ANSYS Engineering Simulation Software
Multiphysics engineering simulation software for product design, testing and operation.
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
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