 2022 R1
release.
• The SPEOS_SC.SIM.Automation is no longer supported in 2022 R1, with an end of life in 2022 R2.
• The ACIS modeler will no longer be supported in 2022 R2, with an end of life in 2023 R1.

Chapter 2: Speos for NX Release Notes
The following sections present the new features, enhancements and changes for Speos for NX 2022 R1
release.
2.2. Changes

This section describes the new features and enhancements introduced in Speos for NX 2022 R1 release.
UX
Better support of foreign languages.
Optical Properties
The Surface State Plugin feature allows you to create a custom made *.sop plug-in and use it as a surface
optical properties in Speos.
Speos Live Preview
BETA Feature: the Speos Live Preview is now available in Speos for NX and allows you to compute the
simulation using progressing rendering.
Sensor
• Camera Sensor: In Photometric / Colorimetric Mode, possibility to separate the sensor result by source
in case of several sources used. One layer will correspond to one source in the result.
• UGR calculation is now compatible with the Human Eye Sensor and any luminance sensor.
Simulation
• BETA feature: Possibility to run direct and inverse simulation using the GPU of your computer for a
faster computation.
• The spectral irradiance map result generated with a camera sensor is now available in the tree as a
child of an Inverse Simulation.
Optical Part Design
• New Optical Part Design framework available for Parabolic Surface, Projection Lens, TIR Lens. The old
features will be converted into a feature with a new framework at editing.
Speos for NX Release Notes
• The Optical Part Design Viewer has been improved:
– possibility to modify the color background.
– possibility to modify the primary and secondary grids color.
– possibility to adjust the thickness of the primary and secondary grids.
• The Light Guide control points are now correctly measured along the guide curve, that is to say minus
the Start and End parameters.
Ansys Cloud
2.2. Changes
This section describes the operational and support changes introduced in Ansys SPEOS for NX 2022 R1
release.
Operating System
• NX 2007 service pack is now supported from 2022 R1.
• NX 1988 service pack is now supported from 2022 R1.
• NX 1973.3400 service pack is now supported from 2022 R1.
• NX 1946.4040 service pack is now supported from 2022 R1.
• End of life for NX 11 in 2022 R1.
• End of life for NX 1926 planned for 2022 R2.
• End of life for NX 1953 planned for 2023 R1.

Chapter 3: Speos for Creo Parametric Release Notes
The following sections present the new features, enhancements and changes for Speos for Creo Para-
metric 2022 R1 release.
3.2. Changes

This section describes the new features and enhancements introduced in Speos for Creo Parametric
2022 R1 release.
UX
Sensor
UGR calculation is now compatible with the Human Eye Sensor and any luminance sensor.
Ansys Cloud
3.2. Changes
This section describes the operational and support changes introduced in Ansys SPEOS for Creo Para-
metric 2022 R1 release.
Operating System
• Version of Creo 8 up to 8.0.3.0 is now supported from 2022 R1.
• Version of Creo 7 up to 7.0.5.0 is now supported from 2022 R1.
• Version of Creo 4 is no longer supported as of release 2022 R1.

Chapter 4: Speos Labs Release Notes
The following sections present the new features and changes for Speos Labs 2022 R1 release.
4.2. Changes

This section describes the new features and enhancements introduced in Speos Labs 2022 R1 release.
UX
Virtual Photometric Lab
With the Level tool, you can now normalize a map to any specific value.
Virtual Reality Lab
Possibility to export the current view or all views of a result displayed in Virtual Reality Lab.
Unified Glare Rating (UGR)
UGR calculation is now compatible with the Human Eye Sensor and any luminance sensor.
BSDF Surface Editor
BSDF Surface Editor: possibility to convert a *.anistropicbsdf file to a *.unpolished file.
Automation
New API method WriteSpectralTable to create a binary file that includes all the data of a spectral irradi-
ance XMP map.
4.2. Changes
This section describes the operational and support changes introduced in Ansys Optical Labs 2022 R1
release.
• The Ansys Intensity Viewer will no longer be supported in 2022 R2, with an end of life in 2023 R1.
• The Rendering Surface Editor will no longer be supported in 2022 R2, with an end of life in 2023
R1.
Speos Labs Release Notes

Chapter 5: Speos HPC Release Notes
The following sections present the changes and enhancements for Speos HPC 2022 R1 release.

Operating System
Speos HPC now supports the following Linux version:
• Red Hat 8.4
Speos HPC no longer supports the following Linux versions:
• Red Hat 7.6
• CentOS 7.6

Part 5: Ansys Acoustics Products
Release notes are available for the following Ansys Acoustics Products:
ANSYS VRXPERIENCE Sound (p. 127)

Chapter 1: Ansys Sound Release Notes
The following sections present the new features, enhancements and changes for Ansys Sound products
2021 R1 release.
1.1. Ansys Sound: Analysis & Specification
1.2. Ansys Sound: ASDforEV
1.3. Ansys Sound: Jury Listening Test
1.4. Ansys Sound: Car Sound Simulator
1.1. Ansys Sound: Analysis & Specification

The following sections present the new feature and enhancements for Ansys Sound - Analysis & Spe-
cification 2021 R1 release.
1.1.1. New Feature

Multiple Profiles Association
Associating several profiles to a signal, such as a speed profile and a temperature profile, allows you
to plot psychoacoustics indicators according to specific factors and explain perception changes.
1.1.2. Enhancements
Intelligibility Profile and Articulation indexes
The new Intelligibility profile in the Psychoacoustics module allows you to study the perception of
human speech.
This profile computes the following indicators designed to rate the interference potential of broadband
background noises with human speech:
• Articulation Index ANSI S3.5-1969
• Articulation Index vs Time ANSI S3.5-1969
• Articulation Index Automobile (%)
• Articulation Index vs Time Automobile (%)
Sound Composer Module
The Mix table for Sound Composer allows you to mix the tracks of a Sound Composer project, dy-
namically change the state or adjust the gain of each track while playing the resulting sound. You
can now adjust the gain of each track directly from the Sound Composer project window.
Ansys Sound Release Notes
1.1.3. Resolved Issues and Limitations

For a list of issues that have been resolved in Release 2022 R1, refer to the Resolved Issues and Lim-
itations document on the Ansys Help website.
1.2. Ansys Sound: ASDforEV
1.2.1. Presentation
Dedicated to car manufacturers, Ansys Sound: ASDforEV, Active Sound Design for Electric Vehicles,
is an audio design, testing and demonstration software solution for electric, hybrid, plugin hybrid,
and quiet ICE vehicles.
Plug-and-play software thanks to its Graphical User Interface designed for tablets, ASDforEV is partic-
ularly suited for on-board use.
1.2.2. Main Features

• Audio output configuration
Flexible, ASDforEV offers two audio output modes, Stereo and Multichannel, to adapt to
various audio setups, devices, and connection types.
Specific advanced settings, such as filters and spatialization parameters, are available for multi-
speaker listening environment.
• Driving environment configuration
With three driving parameters input modes, ASDforEV addresses many different use cases.
The CAN mode allows you to get external data coming from barely any source, for instance
the CAN bus of a vehicle through a CAN reader device, or a driving simulator. Use the API to
control the parameters sent to ASDforEV, or use the CAN Reader application included into
ASDforEV installation package to receive parameters from a CAN bus through a specific CAN
device.
The Scenario mode enables you to create or edit pre-defined driving scenarios.
Finally, you can manually control each parameter directly from ASDforEV with the Manual
mode.
• Sound functions configuration
ASDforEV lets you configure the whole sound functions of a vehicle, therefore create a specific
audio signature for your brand and enhance the driving experience of drivers.
Produce a multi-layered texture for Speed and Acceleration feedback (SAF) sound function
thanks to the wavetable synthesis and the additive synthesis methods, both based on the
hybrid synthesis method.
Ansys Sound: Car Sound Simulator
Create a rich and interactive Advanced Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS) sound function with
a frequency shift over speed complying with any local regulation or with your own standards.
Configure event-triggered sounds for Human Machine Interface (HMI), Advanced Driving
Assistance System (ADAS), and Ambiance sounds.
• Demonstrate and Compare sound configurations
Save up to 4 distinct sound configurations to be demonstrated.
In order to ease the comparison of several sound configurations, ASDforEV includes a fast
rating interface.
1.3. Ansys Sound: Jury Listening Test
1.3.1. Change
The text entered in the Comments field is now included in the exported results.

1.4. Ansys Sound: Car Sound Simulator

Part 6: Ansys Systems Products
Release notes are available for the following Ansys Systems products:
Ansys AVxcelerate Data Preparation and VRXPERIENCE VR (p. 133)

Ansys AVxcelerate for Lighting and Sensors (p. 135)
Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator (p. 137)
Chapter 1: AVxcelerate Data Preparation and
VRXPERIENCE VR Release Notes
The following sections present the new feature and enhancement for AVxcelerate Data Preparation and
VRXPERIENCE VR 2022 R1 release.
1.1. New Feature
1.2. Enhancement
1.1. New Feature

This section describes the new feature introduced in AVxcelerate Data Preparation and VRXPERIENCE
VR 2022 R1 release.
Irradiance map to define under vehicle reflections
When preparing data for thermal camera simulations, you can now define under vehicle reflections so
that the temperature irradiance under the vehicle will be simulated in AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator.
• Import an irradiance map
• Define the irradiance map in the properties of the vehicle
• Preview the temperature irradiance under the vehicle
AVxcelerate Data Preparation and VRXPERIENCE VR Release Notes
1.2. Enhancement
This section describes the enhancement introduced in AVxcelerate Data Preparation and VRXPERIENCE
VR 2022 R1 release.
Roughness in Dielectric Material File [Beta Feature]
The roughness can now be defined in the dielectric properties to apply to a material part when preparing
data for future radar simulations in AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator.

Chapter 2: AVxcelerate for Lighting and Sensors
Release Notes
The following section presents the enhancements and change made in AVxcelerate for Lighting and
Sensors 2022 R1 release.
2.1. Enhancements
2.2. Change
2.1. Enhancements
This section describes the enhancements introduced in AVxcelerate for Lighting and Sensors 2022 R1
release.
Occlusion management by Illuminance Sensors
The Occlusion Management can now be set in the Project Settings so that the illuminance sensors
consider any occluding geometries.
CarMaker Data Pools
You can now make the resources provided in the Ansys AVxcelerate CarMaker Co-simulation Library
accessible from your current CarMaker project through the CarMaker Data Pool window.
2.2. Change
AVxcelerate Lighting and Sensors C++ Plugin now requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2019. For more details,
refer to the Other Software Requirements section of the Installation Guide

Chapter 3: AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator Release
Notes
The following sections present the new features, enhancements and change for AVxcelerate Sensors
Simulator 2022 R1 release.
3.1. New Features
3.2. Enhancements
3.3. Change
3.1. New Features

This section describes the new features introduced in AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator 2022 R1 release.
Lidar and Radar Batching
Thanks to the batching mechanism you can now simulate high-end Lidar and Radar sensors in AVxcel-
erate Sensors Simulator.
Designed to optimize the GPU memory usage, batching the execution of a Lidar or Radar sensor is
configurable in the simulation parameters.
Sensor Labs REST APIs
Sensor Labs REST APIs provide access to automation of sensor models and layouts creation and update
as in the Sensor Lab application.
To facilitate the usage of the Sensor Labs REST APIs, Ansys provides you with:
• a plain html documentation published on the Ansys API Documentation portal
• an interactive API documentation delivered within AVX installation
AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator Release Notes
Sensors API - Dynamic control of sensors parameters
The Feedback Control service has been extended and is now available for any type of sensor (lidar,
radar or camera sensors).
Most of sensor parameters are eligible for real-time updates during the simulation. For a complete list
of eligible parameters, consult the documentation.
Intelligent Headlamp [Beta Feature]
• Headlamp Preparation API
A new REST APIs is delivered to create lighting systems via scripting. The lighting system is used to
simulate ego-car's intelligent lighting system seen by physics-based camera in AVxcelerate Sensors
Simulator.
• Smart Headlamp for Camera Simulation
Advanced lighting systems can now be simulated with AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator.
The lighting system can be attached to the ego-car with a dedicated tag-based referential.
• Headlamp API - In-simulation lighting system control
A Lighting System Control API allows to integrate vehicle intelligent lighting control system (such as
Front-Light-Assist, Matrix lights) as part of the camera simulation.
With this API, you are able to get and adjust in real-time the lighting system state.
Perception Training Tooling [Beta Features]
Camera sensors now offer four types of ground truth data that can be set in the camera simulation
parameters.
Designed for AI perception algorithm training, those outputs can be retrieved directly from the disk or
the corresponding raw data through the AVX Core APIs.
• Depth map
New Features
A depth map is an extended map representing the closeness of the camera sensor to objects.
From the raw data, two types of files are generated in the camera output folder: *.exr files and
png images. In png images, the closeness to objects is expressed with a grey scale.
• Pixel segmentation
In the pixel segmentation output image, one RGB color is associated to each object type as
defined by the tag added during the data preparation: Pedestrian, Vehicle, Animal, Street Light,
Road Sign, Object, Vehicle Body or Vehicle Wheel.
• Optical flow
The optical flow output image, produced for each camera frame, provides the 2D velocity, in
pixel per second, of each pixel of the image.
• 2D bounding boxes
A 2D bounding box corresponds to the projection of a 3D bounding box on the camera image
plane.
AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator Release Notes
3.2. Enhancements
This section describes the enhancements introduced in AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator 2022 R1 release.
Sensors Labs
• In camera sensor definition, the following parameters are now set as a *.spectrum file:
– Lens transmission
– CFA transmission for each color channel
– Quantum Efficiency
For more information, refer to Spectrum Files Requirements.
• In Rotating Lidar definition, the energy (in joules), pulse type and pulse duration are now set in the
firing sequence file.
• Miscellaneous UX improvements
The accessibility to your Sensor / Sensor Layout Library has been enhanced (Search field and pagina-
tion).
You can now upload multiple sensors at once in the Sensor Library.
Workgroup License
A new licensing strategy is now available as an alternative to the ANSYS AVxcelerate add-on licenses
for each sensor to simulate.
The ANSYS AVxcelerate Sensor add-on Workgroup license defines the total number of sensors that can
be simulated.
Headless Mode
AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator can now be executed on a linux machine with no physical nor virtual
display set associated.
3.3. Change
This section describes the change introduced in AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator 2022 R1 release.
Camera and Lidar Sensor New Models
The Camera and Rotating Lidar sensors created with a prior version of Sensor Labs are automatically
converted to the new model when upgrading AVxcelerate data preparation to 2022 R1 version or when
uploading sensors to the Sensor Library. For more information, refer to Retro-Compatibility with 2021
R2 and 2021 R3 Sensors.

Part 7: Ansys Geometry and Mesh Prep Products
Release notes are available for the following Ansys Geometry & Mesh Prep products:
DesignModeler (p. 145)

CAD Integration (p. 147)
Meshing (p. 149)
ICEM CFD (p. 153)
Chapter 1: Geometry Release Notes
1.1. DesignModeler Product Advisories
DesignModeler users should be aware of the advisories described here.
Controlling BladeModeler Licensing

Starting with Release 2021 R2, BladeModeler licensing has been controlled by a DesignModeler applic-
ation preference. Within DesignModeler, navigate to Tools > Options, and then look for Addins >
BladeModeler Licensing. You can set the preference to Yes, No, or If Available (the default). By default,
DesignModeler checks out a BladeModeler license during start-up if one is available.
1.2. DesignModeler Enhancements

Release 2022 R1 of DesignModeler has no new features.
1.3. DesignModeler Caveats and Known Issues

At the time of publication, caveats and known issues in Release 2022 R1 of DesignModeler include those
listed below. Also refer to the Ansys, Inc. Known Issues and Limitations document.
• DesignModeler does not support the ANSWAIT environment variable, which is used to enable license
queuing in some Ansys products. [543613]
• The BladeEditor toolbar is missing when using a Workbench Geometry system in the Ansys Cloud.
Workaround: Within DesignModeler, navigate to Tools > Options, and then look for Addins >
BladeModeler Licensing. Set the BladeModeler Licensing preference to Yes. Close and re-open
the Geometry system. [516630]
Chapter 2: CAD
This section summarizes the new features in CAD Integration Release 2022 R1.
For more information, see the CAD Integration section of the Ansys Help.
Creo Parametric Weld Import Limitation
The Weld Import entry in the Limitations section of the Creo Parametric associative geometry interface
(Plug-In) now notes that light or surface weld bodies are named to match their Creo Weld Feature, and
all Light Weld curves are combined into a single line body.
Fusion 360 Geometry Preferences
The following Basic Geometry Options are now supported for Autodesk's Fusion 360®:
• Parameters
• CAD Attributes
• Named Selections
• Material Properties
The following Advanced Geometry Options are now supported for Autodesk's Fusion 360®:
• 2D Analysis Type - Surface bodies in only the xy plane will be imported
• CAD Associativity
• Import Work Points
• Import Using Instances
Geometry Interface Update for New CAD Releases
Geometry interfaces are updated to support new CAD releases including:
• AutoCAD 2022 (Reader and Plug-In)
• Autodesk Inventor 2022 (Reader and Plug-In)
• CATIA V5 – CADNexus CAPRI CAE Gateway v3.80.0 (Reader)
• Creo Parametric 8.0 (Plug-In)
• NX 1980 (Reader and Plug-In)
• Revit 2021 (Reader)
CAD
• Rhinoceros 7 (Reader)
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 (Customer Care > Support> More Support > Platform Support).
Chapter 3: Meshing Application Release Notes
Release 2022 R1 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. Quality Based Meshing
3.3. Enhancements in PULL
3.4. Enhancements in Weld Control
3.5. Enhancements in MultiZone Mesh Method
3.6. Enhancements in Explicit Physics Preference
3.7. Enhancements in Named Selection Worksheet
3.8. Enhancements to Sizing Controls
3.9. Enhancements in Batch Connections
3.10. Enhancements in Feature Detection
Many of the enhancements detailed in the Mechanical Application Release Notes (p. 3) are also relevant
to the Meshing application.

The 2022 R1 release includes the following changes in product behavior:
• The Physics Preference Explicit is enhanced to provide robustness to Patch Conforming Tetra-
hedrons. The default values for meshing controls are updated to meet the Explicit physics
preference and new metrics are also added for the physics preference.
• Many new mesh metrics are available and the metrics available in the Mesh Details view are
set depending on Physics Preference by default. In Files > Options > Meshing, a new Mesh
Quality option is available to customize the metrics available in the Mesh Details view to check
the mesh.
• Pull (Revolve) automatically merges nodes for 360 degrees revolution. Hence, Merge Caps is
removed. Pull merge profile nodes support quadratic elements. The quadratic elements now
support curvilinear mid nodes, instead of previous straight side mid nodes for pull mesh.
• The Deactivate Problematic Worksheet Entries now deactivates only erroring welds and does
not deactivate the welds with warning.
• The Number of Cells Across Gap available when the Capture Proximity is set to Yes under
Sizing options in the Mesh Details view has been renamed to Proximity Gap Factor. Proximity
Gap Factor has been enhanced to control the aspect ratio of cells in thin regions. Proximity
Meshing
Gap Factor now allow values < 1 and is used to refine the mesh to meet aspect ratio requirements
without adding too many elements to the mesh.
• The default value for Creation Criteria in Weld Details view has been changed from Angle-
Based to Width-Based. Some of the Weld options are renamed as follows:
Old Terminology New Terminology

Tent Angled
Extension Normal
Tent and Extension Normal and
Angled
Seam Continuous Seam
Skip Intermittent Seam
Create Offset Layer Create HAZ Layer
Number Of Layer Number Of HAZ
Offset Layer Growth HAZ Growth Rate
Rate
Offset Layer Height HAZ Distance
Weld Width Weld Width
(Leg01)
Weld Height Weld Height
(Leg02)
3.2. Quality Based Meshing

This is the first release for Mesh Quality options. Mesh Quality options can be accessed from File >
Options > Meshing > Mesh Quality. The Mesh Metrics available for checking mesh quality are displayed
and you can set their availability in the Histogram and Display Style contours as per your preference.
For more details, see Mesh Quality Options.
Quality Based Meshing is enhanced to support quality parameters like:
• Minimum Tri Angle
• Maximum Tri Angle
• Minimum Quad Angle
• Maximum Quad Angle
• Warping Angle
• Tet Collapse
• Aspect Ratio (Explicit)
• Minimum Element Edge Length
Enhancements in Explicit Physics Preference
• Maximum Element Edge Length
• Characteristic Length (LS-DYNA)
You can access these parameters in the Mesh Details view under Quality options. For more detailed
information, see Mesh Metrics.
3.3. Enhancements in PULL

Pull is enhanced to support Line Coating. Line Coating allows you to produce line elements coating
the edges of the 2D axisymmetric objects only. Also, Pull supports quadratic elements. For more detailed
information, see Pull
3.4. Enhancements in Weld Control

Weld control is enhanced to provide:
• Weld Preview
• Weld Scripting
• Worksheet based error handling
• Weld graphics improvements
• Support for coincident welds
For more detailed information, see Weld.
3.5. Enhancements in MultiZone Mesh Method

MultiZone Mesh Method is now enhanced to provide a new option Use Split Angle. Split Angle splits
the edges of the decomposed regions to improve the mapped mesh quality and prevent skewed mesh
on side faces. The default mesh obtained using MultiZone Mesh Method has been improved for many
simple shapes such as spheres, pipes and cylinders. For more detailed information, see MultiZone Mesh
Method.
3.6. Enhancements in Explicit Physics Preference

Explicit Physics Preference has been improved to provide mesh metrics like Aspect Ratio (Explicit),
Tet Collapse and Characteristic Length (LS-DYNA). Also, allow you to set target metrics and provide
error messages and warnings if the generated mesh does not meet target metrics. The target metrics
available for Explicit are:
• Target Element Quality
• Target Characteristic Length (LS-DYNA)
• Target Aspect Ratio (Explicit)
Meshing
During tetrahedral meshing, the Target Aspect Ratio (Explicit) is used as an input to optimize mesh
quality and significantly reduces maximum aspect ratio of the mesh elements in many cases. Target
Aspect Ratio (Explicit) is supported for patch conforming tetrahedral meshing with linear tetrahedra
in this release.
3.7. Enhancements in Named Selection Worksheet

Named Selection Worksheet has been enhanced to provide Diagnostics tool options. Diagnostics
tool creates named selection for the selected bodies and detects the defeaturing occurred during
meshing. For more detailed information, see Handling Diagnostics in Named Selection Worksheet.
3.8. Enhancements to Sizing Controls

Proximity based refinement control has been enhanced and Number of Cells Across Gap has been
replaced by Proximity Gap Factor. This parameter can now be a non-integer value and allows you to
set values < 1 to refine, but allow some stretched cells in thin regions. For example, a value of Proximity
Gap Factor of 0.5 would result in tetrahedral elements in thin gaps with Aspect Ratio (Explicit) of
around 2. For more detailed information, see Proximity Gap Factor.
3.9. Enhancements in Batch Connections

Batch Connections has been enhanced to provide Triangle Reduction to reduce the number of triangles
in the surface mesh. For more detailed information, see Batch Connections.
3.10. Enhancements in Feature Detection

Feature Detection has been enhanced to detect Solid Hole, Solid Fillet, Shell Hole, Shell Fillet, Solid
Concave Fillet, Solid Convex Fillet. For more detailed information, see Performing Feature Detection.
Chapter 4: ICEM CFD
Release 2022 R1 development efforts included enhancement of Ansys ICEM CFD as a standalone applic-
ation as well as continued development of its underlying technology exposed within the Ansys Work-
bench-based Meshing application.
Ansys ICEM CFD 2022 R1 includes new features and improvements in the following areas:
4.1. Enhancements to Multizone Blocking on Faceted Geometries
4.1. Enhancements to Multizone Blocking on Faceted Geometries

3D Multizone is now enhanced to support STL and faceted geometries efficiently in ICEM CFD.

The 2019 R3 release includes the following changes in product behavior:
• ICEM CFD executables depending on VS2010 runtime libraries are replaced. There are three affected
executables. They are:
– bin/autohex.exe
– icemcfd/output-interfaces/firev8.exe
– icemcfd/output-interfaces/wind.exe
For customer using these executables, kindly refer Ansys Customer Portal > Knowledge Resources
: Solutions #2060051,#2059061,#2059063 respectively for the workaround.
• Improved the performance of hexa meshing for models with a large number of blocks.
Part 8: Ansys Simulation Products
Release notes are available for the following Ansys Simulation products:
ACT (p. 157)

Ansys Viewer (p. 159)
DCS (p. 161)
DesignXplorer (p. 165)
optiSLang (p. 167)
RSM (p. 171)
System Coupling (p. 173)
Workbench (p. 181)
Chapter 1: ACT
No enhancements were made to ACT in this release.
Silverlight Removal
Due to Silverlight security vulnerabilities, these folders were removed from the IronPython package
in the Ansys installation:
• v221\commonfiles\IronPython\Silverlight
• v221\commonfiles\IronPython\Platforms\Sl5
Ensure that any of your ACT extensions with IronPython scripts do not reference Silverlight.
SGRenderer Deprecation
The ACT SGRenderer has been deprecated in 2022 R1 and will be removed in 2022 R2. If you require
three-dimensional graphics rendering, you should replace any dependencies or direct usage of the
SGRenderer with an alternate closed or open-source graphics module.
Mechanical Scripting
For any scripting enhancements specific to Mechanical, see Scripting (p. 14).
Chapter 2: Ansys Viewer
The following sections contain release information for Ansys Viewer 2022 R1:
2.3. Known Issues and Limitations

No enhancements were made to Ansys Viewer in this release.

See the Resolved Issues and Limitations document for information on previous limitations and key defects
resolved in the current release.

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.
Chapter 3: Distributed Compute Services (DCS)
Learn about the new features and enhancements in the following applications:
3.1. Design Point Service (DPS)
3.2. Distributed Compute Gateway (DCG)
3.1. Design Point Service (DPS)

DPS 2022 R1 includes new features and enhancements in several areas. Unless otherwise indicated,
referenced topics are in the DCS for Design Points Guide.
New Project Wizard
The DPS web app has a new wizard that facilitates the creation of a DCS project. In the guided,
step-by-step process, you can define the required solver application and version, input and
output files, desired hardware requirements, and execution command. Suitable default values
for these settings are provided with customizable, application-specific task definition templates.
For more information, see Creating a DPS Project.
Task Definition Templates
To customize the default settings of the New Project wizard for a specific application, task
definition templates have been added to DPS. These templates define the default output files
and execution command of the target application. A set of suggested templates for Mechanical
APDL (MAPDL) and LS-DYNA are provided with the standard DPS deployment. Furthermore,
you can add, modify, and delete task definition templates using the DPS web app. For more
information, see Task Definition Templates.
DPS Web App Layout
The layout of the DPS web app has been improved. For example, the header displays a
breadcrumb trail for easy navigation within the project and the configuration and design point
content has been reorganized into tabs. For more information, see DPS Web App.
Design Point Details
The details view for a design point view has been enhanced. In addition to showing the statuses
of tasks and output files, the content is continuously refreshed to enable live monitoring of
jobs. For more information, see Viewing Design Point Details.
Evaluator Details
The details view for an evaluator has also been enhanced, showing additional information such
as the evaluator’s number of cores, memory, and disk space. In the properties for the evaluator,
you can see details about the evaluator's configuration, including compute resources and
available applications. For more information, see Viewing Evaluator Details.
Distributed Compute Services (DCS)
Multiple Active Configurations
A project can have multiple active configurations. An evaluator is restricted to work on a single
project and configuration at any given time. However, different evaluators can work on different
projects or different configurations of the same project at the same time. For more information,
see DPS Project Configurations.
Collection of Intermediate Results
You can periodically collect output files while a task is running. For more information, see De-
fining Tasks.
More Responsive Live Monitoring of Task Files
The performance of the live monitoring system has been greatly improved. The monitoring of
output files while a simulation is running is faster and more reliable.
Project File Sizes and Task File Deletions
Projects have a new Size property representing the disk size of all files in the project. Moreover,
you can delete individual output files for tasks to free up disk space. For more information, see
Viewing Design Point Details.
New Pending Analysis View (Beta)
You can use a beta feature to see why a task is pending. For more information, see Why is a
design point not being evaluated?.
Job Submission from Ansys Mechanical
Ansys Mechanical supports submitting MAPDL and LS-DYNA solver jobs to DCS. For more in-
formation, see Performing the Solution in the Mechanical User's Guide.
3.2. Distributed Compute Gateway (DCG)

• When issuing a command to start the DCG portal, you can now use a short form to specify arguments.
Both short and long forms are supported (for example, -m or --machine).
• Enhanced user management functionality provides greater control over user permissions. Enhancements
include:
– Starting in this release, users are assigned to 'user groups' instead of 'roles'. The built-in roles have
been replaced by the following user groups:
→ All Users
→ User Administrators
→ System Administrators
→ Developers
Distributed Compute Gateway (DCG)
– A new User Groups page enables administrators to create, edit, and delete user groups to suit
their organization's needs. Each user group has a set of global permissions that determine what
members of the group can see and do in DCG.
– Each object created in DCG has a set of local permissions that determine what permissions individual
users and groups have on the object (for example, 'View', 'Use', or 'Edit'). This applies to cluster,
queue, and storage configurations as well as user groups. When permissions on an object are
changed by a user who does not have 'Full control' permission on the associated object type, a
validation request is generated, allowing users with the appropriate permissions to approve or reject
the changes.
– A new User Permissions page enables administrators to see a user's group memberships and add
them to or remove them from user groups.
• A new File Transfer Agent page enables administrators to create connections between the local file
transfer agent and the servers to which it needs to transfer files. Administrators can also view details
about file transfer agent connections, re-establish connections, and delete connections.
• A new indicator on the DCG portal toolbar lets you know whether the local file transfer agent is
connected to a remote HPC server and whether there are active file transfers.
Chapter 4: DesignXplorer
No enhancements were made to DesignXplorer in this release.
DesignXplorer Extension Compatibility Updates

Compatibility updates for DesignXplorer extensions are in progress and will be released promptly upon
completion.
To access DesignXplorer extensions, go to the Ansys Store and filter the apps available by typing
DesignXplorer in the Search field and clicking the search button. To further filter the results, you
can make a selection in the Product Version field.
Chapter 5: optiSLang
The following sections contain release information for optiSLang 2022 R1:
5.2. Integrations
5.3. Algorithms
5.4. User Interface
5.5. Customization and API
5.6. optiSLang Web Service
5.7. Statistics on Structures (SoS)

The following general enhancements were made:
• optiSLang tutorials are now translated into Japanese and Korean.
• You can now register the optiSLang Web Service as a Windows service from the standalone installer.
The service is uninstalled when you uninstall optiSLang.
optiSLang
• You no longer need to install the ODB Wrapper. ETK now uses the ABAQUS libraries directly.
5.2. Integrations
The following integration enhancements were made:
• Added the LS-DYNA Output node.
• Added the SpaceClaim node.
• Added the NASTRAN node.
• Added the ModelCenter node and the ability to export an optiSLang project for use in ModelCenter.
• Added support in the AEDT node for batch solving.
• Made the following AEDT node performance improvements:
– Only store active projects of active designs.
– In the regular DSO run mode:
→ Only solve relevant Optimetrics variation tables.
→ Switched off copying of reference .aedtresults files.
→ Efficiency improvements of the nested loops for exporting CSV files.
5.3. Algorithms
The following algorithm enhancements were made:
• The following DX algorithms are now available for Linux:
Metamodels
– Genetic Aggregation Response Surface (GARS)
– Support Vector Regression (SVR)
Optimization
– Mixed-Integer Sequential Quadratic Programming (MISQP)
– Adaptive Single-Objective (ASO)
– Adaptive Multi-Objective (AMO)
• Deep Infinite Mixture of Gaussian Processes (DIM-GP) metamodel added.
• The Probabilistic Inference for Bayesian Optimization (PI-BO) optimizer added.
• The following improvements were made to reliability importance:
Customization and API
– Calculation of reliability importance for Monte Carlo
– Calculation of reliability importance for First Order Reliability Method (FORM)
– Show the reliability importance for FORM
– Provide reliability importance values as an output slot
• The following improvements were made to Poisson distribution for stochastic parameters:
– Extent distributions types with discrete Poisson distribution
– Consider Poisson distribution in FORM and Importance Sampling Using the Design Point (ISPUD)
– Documentation for Poisson distribution
– Visualization of discrete distributions in a histogram plot
– Visualization of discrete distributions in the parameter table
5.4. User Interface

The following user interface enhancements were made:
• The Status Overview pane has been improved in the following ways:
– Improved performance for thousands of designs
– Keyboard navigation and selection
– Range selection, multiple range
– Context menu actions on selected nodes
– Node IDs are displayed as a tree (collapsible)
– New filter rules
– Show/hide individual node columns
– Fly out panel with node statistics
5.5. Customization and API

The following customization enhancements were made:
• SoS script API:
– Single DataObjectContainer for all DataObjects.
– Remove DataObjectFilter (filter methods at container instead).
optiSLang
– Documentation improvements.
Note:
All SoS actions in every component are executed by running SoS script code (Python
or Lua). This includes all actions in the user interface.
• optiSLang Web Service API endpoint:
– API end point paths are prepended with /api.
– API can be configured distinct from static files (in the reverse proxy).
– Legacy paths are preserved for compatibility.

/get_projects (legacy)
/api/get_projects (current version)
/api/0/get_projects (latest version)
• optiSLang Web Service API endpoint versioning:
– API endpoints are (optionally) versioned.
– All API endpoints can have an additional version in the path.
– Allows proper support for different API versions.
5.6. optiSLang Web Service

The following optiSLang Web Service enhancements were made:
• The optiSLang Web Service App generation wizard can now publish to Ansys Minerva.
• You can now execute and test optiSLang Web Service wizards on your local machine by performing
a desktop based test run.
• Now includes a configuration entry to specify a time interval in days, after which a user account is
removed automatically (starting from the account creation date).
• Added support for OpenID Connect/OAuth2 based authentication/authorization.
5.7. Statistics on Structures (SoS)

The following SoS enhancements were made:
• Data table improvements to reduce the number of clicks necessary and improved performance for
large data sets (seconds reduced to milliseconds).
• Improvements to the user interface when exporting a macro-based FMU.
Chapter 6: Remote Solve Manager (RSM)
The following sections contain release information for Ansys Remote Solve Manager 2022 R1:
6.2. Issues Resolved in this Release

No enhancements were made to Remote Solve Manager in this release.
6.2. Issues Resolved in this Release

See the Resolved Issues and Limitations document for information on previous limitations and key defects
resolved in the current release.

section of the Remote Solve Manager User's Guide.
Chapter 7: System Coupling
The following features have been added to the System Coupling 2022 R1 release:
7.1. Global Control of Quasi-Newton Solution Stabilization
7.2. Custom Solver Input Files for Fluent and Mechanical Participants
7.3. Automatic Relative Paths for Participant Working Directories
7.4. Chart View with Simulation Time on the X Axis
7.5. Non-Overlap Handling for Profile-Preserving Mapping to Surfaces
7.6. Initial Snapshot Generation Controls
7.7. Expanded Participant Variable Definitions
7.8. Mapping Performance Improvements
7.9. Migration of Expert Settings to Data Model
7.10. Co-Simulation Output Enhancements
7.11. Data Model, Command, and Command-Line Argument Changes
7.12. Participant Library Extensions
7.1. Global Control of Quasi-Newton Solution Stabilization

Quasi-Newton solution stabilization is available at the data transfer level only when global stabilization
is activated. When the GlobalStabilization.Option analysis setting is set to Quasi-Newton,
stabilization may be applied to a data transfer using its local Stabilization.Option setting.
Additionally, the InitialRelaxationFactor and MaximumRetainedTimeSteps setting are no

longer available at the data transfer level. Solution stabilization applied to data transfers is configured
by the corresponding global parameters.
For more information, see Quasi-Newton Stabilization Algorithm in the System Coupling User's Guide.
7.2. Custom Solver Input Files for Fluent and Mechanical Participants
Custom solver input files are available for Fluent participants (for initial and restarted runs) and Mech-
anical participants (for restarted runs only).
To support this functionality, the participants’ input files are defined as follows:
Fluent:
• Input files are specified using settings under the ExecutionControl.FluentInput

singleton.
System Coupling
• The GenerateInputFile() command generates a journal script on demand.
• For instructions on using this functionality, see Using Custom Input Files in System Coupling's
User Interfaces in the Fluent User's Guide.
Mechanical:
• Input files for restarts are specified using the new ExecutionControl.AdditionalRe-
startFile setting.
• For instructions on using this functionality, see Using Custom Restart Files in System Coupling
in the Mechanical User's Guide.
For more information, see ExecutionControl in the System Coupling Settings and Commands Reference
documentation.
7.3. Automatic Relative Paths for Participant Working Directories

System Coupling automatically defines participant working directories relative to the co-simulation
working directory. You can move coupled analysis projects and participant files without needing to
manually update the data model with the new locations of participant working directories.
By default, System Coupling defines the participant working directory as the folder containing the
coupling participant setup (.scp) file used to add the participant to the coupled analysis and then the
folder's path to participant’s WorkingDirectory data model setting.
Because it is no longer needed, the <WorkingDirectory> element has been removed from the
.scp file.
For more information, see WorkingDirectory in the System Coupling Settings and Commands Reference
documentation.
7.4. Chart View with Simulation Time on the X Axis

For transient co-simulations, a chart view based on simulation time is available in the System Coupling
GUI.
Simulation time is plotted along the X axis, at step intervals consistent with whether the steps are of
constant or non-constant duration. For the step that is in progress, the value of the most recently
available iteration is shown as the current end time. For each completed step, the value for the final
iteration of the step is shown as the step end time.
For more information, see Reviewing Convergence Diagnostics Charting Output in the System Coupling
User's Guide.
7.5. Non-Overlap Handling for Profile-Preserving Mapping to Surfaces

When profile-preserving mapping is used to transfer data to a target surface, the new UnmappedValue-
Option setting allows you to control how System Coupling handles the generation of target data on
unmapped mesh locations.
Expanded Participant Variable Definitions
By default, UnmappedValueOption is set to Nearest Value. With this setting, System Coupling
provides data for unmapped target locations by copying the value of the nearest mapped target location.
For geometries with significant areas of non-overlap, Ansys recommends that you set UnmappedValue-
Option to Extrapolation. With this setting, System Coupling uses an algorithm based on radial basis
functions to smoothly extrapolate data onto the non-overlapping sections of the target surface. This
produces a physically realistic data profile in the unmapped region based on the profile of the nearby
mapped data.
Note:
Previously, this functionality was released as the UnmappedFillOption beta setting.
7.6. Initial Snapshot Generation Controls

The new WriteInitialSnapshot setting under the OutputControl singleton allows you to
specify whether System Coupling writes an initial snapshot of the coupled analysis state when coupling
participants are started. By default, this setting is set to True.
Note:
Previously, converse functionality (the ability to disable initial snapshot generation) was
available via the DisableInitialSnapshot beta setting.
7.7. Expanded Participant Variable Definitions

System Coupling's data model provides expanded options for defining participant variables. The following
enhancements are available for the Variable objects of supporting participants:
Variable data types
Variables have a DataType parameter which can be set either to Real or Complex. Complex
variable values have both real and imaginary components.
When a participant variable has a complex number value, data transfer diagnostics are reported
per component in the Initial Transfer Diagnostics section and each Coupling Iteration section
of System Coupling's Transcript. The RMS Change diagnostic is not reported.
Mode Shape quantity type
A new Mode Shape quantity type is available for intensive vector variables.
Variable attributes
Variable attributes can be defined using settings under the Attribute singleton. The variable's
AttributeType may be set to Real or Integer and its value defined using either the Real-
Value or IntegerValue setting, as is appropriate.
System Coupling
Variable dimensionality parameters
When a variable's AttributeType is set to Real, variable dimensions can be defined using
parameters under the new Dimensionality singleton.
For more information, see Variable (object) in the System Coupling Settings and Commands Reference
documentation.
Note:
Use of these settings depends on support by coupling participants. In the current release,
the settings have been delivered primarily to facilitate the future development of participant
support for mode shape transfers.
7.8. Mapping Performance Improvements

System Coupling offers significant improvements to its mapping performance, including:
• Parallel improvements for surface-to-surface mapping
• Runtime performance improvements for surface-to-volume mapping
• Reduced memory requirements for surface-to-volume mapping (approximately 30% less)
• Increased speed for weights calculation (approximately 1.15 to 2.2 times faster)
• Increased speed for interpolation (approximately 1.5 to 20 times faster)
7.9. Migration of Expert Settings to Data Model

Expert settings have been removed for System Coupling's user interfaces and migrated to the data
model. You can access the corresponding capabilities using data model settings.
Generate mapping diagnostic files
The generation of weights and interpolation diagnostics files is controlled by the OutputCon-
trol.WriteDiagnostics beta setting.
Previously, this functionality was controlled by the WriteDiagnosticsDictionary expert

setting.
For more information, see Generate Weights and Interpolation Diagnostic Files in the System
Coupling Beta Features documentation.
Export interface diagnostic files
The export of interface data files is controlled by beta settings defined under the OutputCon-
trol.AsciiOutput singleton.
Previously, this functionality was controlled by the ExportInterfaceDataPerStep, ExportInt-

erfaceDataPerIteration, and EnableCsvExport expert settings.
Co-Simulation Output Enhancements
For more information, see Export Coupling Interface Diagnostics in the System Coupling Beta Features
documentation.
Set initial Heat Transfer Coefficient source values
For transfers of Heat Transfer Coefficient variables, you may set the initial source value using an
expression-based work flow.
Previously, this functionality was controlled by the Source_InitValue_HeatTransferCoef

expert setting.
For more information, see Creating an Expression for a Data Transfer Source Variable in the System
Coupling User's Guide.
Set Numeric Precision in the Transcript
Numeric precision in System Coupling's Transcript/Log file is controlled by the TranscriptPre-

cision beta setting under the OutputControl singleton.
Previously, this functionality was controlled by a hidden expert setting.
Configure radial basis functions
The radial basis functions (RBF) used to generate target data for intensive quantities between
volumes is controlled by alpha settings under the OutputControl singleton.
Previously, this functionality was controlled by the RBFOption and RBFShapeParameter expert
settings.
For more information on alpha-level RBF settings, see Changes to Expert Settings in the System
Coupling User's Guide.
Note:
Several expert settings are still available for System Coupling in Workbench. For details, see
Expert Settings Available in Workbench in the System Coupling User's Guide.
7.10. Co-Simulation Output Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to System Coupling's output:
Complex Numbers in Transfer Diagnostics in the Transcript
When a participant variable has a complex number value, data transfer diagnostics in the Initial
Transfer Diagnostics section and each Coupling Iteration section are reported as follows:
• Diagnostics are reported per component (that is, for each real and imaginary component).
• The RMS Change diagnostic is not reported.
System Coupling
Breakdown of Coupling Engine Timing Details in the Transcript
The Timing Summary in System Coupling's Transcript/Log file includes a breakdown of the processing
time used by coupling engine for each phase of the coupled analysis.
7.11. Data Model, Command, and Command-Line Argument Changes

A list of the changes made to System Coupling's data model, commands, and command-line arguments
is available in the Migrating Command-Line System Coupling Scripts section of the System Coupling
User's Guide.
7.12. Participant Library Extensions

Extensions to System Coupling's Participant Library APIs improve usability and broaden the range of
functionality available to coupling participants. The following extensions have been made in the 2022
R1 release:
Volume Regions
The Participant Library includes expanded support for volume regions:
• Co-simulation with volume regions
• Element-based volume meshes with high-order elements
• Mesh model support to allow specifying connections between surface and volume meshes
• EnSight visualization of element-based volume mesh and solution data
Variable Definitions
The Participant Library supports the use of additional properties in variable definitions:
• Real and complex data types
• Integer-valued variable attributes
• Real-valued variable attributes with dimensionality
Data Transfer Definitions
The Participant Library includes expanded support for the definition of data transfers:
• Data transfers for mapping-only workflows
• Mapping between element-based and node-based variables
• Mapping between intensive and extensive variables
Updated Documentation
Participant Library documentation is available under Multiphysics on the Ansys API Documentation
site. Updates include:
Known Issues and Limitations
• Quick-reference capabilities section in the Developer's Guide
• Updated usage guidance, examples, tutorials, and API reference materials for C, C++, Fortran, and
Python

section of the System Coupling User's Guide.
Chapter 8: Workbench
The Ansys Workbench platform offers many new features and enhancements. Areas where you will find
changes and new capabilities include the following:
8.1. Ansys Workbench
8.2. Engineering Data Workspace
8.3. Injection Molding Data
8.1. Ansys Workbench

Enhancements were made to the following areas for Release 2022 R1:
8.1.1. General Workbench Enhancements
8.1.2. Design Point Update Enhancements
8.1.1. General Workbench Enhancements

The following general enhancements were made:
• You can now submit project updates to Remote Solve Manager from the Project Schematic Prop-
erties. The previous functionality that was removed in 2021 R1 has been re-added.
• The Mechanical beta feature selection check boxes located in Tools → Options → Mechanical
have been organized into groups by function.
• The Substructure Generation analysis system has been added. It supports the preliminary compu-
tation (Generation Pass) for top-down substructuring of condensed geometry. It also supports load
vectors and constraints for super element Generation Pass.
• The Coupled Field Static analysis system now supports electric and acoustic physics.
• Two new custom systems have been added for additive manufacturing simulations: AM Inherent
Strain and AM Thermal-Structural.
8.1.2. Design Point Update Enhancements

Workbench now supports the use of Design Point Service (DPS), a part of Distributed Compute Services
(DCS) (p. 161), for updating design points in 3D ROM systems. For more information, see the DCS for
Design Points Guide.
8.2. Engineering Data Workspace

For Release 2022 R1, the following enhancements have been made to the Engineering Data Workspace:
Workbench
• Cohesive Zone Materials. In Engineering Data, the Separation-Distance Based Debonding and
Fracture-Energies Based Debonding materials now include the property Power Law Exponent
for Mixed-Mode Debonding.
• New Superelastic Constant. In Engineering Data, the shape memory alloy for Superelasticity
now includes a constant, the material property elastic modulus of the full martensite phase (Es).
• Acoustic Simulations. The following material properties are now supported acoustics:
– Anisotropic Elastic Loss Tangent
– Anisotropic Dielectric Loss Tangent
– Anisotropic Viscosity
– Isotropic Electric Loss Tangent
• New Isotropic Elasticity Field Variable. Time is now supported as a field variable for Isotropic
Elasticity.
8.3. Injection Molding Data

The following Injection Molding Data enhancements were made for Release 2022 R1. See Injection
Molding Data in the Workbench User's Guide.
• Weld Lines: You can import and map weld line results (location and meeting angle) onto the struc-
tural mesh.
• Unreinforced Materials: It is now possible to import initial stress and weld line results independently
of the fiber orientation tensor. This is especially useful if you are dealing with unreinforced materials.
• Initial Stress: You can now import initial stresses in BIN (Imperial) units from Autodesk Moldflow.
Part 9: 3D Design Products
Release Notes
Release notes are available for the following Ansys 3D Design products:
Discovery (p. 185)

SpaceClaim (p. 221)
Chapter 1: Discovery Release Notes
Release 2022 R1 of Discovery contains the following.
1.1. Discovery Product Advisories
1.2. Enhancements Overview
1.3. Caveats and Known Issues
1.1. Discovery Product Advisories

Discovery users should be aware of the advisories described here.
Installation and Licensing

Discovery's Explore stage requires a discrete NVIDIA GPU, Maxwell series or newer (Pascal series or
newer preferred). In general Discovery maintains support of cards for as long as NVIDIA drivers and
SDKs allow. For a list of NVIDIA cards no longer supported at 2022 R1 due to planned obsolescence,
see Installation Prerequisites.
Prior to installing Discovery, verify that Microsoft ASP.NET Core Runtime 5.0, Microsoft .NET Desktop
Runtime 5.0, and Microsoft .NET Runtime 5.0 are installed on your computer.
The electronics solver licensing requirement for Discovery has changed to elec_solve_level3. When an
electronics solver license is requested, the license manager checks out elec_solve_level1 +
elec_solve_level2 + elec_solve_level3.
Also see Enhancements Overview (p. 185) for features that have been added or enhanced in Release
2022 R1 of Discovery.
Discovery Beta Features

For information about Beta features available in Discovery 2022 R1, see Discovery Beta Features Docu-
mentation in the Ansys Help.

For changes to Discovery features that existed in earlier releases, see Discovery Product Advisories (p. 185).
Areas where you will find new capabilities and enhancements in Discovery include:
1.2.1. Fluid-Solid Heat Transfer
1.2.2. Compressible Flow
1.2.3. Structural Physics Conditions
Discovery Release Notes
1.2.4. Natural Frequency

1.2.5. Materials
1.2.6. Defined Variations
1.2.7. Results
1.2.8. Monitors and Charts
1.2.9. Modeling Tools
1.2.10. Faceted Bodies
1.2.11. New Settings to Enable Beta Features
1.2.12. Project Management
1.2.13. Import and Export Support
1.2.14.Transferring To and From Discovery
1.2.15. UI/Graphics
1.2.16. In-product Guidance
1.2.17. History Tracking
1.2.18. Script Editor
1.2.1. Fluid-Solid Heat Transfer

Fluid-solid heat transfer is now supported in the Explore stage. You can run the simulation with full
capability in Refine and Explore. See Reviewing Fluid-Solid Interfaces for more information.
Examples of applications with fluid-solid heat transfer include:
Thermal mixers:
Water jackets:
Enhancements Overview
Heat exchanger baffles:
Exhaust headers:
Printed circuit boards:
1.2.2. Compressible Flow

Compressible flow has been added in Discovery Release 2022 R1:
• Compressible flow modeling capabilities for subsonic internal flows are now available. Note that
external aerodynamics applications, flows with supersonic boundary conditions, hypersonic flows,
and compressible liquids should be avoided.
• Compressible flow is available for gaseous materials. Click in the Materials HUD to model
compressible flow and use the ideal gas law to allow variable density. Material properties are updated
to include Molar mass:
• The operating pressure is set to 101325 Pa by default but can be modified in the physics tree. The
operating pressure is used for all compressible gases in the simulation.
See Compressible Flows for more information.
1.2.3. Structural Physics Conditions

The following new physics conditions are available in Discovery Release 2022 R1:
Springs
Structural springs are now available in the Explore and Refine stages. Springs are connections, which
can either connect two bodies (a face to face spring connection) or a body to ground (a face to point
connection). Both Longitudinal and Torsional springs are supported. Longitudinal springs generate
a force that displaces along the axis, while Torsional springs generate a force that rotates about the
axis.
To define a spring, select a face, then either Alt-click or use the Select Secondary Surface tool to
select a face or a point. You can then select Longitudinal or Torsional for your spring type and enter
the Stiffness value. In Refine mode, you can also select an optional Preload type. For a Longitudinal
spring, you can define the preload as a displacement length or enter a specific load/force value. A
positive load value creates tension, while a negative force value creates compression. For a Torsional
spring, you can define the preload as a rotational displacement or a torque, which is a force in the
opposite direction:
Joints
All joint types are now supported in the Explore stage. Joint types include Fixed, Hinged, and
Spherical joints.
• Fixed: Movement is prevented in any direction.
• Hinged: Only applicable to cylindrical or flat surfaces. It is free to rotate about a specified axis.
• Spherical: Only applicable to spherical surfaces. Translational movement is prevented.
1.2.4. Natural Frequency

Natural Frequency and Topology Optimization
Modal (Natural Frequency) analysis is now used as the basis for several of the Topology Optimization
goals (Maximize Natural Frequency, Balance Stiffness and Frequency, and Target Natural Fre-
quency):
The SID reflects that both Natural Frequency and Topology Optimization are active and also allows
for toggling them on and off:
Number of Modes
The Number of Modes for Natural Frequency analysis is now set in the Physics Tree. The number
of modes can also now be modified in both the Explore and Refine stages:
1.2.5. Materials
Material properties have been enhanced in this release. The following material properties provide
tabular data as a function of temperature:
• Density
• Young's modulus
• Thermal conductivity
• Specific heat
To view tabulated data for some of the properties, click next to the property:
When working with tabulated data, you can choose Export table to open an Export Table to File
dialog to choose .csv or .txt format and a location for your exported file. Delete rows becomes active
when a row is selected, and Copy table copies the table contents as text to the clipboard.
1.2.6. Defined Variations

The following enhancements related to defined variations are available in Discovery Release 2022 R1:
• Addition of a Parameter tab for management and control of parameters.
• Addition of a Script Parameters tab to modify parameter values for script parameters.
• Basic functionality (creating, editing, setting current, and deleting of variations) is now available in
the Refine stage.
• If parameters exist in the model, the SID displays in the Model stage. Clicking the Defined para-
meters semi-hexagon opens the Parameters table:
1.2.7. Results
The following enhancements related to results are available in Discovery Release 2022 R1:
• Using results probe, you can probe the solution anywhere on your model by mousing over the
contour or iso-surface in Refine, or any result type in Explore. A value displays in the legend and
changes as you move to a different location in your model:
• Curved vectors are now available in the Refine stage.
• Curved vectors in the Results arc are turned on by default for fluid flow simulation results. They
offer a way to visualize the entire flow field and display any fluid recirculation. An example of vector
results with the Curved option on and off is shown below:
1.2.8. Monitors and Charts

The following enhancements related to monitors and charts are available in Discovery Release 2022
R1:
• Monitors are now enabled for:
– Lines in Explore Fluids
– Surface bodies in Explore Physics
– Lines for Refine Fluids
Note:
Monitors on Points and Lines are not supported for non-fluids physics in Refine, and
monitors on Surfaces in Refine are not supported.
• Applicable variables:
– Temperature
– Velocity
– Static Pressure
– Total Pressure
– Flow Uniformity
• Contact Stress monitors for Pressure and Frictional Stress are available in the Refine stage. Note
that Contact Stress monitors for Pressure are also available in the Explore stage and can be displayed
as contours in Explore:
1.2.9. Modeling Tools
Note:
Many modeling tools are common between Discovery and SpaceClaim, although imple-
mentations differ depending on product. The Overlay Help provides information about
how to use the tools in Discovery, but you can refer to the SpaceClaim Documentation for
additional details.
1.2.9.1. Wrap
The Wrap tool wraps curves, surfaces, or solids around curved faces. Faces to wrap around must
be cylinders, planes, or cones.
Select the target body you want to wrap geometry around:
Select the geometry to wrap around the target:
Click Complete to wrap the selection:
Other options you have when using the Wrap tool include:
• You can select a Datum Point or Origin to use as a start point for the wrap. You can drag
the source and target start points to reposition the wrap.
• You can use Imprint as edges if you do not want solid or surface geometry to be wrapped.
Solid and surface boundaries, as well as curves, are imprinted on the target body.
• You can use Delete source geometry to delete the source geometry after it is wrapped
around the target.
1.2.9.2. Extend
The Extend tool extends or trims surfaces (or curves) to nearby parts.
The edges of surface parts or sketch curves that can be extended or trimmed are highlighted in
red.
You can also select the surfaces (or curves) which are not originally highlighted.
Additional options are available for:
• Trimming surfaces in addition to extending them
• Merging bodies (if possible)
• Detecting faces that partially intersect
• Extending/trimming a surface by a face or edge on the same body
• Finding surfaces to extend to curves when the curve is in the same plane as the surface
This image shows edges highlighted by the Extend tool:
This image shows extended edges/surfaces:
1.2.9.3. Midsurfacing
The Midsurface tool creates a surface midway between two offset faces (based on the tolerance
setting) and stores the offset distance as a Thickness property.
Select a face:
After selecting a face, move the mouse slightly to highlight the offset face:
Select the face. Faces with the same offset are highlighted:
Click Complete to create the Midsurfaces. The body is dimmed to display the surfaces, which are
added to a Midsurface folder in the tree:
Hovering over a Midsurface node in the tree exposes a flyout showing the Thickness, Surface
Location property, and a button to Parameterize the Thickness:
Surface Location can be changed in the HUD or the tree:
• Bottom
• Middle (the default)
• Top
Set the Location to Bottom and select a face:
Select the offset face detected by the tool:
Click Complete:
The surface is created at the bottom of the offset.
Note:
Top and Bottom are relative to which face is selected first. In this example, the face is
on the bottom. However, if the faces are vertical, Top creates the surface on the first
face selected and Bottom creates it on the second face.
1.2.9.4. Beams
The following tools have been added in support of Beams:
• Assign
• Extract
• Orient
• Connect
• Display
Assign
Using the Assign tool, you can assign to curves (lines or edges) an existing beam profile from a
supported library to specify its appearance, dimensions, and material properties. You can filter
based on code (AISC, EUROCODE) or beam shape (I, Channel, L, and so on). Discovery supports
several standard libraries of beam profiles. Any beam profiles created when 3D solids are converted
are also listed in the beam assignments. For these, you can change the beam profile assignment
to one from a standard library to specify the dimensions and material properties of a segment.
Beam Assignments are listed in the Physics Tree:
Extract
The Extract tool converts an existing 3D solid to a Beam. The solid must have a constant cross-
section, but it can have tapered ends, notches, or cut-outs along its length. To extract, select one
or more 3D solids:
Once the beams are extracted, the beams are listed under the Beams heading in the Model Tree,
and their beam assignments are listed in the Physics Tree. The original solid body is retained but
hidden after the beam is extracted:
Beam assignments can be changed to one from a standard library by double-clicking the beam
assignment, which launches the Assign tool, or by selecting the beam in the Assign tool.
Orient
Using the Orient tool, you can change the orientation of a Beam relative to the underlying curve.
When you launch the Orient tool, Discovery displays an Orient widget on the endpoint of the se-
lected beam:
Rotate the beam using the blue arrow. Double-click the blue arrow to rotate the beam 90° clockwise,
or drag the blue arrow to rotate any amount in either direction.
Connect
The Connect tool can be used to locate beams that can be extended or shortened to connect to
other beams. When you launch the Connect tool, Discovery highlights with transparent red dots
any endpoints and endpoint connections within the specified Maximum distance that can be ex-
tended or moved to connect to a nearby beam. Click a dot to connect those endpoints, or click
Complete to connect all highlighted endpoints:
Display
The Display tool toggles the display of beam and shell profiles in 3D:
1.2.9.5. Facets Tools

The following tools have been added to the Facets tab in Discovery:
Modify tab
• The Shell tool adds thickness to the inside or outside of a solid or faceted body.
You can select geometry or facets to be removed when shelling and choose to create the
shell wall on the inside or outside the body.
• The Split tool splits faceted bodies using a plane or surface as a cutter. To control how the
bodies are split, you can choose to leave an opening or cap the opening resulting from the
split, and/or use extra internal points in the cap to produce better triangles.
• The Scale tool scales faceted bodies smaller or larger relative to a selected point. You can
scale the faceted bodies uniformly (default), or toggle on/off the X, Y, or Z scaling directions
to scale non-uniformly.
Reverse Engineering tab
• The Auto Skin tool has been moved to the Reverse Engineering tab.
• The Skin Surface tool allows you to reverse-engineer a surface model from faceted data by
creating surface patches on the facets and stitching them together into a surface body. You
can sketch the patch shape on the faceted model or select planes or existing patch edges
to create a new patch.
• The Orient Facets tool aligns roughly planar or cylindrical areas of triangles to the World
Origin axes.
Hover over the triangles to see a preview of the axis the facets would align to.
Select the highlighted triangle to align the facets as previewed.
With each subsequent selection, the align-to axis alternates between Z and Y.
• The Fit Spline tool creates a best fit surface through the selected facets.
1.2.9.6. Layers
You can create layers to group objects based on visual characteristics such as visibility and color.
Use the options in the Layers panel or the context menu to create a new layer, activate an existing
layer, or assign objects to a layer:
Choose to Show or Hide the objects on the layer. You can also Show all or Hide all layers, or select
objects assigned to the selected layer:
The visibility and colors of the objects are indicated in the tree, including visibility and color by
layer. If an object is located on a layer which is hidden and the object in the tree is set to show
visibility by layer, the object is not visible in the display and cannot be acted on by the design tools.
1.2.9.7. Dynamic Cursors and Constraint-based Sketching

When using constraint-based sketching tools (Design > Constraints), many of the tools require
multiple steps in a particular sequence. The new context-aware cursor visually displays your progress
through these multi-step setups and alerts you to invalid selections.
The tool icon occupies the center of the cursor surrounded by a segmented ring. Each segment
represents a step in the workflow and is color-coded:
• Yellow: a valid option for selection
• Green: the step was successful
• Red: not a valid selection option at this location
• Gray: neutral state
For example:
• The Parallel constraint requires two steps, so the ring is divided into two segments.
Here, the cursor is over a valid selection, so the first segment is yellow:
• After making the selection, the first segment turns green, indicating that the selection was
successful.
Since the cursor is still over the first selection, which is invalid for the second step, the second
segment is red:
1.2.9.8. Shared Topology

The Semi Halo has been added to the Shared Topology Review tool to edit Line properties. By
default, the Semi Halo appears open when you select one of the Line properties. It contains buttons
for changing Line color and thickness:
For models with beams, you can turn on Beam connection in the Share Topology Review tool
to display beams according to the number of shared points. Select the display color for the beams
based on the number of shared points:
1.2.9.9. Object Selection

Offset properties for Shells and Midsurfaces are now available in the Select tool.
Face Selection
In a shelled model, when you select faces with an Offset, you can change the Offset amount and
baseline face in the face selection HUD:
When multiple Offset faces are selected the HUD now shows ‘<Value>’ to indicate that all the se-
lected faces do not have the same Offset:
Entering a value applies the new Offset to all selected faces:
You can also change Baseline face for the Offset:
Midsurface Selection
When multiple Midsurfaces are selected, the Select HUD shows ‘<Value>’ for the Thickness. Entering
a value assigns the same Thickness property to all the selected midsurfaces. For Midsurfaces, you
can change the Thickness, but it only changes the Thickness property; it does not change the
geometry:
You can also change the Offset type property, which is useful for connecting to other midsurfaces
and bodies in the model.
A Beam Assignment dropdown has been added to the Select tool when a mixed selection of
curves (beam and non-beam) is selected. In the image below, the two curves on the left are Beams.
When one or both are selected the Select HUD contains the Beam Assignment dropdown:
In the image below, the two curves on the right are NOT Beams. When one or both are selected,
the Select HUD does not contain the Beam Assignment dropdown:
If a mixture of Beam and Non-Beam curves is selected, the Select HUD contains the Beam Assign-
ment dropdown as shown below:
1.2.10. Faceted Bodies

In Discovery Release 2022 R1, faceted bodies are supported in physics simulations in the Explore
stage.
To use faceted bodies in your simulation, you must create a region first. You can do this either by
adding a named selection or by right-clicking after selecting facets and choosing Create region.
Fluid flow simulations:
• All fluid boundary conditions and monitors treat selected facets as “Face” regions
• Material assignments are allowed on faceted bodies
• Allow for inclusion/exclusion for faceted bodies in the tree and context menu
• Apply monitors to faceted regions
Structural/thermal simulations without contact:
• All conditions and monitors treat selected facets as “Face” regions
• Only a single faceted body is allowed
• All structural boundary conditions (except joints and contacts) allowed on faceted geometries
• All thermal boundary conditions allowed on faceted geometries
• Joints or contacts are not supported due to the single faceted body limitation
Here is an example of a physics condition added to a faceted region:
1.2.11. New Settings to Enable Beta Features

Using the Advanced > Beta Options area on the Settings panel, you can enable and disable the
Beta features that are available in Discovery Release 2022 R1.
1.2.12. Project Management

The unit and display options (Settings > Units and Display Precision) allow greater control over
how values are displayed. The options selected in this panel affect how values are displayed including
all input units (tree, HUD, defined variations) and all output (charts, monitors, legend, defined vari-
ations).
You can now turn off display units and show only input values with the Show inputs with non-default
inputs as entered option:
1.2.13. Import and Export Support

Discovery files can be saved in Electronics Desktop Import (.aedti) file format.
1.2.14. Transferring To and From Discovery

Export to Fluent is now disabled for Fluid simulations that contain faceted bodies.
1.2.15. UI/Graphics
1.2.15.1. Opening an Internal Component in a Dedicated Window

You can now open internal subcomponents of an assembly in separate windows. Right-click a
component in the model tree and select Open Component to open the subcomponent in a separate
window. The window tabs populate left to right on the bottom of the Discovery app. Simulation
controls are available in the top-level, parent assembly window and unavailable in the subcomponent
windows.
1.2.15.2. HUD
The layout of the Dimension Edit HUD was updated to include icons for bold, italic, and underline.
1.2.15.3. Color Palettes

When selecting colors, you can switch between bright and pale color palettes:
Hovering over a color in the palette will display the color name and hexadecimal RGB value:
1.2.15.4. Notifications
When a message in Notifications references geometry in the model, click to zoom in on the relevant,
referenced geometry:
1.2.15.5. Tree View

Multiple tree nodes can be renamed at the same time:
Select multiple nodes and type in a new name. Press Enter to accept the name. Each node is re-
named with a sequential number appended:
1.2.16. In-product Guidance
1.2.16.1. Interactive Tours

The following new interactive tours are available in Discovery Release 2022 R1:
• Two tours were added:
– Discovery's User Interface: This interactive tour familiarizes you with the various user
interface elements in Discovery so you’ll be ready for your next project.
– Beams and Shells: This interactive tour walks you through extracting beams and shells,
extending surfaces to nearby parts, and assigning beam profiles from standard libraries
to segments to specify their appearance, dimensions, and material properties.
You can access interactive tours from the Learn menu on the Discovery Home Page, from the
Home page of the Discovery Help, or from the Navigation menu of the Discovery Help.
1.2.17. History Tracking

History tracking has been improved in this release:
• History tracking can now be used to track both modeling and physics changes when you are in
the Model or Explore stage.
• It is not available:
– In the Refine stage
– When multiple window tabs are open
– When using small units
– When using the script editor
• You can now edit and track the changes to the sketch. Click Edit sketch to edit the sketch.
Click Complete to update the step with the sketch changes or click Cancel to retain the
previous sketch.
• You can now edit and track the changes to the selections in individual steps. Click Complete
to update the step with the selection changes or click Cancel to retain the previous selections.
See History Tracking for more information.
1.2.18. Script Editor

The Script Editor, which you can access from the File menu, allows you to work with Discovery pro-
grammatically using Python, as you can create and run scripts to perform repetitive tasks.
You can write your script in the main Script Editor window or enter single commands in the command
line.
Online help for scripting is accessible directly from the Script Editor window:
Inserting a Selection
Clicking Selection allows you to paste the current selection as script in the script window. You have
three options for pasting: Index, Ray, and Smart Variable.
• Index: The internal index of each selected entity.
• Ray: The internal ray fire point and direction.
• Smart Variable:Combines the other methods to make selections better persist when replaying
scripts, by storing more information. This makes replay more robust in matching the selected
entity during geometry changes.
Recording a Script
Clicking Record allows you to record scriptable actions in Discovery, which are then written as code
in the Script Editor. The type of selection that is chosen will affect how the script is recorded.
One of the easiest ways to learn the scripting API is to use the record option while performing your
operations and then modify the recorded script as appropriate.
Scripting includes recording support for Beams, changing the material state from liquid to gas and
activating Compressible Flow, duplicating and renaming monitors, including and excluding bodies
in Topology Optimization simulations, porous conditions, Save As New Version, and so on.
Writing a Script
Intellisense, or intelligent code completion, which assists with entering commands, is supported in
Discovery scripting. When you type in the Script Editor, you will see suggestions for commands,
helper functions, and variables (created or with Smart Variable selection). Auto complete features
add parentheses when writing functions in the Script Editor and for-loops can be created automat-
ically. You can also search for existing APIs from the Script Editor and select it to automatically add
the code to import it into the script.
To improve selection in scripting, created selections can be converted or filtered based on size, geo-
metry, or other requirements. For each of the selections, you can choose from the Filter and Convert
methods available. For example, you can choose to filter faces, edges, parts, bodies, or components.
You can convert selections to types (such as faces or edges), or convert by shape, size, and so on.
Power Selection is recorded and, when using Smart Variables, can be used to perform similar oper-
ations on multiple bodies.
For example, you can record the power-selection of holes with a certain diameter, and then the filling
of those holes with the Fill tool. That script can then be used to fill holes of the same size in other
models, even if the number of holes is different.
Publishing a Script
You can publish a script so that it can be used in any project. The tool is added to a Script tools
group on the ribbon. Once a script is published, it can be edited or removed by selecting the Edit
Script or Remove option on the ribbon.
Embedding a Script
Embedding a script allows you to include it with your project. The Script Editor can have multiple
scripts open in tabs, but only one script can be embedded. Scripts remain embedded when you
Save/Resume the model. The embedded script is always the first tab in the Script Editor. Embedding
a script with your project allows you to access script parameters.
Script Parameters
Embedding a script gives you access to script parameters. Add parameters to the Script Parameters
window and reference them within your project script. The Autorun Parameter Script button allows
the script to run continuously, as you make parameter updates and gather results.
Debug vs. Run
Scripts are executed in Debug mode by default. This enables script writers to get feedback on their
scripts while creating them, as well as allowing debugging tools. An option to execute scripts in Run
mode is also available. Using Run mode is faster than Debug mode since the script is executed on
a single thread.
To execute your script, click the Play button and select Run or Debug. The Script Editor writes the
results of running the script, including error and warnings, to the output window.
As Debug is running, you can use Step Into, which allows you to step into function calls, to help
debug your script. Step Over allows you to step over function calls and Step Out allows you to step
out of function calls. Breakpoints allow you to stop and investigate other sections of the code.
To add a breakpoint, left or middle click the grey column to the left of the line numbers in the script.
The breakpoint is displayed as a red dot in Debug mode and as a red circle in Run mode. Breakpoints
do not work in Run mode.
Using the InputHelper
The InputHelper, which is only available in Debug mode, enables you to pause the execution of the
script to get various inputs from interactive tools, before continuing to run the script. You can set up
custom workflows using the InputHelper functions, including creating widgets and tool guides for
user input.
You can create tool guides and specify selections which can also be filtered based on type. For example,
you can choose to filter faces, edges, or bodies. You can also specify if the selections are mandatory
or optional.
Script variables can be added to a custom HUD, as buttons, check boxes, drop-downs, or groups of
such controls. You can also add tool tips for the controls created.
Known Limitations
• Script recording of actions in the tree may not properly include selection. As a workaround, record
the appropriate selection and edit the recorded script command.
• You may receive an error if you execute a script in Run mode which includes a Reset command
and encounters an execution error. This will cause Discovery to become unstable, and a restart will
be required. Executing your script in Debug mode first will ensure that any issues are addressed.
• Scripts recorded in SpaceClaim with Index Selections may have different indices when played in
Discovery. Updating to new indices may be required.
• Running a script in Run mode that does multiple Refine solves with different geometries will not
work. The workaround solution is to use Debug mode
• The Script Editor cannot be opened while History Tracking is on.
Caveats and Known Issues
1.3. Caveats and Known Issues

At the time of publication, caveats and known issues in Release 2022 R1 of Discovery include those listed
below. Also refer to the Ansys, Inc. Known Issues and Limitations document.
• Publishing a script in Discovery 2022 R1 may prevent Discovery 2021 R2 from launching.
Workaround: From 2022 R1, empty the %AppData%/Roaming/Discovery/Published Scripts folder.

[530493]
• In the Explore stage, fluid-solid heat transfer simulations and compressible flow simulations are not
supported when Fluid solution (in Explore) is set to Legacy in the Settings panel. [520815]
• When working with physics conditions and monitors, and a secondary location is needed, the secondary
location cannot be selected from the model tree.
Workaround: Select the secondary location from the model rather than from the tree. [527010]
• When using Measure > Inspect > Mass Properties or Measure tools, tooltips may not render.
Workaround: If you need assistance and tooltips are unavailable, press F1 to activate the overlay
help. [515038]
• After migrating a SpaceClaim document into Discovery, you may experience performance issues when
selecting and deleting geometry.
Workaround: Reduce the model to show only that component or open the component in another
tab to reduce the size of the model. This will ensure that the speed of the response from selection
is not compromised. [459564]
• After migrating a SpaceClaim document into Discovery and using the Measure > Quality > Deviation
tool to select two bodies, the deviation coloring is shown. Hovering over the bodies in the model
tree should turn the bodies orange just on hover but they may not return to the deviation coloring.
Workaround: Move outside of the tree and click your cursor anywhere in the design window. [505647]
• When using the Defined Variations Generator to add variations, the new variations are added line-
by-line to the bottom of the table and may take time to populate. [533063]
• When opening some fluid projects from an earlier Discovery release, the SID may go out-of-date, and
results are invalidated. This may be due to changes in default values.
Workaround: Re-solve the project. [539472]
• When gravity is suppressed and ignored using natural frequency, the gravity node in the physics tree
may not be marked with the ignore symbol. [543363]
• When hovering over a monitor in the monitor list, a monitor that was created on a plane may not
highlight on the model.
Workaround: Go into full edit mode. [472912]
• When hovering over beam assignments (imported, extracted and library beam with and without 3D
profiling) in the physics tree, the assigned lines are not highlighted on the model.
Workaround: Hover over the beam assignments in the model tree or double-click the assignment
node in the physics tree. [543285]
• When deleting a note on a parameterized variable in the physics tree, the parameter icon appears.
Workaround: Refresh the tree by collapsing and expanding the top parent node in the physics tree.
[445454]
• When creating variations with the generator and using custom units (not default), the units displayed
in the table may not be consistent.
Workaround: Refresh the table by scrolling the row out-of-view and then back or navigating to a
different tab and then back. [476106]
• When changing material assignments with variable thermal conductivity and/or specific heat for a
thermal or structural solid thermal project in the Explore stage, some materials may present an error
message in the SID and disable the Solve button.
Workaround: Duplicate the simulation OR save and resume the model and solve again with thermal
data. [538134]
Chapter 2: SpaceClaim Release Notes
Release 2022 R1 of SpaceClaim contains many new features and enhancements.

Areas where you will find changes and new capabilities in SpaceClaim include:
2.1.1. UI/Graphics
2.1.2. Constraint-based Sketching
2.1.3. Drawing Sheets
2.1.4. Prepare
2.1.5. Scripting
2.1.6. Import/Export
2.1.7. Meshing
2.1.1. UI/Graphics
The following enhancements have been made:
Display units for Axes, Planes, and Datum Points
Units for Axes, Planes, and Datum Points are now displayed in the local unit system instead of
meters.
Display of Beams in the Structure Tree
For models with a large number of beams, the first 50 beams will be listed in the Structure tree,
by default. Click More beams... to view the remaining beams in the tree.
Enhanced Shading with Multiple View Ports
Incorrect shading and shadows appearing when multiple view ports are used with Enhanced
Shading have been resolved.
SpaceClaim Release Notes
2.1.2. Constraint-based Sketching

The Remove Interiors option allows you to remove interior surfaces that would be created for closed
sketch regions within the sketch on switching to 3D mode. Select the Sketching Plane node in the
Structure tree and select Remove Interiors from the context menu.
See the Sketching with Constraints section for details.
2.1.3. Drawing Sheets

The performance when opening drawing sheets with a large number of annotations has been improved.
2.1.4. Prepare
The following enhancements have been made to the Midsurface tool:
• When extracting a midsurface on an instanced part, the other solids of the instances are now hidden
and suppressed.
• When midsurfaces are extracted from multiple instanced parts, only one midsurface is created.
2.1.5. Scripting
The current Scripting version is v21, beta version v22 is available.
Script recording has been added for:
• Fit curve tool
• Small curves tool
2.1.6. Import/Export
The following Reader versions are now supported:
• Inventor V2022
• NX 1980
• Revit V2021
2.1.7. Meshing
There have been several improvements to the SpaceClaim interactive meshing tools ("Meshing") in
this release. These include:
• ThinSweep mesh method
• Robustness, performance, and usability improvements
• Meshing for Explicit Physics (Beta)
ThinSweep
The ThinSweep method is available as a full release feature at Release 2022 R1.
The ThinSweep method can be used to mesh geometries recognized as having thin-walled solids,
as an alternative to using the typical approach with Standard blocking. The software first detects
sweep source and target surfaces. Then the 2D blocking is created on the source surfaces, and
finally pulled to 3D and associated to the target surfaces in an automatic fashion.
Select ThinSweep in the Blocking drop-down list.
• Select ThinSweep in the Blocking drop-down list.
• When setting up the model, you can leave the Thickness value set to 0 for the software to
identify the thickness automatically.
Note:
Automatic thickness detection may not work in some cases such as when bodies
have slanted side faces or conical faces.
The software can handle some variation in the thickness like the example below. For models
with varying thickness, specify a Thickness value slightly more than the maximum thickness of
the model.
• Set an appropriate value for Number of Divisions to control the number of elements across
the thickness.
• (Optional) Use the Select Source/Target Faces tool guide to select the sweep surfaces. If you
select the sweep source (top) and target (bottom) surfaces, the Thickness value is not used.
Note:
In general, the software attempts to automatically recognize the source, side and target
faces, then meshes the source set of faces and pulls the sheet blocking to the target
set of faces. If the source, side, and target faces cannot be detected correctly, you will
see a warning message. In this situation you need to select the source/target faces
manually:
• When nothing or only one side of the solid is selected, the following priority is used
to determine which (non-thin) side of the solid is a sweep source:
1. manually selected faces
2. shared faces or faces with input mesh
3. non-smooth faces
4. faces containing more features
5. faces with the largest area
The software will then attempt to automatically determine the side faces and remain-
ing faces are the target set of faces.
• Alternatively, select the source and target set of faces as the source faces. This should
be two sets of connected faces. The remaining faces will be treated as side faces.
Limitations:
• The ThinSweep method is not yet fully supported for shared topology or Selective meshing.
• The ThinSweep method may not work well for parallel meshing (meshing all bodies at the
same time).
• In cases with a stack of thin bodies (layers), if you choose to mesh all bodies at the same time,
the bodies may not be recognized as thin bodies.
• The Thin Sweep method does not respect features on the target faces that are not present on
the source faces.
You can work around some of these limitations through block editing. For example, you can mesh
a body with the ThinSweep method and then use block splits and merge operations to make
the body mesh conformal with other bodies.
Robustness, Performance, and Usability Improvements
The following improvements have been made at Release 2022 R1:
• While creating a free mesh using the Quadrilateral Dominant or Triangle mesh type, an addi-
tional option is available to enable Prime surface meshing.
When the Use Prime option is enabled, an alternative surface meshing method for models
having large surfaces with many cut out loops. Prime surface mesh gives faster surface meshing
performance and better mesh flow far from boundary edges.
Note that the surface mesh quality may deteriorate when this method is used. This option is
disabled by default.
See the section on Setting a Mesh Type for details.
• Improved mesh quality when All Quadrilateral is selected in the Add tool or the Map/Sweep
tool.
• Improved mesh quality for the CartSweep method.
• Improved performance when enabling meshing.
• Improved performance for surface meshing.
• Improved performance for circuit board models.
• General performance improvements.
• Performance improvements have been made for model transfer to Mechanical.
• Robustness and usability improvements have been made for external documents (model as-
sembly).
• You can now write *.cdb/*.inp files that can be read in through External Model.
• The mesh written to Ansys (*.cdb) and/or LS-DYNA (*.k) now uses the SpaceClaim units rather
than meters.
• For assemblies (external documents where parts are saved as different files) when you save in
LS-DYNA (*.k) format, the external documents will be written as separate part.k files using the
same names as the external documents. The assembly.k file with contain *include cards to
maintain the assembly structure.
Note:
Nested assemblies are not supported.
While saving, if you want all data to be written to a single *.k file, disable the Improve
data on export option in the SpaceClaim Options window (File > Options > Gen-
eral > Export Options) to write a single file instead of the assembled mesh file.
Explicit Physics (Beta)
Explicit Physics is available as a beta feature visible from the Mesh tab at Release 2022 R1.
To enable Beta features, go to File > SpaceClaim Options > Advanced and select Enable beta
features.
Beta Software Information Disclaimer
• Once enabled, beta features may remain active after they have been disabled, even if the text
and graphical interfaces for these features are no longer visible. Ansys, Inc. recommends that
you save a separate copy of the project before activating any beta feature so that you can return
to the project with only released features.
• Beta features have not been fully tested and validated.
• Ansys, Inc. may, at its discretion, fully release, change, or withdraw beta features in future revi-
sions. It makes no commitment to doing so on any particular schedule.
• Ansys, Inc. makes no commitment to resolve defects reported against beta features. However,
your feedback will help improve the quality of the product.
• Beta features are not subject to the Ansys Class 3 error reporting system.
• Ansys, Inc. does not guarantee that input files used with beta features will run successfully from
version to version of the software, nor with the final released version of the feature(s). You may
need to modify the input files before running them on other versions.
Select Explicit for Physics Type to generate the mesh with defaults suited for the Explicit
workflows.
• The defaults for many of the global mesh options and mesh sizing options are updated as fol-
lows:
– Element shape - Quadrilateral Dominant
– Hexahedral Blocking - Standard
– Defeature size - 25% Element size
– Element order - Linear
• The Characteristic Length computation for blocking mesh and body mesh has been improved
at Release 2022 R1.
See the section on Viewing Quality Statistics for details.
• For the Element Quality and Characteristic Length metrics, you can see a Target quality
value, in addition to the Min and Max quality values reported in the Mesh Quality tool.

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2.1.1.5. Pretension Sections for General Axisymmetric Elements ........................................... 17

2.4.1. Automatic Inertia Relief .................................................................................................... 26

8.3. API Updates .............................................................................................................................. 50

10.1. New Features and Enhancements in Ansys FENSAP-ICE .......................................................... 101

2.1. Enhancements ........................................................................................................................ 135

7.1. Global Control of Quasi-Newton Solution Stabilization ............................................................. 173

1.2.15.5. Tree View ............................................................................................................. 214

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