As leading providers of CFD and PLM solutions, respectively, ANSYS, Inc. and Dassault Systèmes have worked together to bring you FLUENT for CATIA V5 technology. As a partner in the Dassault Systèmes´ Software Community Program, ANSYS is uniquely positioned to provide its leading flow modeling technology within the V5 PLM environment. The ANSYS and Dassault Systèmes collective objective is to enable PLM companies to optimize product performance early in the design cycle. FLUENT for CATIA V5 software accomplishes this vision by providing you with the best integration of CFD into PLM in the industry.

FLUENT for CATIA V5 combines the world's most widely used and powerful CFD code, FLUENT 6.3, with the leading CATIA V5 PLM software environment from Dassault Systèmes. It is fully associative to the PLM data structures. FLUENT for CATIA V5 software provides fluid flow analysis in the CATIA working environment and is a dramatic step forward for the use of CFD in the design process. FLUENT for CATIA V5 allows engineers, especially in the automotive and aerospace industries, to achieve significant product design improvements and cost savings. It helps engineers test conceptual designs at the earliest possible stages of the product development cycle in a PLM workflow environment. The unified optimization process provided by FLUENT for CATIA V5 technology leads to improved product quality, faster time to market, and reductions in large downstream manufacturing costs.

PLM Integration

FLUENT for CATIA V5 software protects your PLM investments. FLUENT for CATIA V5 technology is based on Dassault Systèmes' open SIMULIA scientific platform and the underlying CAA V5 architecture. ANSYS has created a fully PLM-integrated CFD solution that reveals the effects of fluid dynamics during product design. FLUENT for CATIA V5 technology is more than CFD embedded into CAD: it is CFD absorbed into the PLM bloodstream of the world's leading manufacturing companies. FLUENT for CATIA V5 technology ensures that your company makes the most of its PLM investments.

In addition to knowledge and data management capabilities, PLM companies need fully generative relationships between the design of their manufacturing-ready geometric models and their mathematical simulation models, which include structural, thermal, and CFD analysis. Simply having the CFD model show up in the same graphics window as the CAD model is not enough. The CFD data has to fully reside in the PLM software's data management system. Only then can engineers rapidly turn their CAD models into flow models, and perform the comprehensive knowledge-based optimization studies needed to develop the best products in the shortest time. It is FLUENT for CATIA V5 technology that makes this possible.

Rapid Flow Modeling

Rapid flow modeling is an approach to CFD simulation aimed at reducing overall time and increasing efficiency. It allows for quick engineering design validation throughout the product lifecycle. FLUENT for CATIA V5 software embraces the high level of automation that is the key to successful rapid flow modeling. Tasks that often require a lot of manual intervention, such as meshing, solution steering, and reporting, are fully automated.

FLUENT for CATIA V5 technology provides fast, automated tools to extract a flow volume from the solid parts, an otherwise tedious step that is often overlooked in other software. The automated meshing logic cuts the time it takes engineers to create high-quality computational meshes from days to minutes. Specify the physics, and the FLUENT for CATIA V5 software will perform the simulation automatically without a need for the user to monitor the calculation. Comprehensive reports are generated automatically.

Our rapid flow modeling technology dramatically cuts the engineering time required to perform a CFD analysis. Engineers can do more and better analyses faster. The result is a better product design in a shorter time.

Upward Compatibility

FLUENT for CATIA V5 software generates files that are 100% compatible with our CFD software FLUENT. This capability allows you to move back and forth easily between FLUENT for CATIA V5 software and the extensive physics modeling capabilities provided by FLUENT technology. It also allows for exchanging analysis between the CATIA users in your company and the FLUENT users, improving team collaboration.