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OVERVIEW In Ansys 2023 R2, the Fluids product line continues to deliver critical enhancements that improve solver performance, increase end-user productivity, and provide new capabilities for complex applications. The multi-GPU solver in Fluent further unlocks the power of GPUs to address an even broader spectrum of customer applications. Progress in the expansion of PyFluent, supporting even more solver settings and physics, extends the range of use cases for automation and integration. And new capabilities support customer sustainability initiatives, design optimization, and advanced hypersonic flow analysis. To see which features can benefit you, check out the detailed list below. RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS Ansys Fluent • Run a broad spectrum of complex industrial applications natively on GPUs, substantially reducing solve time and total power consumption, with benchmarks demonstrating 6 high-end GPUs providing the same performance as more than 2,000 CPUs. o 2023 R2 extends multi-GPU support to sliding mesh, compressible flows, and eddy dissipation model (EDM) combustion simulations. o Support for coupled solver has been added as a beta feature for user testing. • A new Lightweight Setup Mode has been added, so you can quickly view and edit model and solver settings, monitors, and post-processing settings without having to load the mesh. Minimizing read/write speeds and memory use, the lightweight mode has shown to be capable of opening a 6 billion cell case in under 80 seconds. • Significantly reduce hardware cost per iteration and overall energy consumption of simulation with new support for solving on ARM-based server instances (beta). • Support for Composite Body Labels defined in DesignModeler, SpaceClaim, or Discovery is now added during geometry import, improving workflows where multiple bodies can be consolidated into singular selections. These selections can be used when specifying Local Sizing, Boundary Layers, MultiZone Controls, MultiZone Mesh, and Volume Mesh. • Virtual Blade Model (VBM) is now fully released and includes the effects of 3D rotors as momentum source terms in the governing equations, increasing automation and productivity for aerospace and energy applications. • An expansion to the settings API for PyFluent provides access to additional solver settings for DPM, radiation, species transport, VBM, mesh interfaces, and more, broadening the range of applications for automation and integration with Fluent. • Generate photo-realistic renderings of your simulations with live preview, custom environments, material editor, light presets, etc. with the new OSPRay raytracing engine available in Fluent. Fluids Product Line 2023 R2 Update