How do you generally perform weld analysis in ansys?

04 May 2017 4,575 1 View

How to get actual deformation from modal analysis in ansys workbench?

How to get actual deformation from modal analysis in ansys workbench? Can we use participation factor and get actual deformation?

04 May 2017 7,046 1 View

Quick help needed with mid surface extraction in ansys workbench..?

Hi I am trying to extract mid surface of a component....I am getting something like the one in attached image... How to get rid of this issue...? Please help.

11 December 2016 3,497 4 View

Why a contact status shows both contat and target area inactive?

Hi Why a contact status shows both contat and target area inactive? See the attachment.

09 October 2016 9,207 0 View

Is it possible to have less nodes and more elements in ansys?

09 October 2016 2,671 4 View

What does this error mean in ansys workbench?

09 October 2016 2,680 2 View

Cavitation analysis possible in CFD?

Hi Is cavitation analysis possible in CFD? If yes, can I find erosion rate in due to cavitation in CFD??

07 August 2016 5,826 0 View

How to decide if we can consider stress a certain location?

I am working on this bracket in ansys, I got stress plot as shown in picture attached. I am not sure if we can consider stress in red zone as true stress. The region is not in contact. I am...

06 July 2016 9,759 3 View

How the first value of convergence criteria is decided by ansys?

While performing non linear analysis, we come across force convergence, displacement convergence, etc. How is the first value of convergence criteria is decided by ansys software? How the...

04 May 2016 3,158 0 View

Metal forming using ansys workbench?

03 April 2016 2,387 5 View

How to analyze a particular region of my simulation box in GROMACS?

Hi, I am using GROMACS 5.1.4 to simulate water in contact with a surface. I am only interested to calculate some properties of water near the surface. Let's say at a distance of x nm from the...

03 March 2021 9,989 2 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to show arrows over the streamlines in CFD-post?

I follow this to make streamlines like the photos attached below: (software- CFD post-processing) First I plot the 2D streamline over a surface "streamline 1". them I plot a vector by the...

01 March 2021 8,668 3 View

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 3 View

Can Virtual Servers (remote dekstop manager) run heavy ANSYS Fluent CFD simulation ?

I have a virtual machine. My host Pc specs are not that good thats why i went for virtual servers. so basically my host pc has 8gb of ram with nvidia quadro k2200 4Gb DDR5 GPU ,processor intel...

01 March 2021 8,415 1 View

How to increase mesh quality of a cfd model in ansys fluent?

How can one improve mesh skewness, orthogonality, aspect ratio?

28 February 2021 7,730 3 View

How can we simulate an hyperelastic-viscoelastic behavor with Ansys APDL?

I am working on modeling and simulation of biomecanical material behaviour, I have succeded on simulating skin using anisotropic hyperelastic material, on APDL and in our lab's finite element...

28 February 2021 552 3 View

Complex wave form in ANSYS?

Is there a way to input wave speed in a complex form on ANSYS? The wave speed I need to assign a material is 325(1+0.11i) however I have been unable to do this thus far. Failing that, is there...

27 February 2021 5,969 1 View