ABSTRACT
In practice, the engineering problems to be simulated are multiphysics, and there has not been sufcient capability in the past to address the full physics of the problems. Therefore, there has been a tendency to simplify the problems by either focusing on the primary physics or decoupling the physics. For example, for heat exchanger analysis, uid ow is solved rst, followed by the thermal solution. Recently, signicant improvements have been achieved in both hardware and software capabilities that made the multiphysics simulations inexpensive and accurate. As computing power increases, the ability to model the full physics is becoming a practical possibility. Hence, there is an increasing demand for multiphysics simulation software. ANSYS has the capability to model such complicated simulations. ANSYS can effectively simulate the thermal-structural, thermal-uid, and uidstructural problems.
