Example Capabilities
Structural & Modal Analysis
• Interactively understand and improve part or small assembly strength
and stiff ness.
• Optimize weight through immediate visualization of stress distribution
and rapid geometry modifications.
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Quickly calculate natural f requencies for parts and assemblies to im-
mediately determine if the lowest mode of a design is above a mini-
mum acceptable f requency.
Fluid Analysis
• Whether you're addressing internal or external flow, you can explore a
variety of fluid wonders.
• Incorporate porous media into your analysis when applicable.
• Gain early insights into the trends of pressure drop, drag and lift.
Topology Optimization
• One word. FAST. It can build an optimal shape in about 60 seconds.
• Discover a variety of design solutions proposing a consolidation of mul-
tiple components into one or a few solid parts, reducing assembly costs
and optimizing manufacturing techniques.
• Identify solutions to minimize mass and material use, while meeting
performance criteria, maintaining design goals, and holding engineer-
ing constraints.
Thermal Fluid Analysis
• The real-time heat flow and temperature distribution Live Solver allows
you to test ideas in real time
• Leverage conjugate heat transfer (CHT) to determine fluid and solid
temperatures for evaluating fluid and thermal performance of product
designs. See how Discovery solves CHT in 30 seconds!
• Solve a wide range of product design challenges with multiple physics
simulation capabilities across numerous industry applications.
Model Prep for Simulation
• Simplify models in minutes instead of hours. Check it out here
• Quickly modify, optimize and parameterize any CAD File to reduce
mesh complexity.
• Construct simplified representations of models, such as volume ex-
tractions, enclosures, beams, and mid-surfaces.
Parameter Studies
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Optimize your product by running parameter studies to evaluate op-
tions and explore the trade-offs of various designs.
Using parameter studies —also known as parameter sweeps —the de-
sign studies create a Pareto f rontier of data in Ansys Discovery, mean-
ing you can explore a large number of design possibilities by
automating multiple geometric or simulation parameters.
Explore multiple manufacturable designs in
minutes through a fast and interactive experi-
ence, where you can define objectives easily and
apply controls to ensure that manufacturing
requirements are met, minimum material thick-
nesses are set and exclusion areas are defined.
Discovery accounts for porous media to eval-
uate porous materials such as filters, screens
and perforated plates within a product design.
By combining interactive modeling and
multiple simulation capabilities in a first-of-its-
kind product, Discovery allows you to answer
critical design questions earlier in the design
process.
"
I absolutely love topology op-
timization, it's my favorite thing
ever. We had this idea for a bottle
cage that would be perfect to 3D
print, but we never would have
figured it out without Discovery.
"
— Aram Goganian
Chief Product Designer
Predator Cycling
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