ANSYS from Drawing to Results Visualization - CFD and FEA

Learn to create drawings in PowerPoint using drawing tools and shapes, sketch lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, and freeform sketches, edit points and anchor points, and group shapes.

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

Learn to create PowerPoint figures and schematics, insert and format text, use backslash commands for symbols, and draw, edit, and align lines and arrows.

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

Explore the modify toolbox in design modeler to edit sketches with fillet, chamfer, trim, extend, offset, and split tools, then create patterns and mirrored shapes for CFD and FEA modeling.

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

Explore the constraints toolbox to build sketches with horizontal, vertical, fixed, perpendicular, parallel, midpoint, circle radius, tangent, and symmetry relations, plus auto constraints for efficient computer-aided design.

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.

Explore how to create and modify 3d parts using extrude and revolve, control direction and depth, and manage multiple bodies with freeze and merge to produce hollow or solid forms.

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.

Explore fillet and chamfer tools in ANSYS, using fixed and variable radius blends to smooth edges, apply radii from edge selections, and convert fillets to chamfers on multiple edges.

Learn how to use slice and projection tools to split a geometry into multiple bodies and project features for easy boundary-condition setup.

Use the faces splitting tool to divide a model into two phases by sketching a circle on the xy plane, then apply split phases and extrusion to create new faces.

Use named selections to name geometry boundaries such as faces, edges, and bodies, and transfer them from design mode to Fluent to automatically assign boundary conditions like inlet, outlet, and symmetry.

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.

Clean up and repair geometry for CFD and FEA by filling holes, repairing seams, and using enclosure volume and multi body tools to segment the domain.

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.

Learn to save and export geometry in design modular, including importing, generating, and saving as both editable and non-editable formats.

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

Learn two-dimensional geometry meshing in ANSYS, distinguishing quadrilateral and triangular elements by four and three edges, and preview the meshing methods before drawing in spaceclaim.

Learn to distinguish mappable and unmappable faces in ANSYS by using the map ball faces tool, identify four sided faces, map them during meshing, and save the project.

Learn how to generate 2D meshes in ANSYS with quadrilateral dominant methods, compare quad and tri options, and aim for pure quad elements for accurate results.

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.

Compare structured (mapped) meshes with unstructured meshes, noting quadrilateral and triangular elements in 2D and 3D; structured meshes improve convergence and reduce memory usage, while unstructured meshes enable mesh generation.

Learn to create a 3D mapped mesh in ANSYS by importing geometry from a map image overview, generating the mesh, selecting elements, executing the run, and saving the project.

Explore 2D free mesh generation in ANSYS, importing geometry and creating quadrilateral and triangular elements with the quadrilateral dominant method. Future videos explain mapping for complex geometries with all-quad elements.

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.

Generate a pentagon based map mesh in mapped meshing example 4, identify elements and phases, and produce a quadrilateral element mesh for visualization.

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

Map the mesh in example 6 by importing geometry, dividing the domain into faces, extruding and slicing to create multiple 3D bodies, and generating a mapped mesh.

Evaluate mesh quality to balance inputs and outputs for accurate results while controlling solving time and costs. Optimize mesh size with gradual changes and refine near walls in fluid domains.

Explore 2d geometries mesh sizing in Ansys, comparing global and local sizing, adaptive options, and edge/face sizing to control element size, divisions, and mesh quality for CFD and FEA.

Master 3d geometry mesh sizing in Ansys by applying global body sizing and edge sizing to generate a uniform, high-quality mesh.

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.

Learn how to size the unstructured mesh gradually using inflation and first-layer thickness, with local and global inflation and boundary considerations.

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.

Create geometry in design modular by drawing 25 mm circle, extruding x-direction segments (35, 30, 35 mm) to form a multi-body part, naming left, middle, and right bodies, and export.

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.

Measure axial heat flux with a heat flux probe and visualize it using a color map and vectors to confirm constant x-direction transfer matching the theoretical value.

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.

Navigate directional heat flux visualization by examining the Y component to assess radial heat transfer versus axial heat transfer, using the color map to quantify maximum, minimum, and average values.

Explore how to display and analyze temperature contours in 3D segments, adjust color maps and probes, and export results as images or text or Excel files.

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.

Set up engineering data by adding insulation with a 0.1 thermal conductivity, convert it to an input parameter via the parameter manager, and enable parametric analyses.

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.

Learn to plot heat transfer resistances and heat flux in Excel using r conduction, r convection, and r total charts with a 0.02 m insulation radius and secondary axis.

Save your project by selecting save project, then note that closing the workbench will delete the folder shown, finalizing the parameter settings.

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.

Generate the default mesh, apply fixed support at selected points, and define forces in the y direction (-2000 N, -3000 N, +3000 N), then run the solver.

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.

Explore directional deformation visualization by selecting an axis, viewing total and bidirectional deformation, and zooming to fit to compare initial and deformed beam positions.

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.

Construct geometry in ANSYS, build modular geometry, set units to meters, draw a rectangle, generate surfaces, and define named selections for inlet, outlet, and symmetry, then save.

Learn to start ANSYS Fluent, enable double precision and serial processing, view the mesh, and use rotation, pan, and zoom tools in the graphics window and console (text) interface.

Use the scale tool to verify domain dimensions, then check mesh quality, ensuring correct x/y extents and a high minimum orthogonal quality (max aspect ratio ~43.3).

Select models for the problem, switch off unused ones like multiphase and radiation. Activate energy equation to define inlet temperature, and apply laminar flow with mass, momentum, and energy equations.

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.

Configure boundary conditions in ANSYS, setting inlet velocity and temperature, outlet pressure, wall types (stationary or moving), symmetry, and using dynamic mesh when needed.

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.

Use residual monitors to tighten energy convergence by setting criteria to 1e-6 for all equations. See the residuals plot in the graphics window and console output during solving.

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.

Run the calculation using the default method or the text interface, set iterations, initialize when needed, and observe convergence of the continuity, x and y momentum, and energy equations.

Save the project before starting post processing to ensure easier viewing of results, and select the required quantities (velocity, x and y coordinates) for future calculations.

Explore velocity contours and vectors in Ansys, using velocity and velocity magnitude controls to visualize boundary layer, inlet uniform flow, and outlet velocity gradients.

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.

Compute the area-weighted average of the Nusselt number, compare it with the theoretical value around 190, and export the results from the console to a file.

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.

Refine an Excel plot from Fluent data for a research article by adding axis titles, adjusting colors and tick marks, and preparing the figure for Word.

Learn how to use expressions as the UDF alternative in ANSYS to compute parameters like density, plate length, and viscosity, and to derive Reynolds number directly in boundary conditions.

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 the full ANSYS project as case and data files with settings and results, including residual plots; import these files later, and create a compressed zip version for smaller size.

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.

Ansys demonstrates rotating geometry by alpha and gamma angles, defining alpha as a parameter, using named selections for surfaces such as glass and walls, then generating and saving the project.

Generate and refine a high quality mesh in ANSYS using edge sizing, wall refinement, and multi zone methods, then assess quality with aspect ratio, skewness, and orthogonal metrics.

Select the pressure-based solver in general settings; there are two solver types—pressure-based and density-based—and the first three options activate the pressure-based segregated solver for better convergence.

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

Enable gravity in fluent general settings to model free convection, setting gravity in the minus y direction to 9.81 m/s^2, with ground on the x plane and downward orientation.

Select the suitable models for method i, enable the energy equation, use the standard k-epsilon turbulence model, and include solar radiation via the Rosiland rotation model with experimental solar loads.

Start a journal recording in ANSYS, save the journal file, and insert it in the second workbench to automate solar calculator settings.

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.

Activate the dynamic mesh only if solid motion requires deformation; otherwise skip it and the reference values, as drag, skin friction, and Nozette number come from post-processing and do not affect the equations.

Adjust the solution controls by setting under-relaxation factors, lowering most by two while keeping energy at 0.95, to improve the stability of the iterative solution, e.g., reduce density to 0.5.

Create a new surface report definition, select the maximum variation by iterations, and choose temperature as the observer; save the report and monitor the plot during solving.

Explore how residual monitors indicate simulation accuracy in ANSYS, and how to manually stop iterations to improve convergence, illustrated with residual plots.

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.

Save the project after completing the solution, select essential quantities from data file quantities (temperature and heat flux), and save using settings for current and future regulations.

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.

Export case and data files for an experimental inputs based ANSYS FLUENT simulation, save them to a folder, and verify data transfer from setups to the solution step.

select suitable models and governing equations for method ii, applying the energy equation, Dekay epsilon model, and Rosiland rotation, with solar load using the solar calculator and solar radiation data.

Learn to read and select a journal file in ANSYS Fluent, automate steps, initiate initialization, and run the first iterations to generate results before post processing in the next video.

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.