What’s New for Ansys Fluent

2025 R1

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What’s New for Ansys Fluent

GPU Solver Updates

• New and Enhanced Physics
• Usability Enhancements
• Performance Improvements

UI/UX Updates
• Desktop Interface
• Fluent Web Interface
CPU Solver Updates
• Ansys Cloud Burst Compute
• New and Enhanced Physics
• Meshing Updates

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Fluent GPU Solver Updates

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Fluent GPU Solver 2025 R1 Highlights 34%
10%

14%
22%

aircraft_win exhaust_sys f1_racecar_

sedan_4m
g_14m tem_33m 140m
24R2 50.79 66.32 98.66 63.81
ILU optimization 61.85 88.91 108.61 72.71

New Physics Supported Usability Improvements Performance Enhancements

• FGM Combustion • Usability enhancements for Python User Defined • Coupled solver calculation time reduced by 30% and
• FW-H Acoustics Functions (UDFs) memory consumption decreased by 20-25%
• Surface to Surface (S2S) Radiation • PyFluent Setting APIs now available for • Scalability on multiple GPU’s greatly improved
• Discrete Phase Model (DPM) automation/customization tasks • ARM platform support now available
• Multi-phase Volume of Fluid (VOF)
• Compressible liquid

Benefits Benefits Benefits

New physics opens the door for expanded use cases to be run on • Usability improvements facilitate easier and faster • Run faster calculations with less memory
the Fluent GPU Solver, including: workflows, improving overall workflow productivity.
o combustion & gas turbines • The Fluent GPU Solver can now run on ARM, opening
o fan and turbomachinery acoustics • Fluent GPU Solver usability capabilities continue to map the door to users who use ARM hardware for their
o electronics cooling closer to those available within the Fluent CPU Solver CFD studies.
o Mixing tanks and other gas-liquid flows
o water hammer effects and more...

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New Physics Supported

Fluent GPU Solver

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Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM)

• Release of adiabatic FGM

- Assumes adiabatic flame temperature
- Pre-tabulated detailed chemistry
- Four transport variables:
• Mixture fraction [f]
• Variance of mixture fraction [f”]
• Progress Variable [C] Combustor 12m, poly, sp, SST, FMG, 24R2
• Variance of progress variable [ C”] 120
99.1
100

- Pre-tabulated detailed chemistry 80 67.8

MIUPS
60
40.6
40 CPU
24.19
14.31 A100
20 7.02
0
128 256 1 GPU 2 GPUs 4 GPUs 8 GPUs
CPUs 4 CPUs 8
nodes nodes
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Non-adiabatic Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM) (β)
PRECCINSTA burner
• 3M cells
• One additional transport equation • Fuel, CH4, 1 atm
- Total (sensible + combustion) enthalpy
• Supported Wall Boundary Conditions
- Heat flux and adiabatic
- Specified temperature Static Temperature

- Coupled walls
• Support for DO radiation and DPM
coupling
• CHT is not yet supported Mean Progress Variable Progress Variable variance

Target applications:
o Gas turbines and combustion 10% higher computational cost compared to Adiabatic FGM
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Acoustics with Ffowcs Williams & Hawkings​

• Release of hybrid GPU (flow) / CPU (sound signal) solution

• Similar workflow as with CPU solver
- Requires export of asd and ard files dp/dt, far-field BC
Flow pass cylinder acoustics 8m, hex, sp, SBES,
Re=0.9105, M=0.2 FW-H
FW-H integration surface: 250

Million Iteration Updates Per Second

214.9
internal zone and wall
200
1 Nvidia® A100 GPU ~ 640 CPU cores 164.3
Intel® Xeon® 150
(MIUPS) *

Gold 6242 115.7

100 CPU
A100
Target applications: 50
23.08
o Turbomachinery blades 12.08
o Jet noise 0
o Fan acoustic 128 256 2 GPUs 4 GPUs 8 GPUs
o Noise in free-flow conditions CPUs 4 CPUs 8
nodes nodes
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*(mesh size in M) X (total # of iterations) / (total wall clock time)
Turbulence: Gamma-Algebraic Transition Model

• Available for k-omega SST and GEKO

- Local-correlation-based transition model
- Applicable to wall-bounded flows on stationary walls

Target applications:
o Turbomachinery blades
o Airfoils
o External Aero
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Turbulence: Curvature Correction
Hydro-cyclone
• Available for all omega-based
turbulence models, including
transition
- Improves turbulence calculation
for highly curved or swirling flows

Target applications:
o Cyclones
o Pipe flows with sharp bends or turns

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Turbulence: Generic WMLES Formulation for WALE Model

• Introduction of a simplified S-Omega WMLES blending function as additional wall

modeling option for LES
- Available for GPU and CPU solvers
• Allows coarser near-wall meshes in tangential direction for LES applications
- Reduces grid sensitivity parallel to wall

Mean velocity profiles of a periodic channel flow

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Turbulence: Default Changes for WALE

• Limiter for kappa*d removed

- Affects all calculations using WALE on CPU and GPU
- Removal of limiter improves prediction of separation
- The limiter can be useful for highly skewed or stretched meshes
• Behavior can be reverted with TUI /solve/set/previous-defaults/undo-2025r1-default-changes?

• Wall treatment for temperature made consistent between GPU and CPU solvers for LES
- Can cause changes for GPU results when the first cell center is in the buffer layer
- Transition between sublayer and log regions are smoother with the new treatment

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Optimized LES Numerics

• Only available on GPU

• Reduces the number of iterations in transient calculations
• Additional control available in TUI after activation:

Target applications:
o Gas turbines
o External aerodynamics
o Can be applied to all LES calculations

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Turbulence: 2nd Cell as Input for LES (β)

• Applies to GPU and CPU solvers

• Uses the second cell for the LES wall functions
- Improves wall shear stress calculation
- Reduces log-layer mismatches
- Improves accuracy of separation prediction
- Increases calculation effort
• Can be combined with WMLES
- Helps accuracy especially when first cell
center is in the buffer layer (y+ between 20
and 80)

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Turbulence: Wall Roughness for Epsilon-Based Models

• Standard and Realizable k-epsilon models allow access to roughness specification on

walls

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Surface-to-Surface (S2S) Radiation Model

• S2S model now supported with GPU

- Simplified workflow on GPU compared to CPU
• No need to calculate the view factors explicitly:
• Enable the radiation model
• Define the emissivity on the various surfaces
• Initialize and calculate the solution

- Clustering enhancements
• Split-angle option in TUI to avoid defeaturing
/solve/models/radiation/s2s-parameters/split-angle

- Support for Periodic BC together with radiation

• Conformal and Non-conformal

Target applications:
o Electronics Cooling
o Underhood Thermal Management

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Energy Model

• Previous releases: Total energy formulation only

- Total energy is only needed for compressible fluids or viscous heating effects
• With 2025 R1: Automatic switch between thermal energy and total energy formulation
- Advection term with total energy: ℎ + 0.5𝑣 2
- Advection term with thermal energy: ℎ
• Where ℎ: specific enthalpy
- Improves stability when additional complexity of total energy formulation is not
needed

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Ideal Gas and Viscous Heating

• Specific heat capacity can now depend on

temperature when using the compressible
ideal gas density formulation

• Viscous heating can be considered for

compressible flows
- Activated globally in the viscous model
settings for all models

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Compressible Liquid Density Formulation
Water Hammer
• Density is assumed as a function of pressure Pipe flow with steady state profiles is suddenly closed at
alone using Tait’s law one end, which produces water hammer effect.

• Allows both compression and expansion

• Useful from physical and numerical CPU vs GPU comparison
perspective
• Current Limitations:
- Supported only for single phase flows
- Potentially less stable with second order time

Target applications:
o Water hammer, hydro-acoustics Area weighted average pressure at the outlet
o Solution stabilization for large pressure peaks
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Volume of Fluid Method (β)

• VoF method now available on GPU

- Excellent performance and scalability,
with 2 x A100 GPU’s ~10x faster than
128 CPU cores
- Most calculations on GPU can use
single precision, while CPU requires
double precision
• Reduces memory cost of GPU by a factor
of 2 and improves speed up to 40%
Capillary filling, VOF + surface tension 1M poly,
- GPU solver often works with higher double precision, MIUPS 73.68
URFs compared to CPU solver 58.18
CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6242
• Reduces required number of iterations GPU A100 80GB 42.04

22.28
14.01
9.68
5.61

128 cores 256 cores 512 cores 1 GPU 2 GPUs 4 GPUs 8 GPUs

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Volume of Fluid Method (β)

• Support for sliding meshes, laminar flow

and RANS models
• Limitations of initial beta release:
- Only isothermal calculations (energy equation
must be disabled)
- Not compatible with other models like
• Species transport
• DPM
• LES
- Only implicit VOF with Compressive
scheme

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Surface Tension and Wall Adhesion (β)

• Surface tension for VOF must be considered when Capillary or Weber numbers
become small
• Continuum surface force model with constant surface tension coefficient
• Optional boundary-zone-based wall adhesion

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Volume of Fluid (β) Numerics

• Modified body-force-weighted
pressure discretization
- Most cases show improved stability for VOF
with the modified body-force-weighted Mixing tank
formulation compared to other methods Pseudo-transient with MBFW

• Pressure and volume fraction

extrapolation from neighboring cells
for pressure outlet boundary
conditions
- Better handling of reversed flow conditions
Drop exiting outlet
- Example: motion of a droplet over a Pressure extrapolation
pressure outlet from neighboring cells

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Discrete Phase Model: Two-way Coupling for Mass Transfer

• Sources for detailed species transport

equations
• Mass transfer from particles to coupled gas
phase supports single-component
evaporating / boiling particles

Generic combustor using detailed species and combustion

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Discrete Phase Model: Non-Conformal Mesh Interfaces (NCI)

• New particle boundary condition for NCI

- With and without periodicity
- Reflect from fluid / solid interfaces
- Reflect from non-overlap regions
- Can handle many-to-many NCI
- No settings needed, active automatically
Periodicity and non-overlap
Fluid / Solid Interface

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Discrete Phase Model: Dynamic Drag Law

• Solving equation for particle distortion assuming a

damped spring-mass system
• New drag option available for particles undergoing
droplet breakup 𝑦𝑝 𝑡 = 𝑊𝑒𝑐 + 𝑒 −𝑡/𝑡𝑑 𝑦𝑝,0 − 𝑊𝑒𝑐 cos 𝜔𝑡 +
1 𝑑𝑦𝑝,0 𝑦𝑝,0 − 𝑊𝑒𝑐
+ sin(𝜔𝑡)
𝜔 𝑑𝑡 𝑡𝑑
- Injection specific
- Scales drag coefficient as function of the particle
distortion, yp
yp

Sphere Disk Sphere Ellipse

yp = 0 yp >= 1 yp = 0 yp < 0
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Discrete Phase Model: Injections

• File injection definition for steady injections

- Flexible particle injection based on coordinates and independent of the mesh

(( x y z u v w diameter temperature mass-flow) injection-0 )

((5.000e-04 5.000e-04 5.000e-04 0.000e+00 1.280e+00 0.000e+00 5.000e-04 3.000e+02 6.532e-03))
((5.000e-04 5.000e-04 2.523e-02 0.000e+00 1.280e+00 0.000e+00 5.000e-04 3.000e+02 6.532e-03))
((5.000e-04 5.000e-04 4.996e-02 0.000e+00 1.280e+00 0.000e+00 5.000e-04 3.000e+02 6.532e-03))
((5.000e-04 5.000e-04 7.470e-02 0.000e+00 1.280e+00 0.000e+00 5.000e-04 3.000e+02 6.532e-03))
((5.000e-04 5.000e-04 9.943e-02 0.000e+00 1.280e+00 0.000e+00 5.000e-04 3.000e+02 6.532e-03))
…

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Discrete Phase Model

• Particle Monitors
- Show Mass Flow/Change Rate option available for
DPM reports if you want to create a report for the
mass flow rate rather than the total mass

• Breakup Model
- SSD breakup model constants now accessible and
injection specific

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Fan and Porous Jump Boundary Conditions

• Internal (2D) fan added as boundary condition type

• Robustness improvements for porous jump condition

Porous Jump Fan Jump

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Turbomachinery

• Periodic repeat option now supported with GPU

- Pitch change and other turbo interface models will be supported in a future
release

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Usability Improvements

Fluent GPU Solver

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Poor Mesh Robustness

• Accessible by TUI: /solve/set/poor-mesh-robustness

- Specific for GPU, for CPU use /solve/set/poor-mesh-numerics
• Remove invalid cells from calculation:
- /solve/set/poor-mesh-robustness/poor-mesh-removal/enable y
• Numerical treatment for skewed cells:
- /solve/set/poor-mesh-robustness/poor-mesh-numerics/enable y
• Applies poor mesh numerics for all cells with orthogonal quality < 0.1 by default
• Tangent skewness is an additional option in 2025 R1:
• /solve/set/poor-mesh-robustness/poor-mesh-numerics/tangent-skewness-threshold y 5
• Tangent skewness was effective especially to avoid velocity overshoots for VOF cases

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Fast Restart Workflow (β)

• Reduce the case/data loading time when restart the GPU solver calculation and
enabling native GPU post-processing
- Command line option: -lite
- Unsupported objects like iso-surfaces are disabled
• Work for both first-time and restart runs
• Once saved with lite, cas/dat can only be read in this mode

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Python User-Defined Functions (β)

• Usability enhancements
- Automatically reload Python UDF (in the next iteration block) when .py file is
modified
- Automatically wrap Real() around floating-point values
- Scheme commands for listing, loading, and unloading Python UDFs
• (gpuapp-add-udf "vel_profile.py" "t_profile.py")
• (gpuapp-remove-udf "t_profile.py")
• (gpuapp-list-udf)
- More macros available, e.g., area vector, cell volume, time step size, …
• For details see Fluent Beta Manual

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Python User-Defined Functions (β)

• Access Fluent rpvar from Python UDF, and automatically reload UDF when its value is
modified
ref_density = UDF.rpgetvar('reference-density')
• Specify gravity vector, turbulence viscosity, and curvature correction coefficient in UDF
• Access field value in neighboring c0/c1 cells of a face
• General-purpose define_execute_at_end and define_adjust

V-velocity
def udf_fix_velocity(c_centroid, c_u, c_v, c_w):
x, y, z = c_centroid
if math.fabs(x) < 0.005 and math.fabs(y) < 0.005: Modify u/v/w to
return 0., 0., 0.
else: approx. a solid
return c_u, c_v, c_w
UDF.add_cell_zone_adjust(udf_fix_velocity, UDF.all_cell_zones(), (c_u))

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PyFluent (β)

• The Settings API is available ()

- This is the underlying programming interface for PyFluent

• The gRPC server can be started from command line or TUI: /server/start-grpc-server
- There is no filter on the PyFluent side to hide unsupported or incompatible features
for the GPU solver. Test your scripts carefully and verify that all defined settings work
as intended.

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Report Definitions of Type Expression (β)

• Run time monitoring of quantities of interest defined

as expressions and create plots
• Support for flow variables (u, v, w, P, T) and
mathematical operators like sin, cos, exp, sqrt
• Examples: sqrt(u^2 + v^2+w^2)
Time*Sum(T, ['fluid']) * 2 [kg/(m^3*s)]
AreaAve(u^2+v^2+w^2,['pressure-outlet-7’])

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Expressions (β)

• Moving reference frames can be customized

with expressions
- Time-dependent expressions for rotational
speed, axis origin, direction and
translational velocities
- No spatially varying expressions
- Ability to mix and match inputs between
expressions and constants
- Example:
3.0*sin(2.0*PI*t/1[s])*1[rad s^-1]

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Performance Enhancements

Fluent GPU Solver

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Coupled Solver Performance Enhancement
Coupled solver performance optimization, MIUPS
10%

• Optimizations provide improved performance 34%

14%

and reduced memory for the coupled GPU 22%

solver

aircraft_wing_1 exhaust_syste f1_racecar_140

• Calculation time reduces by up to 30%

sedan_4m
4m m_33m m
24R2 50.79 66.32 98.66 63.81
ILU optimization 61.85 88.91 108.61 72.71

Memory usage (GB) optimization of single precision

• Memory consumption decreases by up to 22%

- 20% in single precision

- 25% in double precision 20%
21%
18%

aircraft_win exhaust_syst f1_racecar_1

sedan_4m
g_14m em_33m 40m
24R2 7.27 33.8 67.72 318.4
Memory optimization 5.82 26.7 55.56 247.21

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Case study on Frontier with AMD MI250X GPUs

• Drivaer_250m with optimized LES on Frontier, world’s fastest computer

- Based on HPE Cray EX​
- 4 AMD MI250X GPUs per compute node​, 128 GB per GPU
- One MI250X GPU has two Graphics Compute Dies (GCDs) 7892

• Observed as two GPUs by Fluent solver 6092

• HPE Slingshot interconnect

4688

3501

1859
1478
1041
557

8 16 24 32 64 96 128 256
MIUPS 557 1041 1478 1859 3501 4688 6092 7892

• Excellent scalability on AMD-based platform Efficiency 100% 93% 88% 83%

GCDs
79% 70% 68% 44%

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Transient Numerics

• Solid time-stepping
- Independent timestep for CHT solids
• Reduces calculation time when only final state is of interest
- Also appropriate for LES+CHT

Steady
𝑑𝑡𝑓 = 𝑑𝑡𝑠 = 10 𝑑𝑡𝑓 = 10, 𝑑𝑡𝑠 = 100

Fluid

Solid

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Transient Numerics

• Bounded Second Order now available for

Transient Formulation
- Improves stability for large time step size

• Limiter-in-time for second order transient

schemes (GPU only)
- Improves boundedness for energy

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CPU/GPU Many-to-Many Remapping 16 CPU Partitions
2 GPUs
3d, sp, NCI
~2X Speedup

• Better balance CPU and GPU resources

- Reduce GPU kernel launching overhead
- Have many CPUs mapped into much
fewer GPU devices
- CPU solver partitions are merged into
fewer number of GPU solver partitions SUV Case 40M

• Command line option: -gpu_remap

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ARM Platform Support

• Chemkin CPU solver available

• GPU solver on ARM ()

- Updated to CUDA 12.5 – ~8% speedup observed
- Expressions supported

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User Interface Updates

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UI/UX Updates 2025 R1 Highlights

Desktop Interface Fluent Web Interface

• GUI performance improvements are now 3-500X+ times faster vs prior release • Easier access to the web server URL directly via email
for cases with many cell zones and boundaries. • LIVE post-processing of results with enhanced graphics
• Improved graphics performance and interactivity for rendering large surfaces. • Adjoint calculations can now be monitored
• Transient post-processing is now available. • Additional physics supported, including eddy dissipation (β), premixed combustion with
FGM (β), volume of fluid (VOF) multiphase method (β), and more.
• Watertight Meshing (WTM) Workflow (β) now available directly in web interface

Benefits Benefits
• Applications with thousand of zones (such as batteries, fuel cells, multiphase • More workflows possible with full remote sessions from mesh generation (β) to results
flows, radiation and species models and more) now have much faster evaluation.
responsiveness for shorter meshing and solve time. • Enhanced graphics improve productivity/ease within the interface.
• Transient post-processing can now be performed directly in the Fluent solver
for an improved, single interface workflow.

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 Desktop Interface

Applicable to Fluent CPU and GPU Solvers

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Transient Post-Processing

• Transient post-processing of multiple time

steps within Fluent
- Only for static meshes in the first release,
recommended for small cases
• First release can only read the full Fluent
*.dat* files, which requires more time
compared to reduced data sets in CFD Post
or EnSight
• Read the last dat file of a sequence to access
all previous steps with the Timestep Selector
• Create transient animations after the
calculation is finished
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Transient Post-Processing

• Compare results between different time steps with Difference plots

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Parametric Workflow

• Parametric Report in PPT format

- Based on the DP results objects
- DP-specific images and comparisons of DPs
- Exported content defined after the
parametric run to keep the size of the
report manageable

• Native optiSLang postprocessing in Fluent (β)

- Requires an optiSLang license

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Parametric Workflow

• Migration of Distributed Concurrent submission from HPC Services to HPC Platform

Services (HPS)
- More deployable solution
- Allows same/similar user experience for submission details as Burst to Cloud also for
on-premise installations
- Addition of GPU support for distributed concurrent runs
- Limitations with HPS
• Cannot yet specify how many jobs to run at once: HPS will run as many as it can find resources for
• Update from Previous DP not yet supported
- For details about deployment refer to the separate HPS documentation

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User Interface Performance Improvements

• Performance is dramatically improved for cases

with many zones
- Test cases show UI operations are 3x to 500x faster
- Overall setup time reduced by 4x to 15x
- 1-to-1 auto-pairing for Non-Conformal Interfaces:

Cores Boundaries Interfaces 24R1 24R2 25R1 Speedup

[mins] [mins] [mins] 24R1 > 25R1

128 332 660 97 32 16 6x

64 127 369 71 14 7 10x

- Performance also improved for 1-to-1 interface deletion

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Non-Conformal Interfaces

• New Matching option for 1-to-1 interfaces

- Forces zero area non-overlapping boundaries
• Cannot pair interface boundary participating in
matching interface in another 1-to-1 interface

• Cell zone pairing for 1-to-1 interfaces

- Allows interface creation by selecting cell zones
• All boundaries of selected cell zones (of type wall
and interface) participate in auto pairing
• Can mix and match face and cell zones

• NCI exclusion list

- Allows to specify boundary pairs not to be
paired by auto pairing (TUI and GUI)
• /define/mesh-interfaces/auto-options/set-
exclusion-pairs
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Non-Conformal interfaces 24.2 Default in 25.1

• Streamlined zone display in the Outline

- Non-overlapping zones are not shown by default
- Can be enabled in preferences or in the context
menu of the Outline

• All mesh interfaces can be deleted more

easily

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Graphics performance

• New preference to improve performance of rendering

large surfaces with millions of triangles
- Large surfaces are splits into multiple shells of 160k facets
- Need to redisplay after setting the preference
- Applies to both Meshing and Solve modes
• Improved interactivity: more responsive panning,
zooming, and rotating
- Best for low number of zones with high facet count
- Example case: 1 zone, 150M faces
• Rotate: FPS 0-1 (24R2) vs 55-65 (25R1)
• Zoom: FPS 0-1 (24R2) vs 15-25 (25R1)
• Pan: FPS 0-1(24R2) vs 55-65 (25R1)
• Initial mesh display time: 760s (24R2) vs 350s (25R1)
Video of graphics interaction

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Display Multiple Graphics Objects in Separate Windows

• Multi-select graphics objects in the tree and use context menu to open all of them in
new windows

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Drag and Drop or Copy and Paste Between Sessions (β)

• More Outline nodes available to transfer settings interactively between sessions

- Nodes under Solution
- Nodes under Results
- Boundary conditions individually or collectively

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Visual Clipping Plane

• Clipping plane available in context menu

of a graphics window
- Visual clip only, not stored in an object
• Use clip surface objects for persistent clips
- Limited to one active clipping plane
- Interactive handle to change
position/orientation

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New Graphics Driver Option

• OpenGL2 Mesa
- Software driver that supports high-quality output
• Slower compared with OpenGL2 and DX11 because of missing
hardware acceleration
• Comparable in quality and feature set

- Allows access to advanced visualization methods

on (remote) hardware with limited or no graphics
hardware
• Transparency
• Raytracing
• Activate via TUI:
- /display/set/rendering-options/driver opengl2-mesa

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Export Settings as Text or HTML (β)

• Human-readable settings can be exported from the context menu of the Setup node
- Useful to compare settings between cases with third-party tools
- In the file selection dialog, specify the name with .html to change the format

Setup
----- Text export
General
-------

Solver
------
HTML export
Type : pressure-based

Velocity Formulation : absolute

Time : steady

Adjust Solver Defaults Based On Setup : False

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Zone Merging Improves Performance ()

• New fast zone merging on case read (β) 100 cell zones
100 interior face zones
- Automatically used when beta options are enabled
- Merging zones in single step
• Improves solver performance and Zone merging time 24.2 25.1 Speedup
8 cores
reduces memory
Cell zones 76 [s] 5.6 [s] 14x
Interior face zones 513 [s] 16 [s] 32x
Battery pack
1070 cell zones, 29M cells
8562 face zones

Zone merging time 24.2 25.1 Speedup

32 cores
Merge 224 out of > 6 [hrs] 13 [min] 27x
1070 cell zones

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Cell Zone Copying Battery pack
132 cell zones
922 face zones
• New multiple cell zone copying of connected zones
- Connected zones remain connected
Eight battery packs
- Can copy parts of a cell zone cluster
(7 copies)
- Setup persists, including all BCs 1056 cell zones
7376 face zones
- Options to control naming of copied zones
- /mesh/modify-zones/copy-cell-zones-by-delta
- /mesh/modify-zones/copy-cell-zones-by-offsets

Comparing cell zone copying, 8 cores Time [min]

Case appending (Battery Pack Builder) 49
New multiple cell zone copying 11

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CGNS Export

• Structure of the exported file changed in 2025 R1

• All cell zones are exported using their own structure
- Previously, a single structure was used for all cell zones
- Details available in the CGNS definition at
https://cgns.github.io/CGNS_docs_current/sids/cnct.html

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Python Console (β)

• Python console must be active in the

launcher or by using the command line
argument -py
• Auto-complete options in preferences
- Start typing in the Python console to
get auto-complete suggestions
• Tab: go to next suggestion
• Shift+Tab: go to previous suggestion
• Enter: accept suggestion

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Fluent Web Interface

*Applicable to Fluent CPU Solvers

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 Ansys Fluent Web Interface Overview
WHAT IS IT?: A single workflow interface from meshing (β) to solving
to post-processing available directly in a web browser

WHO IS IT FOR?: Available to any Fluent user of any license type.

WHAT CAN IT DO?:

• Mesh (β), physics setup solve and post-process within a single
interface
• Monitor simulation results in real-time, before the problem has
been solved
• Available to connect with batch as well as interactive Fluent sessions
• Collaborate with colleagues on the same project at the same time
• Modernized UI/UX with a familiar look and feel to Fluent desktop LEARN MORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW-8kv8wsLM
• While not all models are available for setup, additional models are
included with each release

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Additional Physics in Web Interface (β)

• Eddy dissipation, finite rate

• Partially premixed combustion with
FGM
• Volume of fluids multiphase method
(excluding mass transfer and
reactions)
• Discrete phase model and particle
post-processing
• Adjoint solver, shape optimization,
parameterize and explore
(parametric mesh morphing)

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Fluent Meshing Watertight Workflow (WTM) (β)

• Interactive cutting planes

• Mesh diagnostics, cell clusters
• Wildcards, improvements for
large models
• FM-style shortcuts
• Desktop preferences
• Display options
• Some options require Fluent Meshing to
run with graphics support and do not
work when running in batch without
graphics

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Monitoring of Adjoint Residuals

• Residuals of adjoint calculations can now be monitored with the web interface
- Access to adjoint settings remains beta in 2025 R1

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Create Shareable Links with Limited Permissions
• View only, results edition only, or full access
• Accessed from web interface share icon in the
upper right corner
- Links remain active for the current session
- Creating a link does not require an email

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Email Web Interface Connection Information

• Optionally send an email with the connection information

- Links provide full access with the provided token

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 Interactive plane definition
Post-Processing and Animations

Animate particle
tracks and pathlines

Animation playback while the calculation is running

Periodic instancing
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Filter Outline Tree

• Tree can be filtered

- Find objects quickly
- Support for wildcards and regular expressions
• No wildcard character = equivalent to adding a * behind search
expression
• * = any number and type of characters
• ? = exactly one character
• [1-5] = numbers between 1 and 5 (including)
• [a-m] = characters between a and m (including)
• Can be combined, e.g., “??a*[1,3-5]”:
• Two arbitrary characters in front
• Third character must be an ‘a’
• Followed by arbitrary characters
• Ends with either ‘1’ or a number between 3 and 5 (3, 4, or 5)

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Manager Panels

• Introduction of manager panels to edit multiple objects simultaneously

• Available for almost all grouped objects in the Outline tree

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Notification About Invalid or Incomplete Settings

• When the settings of an object are

either invalid or incomplete, a warning
message inside the panel indicate
what must be corrected

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CPU Solver Updates

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CPU Solver 2025 R1 Highlights

Ansys Cloud Burst Compute New & Enhanced Physics Meshing Updates
Newly available Cloud service for Fluent Users: Submit jobs • Electrochemistry Workflow Improvements: Dramatically • Water-Tight Meshing (WTM) / Fault Tolerant Meshing
from a local Fluent case to the Ansys Burst to Cloud service faster set up time for models with many zones, solver (FTM): Significant Task Performance speed ups (up to 30X)
for one-off Cloud resource usage. robustness for LI-battery models significantly reduces number for cases with many parts/zones
of time steps required, capture capacity fade effects in the
battery aging model • Skin Assemblies (Modular Wrapping): faster meshing with
• Aerospace Advancements: Fluent Aero mesh adaption (β) FTM for very large assemblies by wrapping sub-assemblies
allows you to update Mesh Adaption or Parametric Search before meshing the full model
Cycles for all design points
• Optimization Enhancements: Extended constraints for multi-
objective shape optimization, back-to-CAD workflow ()
updates the original CAD model using the optimized shape.
Benefits Benefits Benefits
Enhancements to Fluent CPU solver physics capabilities Meshing speed-ups improve the efficiency and length of pre-
Users who have limited in-house access to Cloud or on-premise
resources can now use the Ansys Burst to Cloud service for
drives more robust, quick and accurate CFD workflows processing workflows.
individual jobs requiring Cloud resources. across multiple applications.

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Ansys Cloud Burst Compute

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Ansys Cloud Burst Compute
• Submit jobs from a local Fluent case to the Ansys
Burst to Cloud service
- Prepare the case as usual
- Login to your Ansys account
• Opens a web browser to log into your account
- Submit to the cloud service on the Run Calculation
task page or ribbon entry (see next slide)
- Define the submission details
- Once the calculation is complete, download the
results

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Configure remote compute environment

Tooltip of queue informs you

about the compute resources
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Simulation files

• After submission, the input files are transferred to the server and the job is queued

• The job can be monitored from

the Ansys Portal and from Fluent
• After the calculation is finished,
the files can be downloaded from
within Fluent
- It is not necessary to keep the
session open
- Jobs can be accessed from a
new Fluent process
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Discrete Phase & Wall Film

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Discrete Phase Model

• Dense Particulate Flows (DDPM)

- Granular shear stress approach is now compatible with Predictor/Corrector method
for error-based time stepping
• Usability & Workflow
- Continuous Random Walk turbulent dispersion model (β)
• Documentation in the Fluent Beta Features Manual

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Lagrangian Wall Film (LWF)

• Increase robustness of long-term runs

- Reduce temperature spikes
- No user settings needed

Target applications:
o Selective catalytic reduction (SCR)
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 Lagrangian Wall Film (LWF)

• In situ data reduction (ISDR)

- Data of LWF particles create a complex
multi-dimensional space
- ISDR reduces number of parcels without
adversely affecting overall physics
- Speeds-up long-running simulations
50 cycles Single cycle # 35

w/o ISDR, 8 mio parcels 5.7 mio parcels

24 cores 26 days 17.5 hours
with ISDR, 0.5 mio parcels 0.38 mio parcels
48 cores 2 days 1.1 hours

Target applications:
o Selective catalytic reduction (SCR)
with deposit chemistry

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Lagrangian Wall Film (LWF)

• Deposit risk-assessment extension (post-

processing)
- Distinguish and report different risk
levels on a per boundary patch level
- Easier comparison of risk levels:
• Different geometrical designs
• Different operating conditions for same
design

• Post-processing of wall film viscosity

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Electrochemistry

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Variable-Based Battery Connection

• Variable-based connection replaces zone-based connection to mitigate bottlenecks for

connecting a large number of zones
- Requires a single zone for all modules, tabs,
and busbars
Total cell count: 2,189,189 Battery connection: 16s26p (416 batteries)

Old New
Method Method
Case reading 30 min 40s
Data reading 10 min. 7s
Solution initialization 1 min 10s

Running 20 iterations 4 min. 60s

Cell threads: 1682 Cell threads: 6 Case writing 3 min. 13s

Face threads: 8343 Face threads: 28 Data writing 20 s 5s

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Virtual Connections

• Information about virtual connections is saved in the case file

• Connection input file is no longer needed for restarting in a new Fluent session

6s5p module with bodies for interconnectors 6s5p module that needs virtual connection file
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Thermal Abuse Model

• Multiple variables can now be plotted in the thermal abuse model

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Resolved Li-Battery Model

• Solver robustness improved significantly

- Number of iterations per time step reduced from hundreds to around 20
• Simulation time of transient simulation is reduced by order of magnitudes
- Charge conservation is obtained

20 hours to obtain the entire discharging curve (16 CPU cores)

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Resolved Li-Battery Model

• Physics-based aging model

- Capacity fade effect can be captured
- SEI growth, Li-plating and Cathode film growth
side reactions are included

0.16A/m2

cathode
anode

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Electrolysis Models

• Add capillary pressure plot during model setup

• Allow user to set up reference temperature in the
calculation of exchange current density
• Electrolysis model best practice guide added to
Ansys Learning Hub (ALH)
- Robust workflow and solution strategy

capillary pressure

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PEM Fuel Cell

• Bruggeman coefficient accessible through GUI panel for electrodes

• Introduce a predefined workflow to facilitate simulations

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Anisotropic electric conductivity

• Electric conductivity can now be defined with Cylindrical-orthotropic, orthotropic or

anisotropic options
- Results are validated by comparison of the model with those from temperature and UDS equations

UDS Anisotropic

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Potential Equation

• Electric current flux can now be used in an expression report definition

- Simplifies monitoring of current fluxes at different surfaces

ElectricCurrent
FilmHeatTransferRate
HeatTransferRate
MassFlow

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Aerospace

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Density-Based Solver (DBNS)

• Axis-Stabilization for 2D axisymmetric flow improves accuracy at stagnation points

- Stabilizes solution near axis boundary condition
/solve/set/axisymmetric/axis-stabilization? yes
- Automatically engaged with high-speed numerics (HSN)

Effect of axisymmetric stabilization on stagnation point heating

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Virtual Blade Model (VBM)

• Improved UI
• Automation of initialization and pre-
processing
- Create floating disks automatically before solving
iteration
- Restart VBM calculations without extra setup steps
- Run VBM with changing meshes (Fluent Icing,
Mesh adaption, change disk position, etc.)

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Icing
• Multishot ice shapes with anti-icing
- Residual “runback” ice on unprotected zones
- Wing icing with partial protection Runback ridge-ice
on unprotected
• Ice Cover with clean surface in background wing surfaces with
• UDF entry points in the ribbon hot-air anti-icing
on
- UDFs used for particle drag laws and wall interactions
- Direct from Fluent Icing client
- UDM config, execute-on-demand functions
• Basic ice shedding model for de-icing (β)
- Remove ice when interfacial film reaches a certain height
- Improved experimental validations, probe temperatures
• Engine ice crystal icing model exposure (β)
- 3-layer icing model with ice/water mixture
- Exposing an existing FENSAP-ICE feature in Fluent Icing

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Fluent Aero – Mesh Adaption and Parametric Search

• Restart and Continue to Update Mesh

Adaption or Parametric Search Cycles for all
design points (β)
- Conduct baseline solutions before adaption
- Conduct more adaption cycles or restart from a
RANS Mesh Adaption Solution - AoA = 19.7° - Stall AoA
cycle using different convergence settings
- Conduct extra iterations after adaption
• Stop a Mesh Adaption or a Parametric Search
cycle using convergence criteria (residuals /
aerodynamic coefficients) (β)
• Post-process all cycles for all design points (β)
• Support mesh repair between cycles and
PUMA 2.5D (β)

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Fluent Aero

• Averaging of Aerodynamic Coefficients using Power Spectral Density (PSD) & Moving
Averages (β)
- Supported in Standard Fluent Aero, Parametric Search & AET Workflows
Averaging of Aerodynamic Coefficients
PSD + Moving Average PSD + Moving Average

Simple Average

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Optimization

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Constraints for Multi-Objective Shape Optimization

• Equality Constraints
- Example wing:
• Decrease drag &…
• Maintain/Increase lift &…
• Maintain wing sectional area
• Inequality Constraints
- Example fuel venturi mixer:
• Minimize outlet fuel non-uniformity &…
• Maintain/reduce pressure-drop &…
• Maintain ratio of air-to-fuel mass flow rate

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Adjoint Solver Blended Stabilization Strategy

• If the first scheme of the blended strategy diverges, the second scheme might not be
able to bring the residuals down again
- A modified version of Residual Minimization is available as first scheme to avoid this
initial divergence

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Back-to-CAD workflow (β)

• Workflow to update the CAD in Ansys Discovery after morphing the mesh in Fluent
- Export the initial and deformed mesh as STL
- Load the original geometry and both STLs in Discovery
- Use a script to update the initial CAD with the Warp function:
• Warp.WarpBodyByMeshNew(GetRootPart().Bodies[0], GetRootPart().Meshes[0], GetRootPart().Meshes[3], False, 0.0001)
• Bodies[0]: CAD face; Meshes[0]: Undeformed STL; Meshes[3]: Deformed STL; 0.0001: Tolerance; all must be adjusted to the case!

• Limitations
- Remeshing is not supported, the topology of the mesh must stay the same
• The STL export of the Design Tool is improved to keep the ordering of the surface mesh nodes intact
across multiple partitions and large deformations
- It can be necessary to split the original geometry into faces based on Named
Selections to deform them one-by-one
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Back-to-CAD workflow (β)

• Warp.WarpBodyByMeshNew( Body 0
GetRootPart().Bodies[0], Body 1
GetRootPart().Meshes[0], Body 2
GetRootPart().Meshes[3],
Mesh 0
False,
Mesh 1
0.0001)
Mesh 2
• Check body name with: Mesh 3
- print(GetRootPart().Bodies[0].GetName()) Mesh 4
Mesh 5

• Experiment with the tolerance by orders of magnitude to warp the CAD face
successfully

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Turbomachinery

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Turbomachinery

• Blade Row
- A reference radial position can now be set for computing the radial equilibrium at
pressure outlets
• Previously the hub was taken as the reference radial position

• Aeromechanics:
- Fast Mesh motion for periodic displacement
• Solves mesh motion once at the start of the simulation, allowing for faster flutter analysis

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Solver Meshing & Numerics

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Polyhedral Unstructured Mesh Adaption (PUMA)

• 2D polyhedra support
- Hanging node conversion to polyhedral by default when reading older case file
• Can be disabled using /file/convert-hanging-nodes-during-read?
• 2D PUMA
- Default adaption method
• Can be changed to legacy hanging node adaption using /mesh/adapt/set/method
• Refinement levels from Fluent Meshing imported during I/O and mode transfer when
reading Rapid Octree meshes
- Allows for more intuitive PUMA adaption and better mesh quality in Fluent

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Dynamic Mesh

• Previously released Geometry Reconstruction

extended to dynamic mesh remeshing
- Nodes are projected onto the smooth reconstructed
surface

• Motion Definition in reference frames

- Reference Frame GUI can now use motion created in
Motion Definitions

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Alternative Wall Discretization

• TUI option to enable normal stress at turbulent walls

- /solve/set/advanced/alternative-wall-discretization? yes
- On by default in the GPU solver
- Found to be useful in preventing unphysical velocity on external aero case
- Will remain an option in 2025R1
• Affects all turbulent flow results

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Green-Gauss Node Based with Overset Mesh (β)

• Available for pressure-based (PBNS) and

density-based (DBNS) solvers

PBNS

DBNS

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Real-Gas Models

• Convergence/accuracy in transient with RGP table with transient term linearization

• User-defined enthalpy reference temperature improves stability when temperature is
far away from standard conditions (e.g., atmosphere re-entry)

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Meshing Updates

Fluent CPU Solver

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Local Refinement Region

• New option: Cylinder

- More flexibility to define refinement regions without imported bodies of influence
- Add as separate task in the workflow before or after local sizing definitions
- Various methods to define details of region
- Also allows frustum definition

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Watertight Meshing (WTM) Workflow

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Task Performance Improvements

Speed-up Factor 24R2 -> 25R1 Speed-up Factor 24R2 -> 25R1
400 14

350 12

300 10

250 8

200 6

150 4

100 2

50 0
Pattern with Pattern with Pattern with Full workflow
0 1000 regions 2500 regions 10000 regions for furnace,
Import Geometry Describe Geometry Table update of 20k 4800 regions,
execution zones 19k zones

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Thin Meshing Global Controls

• Additional options available in the “Generate the Volume Mesh” task

- Auto-order controls
• Changes the order of operations to increase
success rate
• Default: ‘Yes’ except for stacked plates

- Min aspect ratio

• Controls the aspect ratio at the boundaries
- Invoke Stair Step
• ‘No’ (default) can improve success rate and
mesh quality

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Automatic Thin Volume Meshing Controls (β)

• Automatically detect and configure thin mesh

regions and source/target selections
- Targeted use cases: Solid thin plates and decomposed thin
fluid regions
- Cannot be used together with Stacked Plates
- Additional option to specify a target cell size within the
thin gap in addition to the min number of intervals
- Separates faces automatically if needed
- Limited to serial meshing for the thin regions

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MultiZone

• Generate Multizone mesh options for situations when the full model is meshed with
MultiZone
- Control if re-merge of separated faces
- Control if merge of body label bodies

• Performance improvements

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Boundary Layer Usability

• The list of available zones/labels is filtered automatically to show only items without
boundary layer definition
- Release for WTM, beta for FTM
- Simplifies setup for complex models

Filtered automatically
for next BL definition

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Boundary Layer Controls

• Sphere Creation at Invalid Normals

- Improvements to remesh options
- Improvements at locations of multiple solids

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Fault Tolerant Meshing (FTM) and Rapid
Octree

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Task Performance Improvement for Cases with 200k+ Parts

Speed-up Factor 24R2 -> 25R1

35

30

25

20

15

10

0
File load Taks switch Tree select Drag-drop Copy-paste Create Transform Undo Transform Full workflow

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Skin Assemblies (Modular Wrapping)

• For very large model it is more efficient to simplify sub-

assemblies before meshing the full model
- Sub-assemblies are skin-wrapped
• Tasks updated accordingly (Generate volume mesh removed…)
• Faster as no remesh nor improve operations done
• Easier manipulation/inspection
- Resulting sub-assemblies are imported into a new
workflow for global wrap and volume mesh

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Modular Wrapping with Prime Wrapper (β)

• An alternate wrapper is available as beta for the modular wrapping approach

- Speed-up of mesh generation
- Faceting will be different
Describe Geometry and Flow

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Rapid Octree

• Smooth mesh coarsening

- More efficient cell distribution
- Less cells and comparable resolution

• Automatic facet normal

alignment for proximity (β)
- Automatic execution if proximity is
defined new

• Can be deactivated:
New smooth mesh coarsening option available
/mesh/rapid-octree/advanced-
meshing-options/auto-align-
surface-normals? no

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UI Changes in Flow Volume Specification for Rapid Octree

• Default Menu
TUI GUI

• If volumetric regions are present in the selected input object

TUI GUI

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TUI Changes for Rapid Octree

• TUI changes to mitigate inconsistencies

- Volume specification
• Old: /mesh/rapid-octree/flow-volume
• New: /mesh/rapid-octree/volume-specification

- Input objects
• Old: /mesh/rapid-octree/geometry
• New: /mesh/rapid-octree/input-object

- Default size
• Old: /mesh/rapid-octree/mesh-sizing/boundary-cell-size
• New: /mesh/rapid-octree/mesh-sizing/default-boundary-cell-size

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Body of Influence for Rapid Octree (β)

• Allows to use arbitrary shapes defined by geometry as refinement region in addition to

Box and Frustum

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2D Meshing Workflow

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2D Boundary Layers

• Various improvements for smoother boundary

layers
- Normal smoothing
- Shrinkage

• Introduction of Last Ratio method

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Mapped Quad Mesh with MultiZone (β)

• 2D MultiZone allows generation of quad mesh

- Used for the full domain
• Local edge sizing options with biasing

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