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ANSYS Engineering Simulation Software

Multiphysics engineering simulation software for product design, testing and operation.

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ANSYS offers a comprehensive software suite that spans the entire range of physics, providing access to virtually any field of engineering simulation.

Available to

Faculty, staff, and students

Platform

Windows, Linux

Get Access

Faculty & Staff: Submit a Software form request for UC San Diego licensed ANSYS products.

Students: ANSYS provides free student software access that comes with a license file.

You can't install ANSYS student version with ANSYS licensed products on the same computer.

Limits for Ansys Student and Discovery (Refine Mode)

Structural Physics: 128K nodes/elements
Fluid physics: 1 Million cells/nodes

Limits for Ansys SPEOS

  • Geometry: can support up to 50 bodies and 300 faces
  • Number of Triangles: 32K

Limits for Ansys Motion

  • 100K Nodes – Number of nodes for each flexible body
  • 25K Contacts – Number of triangular patches
  • 50 Rigid/Flex Bodies

Ansys HPC (High-Performance Computing):
Support up to four CPU cores of HPC solutions and 40 SMs of GPU computing on Fluent

ANSYS Learning Forum

The Ansys Learning Forum is the go-to place for students, educators, researchers and industry engineers to engage with peers and Ansys experts. Search by topic of interest, join a conversation in progress or post a question or response.

For all Software Licensing questions please go to ITS Service Desk.