ANSYS Academic Solutions

The Academic Teaching products are intended for class demonstrations and hands-on instruction. The Academic Research and Academic Associate products provide more flexible terms of use and unlimited numerical “headroom” suitable for doctoral and post-doctoral research projects.

Please contact us to discuss your requirements and determine which level of academic product is appropriate.

• ANSYS DesignSpace (Separate task) – The Teaching level products indicated include separate tasks of ANSYS DesignSpace that have no numerical problem size limits. For example, a 25 task license includes 25 tasks of ANSYS Multiphysics plus 25 tasks of DesignSpace.
• ANSYS DesignSpace capability – Entry level structural and thermal physics capability product that uses our ANSYS Workbench environment. A subset of ANSYS Mechanical capability.
• ANSYS Mechanical capability – Structural and thermal physics capability, linear and non linear, steady state, harmonic. modal and transient. ANSYS Mechanical is a subset of ANSYS Multiphysics.
• ANSYS Mechanical Emag capability – Structural, thermal and electromagnetics physics capability
• ANSYS Mechanical CFD-Flo capability (Fluid Structural) – Structural, Thermal and CFX CFD capability
• ANSYS Multiphysics capability – Structural, thermal, CFD (FLOTRAN) and electromagnetics (low and high frequency)
• ANSYS CFX Full Capability Solver – The complete CFX fluid dynamics capability (excluding RIF Flamelet library)
• ANSYS MFS Solver (Single code coupling): Enables coupled field solutions to be performed between the physics contained within ANSYS Multiphysics
• ANSYS MFX Solver (fluid-structure interaction)- Enables bi-directional fluid-structure interaction (FSI) to be performed using ANSYS Multiphysics and ANSYS CFX solvers
• ANSYS User Prog. Features (USER300 etc) – User programmable elements available when using the traditional (PREP7) interface
• ANSYS FLUENT – FLUENT fluid dynamics capability (Excludes V2F and Immersed Boundary modules)
• ANSYS FLUENT NOx – FLUENT Nitrous Oxide module – provides the capability to model NOx formation and consumption in combustion systems
• ANSYS FLUENT Fiber Module – Continuous Fiber Module – For melt and dry spinning processes
• ANSYS FLUENT MHD Module – Magnetohydrodynamics Module
• ANSYS FLUENT Population Balance Module – For multiphase flows with a particle or droplet size distribution
• ANSYS FLUENT Fuel Cell Module – Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) and Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) Models
• POLYFLOW (Full Capability) – Advanced fluid dynamics for polymer processing and glass forming
• ANSYS AUTODYN (2D and 3D) (Explicit dynamics) – Nonlinear dynamics of solids, fluids, gas and their interactions
• ANSYS AUTODYN (Lagrange) – Entry level explicit dynamics capability.
• ANSYS LS-DYNA (Explicit dynamics) – Explicit dynamics capability for simulating rapid time transient, nonlinear phenomena such as metal forming processes or crash/impacts
• ANSYS Icepak – Application specific Fluid dynamics for Electronics thermal management
• ANSYS ASAS (All modules except Concrete and Panel) – offshore structural finite element system with integrated modules
• ANSYS AQWA (All modules) – hydrodynamic assessment of all types of offshore/marine structures

• CFX-Pre – Pre processors specific to ANSYS CFX fluid dynamics
• CFD-Post – New Post Processor for use with both CFX and FLUENT fluid dynamics
• AUTODYN PrepPost – Pre and Post Processor specific to ANSYS AUTODYN
• FLUENT PrepPost – Pre and Post Processor specific to FLUENT fluid dynamics
• ICEM CFD Meshing: Advanced meshing tools, including the following ICEM CFD meshing methods:
• Cartesian (Body fitted and Staircase)
• Hexa
• Hexdominant
• Multizone
• Multizone Blocking
• Prism
• Shell Meshing (Quad and Tri, Patch based and Patch independent)
• Tetra (Delaunay, Advancing front and Patch Independent Octree)
• TGrid-AFT (Advancing Front)
• TGrid-Delaunay
• ICEM Output Interfaces for ANSYS, CFX and FLUENT – Ability to export the ICEM CFD mesh to either ANSYS, CFX or FLUENT solvers
• ICEM Output interfaces for other (3rd Party) solvers: Ability to export the ICEM CFD mesh to third party solvers
• ANSYS TurboGrid – ANSYS CFX specific tool for meshing turbo machinery geometry in Workbench
• Mechanical APDL (Includes Prep7, Post1) – The traditional “ANSYS” preprocessor used for ANSYS Multiphysics and ANSYS Mechanical. Largely superseded by ANSYS Workbench.
• ANSYS LS-DYNA Drop Test Module – A pre and post processor for simulating drop tests specifically for use with ANSYS LS-DYNA
  Geometry Connections: The Geometry Connections interfaces/connections included are as follows:
• Geometry Interface for Parasolid
• Geometry Interface for SAT
• Geometry Interface for Solidworks
• Geometry Interface for CATIA V5
• Geometry Interface for SolidEdge
• Geometry Interface for One Space Designer
• Geometry Interface for Inventor/MDT
• Geometry Interface for NX
• Geometry Interface for Pro/ENGINEER
• Direct CAD Interface for SDRC I-DEAS (Import into ICEM Advanced meshing only)
• Workbench Schematic (Project Page) – The starting point for the ANSYS Workbench GUI – A modern, intuitive event driven GUI
• ANSYS DesignModeler – Parametric solid modeling in Workbench
• Engineering Data – The Workbench materials database
• Advanced Meshing – The ICEM CFD meshing toolset exposed in ANSYS Workbench
• Meshing – The standard suite of ANSYS meshing method exposed in Workbench
• ANSYS CFX-Mesh: Additional meshing methods specific to ANSYS CFX
• Structural Mechanics- Structural, thermal and magnetostatics pre and postprocessing in Workbench
• Parameters (DX, including DXVT and VT at the element level) – Design of Experiments and general parametric analysis model exploration too in Workbench, includes Variational Technology (formerly DXVT)
• ANSYS Fatigue Module – Simulate structural performance under cyclic loading conditions over a product’s anticipated life span
• FE Modeler – Robust Finite Element model import from NASTRAN, also used as a general FE element model data navigation and visualization tool in Workbench
• FEModeler –Mesh Morpher -Allows parameterized models to be created from mesh data (when no geometry file is available)
• Rigid Body Dynamics – Rigid body and mixed flexible/rigid body structural dynamics
• BladeGen – CFX specific tool for preprocessing turbo machinery geometry in Workbench
• LS-DYNA Export *.K file – Ability to export an ANSYS LS-DYNA model from Workbench
• Remote Solver Manager – Ability to launch and manage batch solutions from Workbench

• Built-in 4 Parallel processors/core: If this column is checked, then the academic product includes shared memory and distributed ANSYS parallel computing for four processors/cores. * Applicable to structural, thermal, electromagnetic, fluid dynamics (CFX and FLUENT) and explicit dynamics solvers.
• HPC > 4 processors available (at extra cost) – Product HPC capability can be extended beyond 4 processors/cores by buying additional ANSYS Academic HPC licenses.
• VT for Solvers – Variational Technology applied to static or transient nonlinear solutions for structural (no contact or plasticity) and thermal analyses. Performs a single point solution and extrapolates over a wide range, negating the need to perform multiple solutions. Also includes * Frequency Sweep VT – Fast frequency domain (harmonic) sweep using Variational Technology, applicable to structural and high frequency electromagnetics physics.

• ANSYS EKM Desktop: Comprehensive solution for simulation-based process and data management challenges
• Numerical Problem Size Limits: Product has restricted numerical problem size limits (number of nodes or elements) as shown in the table
• Academic screen watermark/logo – Product screen displays the ANSYS Academic logo
• License borrowing – These Academic Teaching products allows tasks to be borrowed for up to 7 days

The ANSYS Academic Product License terms of use are aligned with academic use as opposed to commercial use. In summary, the license terms by academic product sub-family are as follows:

General: The analysis work performed with the Program(s) must be non-proprietary work. Licensee and its Contract Users must be or be affiliated with an academic facility. Licensee may additionally permit individuals who are students at such academic facility to access and use the Program(s). Such students will be considered Contract Users of Licensee. The Program(s) may not be used for competitive analysis (such as benchmarking) or for any commercial activity, including consulting.

Notwithstanding any terms of the Agreement to the contrary, Academic Program(s) may be accessed and used by Licensee at the Designated Site or any other location within a 50 mile radius of the Designated Site, provided that such location is within the same country as the Designated Site. Such limitations apply to any access and/or use of the Academic Program(s), including, but not limited to, access via a VPN connection or through license borrowing.

Academic Teaching: These products may only be used for student instruction, student projects, and student demonstrations.

Academic Research: These products may only be used for degree and/or non-degree related research, student instruction, student projects, and student demonstrations.

Academic Associate: These products may may only be used for industry related research, degree and/or non-degree related research, student instruction, student projects, and student demonstrations.

The Academic toolbox products follow the terms of use of the academic products they are used with. For example the Academic HPC license terms of use are Academic Research.