You may or may not have heard the term "multiphysics" applied to the increasingly more complex world of engineering analysis. Simply defined, it means analysis involving more than one engineering discipline to solve multi-field problems. If one of these disciplines is dependent on the behavior of another, it is considered a multiphysics interaction. The ability to to perform multiphysics analysis is the key to real-world simulation.

In a wide range of industries, the ability to perform interactive multiphysics analysis can be mission-critical to evaluating new designs more quickly and remaining competitive. As an example, manufacturers of electromechanical devices such as rotors, solenoids, and transformers rely on electromagnetic, structural, thermal and acoustics capabilities. The electronic packaging world relies on structural, thermal, current conduction and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses to design products. In applications such as these, one behavior is dependent on another and can be efficiently simulated by the only program in the world today that is capable of coupling these behaviors into a single analysis tool, ANSYS/Multiphysics.

 ANSYS/Multiphysics, our flagship program, uniquely incorporates the full range of ANSYS coupled-field, multiphysics capabilities. It allows users access to the industry’s most comprehensive coupling capabilities, combining structural, thermal, acoustics, piezoelectric, current conduction, circuits, CFD, mechanical and electromagnetic features in one design analysis software to perform high-end analyses and coupled field analyses simultaneously.

 Working in a single database, users are able to manage several different analyses through the physics environment. The physics environment encompasses all of the physics attributes of a particular simulation. Once established and saved into an environment file, the physics environment can be recalled and used at any time. This approach offers a clear advantage to solving real-world applications requiring coupling of several behaviors that are some of the most computationally challenging in the world today. Give us a call and let us show you how the ANSYS Advantage will help you accelerate time-to-market, reduce costs and manufacture quality products.