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ANSYS, Inc. is at the forefront of providing engineering simulation software globally for academic teaching and research applications.
ANSYS provides a highly scalable portfolio of academic products based on several usage tiers: Associate, Research and Teaching. Each tier includes a range of high value noncommercial products that bundle a broad range of physics and advanced coupled field (multiphysics) solver capability. We also provide Academic Toolbox products that address more specialized preprocessing & solver concerns.
The Academic Teaching products are intended for class demonstrations and hands-on instruction. The Academic Research and Academic Associate products provide more flexible terms of use and unlimited numerical "headroom" suitable for doctoral and post-doctoral research projects. Please review the
pages for more details.
Download this PDF file for a general overview of our Academic Products:
 Overview of ANSYS Academic Products V11.0 (235 KB)
The following presentation provides more details on the ANSYS Academic Product portfolio:
Overview of ANSYS Academic Products V11.0 (852 KB)
In addition to the above Academic products, we also provide a low cost, problem size limited product suitable for student use at home called ANSYS ED. See here for more details about ANSYS ED.
More Academic Product Details:
ANSYS Academic Product Portfolio
The ANSYS academic product portfolio consists of product variants grouped into five sub-families. Each academic product is a high-value bundle of ANSYS, Inc. technology, including relevant CAD import tools, solid modeling, advanced meshing, solver and post processing features
(summary of product features). The following table shows the full academic product portfolio grouped by sub-family:
The second column in the above table shows the number of tasks (simultaneous users) per license that are available. For example, you can purchase ANSYS Academic Research as either a single, 5 or 25 task license.
| Product/Family |
Task Qty Available |
| ACADEMIC ASSOCIATE |
| ANSYS Academic Associate |
1,5 |
| ANSYS Academic Associate CFD |
1,5 |
| ANSYS Academic Associate HPC |
1 |
| ACADEMIC RESEARCH |
| ANSYS Academic Research |
1,5,25 |
| ANSYS Academic Research Mechanical |
1,5,25 |
| ANSYS Academic Research CFD |
1,5,25 |
| ANSYS Academic Research AUTODYN |
1,5,25 |
| ANSYS Academic Research Electronics Thermal |
1,5,25 |
| ANSYS Academic Research Offshore/Marine |
1,5 |
| ANSYS Academic Research POLYFLOW |
1,5,25 |
| ANSYS Academic Research HPC |
1 |
| ANSYS Academic Research LS-DYNA |
25 |
| ANSYS Academic Research LS-DYNA HPC |
1 |
| ACADEMIC TEACHING |
| ANSYS Academic Teaching Advanced |
5,25,50 |
| ANSYS Academic Teaching Introductory |
5,25,50 |
| ANSYS Academic Teaching Mechanical |
5,25,50 |
| ANSYS Academic Teaching CFD |
5,25,50 |
| ACADEMIC STUDENT |
| ANSYS ED (10.0) |
1 |
| ACADEMIC TOOLBOX |
| ANSYS Academic Meshing Tools |
1,5,25 |
| ANSYS Academic CFD Turbo Tools |
1,5,25 |
| ANSYS Academic Fuel Cell Tools |
1,5,25 |
The Academic Toolbox products are as follows:
- Academic CFD Turbo Tools - Contains ANSYS BladeModeler & ANSYS TurboGrid. These are specialized blade/turbo machinery preprocessing products intended for use with any ANSYS Academic product that contains ANSYS CFX (CFD) capability.
- Academic Meshing Tools - Contains ANSYS ICEM CFD advanced meshing tools, plus ANSYS DesignModeler & our MCAD connection products. This is a stand-alone toolbox product intended for use with 3rd party CFD solvers.
- Academic Fuel Cell Tools - Contains the ANSYS FLUENT Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) & Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) Models. These are specialized solver models intended for use with any ANSYS academic product that contains FLUENT (CFD) capability.
The high-performance computing (HPC) products are parallel processing tools that may only be used with the Academic Research & Academic Associate level products. The HPC products are sold per processor and are "physics" neutral, in that they will function with ANSYS Multiphysics, ANSYS Mechanical, ANSYS CFX, ANSYS FLUENT or ANSYS AUTODYN solvers.
ANSYS Academic Product Features
ANSYS Academic features table
The academic features table shows some of the many features included with each of the ANSYS academic products. It is intended to provide a high level overview, because in reality there are thousands of features and functions associated with each academic product. For more specific details please call PhilonNet.
ANSYS Academic Product Features (PDF)
The following is a high level list of academic product features referenced in the academic product features table. A brief description is provided, in addition to hyperlinks to further details found elsewhere on our website. For further information please contact PhilonNet.
SOLVERS:
- ANSYS DesignSpace (Separate task) - The Teaching level products indicated include separate tasks of ANSYS DesignSpace that have no numerical problem size limits. For example, a 25 task license includes 25 tasks of ANSYS Multiphysics plus 25 tasks of DesignSpace.
- ANSYS DesignSpace capability - Entry level structural and thermal physics capability product that uses our ANSYS Workbench environment. A subset of ANSYS Mechanical capability.
- ANSYS Mechanical capability - Structural and thermal physics capability, linear and non linear, steady state, harmonic. modal and transient. ANSYS Mechanical is a subset of ANSYS Multiphysics.
- ANSYS Mechanical Emag capability - Structural, thermal and electromagnetics physics capability
- ANSYS Mechanical CFD-Flo capability (Fluid Structural) - Structural, Thermal and CFX CFD capability
- ANSYS Multiphysics capability - Structural, thermal, CFD (FLOTRAN) and electromagnetics (low and high frequency)
- ANSYS CFX Full Capability Solver - The complete CFX fluid dynamics capability (excluding RIF Flamelet library)
- ANSYS MFS Solver (Single code coupling): Enables coupled field solutions to be performed between the physics contained within ANSYS Multiphysics
- ANSYS MFX Solver (fluid-structure interaction)- Enables bi-directional fluid-structure interaction (FSI) to be performed using ANSYS Multiphysics and ANSYS CFX solvers
- ANSYS User Prog. Features (USER300 etc) - User programmable elements available when using the traditional (PREP7) interface
- ANSYS FLUENT - FLUENT fluid dynamics capability (Excludes V2F and Immersed Boundary modules)
- ANSYS FLUENT NOx - FLUENT Nitrous Oxide module - provides the capability to model NOx formation and consumption in combustion systems
- ANSYS FLUENT Fiber Module - Continuous Fiber Module - For melt and dry spinning processes
- ANSYS FLUENT MHD Module - Magnetohydrodynamics Module
- ANSYS FLUENT Population Balance Module - For multiphase flows with a particle or droplet size distribution
- ANSYS FLUENT Fuel Cell Module - Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) and Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) Models
- POLYFLOW (Full Capability) - Advanced fluid dynamics for polymer processing and glass forming
- ANSYS AUTODYN (2D and 3D) (Explicit dynamics) - Nonlinear dynamics of solids, fluids, gas and their interactions
- ANSYS AUTODYN (Lagrange) - Entry level explicit dynamics capability.
- ANSYS LS-DYNA (Explicit dynamics) - Explicit dynamics capability for simulating rapid time transient, nonlinear phenomena such as metal forming processes or crash/impacts
- ANSYS Icepak - Application specific Fluid dynamics for Electronics thermal management
- ANSYS ASAS (All modules except Concrete and Panel) - offshore structural finite element system with integrated modules
- ANSYS AQWA (All modules) - hydrodynamic assessment of all types of offshore/marine structures
PRE and POST PROCESSING:
- CFX-Pre - Pre processors specific to ANSYS CFX fluid dynamics
- CFD-Post - New Post Processor for use with both CFX and FLUENT fluid dynamics
- AUTODYN PrepPost - Pre and Post Processor specific to ANSYS AUTODYN
- FLUENT PrepPost - Pre and Post Processor specific to FLUENT fluid dynamics
- ICEM CFD Meshing: Advanced meshing tools, including the following ICEM CFD meshing methods:
- Cartesian (Body fitted and Staircase)
- Hexa
- Hexdominant
- Multizone
- Multizone Blocking
- Prism
- Shell Meshing (Quad and Tri, Patch based and Patch independent)
- Tetra (Delaunay, Advancing front and Patch Independent Octree)
- TGrid-AFT (Advancing Front)
- TGrid-Delaunay
- ICEM Output Interfaces for ANSYS, CFX and FLUENT - Ability to export the ICEM CFD mesh to either ANSYS, CFX or FLUENT solvers
- ICEM Output interfaces for other (3rd Party) solvers: Ability to export the ICEM CFD mesh to third party solvers
- ANSYS TurboGrid - ANSYS CFX specific tool for meshing turbo machinery geometry in Workbench
- Mechanical APDL (Includes Prep7, Post1) - The traditional "ANSYS" preprocessor used for ANSYS Multiphysics and ANSYS Mechanical. Largely superseded by ANSYS Workbench.
- ANSYS LS-DYNA Drop Test Module - A pre and post processor for simulating drop tests specifically for use with ANSYS LS-DYNA
- Geometry Connections: The Geometry Connections interfaces/connections included are as follows:
- Geometry Interface for Parasolid
- Geometry Interface for SAT
- Geometry Interface for Solidworks
- Geometry Interface for CATIA V5
- Geometry Interface for SolidEdge
- Geometry Interface for One Space Designer
- Geometry Interface for Inventor/MDT
- Geometry Interface for NX
- Geometry Interface for Pro/ENGINEER
- Direct CAD Interface for SDRC I-DEAS (Import into ICEM Advanced meshing only)
- Workbench Schematic (Project Page) - The starting point for the ANSYS Workbench GUI - A modern, intuitive event driven GUI
- ANSYS DesignModeler - Parametric solid modeling in Workbench
- Engineering Data - The Workbench materials database
- Advanced Meshing - The ICEM CFD meshing toolset exposed in ANSYS Workbench
- Meshing - The standard suite of ANSYS meshing method exposed in Workbench
- ANSYS CFX-Mesh: Additional meshing methods specific to ANSYS CFX
- Structural Mechanics - Structural, thermal and magnetostatics pre and postprocessing in Workbench
- Parameters (DX, including DXVT and VT at the element level) - Design of Experiments and general parametric analysis model exploration too in Workbench, includes Variational Technology (formerly DXVT)
- ANSYS Fatigue Module - Simulate structural performance under cyclic loading conditions over a product's anticipated life span
- FE Modeler - Robust Finite Element model import from NASTRAN, also used as a general FE element model data navigation and visualization tool in Workbench
- FEModeler - Mesh Morpher - Allows parameterized models to be created from mesh data (when no geometry file is available)
- Rigid Body Dynamics - Rigid body and mixed flexible/rigid body structural dynamics
- BladeGen - CFX specific tool for preprocessing turbo machinery geometry in Workbench
- LS-DYNA Export *.K file - Ability to export an ANSYS LS-DYNA model from Workbench
- Remote Solver Manager - Ability to launch and manage batch solutions from Workbench
HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC)
- Built-in 4 Parallel processors/core: If this column is checked, then the academic product includes shared memory and distributed ANSYS parallel computing for four processors/cores. Applicable to structural, thermal, electromagnetic, fluid dynamics (CFX and FLUENT) and explicit dynamics solvers.
- HPC > 4 processors available (at extra cost) - Product HPC capability can be extended beyond 4 processors/cores by buying additional ANSYS Academic HPC licenses.
- VT for Solvers - Variational Technology applied to static or transient nonlinear solutions for structural (no contact or plasticity) and thermal analyses. Performs a single point solution and extrapolates over a wide range, negating the need to perform multiple solutions. Also includes Frequency Sweep VT - Fast frequency domain (harmonic) sweep using Variational Technology, applicable to structural and high frequency electromagnetics physics.
OTHER
- ANSYS EKM Desktop: Comprehensive solution for simulation-based process and data management challenges
- Numerical Problem Size Limits: Product has restricted numerical problem size limits (number of nodes or elements) as shown in the table
- Academic screen watermark/logo - Product screen displays the ANSYS Academic logo
- License borrowing - These Academic Teaching products allows tasks to be borrowed for up to 7 days
Ansoft Academic Product Portfolio
The Ansoft academic product portfolio consists of two product bundles (High Frequency - HF and Electromagnetic-EM) grouped into three "terms of use" sub-families. Each product bundle delivers the incredible value technology of Ansoft commercial products, with pricing and terms of use matched to the requirements of academic researchers and educators.
The following table shows the full Ansoft academic product portfolio grouped by sub-family:
| Product/Family |
Task Qty Available2 |
| ACADEMIC ASSOCIATE1 |
|
| Ansoft Academic Associate HF |
1,5 |
| Ansoft Academic Associate EM |
1,5 |
| Ansoft Academic Associate HF HPC |
1 |
| ACADEMIC RESEARCH |
|
| Ansoft Academic Research HF |
1,5,25 |
| Ansoft Academic Research EM |
1,5,25 |
| Ansoft Academic Research HF HPC |
1 |
| ACADEMIC TEACHING1 |
|
| ANSYS Academic Teaching Advanced |
5,25,50 |
| ANSYS Academic Teaching Introductory |
5,25,50 |
- Note that the Associate & Teaching level products are not available in all regions.
- Column shows the number of tasks (simultaneous users) per license that are available. For example, you can purchase Ansoft Academic Research HF as either a single, 5 or 25 task license.
The Ansoft Academic HF product bundle includes HFSS, Q3D Extractor, Ansoft Designer and SIwave. The bundle is suitable for high-performance RF, microwave, millimeter-wave device simulation and Signal Integrity (SI) applications.
The Ansoft Academic EM product bundle includes Maxwell, Simplorer Advanced, RMxprt and PExprt and is intended for the design and simulation of electromechanical devices such as motors, actuators, transformers and other electromagnetic field simulations. The bundle also provides multi-domain system simulation capability for the design of mechatronic, power electronic, electromechanical and other systems.
Both the HF and EM product bundles also include parallel processing, Optimetrics (parameterized simulation and design optimization) and import/connectivity to many common MCAD and ECAD tools. Please review the Ansoft Academic features table for more details.
Ansoft Academic Product Features
Ansoft Academic Product Features table
The above academic features table shows the products/capabilities that are bundled into each of the Ansoft Academic products. It is intended to provide a high level overview, because in reality there are thousands of features and functions associated with each academic product. For more specific details please discuss with PhilonNet.
ANSYS Academic High-Performance Computing (HPC)
High-performance computing (HPC) is an important part of academia. The widespread availability of multi-core processors, even in laptops, allows for impressive performance gains on medium to large problem sizes. The ANSYS Academic HPC strategy provides two levels of HPC, "built-in" and "add-on" described below:
| Product/Family |
Built-in 4 HPC? |
Can access additional HPC? |
| ACADEMIC ASSOCIATE |
|
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| ANSYS Academic Associate |
YES |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Associate CFD |
YES |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Associate HPC |
N/A |
N/A |
| ACADEMIC RESEARCH |
|
|
| ANSYS Academic Research |
YES |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Research Mechanical |
YES |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Research CFD |
YES |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Research AUTODYN |
YES |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Research Electronics Thermal |
YES |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Research Offshore/Marine1 |
NO |
NO |
| ANSYS Academic Research POLYFLOW |
YES |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Research HPC |
N/A |
N/A |
| ANSYS Academic Research LS-DYNA2 |
NO |
YES |
| ANSYS Academic Research LS-DYNA HPC |
N/A |
N/A |
| ACADEMIC TEACHING |
|
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| ANSYS Academic Teaching Advanced |
YES |
NO |
| ANSYS Academic Teaching Introductory |
YES |
NO |
| ANSYS Academic Teaching Mechanical |
YES |
NO |
| ANSYS Academic Teaching CFD |
YES |
NO |
| ACADEMIC STUDENT |
|
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| ANSYS ED (10.0) |
NO |
NO |
| ACADEMIC TOOLBOX |
|
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| ANSYS Academic Meshing Tools |
N/A |
N/A |
| ANSYS Academic CFD Turbo Tools |
N/A |
N/A |
| ANSYS Academic Fuel Cell Tools |
N/A |
N/A |
Note 1: ANSYS ASAS & ANSYS AQWA have no HPC capability
Note 2: ANSYS LS-DYNA HPC is not part of ANSYS Academic Research HPC, instead, the Academic ANSYS Research LS-DYNA HPC is used
Built-In HPC: Generally, all academic products that support HPC have four HPC (4 processor, SMP) capability per task built-in. The built-in HPC capability is allocated/restricted to each task. Example: For a 25 task license of Academic Research, each user/task can access 4 HPC tasks, with a maximum of 4 HPC tasks applied per solution. Summary:
- 4 HPC "built-in" for ANSYS CFX, ANSYS FLUENT, ANSYS Mechanical, ANSYS Multiphysics, ANSYS AUTODYN, ANSYS POLYFLOW and ANSYS Icepak solvers
- The built-in 4 HPC will allow:
- 1 x dual core SMP
- 2 x dual core SMP
- 1 x quad core SMP
- 2 - 4 single core SMP
- DANSYS for 2 - 4 processors
- The HPC capability is allocated/restricted to each "task"
Add-On HPC: Generally, all Academic Research & Associate level products can extend their HPC capability with add-on HPC tasks. The add-on HPC tasks are contained in physics neutral HPC products called ANSYS Academic Research HPC and ANSYS Academic Associate HPC. These products are sold per task, and extend the HPC capability of the following solvers:
- ANSYS Multiphysics/ ANSYS Mechanical
- ANSYS CFX
- ANSYS FLUENT
- ANSYS AUTODYN
- ANSYS POLYFLOW
- ANSYS Icepak
Research customers can add on more HPC via ANSYS Academic Research HPC tasks. Associate customers can add on more HPC via Academic Associate HPC tasks. One task Academic Research/Associate HPC extends the base HPC ability of any one of the physics that supports HPC that is contained in the base product.
ANSYS Academic Product License Terms of Use
The ANSYS Academic Products are intended for academic rather than commercial use. The specific language used on our Academic License Form is available from your ANSYS sales contact, look at section 5 of the License Form. In summary, our academic license terms of use are as follows:
General: The analysis work performed with the Program(s) must be non-proprietary work. Licensee and its Contract Users must be or be affiliated with an academic facility. Licensee may additionally permit individuals who are students at such academic facility to access and use the Program(s). Such students will be considered Contract Users of Licensee. The Program(s) may not be used for competitive analysis (such as benchmarking) or for any commercial activity, including consulting.
Notwithstanding any terms of the Agreement to the contrary, Academic Program(s) may be accessed and used by Licensee at the Designated Site or any other location within a 50 mile radius of the Designated Site, provided that such location is within the same country as the Designated Site. Such limitations apply to any access and/or use of the Academic Program(s), including, but not limited to, access via a VPN connection or through license borrowing.
 Academic Teaching: These products may only be used for student instruction, student projects, and student demonstrations.
 Academic Research: These products may only be used for degree and/or non-degree related research, student instruction, student projects, and student demonstrations.
 Academic Associate: These products may may only be used for industry related research, degree and/or non-degree related research, student instruction, student projects, and student demonstrations.
The Academic toolbox products follow the terms of use of the academic products they are used with. For example the Academic HPC license terms of use are Academic Research.
Our current licensing agreement referenced on the Academic License Form is available here.
ANSYS Academic Product Licensing
The ANSYS Academic products are licensed using FLEXlm (FLEXnet), a common software license manager from Acresso Software. All the academic product licenses are floating local area network (LAN) licenses, utilizing a single, designated license server*. Since many of the ANSYS Academic products are multiple task licenses, this means that all of the tasks are floated on the server's LAN. You can install the software on as many machines connected to the LAN as you like, however the number of users who can simultaneously access the software is limited by the number of tasks you purchase (1, 5 , 25 or 50 etc). If you need just a single licensed task on a single machine, even a laptop, you just make that machine your license server & install both the licensing software & the product on the same machine. Its a very flexible licensing scheme - hence its name!
For our academic products we impose a 50 mile LAN radius which is discussed on your license form. Users can access (check out) licensed tasks from the license server if they are physically connected to the LAN, or if they are using a VPN connection. Additionally, the Academic Teaching level products have a license borrow feature that allows laptop users to check out a licensed task and then unplug from the LAN and work remotely for up to 7 days (except the "unlimited" DesignSpace feature which may not be borrowed). Borrowed tasks must stay within the 50 mile LAN radius, and you can borrow up to n-1 tasks from an n task license. A borrowed license may be returned early by reconnecting to the network & using the ANSYS Borrow Utility. Note, the license borrow feature is OFF by default. If you need this feature you must request it to be turned on at the time of your license purchase or renewal. There is no additional charge for this feature.
If you are seeking a larger LAN radius (for distance learning programs) or require a total academic software solution for an entire campus then we have that flexibility. Please discuss your requirements with your ANSYS sales person.
The following diagram explains the LAN radius:
* Note, we can provide academic product license files for either single server or three server redundant systems.
Academic Product Technical Support Policy
Academic product technical support is managed via several mechanisms based on whom you purchased our product from and whether the support request relates to ANSYS Academic products, Ansoft Academic or legacy Fluent Academic products. In all cases, technical support and access to our customer portal is only provided to customers with products that are current on TECS or lease.
ANSYS Academic (and Legacy Fluent Academic) Product Technical Support
ANSYS Academic (and Legacy Fluent Academic) product customers who purchase their products from one of our Channel Partners should direct their technical support requests to that Channel Partner.
ANSYS Academic (and Legacy Fluent Academic) product customers who purchase their academic products directly from ANSYS, Inc. should use the ANSYS Customer Portal to submit technical support requests.
- Once logged in, navigate to Online Support > Submit Support Request
- Select the link Submit/Update technical support requests
- Once a support request has been submitted, you will receive responses to your enquiry online via the Customer Portal or through email
- For additional details on the Customer Portal and how to best use it to answer your support questions, select the "Portal Tour" link in the top of the left-navigation
Only the ANSYS Site Coordinator (ASC) for your customer site has access to the "Submit Support Request" menu. Students and other users associated with the customer site must forward their support request to their ASC. Generally, everyone registered on the ANSYS Customer Portal can access the ANSYS Technical Support Knowledge Base including FAQs, Tutorials and Best Practices, which should address many of your technical support requirements. Please visit the Knowledge Resources section frequently as it is continuously updated.
Note that the ANSYS Customer Portal also provides access to the Fluent User Services Center (USC) which contains a broad scope of Fluent product knowledge resources such as manuals, tutorial problems, FAQs and a knowledge base of solutions.
Ansoft Academic Product Technical Support:
Ansoft academic customers who purchase their products from one of our Channel Partners should direct their technical support requests to that Channel Partner.
Ansoft academic customers who purchase their products directly from ANSYS, Inc. should first use the Ansoft Online Technical Support (OTS) site, http://www.ansoft.com/ots/otsLogin.cfm , to access manuals, tutorial problems, FAQs and a knowledge base of solutions. Access to OTS is restricted to the Ansoft Site Coordinator. Students and other users associated with the customer site must forward their support request to their Site Coordinator. For support issues not covered by OTS, please contact your local ANSYS, Inc. office for instructions on submitting a technical support request.
For Ansoft academic customers located in the United States or Canada, you may submit technical support requests via email to univsupport@ansoft.co.
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