At ANSYS Workbench 11.0, the ANSYS Rigid Dynamics add-on module enables users to define joint connections in complex kinematic assemblies. This ability to model rigid and flexible parts in ANSYS Workbench Simulation via joints is beneficial since the rigid parts are modeled with mass and rigid links (that is, rigid contact elements), thus providing load transfer capabilities and allowing users ...

The recent advances in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can be useful in observing the detailed hemodynamics in cerebral aneurysms for understanding not only their formation and rupture but also for clinical evaluation and treatment. However, important hemodynamic quantities are difficult to measure in vivo. In the present study, an approximate model of normal middle cerebral artery (MCA) alo...

This paper presents a novel way for a structural dynamic simulation analysis on a three-dimensional (3-D) finite element (FE) model of a 6-DOF Manipulator using ANSYS Workbench 13.0 that allows integrated optimization. The load between driving and driven gear is delivered by elastic frictional contact, which leads to some non-liner contact problems, and the contact problems are solved according...

Multiphysics simulation refers to the inclusion of multiple physical phenomena in a single computational model. This may or may not require multiple solvers. For example, a mechanical solver could be used to model stent deployment to a vessel wall, and then either a mechanical or computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver could be used to model drug diffusion in the vessel tissue. In situations ...