ANSYS
The ANSYS suite of programs can be used to numerically simulate a large variety of structural and fluid dynamics problems found in many engineering, physics, medical, aeronautics and automotive industry applications.
Caution
ANSYS users can now use a maximum of 400 concurrent cores, across all devices on campus, including personal machines and HPC clusters, and regardless of the number of ANSYS applications they have open. Please see ANSYS license restrictions for more detail.
Module loading
After connecting to Stanage (see Establishing a SSH connection), you can start an interactive session or submit a batch job using ANSYS programs activating them and making them available with one of the module load commands below:
module load ANSYS/19.2
module load ANSYS/2022R2
module load ANSYS/2023R1
module load ANSYS/2023R2
and the workbench is launched using:
runwb2
Fluent, CFX, ICEM, Mechanical APDL/model (and many more) can all be accessed from the workbench. Outside the workbench the corresponding GUIs can be launched using fluent, cfx5pre, icemcfd and launcher.
ANSYS Programs
As the ANSYS suite contains a large number of packages, links to each dedicated page for each ANSYS sub-package, can be found below:
ANSYS training and help resources
Important
Academic support requests should be directed to the IT Services’ Research and Innovation team or the ANSYS Learning Forum (ensure you register with your University email for priority support).
ANSYS provides numerous academic training and help resources including tutorials, video lectures and examples. A short list of these resources is summarised below:
ANSYS provides free online Innovation Courses which cover numerous topics including the theory and implementation of modelling with ANSYS products.
The ANSYS How to Videos channel has many in depth tutorials for many ANSYS products.
Those with an Ansys Learning Hub Subscription can also access further courses at the ANSYS Learning Hub courses index.
ANSYS example models
ANSYS contains a large number of example models which can be used to become familiar with the software. With a module loaded, the example models can be found in:
$EBROOTANSYS/v222/ansys/data/
Installation note for Administrators:
export FLUENT_AFFINITY=0 has been added to the module files in order to fix incorrect core allocation - see details.
To be confirmed mapdl will not run without modifying the file:
$EBROOTANSYS/v222/ansys/bin/anssh.ini
The following instruction should be inserted at line 2433 (tbc) in anssh.ini:
setenv KMP_AFFINITY compact
Module files are available below: