Ansys finite element analysis

You have been detected as being from. Where applicable, you can see country-specific product information, offers, and pricing. Finite element analysis FEA is a computerized method for predicting how a product reacts to real-world forces, vibration, heat, fluid flow, and other physical effects. Finite element analysis shows whether a product will break, wear out, or work the way it was designed. It is called analysis, but in the product development process, it is used to predict what is going to happen when the product is used. FEA works by breaking down a real object into a large number thousands to hundreds of thousands of finite elements, such as little cubes.

Engineers use it to reduce the number of physical prototypes and experiments and optimize components in their design phase to develop better products, faster. It is necessary to use mathematics to comprehensively understand and quantify any physical phenomena such as structural or fluid behavior, thermal transport, wave propagation, the growth of biological cells, etc. However, for a computer to solve these PDEs, numerical techniques have been developed over the last few decades and one of the prominent ones, today, is the Finite Element Analysis. Differential equations can not only describe processes of nature but also physical phenomena encountered in engineering mechanics. It is important to know that FEA only gives an approximate solution of the problem and is a numerical approach to get the real result of these partial differential equations. Simplified, FEA is a numerical method used for the prediction of how a part or assembly behaves under given conditions. It is used as the basis for modern simulation software and helps engineers to find weak spots, areas of tension, etc.

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I would like to ask you how can I pick a 2-D model to run a structural transient dynamic finite element analysis. Should I do this through Design Modeller, or by using the Ansys Mechanical where we set up and solve a study? Hi, You can create suface body in Design modeler and assign thickness. Select the Geometry cell of the transient analysis system and look at the Properties right side of WB now.