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Advancing analysis capabilities in ANSYS through solver technology
Electronic transactions on numerical analysis, Tome 15 (2003), pp. 106-121.

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Summary: This paper describes substantial improvements in analysis capabilities in a large scale commercial finite element program made possible by the implementation of solver technology. The ANSYS program is a commercial finite element analysis program, which has been in use for thirty years. The original code, developed around a direct frontal solver has been expanded over the years to include full featured preand postprocessing capabilities, which support a comprehensive list of analysis capabilities including linear static analysis, multiple nonlinear analyses, modal analysis and many other analysis types. The finite element models on which these analyses are used have continued to grow in size and complexity. This growth in size and complexity has been both enabled by and dependent on new solver technology along with increased computer memory and CPU resources. Beginning in 1994, ANSYS added a Jacobi preconditioned conjugate gradient solver (JCG) and subsequently an Incomplete Cholesky Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient solver (ICCG) to improve thermal analysis capabilities. In recent years the addition of the Boeing sparse matrix library for modal and static analysis, and a proprietary preconditioned conjugate gradient solver as well as additional iterative solvers, to support new CFD capabilities have greatly increased the number of solver options available in ANSYS. Most recently, in version 5.7, ANSYS has added a new domain decomposition solver for solving very large structural analysis solutions on distributed MPI-based computer systems and the newest iterative solver option, an algebraic multi-grid iterative solver (AMG).
Classification : 65N55, 65F10, 65N30, 65N22
Keywords: finite elements, elasticity, iterative solvers, algebraic multigrid 
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Poole, Gene; Liu, Yong-Cheng; Mandel, Jan. Advancing analysis capabilities in ANSYS through solver technology. Electronic transactions on numerical analysis, Tome 15 (2003), pp. 106-121. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/ETNA_2003__15__a6/