ANSYS

URL :  http://www.ansys.com/

Description

ANSYS is a very popular commerical finite-element toolkit that is based on proven solid mechanics capabilities, with additional features that facilitate modeling fluid, thermal, and electromagnetic response.  ANSYS also permits coupling these various physical principles in novel analysis venues such as MEMS and fluid-solid interaction analyses.  The ANSYS finite-element toolkit interfaces with the LS-DYNA explicit dynamics code, so that a full range of implicit and explicit analysis capabilities are available to ANSYS users.   ANSYS also permits integration with other partner applications to permit rapid problem setup and additional analysis or domain modeling capabilities.

Features

ANSYS provides for many advanced finite-element techniques, including both h- and p-element technology, an efficient suite of scalable solution techniques that provide for sparse direct, parallel frontal, and iterative solvers, robust contact/impact algorithms that are required for many complex multibody and multicomponent analyses, and a variety of nonlinear material models of interest to mechanical and civil engineers, including an integrated concrete model that can be utilized to simulate reinforced and prestressed concrete.

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