ANSYS from Drawing to Results Visualization - CFD and FEA

Explore basics of drawing figures and schematics in PowerPoint, including text entry, equation insertion, shape formatting, coloring, alignment, grouping, merging, and duplicating shapes.

Master the draw toolbox in design modeler by creating lines, polylines, polygons, circles, arcs, and splines, applying constraints and extruding separate sketches.

Set sketch dimensions in ANSYS design modeler with horizontal, vertical, and general tools; sketch shapes, apply radius and diameter, and manage units.

Explore the three types of bodies in DesignModeler—line, surface, and solid—and learn how sketches convert to bodies for 3D analyses, with options to simplify to 2D to speed solving.

Generate line bodies from points, sketches, and edges to prepare geometry for meshing. Define cross sections and primitives, convert sketches to line bodies, and use extrusion for beams in CFD/FEA.

Explore surface body generation in ANSYS by turning sketches into surfaces, generating surface bodies from faces and edges, and using extrusion and related tools for modular geometry.

Split edges in a design to divide a heated flat plate into equal segments, apply boundary conditions for the heater and flow inlet/outlet, and visualize results in CFD and FEA.

Learn to draw in space using the space tool to create lines between points on the same plane without building planes, and apply a 3d tool to sketch airfoils.

Create sketches on parallel planes and loft them into a skin, replace the circle with a hexagon, split into six equal segments, and generate the loft.

Discover parametric analysis to optimize pressure vessel and insulation thickness for heat transfer efficiency. Use design points and optimization in ANSYS and SolidWorks to study performance and cost.

Explore parametric analysis in Ansys by modeling rectangle designs with design modular, define length and width as parameters, compute area as the output, and compare results via a parameter chart.

Create a two-body multibody part in design modular by sketching, dimensioning, and extruding geometry. Generate surfaces, apply frozen features, and obtain a conforming mesh between bodies.

Learn to create an enclosure around a geometry to define a full domain for aerodynamic analyses using Boolean operations, with cylindrical, spherical, or box shapes and uniform or nonuniform dimensions.

Use the fill and thin surface tools to extract the internal fluid domain by selecting internal faces via cavity or by faces, then create hollow geometry with thickness for CFD/FEA.

Introduce ANSYS meshing in 2019 R2, covering importing geometry, setting units, generating a 2D mesh, and using selection, view, and export tools.

Explore ANSYS 2d meshing with triangles: import geometry, generate a triangular mesh, inspect element types, and adjust mesh density to balance accuracy and solve time.

Explore three 3d meshing methods, set up a project, load geometry, and generate a tetrahedral mesh with patch dependent and patch independent options.

Explore 3D meshing methods with hex-dominant strategies in ANSYS, comparing Hicks dominant and all-quad approaches; learn to generate and refine hex and quad elements for CFD and FEA.

Explore 3d meshing with sweep method, generating hex and wedge elements along a path from source to target, and learn how to control element size, source selection, and mesh refinement.

Explore the automatic 3D meshing method in ANSYS to generate and save a mesh for CFD and FEA, comparing default sweep settings and element counts.

Generate a hexa (mapped) mesh using the map mesh workflow and the face meshing tool, selecting faces and preferring quadrilateral elements for a clean mapped mesh.

Model and meshing steps demonstrate mapped meshing in ANSYS, guiding geometry construction, edge selection, and generating a mapped mesh with five-centimeter elements.

The lecture shows how y plus guides boundary layer mesh in turbulent flows. It explains calculating L1 from y plus and notes laminar flows do not use y plus.

Explore element order in ANSYS Workbench, comparing linear and quadratic elements with corner and mid-side nodes, and learn mesh generation, node selection, and saving projects for 2D and 3D geometries.

Explore gradual change in mesh size for CFD/FEA: set a base factor and growth rate to progressively increase element size away from walls, using structured near walls and inflation options.

Meshing parameters optimization tools enable quick mesh sizing, setting layer thickness, growth rate, y plus, and laminar or turbulent flow for internal and external domains.

Learn to create a gradual structured mesh in ANSYS CFD and FEA by setting edge divisions, applying a bias factor, reversing directions, and generating 2D and 3D meshes.

Perform the mesh dependency test and meshing parametric analyses, starting from a coarse mesh and progressively refining it. Identify a suitable mesh size that yields accurate results with less time.

Learn how to export or save a missing file by importing geometry, replacing components, and exporting the mesh as different formats, including saving a mesh asset for downstream use.

Create and organize an ANSYS project folder for example 1, save the project in workbench, and prepare for pre processing, processing, and post processing.

Apply pre processing, meshing, and post processing in ansys; define geometry and boundary conditions, and add materials from engineering data and libraries, bronze, stainless steel, and copper with thermal conductivity.

Develop a temperature distribution plot along a defined path by selecting start and end coordinates, evaluating results, and exporting the xy plot data for analysis.

Insert heat transfer rate probes on the left and right boundaries, set left to 100 °C and right to 2 °C, and evaluate the results.

Explore temperature contours across the interface between segments 1 and 2, using a surface coordinate system and section planes to show constant temperature along cross-sections with no radial heat transfer.

Archive the project from workbench to a zip file, preserving associated files and results for easy sharing with colleagues.

Create geometry in ANSYS by sketching two circles on the XY plane, defining inner and outer radii, and extruding a hollow circle to 300 mm for parametric analysis.

Perform post processing in ANSYS to compute heat flux for each design point. Compare insulation thickness and outer radius to identify the maximum heat flux and the corresponding critical radius.

Plot q versus outer radius to analyze parametric results. Identify the zero design point and the 50 mm outer radius as the critical radius, then export to Excel.

Examine bending moment and shear force diagrams for a five-meter beam with three point loads, performing analytical calculations and sketching results. Use ANSYS Mechanical for a structural analysis and visualization.

Create a cantilever beam by drawing a horizontal line in design modular in meters, splitting it into three segments, setting dimensions, and applying a triangular cross-section.

Visualize post-processing results by creating a geometry path and selecting edges to generate total shear force, shear moment, and bending moment diagrams along the x axis, comparing to analytical solution.

Model a heated flat plate with an air domain under steady-state incompressible flow. Define inlet, outlet, wall, and symmetry boundaries in ANSYS Fluent to resolve velocity and thermal boundary layers.

Select air as the material and edit its default properties for the air domain. Assign the Fullwood volume as the boundary domain with no heat generation, keeping default operating conditions.

Evaluate when to activate the dynamic mesh in ANSYS, considering moving parts or deformations such as a turbine floor or an internal combustion chamber, and decide when static meshing suffices.

Learn how to set up solution initialization in ANSYS, choosing standard or hybrid methods, assigning initial velocity, pressure, and temperature values, and verifying initial fields before proceeding to convergence.

Verify area and boundary conditions with reports, and inspect surface fluxes and surface integrals. Confirm mass conservation and compare inlet mass flow to the theoretical 0.1 kg/s value.

Select the area weighted average on the surface to compute the average convection heat transfer coefficient, compare with the theoretical value, and export results for CFD and FEA.

Plot and compare the local convection heat transfer coefficient along a flat plate using XY plots in ANSYS, export data for Excel, and overlay experimental or theoretical values.

Analyze the local skin friction coefficient along a flat plate with an xy plot in ANSYS CFD and FEA. Save the plot and adjust axis precision to study variation.

Create input and output parameters in Ansys workbench for fluent parametric analysis, setting the inlet velocity as an input and Raynaud's number as an output, then refresh the solution.

Export cdat files for CFD-Post by selecting data such as x and y coordinates, writing the case file, and creating the IT file to enable post-processing of results.

Learn how to save and archive an ANSYS Workbench project, including selecting current and future calculations, saving, archiving, and sharing the archive file to open, edit, or view results.

Set a single time point, such as twelve thirty, and keep the default time setting for the TDE state analyses.

Set material properties for air, aluminium, insulation, glass, and wood, define density and thermal expansion, apply buoyancy terms for natural convection, and specify atmospheric operating conditions and density.

Set up boundary conditions for a shell conduction model in ANSYS, using an observer boundary with aluminum, insulation, wood, copied to sidewalls, and configure glass conduction with 0.8 transmissive radiation.

Set initial values in the solution initialization window, such as temperature, using standard or uniform initialization to assign a constant value across the domain (e.g., 420) before calculation.

Export a high-quality mesh image from FLUENT for research papers by displaying the mesh, removing the background, increasing the window resolution, and saving to a folder with a copied path.

Export solar heat flux contours by selecting flux, adjusting display options and color map, and exporting a high-quality image that reflects shadow regions and solar radiation direction for research.

Display observer plate center temperature by double-clicking the controller, then copy or compare it with the experimental value. Validate that the simulated temperature around 168.9 °C closely matches the experiment.

Automate reading journal files in ANSYS Fluent to extract results from iterations, visualize heat flux and temperature, and save projects and screenshots in ANSYS Workbench for a CFD/FEA workflow.

Learn to open, edit, and view results from case and data files in ANSYS workbench, using import methods and path copying to load and inspect results.