The Particleworks-ANSYS Interface Option Product​

Particleworks is a meshfree CFD software for liquid flow simulation. It can simulate variety of physical phenomena from engine oil sloshing, lubrication, motor cooling, water splashing around car, mixing and kneading for medicine, materials and foods, debris flow, flood and Tsunami, and has been introduced in wide range of industries in the world. 

Particleworks for ANSYS is an interface option to realize coupling simulations between such liquid simulation with large deformation of free surface and the existing simulation fields in ANSYS. By using this option, Particleworks is embedded in ANSYS Workbench and this makes it possible to simulate complicated multiphysics  behaviors including liquid-structure, liquid-thermal, and liquid-gas flow which had been difficult to analyze, by coupling with ANSYS simulation capabilities. Particleworks for ANSYS is a new tool for encouraging to understand realistic phenomena in design problems. 

The left figure is the Particleworks launch menu from ANSYS Workbench. After creating or importing geometry for simulation, launch Particleworks and run fluid simulation. Obtained results are imported as ANSYS load conditions.

Simulation flow from Particleworks to ANSYS

① CFD calculation by Particleworks

② HTC mapping in Particleworks

③ Imported HTC in ANSYS Mechanical

④ Mesh generation

⑤ Total heat flux and temperature

Operation environment/ requirement

1) OS: Windows 10 64bit
2) Both Particleworks and ANSYS (including ANSYS Workbench) should run on the same machine.
    - Available version of ANSYS Workbench and Mechanical: ANSYS 19.1, ANSYS 19.2, ANSYS 2019 R1
    -Available version of Particleworks: Particleworks 6.2
3) Licenses: floating·node lock
4) For more information about price for 1 user: kaidai@prometech.co.jp