Earlier this year, we introduced ANSYS AIM, the first integrated and comprehensive multiphysics simulation environment designed for all engineers. Since then, we’ve been working hard to add new features to allow you to address a broader range of product design challenges. With ANSYS AIM 16.2, we have included many new capabilities that allow you to rapidly predict the thermal and thermal-stress performance of product designs.
Optimizing heat transfer and thermal-stress is a critical design issue for many industry applications, including heat exchangers, thermal mixing valves, engine components and electronic devices. In order to confidently evaluate product performance, you need accurate predictions of the temperature and heat transfer for your design.
Easy-to-use Fluid, Thermal and Fluid-structure Interaction Simulation
ANSYS AIM 16.2 includes a new, guided workflow that makes it easy to evaluate heat transfer and thermal effects within fluids and adjoining structures. Simply select the Fluid-Solid Heat Transfer template, choose your geometry model, and follow the simulation workflow laid out for you. The guided workflow allows you to easily define the model setup and simulation results. And, with AIM’s automated meshing and robust solver technology, you can rapidly obtain accurate fluid, thermal and stress results for your product designs.
Advanced Technology for Accurate Results
We also included many new, cool solver features to make it a breeze to obtain accurate results. AIM 16.2 includes robust and accurate conjugate heat transfer using the most advanced solver technology available. One example is the solver flexibility to include different physical models and/or different mesh types in the same model. So, if you have a model like the exhaust header shown below, you can cool a compressible gas flow with an incompressible liquid, and use non-conformal mesh interfaces to optimize the mesh for the fluid and solid regions of the model.
Water cooled exhaust header, air streamlines and solid temperatures on outside surface shown. Compressible air flow and incompressible water flow combined in CHT simulation.
We also made it simple to evaluate the effects of fluid forces and solid temperatures on the structural response of your designs. AIM includes fast and accurate temperature and fluid force mapping from a conjugate heat transfer solution to a thermal-stress results. As illustrated by the structural deformations induced from the temperature field in the CPU water cooler shown below:
CPU Water Cooler, solid temperatures and resulting structural deformations shown.
Interested in Learning More?
These and many other conjugate heat transfer applications are possible with the convenience and power of ANSYS AIM. You can learn more by watching a two-part demonstration of conjugate heat transfer below:
Conjugate Heat Transfer Part One
Conjugate Heat Transfer Part Two
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