The Remote Solve Manager (RSM) is a job queuing system that enables computationally-intensive jobs to be queued for execution locally or on remote machines. In previous releases, RSM supported the update of the Solution cell only for Mechanical systems. ANSYS 13.0 extends support for RSM to include Solution cell update for Mechanical APDL, CFX, FLUENT and POLYFLOW systems (in addition to Mechanical). Note that CFX supports execution on remote machines only for serial and shared-memory parallel jobs that do not rely on external files (for example, profile boundary condition files, Flamelet model files, etc.) and FLUENT supports RSM update only on the local machine. For details, see Submitting Solutions for Local, Background, and Remote Solve Manager (RSM) Processes.

Support has also been added for the update of design points via RSM, which allows the update of any parametric system or set of systems to be executed on a remote machine. At ANSYS 13.0, each design point update operation (update of a single design point, a set of selected design points, or the update of all design points) is packaged up and run on the remote machine as a single job. Simultaneous execution of design points in parallel will not be supported at ANSYS 13.0, but is planned for a future release.

Volumetric temperature data can now be transferred from an ANSYS CFX solution to ANSYS Mechanical for one-way FSI calculations.

CFX can now make use of the Remote Solve Manager (RSM) capability. See Expanded Support for RSM in ANSYS Workbench 13.0 for more details.

Most files imported into CFX-Pre (such as boundary profile files and flamelet libraries) are now registered with the project and can be archived with the project. References to these files will be automatically updated to refer to the new locations when the archive is restored.

A new option has been added to allow old solution data files to be removed without clearing the current solution data, in order to reduce the disk space used by a project. This can be accessed by right-clicking on the Solution cell and choosing Clear Old Solution Data.

CFX now provides more options for handling cases where Execution Control is specified both within CFX-Pre and within the Solution cell, which could previously lead to conflicts and hence unexpected settings being used.

The disk space used in the temporary directory has been reduced for cases where the CFX-Solver Manager continues to display monitors after a run has completed.

Only design points affected by a change to the project will be marked as out of date. Any change that is not relevant to the parametric study, such as adding a standalone system or making a change downstream of the parametric study, will not cause design points to go out of date. Likewise, only the out-of-date components and systems will be updated during a design point update operation. The improved behavior often reduces the amount of time and computer resources necessary for a design point update.

You can now specify whether design points will be updated beginning from the current design point (DP0) or starting from the previous design point. In some situations, it may be more efficient to update design points starting from parameter values from the previous design point, rather than starting from DP0 each time.

Output parameter values are now displayed in the Table of Design Points and Details views as they are calculated. In previous releases, no updated values were shown until the entire design point update was complete. This capability allows design points that are only partially updated to show up-to-date parameter values for those parameters which were updated successfully.

Workbench projects can now be archived to a Workbench-specific archive, with a .wbpz file extension. On Windows systems, you can double-click the .wbpz file to open the project. In this manner, you can work directly in an archived project and save changes back to the archive.

The Geometry component system now allows you to select from two different type of editors: ANSYS DesignModeler and ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler (SCDM). SpaceClaim Engineer is referred to as ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler (SCDM) in ANSYS Workbench. Unlike ANSYS DesignModeler which is a history-based parametric application, SCDM is a direct modeling application. Access and use of SCDM requires you have an existing SCDM license. For more information, see SpaceClaim Related to CAD Integration in the CAD Integration section of the ANSYS Workbench help.

Leveraging the calculation capabilities of Microsoft Office Excel, you can now perform parametric analyses to create design points and design exploration studies via the Microsoft Office Excel option in the Component Systems toolbox of ANSYS Workbench. For detailed usage information, see the Microsoft Office Excel section of the ANSYS Workbench help.

A Software Development Kit (SDK) for the integration of third party applications was developed for ANSYS 13.0. This SDK provides APIs, tools, and documentation that enable a software developer to write custom code to integrate external applications so that they can participate in the Workbench workflow at the project schematic level. The SDK is available as an independent installation and can be downloaded from the ANSYS Customer Portal (actual availability date may follow the release of ANSYS 13.0).

At release 13.0, ANSYS Workbench, including the Mechanical application, DesignModeler, EKM, FE Modeler, Design Exploration, Meshing, and Engineering Data, will be available in multiple languages on both Windows and Linux platforms. Available languages include English, French, German, and Japanese.

CAD-centric information related in general to ANSYS Workbench and specific to the component systems in now centrally located in the CAD Integration section of the ANSYS Workbench help. The section is accessible from the ANSYS Help Viewer and the CAD sections within the Mechanical and DesignModeler sections of the application help. The sectional topics include:

A Troubleshooting section has been added to the Workbench documentation.

A section on Working with Views and Workspaces has been added.

Documentation on Getting Started, Design Points, and other discussions has been enhanced.

File Migration. If a Mechanical (.dsdb) file from release 11.0 (or earlier) containing a Vector Principal Stress result is imported into Mechanical release 13.0 then the Vector Principal Stress display is incorrect. If you clean the solution, re-solve, and click Vector Principal Stress result, then the display will be correct.