Ansys is for precise and accurate results preferred and generally used by researchers and professionals along with students who are not willing to compromise thier accuracy. It has numerous mesh settings for different flow regimes ranging from normal laminar to supersonic. The main reason which makes it tedious is its very low tolerance. You must be knowledgeable and experienced enough to utilize its near perfect results.
On the other hand solidworks is user friendly, it's good software if you are a beginner and you are willing to evaluate results easily without demanding high accuracy.
Solidworks: for preliminary analysis. -> Easy, not time consuming, helpful during initial stages of design process.
Ansys/Fluent (CFD): Accurate, detailed results, time consuming, can be used for final validation, verification.
Solidworks is mainly 3D CAD software, and the analysis function is an auxiliary tool, which helps to obtain simple analysis results quickly in the design process . Ansys is a professional analysis software. It can perform more complex analysis on complex models to obtain more accurate analysis results, but it takes more time.
Finite element Analysis basically requires the detail. It may be structural and stress Analysis or may be thermal or acoustic.
so, if my opinion is concerned, NASTRAN is best for it.
Ansys and solidworks just provide the basic analysis. Also out of these two, Ansys is better than solidworks.
Daniel Benjamin Dear Sir, Can you please share details how to carry out CFD of wind turbine using Solid Works, if any you have.
For FEA analysis, Ansys is much better than SolidWorks. For modelling purpose SolidWorks is right.
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