ABSTRACT
In practice, the engineering problems that are to be simulated are multiphysics, but there has not been suffi cient 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 the heat exchanger analyses, only fl uid fl ow is solved and then followed by the thermal analysis. Recently, signifi cant 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-fl uid, and fl uidstructural problems.
