ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes

Table of Contents

1. Global
1.1. Advisories
1.2. Installation
1.3. Licensing
2. Workbench
2.1. ANSYS Workbench 13.0
2.1.1. Expanded Support for RSM
2.1.2. ANSYS CFX in ANSYS Workbench
2.1.3. Improved Design Point Behavior
2.1.4. Archived Project Format
2.1.5. ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler
2.1.6. Using Excel with ANSYS Workbench Products
2.1.7. Software Development Kit
2.1.8. Localization on Linux
2.1.9. Documentation Enhancements
2.1.10. Incompatibilities
2.2. DesignModeler Release Notes
2.3. TurboSystem Release Notes
2.3.1. ANSYS BladeModeler
2.3.2. Vista TF
2.3.3. Vista RTD
2.3.4. Vista CCD
2.4. CFX-Mesh Release Notes
2.5. Meshing Application Release Notes
2.6. Mechanical Application Release Notes
2.7. FE Modeler Release Notes
2.8. DesignXplorer Release Notes
2.9. Engineering Data Workspace Release Notes
2.10. EKM Desktop
2.10.1. Improved User Interface
2.10.2. Supports Multiple Connections to EKM Repositories
2.10.3. Improved Workbench Integration
2.10.4. Improved File Capabilities
2.10.5. Monitoring Transfers
2.10.6. Improved Search Capabilities
2.10.7. EKM Studio Improvements
3. Mechanical APDL
3.1. Structural
3.1.1. Contact
3.1.2. Elements and Nonlinear Technology
3.1.3. Linear Dynamics
3.1.4. Materials and Fracture
3.2. Coupled-Field
3.2.1. Structural Material Nonlinearities
3.3. Low-Frequency Electromagnetics
3.3.1. Stranded Coil Analysis
3.4. Acoustics
3.4.1. New Acoustic Fluid Elements
3.4.2. Perfectly Matched Layers (PML)
3.5. Thermal
3.5.1. New Thermal Solid Elements
3.5.2. Thermal Element Enhancement
3.5.3. Convection Analysis
3.6. Solvers
3.6.1. Distributed ANSYS Enhancements
3.6.2. GPU Accelerator Capability
3.6.3. Miscellaneous Solver Changes and Enhancements
3.7. Linear Perturbation
3.8. APDL Math
3.9. Commands
3.9.1. New Commands
3.9.2. Modified Commands
3.9.3. Other Command Enhancements
3.9.4. Undocumented Commands
3.9.5. Archived Commands
3.10. Elements
3.10.1. New Elements
3.10.2. Modified Elements
3.10.3. Undocumented Elements
3.10.4. Archived Elements
3.11. Other Enhancements
3.11.1. Postprocessing
3.11.2. Documentation
3.12. Known Incompatibilities
3.12.1. Surface Elements
3.12.2. Change in Default Byte-Swapping Behavior for Binary Files
3.12.3. Results File Format Change
3.12.4. Spin Softening Default
3.12.5. Ocean Environment Definition
3.12.6. Rate-Dependent Plastic (Viscoplastic) Material Model Option
3.12.7. Lumped Matrix Formulation with Beam, Pipe, or Shell Elements
3.12.8. Contacting Area for Contact Elements
3.13. The ANSYS Customer Portal
4. AUTODYN
4.1. Euler Solver Enhancements
4.2. Interaction Enhancements
4.2.1. Automatic Coupling Set-Up
4.2.2. Efficient Treatment of Fully-Constrained Rigid Parts with Full Coupling
4.3. Analytical Blast Boundary
4.4. Remote Points and Displacements
4.5. Parallel Processing
4.5.1. HP-MPI Message Passing Protocol
4.5.2. Automatic Decomposition of Euler parts
4.6. Shells with Variable Thickness
5. ICEM CFD
5.1. Highlights of ANSYS ICEM CFD 13.0
5.2. Key New Features/Improvements
5.2.1. Workbench Integration
5.2.2. Geometry
5.2.3. Hexa
5.2.4. Mesh Editing
5.2.5. Tetra/Prism
5.2.6. General
5.3. Documentation
5.3.1. Tutorials
6. TurboGrid
7. FLUENT
7.1. Introduction
7.2. New Features in ANSYS FLUENT 13.0
7.3. Supported Platforms for ANSYS FLUENT 13.0
7.4. Known Limitations in ANSYS FLUENT 13.0
7.5. Limitations That No Longer Apply in ANSYS FLUENT 13.0
7.6. Updates Affecting Code Behavior
8. CFX
8.1. New Features and Enhancements
8.1.1. ANSYS CFX in ANSYS Workbench
8.1.2. ANSYS CFX in General
8.1.3. ANSYS CFX Documentation
8.1.4. ANSYS CFX-Pre
8.1.5. ANSYS CFX-Solver Manager
8.1.6. ANSYS CFX-Solver
8.1.7. ANSYS CFD-Post
8.2. Incompatibilities
8.2.1. CFX-Pre
8.2.2. CFX-Solver
8.2.3. CFX-Solver Manager
8.2.4. CFD-Post
9. POLYFLOW
9.1. Introduction
9.2. New Features
9.3. Defect Fixes
9.4. Known Limitations
10. Icepak
10.1. Introduction
10.2. New and Modified Features in ANSYS Icepak 13
11. CFD-Post
11.1. New Features and Enhancements
11.2. Incompatibilities
12. AQWA
12.1. ANSYS AQWA
13. ASAS
13.1. ANSYS ASAS
13.2. ANSYS BEAMCHECK
13.3. ANSYS FATJACK
13.4. FEMGV

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