ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes

Table of Contents

1. Global
1.1. Advisories
1.2. Installation
1.3. Licensing
1.4. The ANSYS Customer Portal
2. Workbench
2.1. ANSYS Workbench 14.0
2.1.1. Design Point Enhancements
2.1.2. Reporting
2.1.3. Workbench Options
2.1.4. Tighter Integration Between ANSYS Workbench and EKM
2.1.5. Incompatibilities
2.2. DesignModeler Release Notes
2.3. TurboSystem Release Notes
2.3.1. ANSYS BladeModeler
2.3.2. Vista CCD
2.4. Meshing Application Release Notes
2.5. Mechanical Application Release Notes
2.6. DesignXplorer Release Notes
2.6.1. DesignXplorer General Enhancements
2.6.2. DesignXplorer Manufacturable Values Enhancements
2.6.3. DesignXplorer Design Point Update Enhancements
2.6.4. DesignXplorer Remote Design Point Update Enhancements
2.6.5. Response Surface Enhancements
2.6.6. DesignXplorer Chart Enhancements
2.7. Remote Solve Manager Release Notes
2.8. Engineering Data Workspace Release Notes
2.9. EKM Release Notes
2.9.1. EKM
2.9.2. EKM Desktop
2.10. System Coupling
2.11. IC Engine
2.11.1. Advantages of the IC Engine System
2.11.2. IC Engine System Features
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-Thermal Analysis
3.2.2. Coupled-Diffusion Analysis
3.3. Acoustics
3.4. Radiation Analysis
3.4.1. Energy Balance
3.4.2. View Factor Calculations
3.4.3. Radiosity Solver Parallelization
3.5. Solvers
3.5.1. Distributed ANSYS Enhancements
3.5.2. GPU Acceleration Enhancements
3.5.3. Subspace Eigensolver for Eigenvalue Buckling Analysis
3.5.4. Overconstraint Detection
3.5.5. Other Solver Changes and Enhancements
3.6. Linear Perturbation Analysis
3.6.1. Support for More Analysis Types
3.6.2. Linear Behavior Based on a Prior Preloaded Status
3.6.3. Linear Perturbation Tangent Option
3.7. Commands
3.7.1. New Commands
3.7.2. Modified Commands
3.7.3. Undocumented Commands
3.7.4. Archived Commands
3.8. Elements
3.8.1. Modified Elements
3.8.2. Undocumented Elements
3.9. Other Enhancements
3.9.1. Documentation
3.9.2. Preprocessing
3.9.3. Postprocessing
3.9.4. Memory Management
3.9.5. APDL Math Enhancements
3.9.6. File Splitting
3.10. Known Incompatibilities
3.10.1. Release 13 Compatibility with Platform MPI
3.10.2. BUCOPT Command Changes
3.10.3. Multiframe Restart Files Are Overwritten by Default
3.10.4. RESUME Command with POST1 Fatigue
3.10.5. Writing and Reading Geometry Items
3.10.6. Results File Format Change
3.10.7. Substructure File Format Change
4. AUTODYN
4.1. 3D Parallel Simulations with Parts Containing Rigid Body Material(s)
4.2. Forces on Rigid Bodies
4.3. Nodal Based Strain Tetrahedra
4.4. Performance Enhancements
5. ICEM CFD
5.1. Highlights of ANSYS ICEM CFD 14.0
5.2. Key New Features/Improvements
5.2.1. General
5.2.2. Blocking
5.2.3. Mesh Editing
5.2.4. Output Interfaces
5.3. Known Incompatibilities
5.4. Documentation
5.4.1. Tutorials
6. TurboGrid
7. FLUENT
7.1. Introduction
7.2. New Features in ANSYS FLUENT 14.0
7.3. Supported Platforms for ANSYS FLUENT 14.0
7.4. Known Limitations in ANSYS FLUENT 14.0
7.5. Limitations That No Longer Apply in ANSYS FLUENT 14.0
7.6. Updates Affecting Code Behavior
8. CFX
8.1. New Features and Enhancements
8.1.1. General Changes to ANSYS CFX
8.1.2. ANSYS CFX-Solver
8.1.3. ANSYS CFX-Pre
8.1.4. ANSYS CFX-Solver Manager
8.1.5. ANSYS CFD-Post
8.1.6. ANSYS CFX Documentation
8.1.7. ANSYS CFX in Workbench
8.2. Incompatibilities
8.2.1. CFX-Solver
8.2.2. CFX-Pre
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 14
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
14. TGrid
14.1. Introduction
14.2. New Features in TGrid 14.0
14.3. Supported Platforms for TGrid 14.0

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