ANSYS ICEM CFD 12.

0 Update

Simon Pereira Product Manager 734 213 1217 Simon.Pereira@ANSYS.com

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Agenda

How ANSYS ICEM CFD Fits at ANSYS 12.0 and beyond ANSYS ICEM CFD 12.0 improvements Licensing and Migrations

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ANSYS Workbench based Meshing

Guiding Principles Parametric and Persistent Highly Automated Physics Aware Flexible
Combined meshing methods on a multi-body part

ANSYS Meshing

Integrated Best in class meshing tech from ICEM CFD Assembly meshed with a TGrid, Gambit variety of sweep methods CFX Mesh, Prep/Post, etc. and Hexa Dominant Integration through shared applications or libraries hexa.exe, tetra.exe TGrid Libraries
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ICEM Extends ANSYS Meshing Capabilities

Mesh from Dirty CAD, Third Party Geometry, etc. Faceted Data, Scan Data, STL Combinations of CAD, Facets & Mesh Efficiently Mesh large/complex models Greater than 20 million cells Extended mesh controls
Structured Hexa mesh

>250 Million Cells

Extended Functionality

Hexa mesh Structured or Unstructured Advanced blocking control Extended mesh diagnostics Advanced Interactive Mesh Editing Output to a wide variety of solver formats CFD, FEA, neutral formats
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Interactive Mesh Editing

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ANSYS ICEM CFD Roadmap

ANSYS 12.0 Better and More integration of ICEM Technology in AMP Improved Patch independent (tetra/prism) and Uniform quad/tri Added MultiZone meshing to AMP at 12.0. Bug fixes and incremental enhancements in ANSYS ICEM CFD ICEM CFD is not integrated in the ANSYS Workbench 2.0 schematic But better file transfer back and forth 12.1 will feature ANSYS Workbench CAD interface for ICEM CFD incremental Back door access to ICEM CFD thru AMP enhancements ANSYS 13.0 13.0 planning is still underway Better integration with Workbench 2 Further Hexa improvements (Smoothing, MultiZone, BFCart, etc.) ANSYS Extended Meshing debut (might not be fully WB based at R13) Work to make ANSYS Meshing more attractive to ICEM CFD users
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ANSYS Meshing 12.0 is not positioned as ICEM CFD replacement

Strategy

and bug fixes

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ANSYS ICEM CFD 12.0 Improvements

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ANSYS ICEM CFD 12.0 focus

Primarily focused on ICEM CFD technology exposure in ANSYS Workbench ANSYS Workbench Readers Tetra/Prism MultiZone ANSYS ICEM CFD Standalone Development Bug fixing Process and interface streamlining Hexa & BFCart mesher improvements Mesh editing advances Output format updates Over 450 defects & feature requests resolved
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Simultaneous MultiZone development for ANSYS meshing and ICEM CFD

12.0 Focus

BFCart mesher

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ICEM CFD Hexa

Improved Multi-Block handling Linked spacing & linked bunching Merge blocks Update blocking Orthogonality based (elliptic) smoother MultiBlock Smoother Added Advanced and Swept 3D fills Imprint blocking on a free face Link face shapes Associate reference mesh to a face Variables for edge parameters Auto project option for new splits
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Swept Blocks within traditional ICEM CFD blocking

Hexa Improvements

Improved Update blocking

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ICEM CFD Hexa

Automatic match edges Auto match end spacing for a large number of edges
Ideal

Hexa

for turbine blades Useful for MultiZone

Match a large number of edges

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ICEM CFD Hexa Smoothing

Improved

orthogonality, angle and volume transition Set initial height Wide support Structured multi-block hexa Unstructured hexa, BFCart Hexa dominant and hybrid Improved angle and Development ongoing volume transition

Orthogonality

Multi-Block

12 10 8 6 4 2 0 1 2 3 4 Trial # 5 6 7 Local CPUs Remote CPUs Time (min)

Added

1D constrained Multi-Block Smoothing Distributed parallel support Converter for old settings files

Distributed parallel smoother

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MultiZone
MultiZone saves time over a full Hexa model

Improved Sweep Multiple sources and targets Auto imprinting Improved interpolation Reverse sweep direction OGrid in swept blocks Associate with surface mesh Variable OGrid height fill Surface parameter controlled More automated MultiZone

Multi-Part Sweep

MultiZone

Ability to export and edit the ANSYS Meshing MultiZone files (blocking) in ICEM CFD Extended control
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MultiZone
Improved block type conversion For 3D and 2D blocks and faces Change unstructured mesh type General improvements Selection handling and display Integration of TGrid tetra fill Block/face/mesh type conversion Parameter settings and defaults

MultiZone

Swept and Hex Dominant Fill

All Tri to Quad Dominant

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ICEM CFD BodyFitted Cartesian

Inflation Part by part selective control Option for post inflation Separate projection control for inflated parts Improved quality Added Thin Cuts control
Selective inflation

BFCart

12.0 BFCart is still best suited to Biomedical

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ICEM CFD BodyFitted Cartesian

Stretched Cartesian Global control with Aspect ratio Changing aspect ratio with an imported Cartesian file Create a Cartesian file from a Blocking file Biasing Better control over final split locations Automatic material flood-fill Similar to Octree Tetra Added mesh editing functions to support BFCart
Biasing controlled by blocking edge parameters
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BFCart

Material Flood fill automatically detects various regions

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Tetra/Prism Improvements
Primarily Bug fixing Improved stability Improvements Increased max model size to > 1 billion Improved feedback Less cryptic messages Problem subsets Added Orient Octree by LCS TGlib (TGrid) option added to Delaunay Time savings and improved quality
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Improved Quality

12.0

Tetra Improvements

11.0

Oriented octree mesh converts to oriented hexas

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Mesh Editing
Redistribute prism Improvements By Growth ratio or Initial height Better algorithm Improved Max editable model size (billions) Project node to surf Move nodes Split prisms and Subsets redistribute by initial height, now calculated Color by quality for each column Stitch/Match edges Check mesh Element normals Info Remesh options Interface pyramids
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Improved interface pyramids

Mesh Editing

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Mesh Editing
Improvements Coarsen Split nodes Histograms Added display of bad elements Improved ranges for metrics Improved behavior/speed in general Floodfill Expanded to more element types Etc. Added TGrid skew quality metric Y-Split hexas at vertex LCS support for Tet2Hex conversion
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Oriented Octree Mesh converts to oriented Hexas

Edit Mesh

Improved Editing of BFCart Meshes`

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Other Improvements
General
Improved Undo/Redo in a number of areas Added general setting to keep undo history on save Blocking files are incremented when the project file is saved Tetin files and boco files are cleaned on save Improved hotkey implementation Added number of sectors option for periodicity Reduced frequency of license checks (improved speed for remote users)

General improvements

Interface Improvements
Style compliance with other ANSYS Workbench products Some style compliance is optional, display settings Improved histogram functionality Improved tree functionality. Improved settings and settings defaults. Improved Params by parts window, allows handling of more parts. Improved/reduced error messages. Improved all the Info queries to give more details. Improved selection tools to be more efficient, particularly for select all. Added mouse settings (such as disabling mouse wheel for cut planes).
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Other Improvements
ANSYS Workbench Readers
ICEM CFD access to all ANSYS Workbench CAD readers. useful for CATIA V5, SolidWorks 2008, Autodesk Inventor, ACIS 18 /19, etc. Ability to directly import ANSYS Workbench meshing and geometry files. Improved handling of named selections, subsets, etc. Improved file transfer between ICEM CFD and FE Modeler.

Geometry Improvements

CAD Interface updates

Improved UGNX4 import and fixed specific Linux64bit issues. Updated UG interface to NX6 & Pro/ENGINEER interface to Wildfire4. Updated IDI reader to I-DEAS NX5 (I-DEAS 13). Improved Step/IGES, Rhino3D and Parasolid readers.

Geometry Tools
Improved segment curve by plane. Improved build topology. Improved automatic body creation. Improved midsurfacing and surface extension. Added scale by LCS. Added several tools to repair or cleanup faceted data.
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Other Improvements > 450 improvements

Improved Windows 64bit Support for
Parasolid reader Cart 3D Tetra in batch mode Advancing front tetra Prism

Improved/Added output to;

ANSYS CFD++ CFL3D CFX CGNS C-Mold Exodus FIDAP FLUENT Nastran Plot3D Popinda Precise Trio-U UGrid Wind3D

Improved Documentation More images, explanations, tips, hyperlinks, etc. Online tutorials and short demos

12.0 Help

11.0 Help

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Tools & Technology

Efforts in ICEM CFD and TGrid serve two primary purposes 1. Stabilize and improve the software for current users 2. Continue to develop Extended Meshing tools and technologies for eventual implementation on the ANSYS Meshing Platform High end users should expect Access to more ICEM CFD and TGrid Meshing Technology in future versions of the ANSYS Meshing Platform Eventual Migration to ANSYS Workbench Ongoing R&D from the ANSYS Meshing development team
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ICEM CFD MultiZone

Forward Technology

Same MultiZone Method Exposed in ANSYS Meshing

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ICEM CFD Back Door

You can debug meshing problems with MultiZone, Patch Independent Tetra, and Autoblocker using ICEM CFD (if licensed/installed): 1. Turn on Tools->Options->Write ICEM CFD Files

2. Set environment variable: ICEM_CFD_INTERACTIVE=1 3. When generating mesh for listed mesh methods, the ICEM CFD software will come up with the model displayed (blocking, etc.) 4. Minor edits can be saved and will come back into ANSYS Workbench
This is a hidden/alpha feature, but may be useful to find potential problems
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ANSYS ICEM CFD 12.0 Licensing and Migrations

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Price list reduction/simplification

11.1 ICEM CFD Products
Product Name PREPROCESSING AND MESH RELATED PRODUCTS AI*Environment CFD Utilities Add-on for AI*Environment ANSYS ICEM CFD Basic ICEM CFD Basic with Advanced Geometry Support ICEM CFD Basic with Geometry Interface for NX ICEM CFD Basic with Geometry Interface for CATIA v4 ICEM CFD Basic with Geometry Interface for Pro/ENGINEER ICEM CFD Basic with SDRC-IDEAS Direct Interface ICEM CFD Basic with Geometry Interface for SolidWorks ICEM CFD Basic with Geometry Interface for Solid Edge ICEM CFD Basic with DesignModeler ICEM CFD Basic with Geometry Interface for Parasolid ANSYS ICEM CFD Meshers ANSYS ICEM CFD Hexa ANSYS ICEM CFD Tetra/Prism ANSYS ICEM CFD BF-CART ANSYS ICEM CFD Quad ANSYS ICEM CFD Global ANSYS ICEM CFD AutoHexa ANSYS ICEM CFD Hexa CAA V5 Based (for CATIA V5) ANSYS ICEM CFD Special Solutions ANSYS ICEM CFD Environment for Cart3D ANSYS ICEM CFD Post Processor ANSYS ICEM CFD Visual3/PV3 CFX PrePost Processing ANSYS CFX-CAD2Mesh with DesignModeler ANSYS ICEM CFD Hexa Add-on
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V11 Price list spanned a number of different pages, each item had special features and some required certain combinations

This has been reduced down to 4 straight forward ICEM CFD specific rows DM and CAD interfaces would be added as with other products

Product Name

12.0 ICEM CFD Products CAD2Mesh with DM and Visual3 will remain on legacy price list
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Generic Pre/post ANSYS ICEM CFD ANSYS ICEM CFD Tetra/Prism ANSYS ICEM CFD Hexa For ANSYS solvers ANSYS ICEM CFD Add-On

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New ANSYS ICEM CFD Products At 12.0, ICEM CFD is our full function tool Equivalent to AI*E + CFD utilities Includes use of ANSYS Meshing CAD Interfaces sold separately
ANSYS ICEM CFD 12.0

AI*Environment CFD Utilities

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11.0 ANSYS ICEM CFD Products

Previously ICEM CFD required a combination of tools Basic w/ CAD interface as a foundation Add on various meshing modules for each user

R11 ICEM CFD Tetra

R11 ICEM CFD Quad

R11 ICEM CFD Hexa

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12.0 ANSYS ICEM CFD Products ICEM CFD 12.0 has been consolidated Basic no longer needed; DCI sold separately

ICEM CFD Tetra 12.0

ICEM CFD Hexa 12.0

ICEM CFD Tetra and ICEM CFD (full) each include access to ANSYS Meshing at 12.0!
ICEM CFD (full) 12.0
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ICEM CFD 12.0 Add-on

ICEM CFD Add-on is a low cost way for existing customers to use ICEM CFD for our ANSYS solvers. Similar to ICEM CFD (full) Except
No Post Processing, Output limited to ANSYS solvers No use of ANSYS Meshing Ties up another key!
Talk

ICEM CFD Add-on Add

to ANSYS rep for details

ICEM CFD 12.0 Add-on

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ANSYS Multiphysics, ANSYS Mechanical, ANSYS Structural, ANSYS Professional NLS ANSYS Mechanical/Emag ANSYS Mechanical/CFX-Flo AUTODYN, AUTODYN (Single Task), ANSYS LS-DYNA, ANSYS Explicit STR ANSYS CFD, ANSYS FLUENT, ANSYS CFX, ANSYS CFD-Flo ANSYS Mechanical PrepPost
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