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Powerful fluid dynamics software reduces the cost of polymer, glass, metals and cement processing. ANSYS Polyflow accelerates design while shrinking energy and raw material demands to make your manufacturing more cost effective and environmentally sustainable. You can model the manufacturing process and virtually test packaging to evaluate and optimize performance as well as reduce waste. Polymers, glass, and even food and metals exhibit complex nonlinear behavior while being processed. Accurately assessing each material’s performance — well before manufacturing begins — requires...

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Co-extrusion of soft (green) and dense (grey) rubber for automotive application Simulation helps companies to reduce product failure risk early in the design cycle by providing insight into critical parameters/characteristics, such as material distribution (left) and top load stress distribution (middle) in a five-gallon blow-molded water cooler bottle (right). Polyflow makes it possible to study the behavior of plastics and other materials, such as this example of injection stretch blow modeling using shell elements. The image shows thickness distribution. Improving Performance with a...

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Polyflow’s advanced numerics technology allows modeling of nonlinear behavior, such as velocity distribution in a die land and large die swell induced by stress relaxation in a tire application. An advanced, application-tailored solver and extensive models deliver the capabilities you need to optimize your manufacturing processes. Solvers and Numerics Complex rheological, thermal-dependent material behaviors, or large deformations (such as die swell, blow molding, thermoforming or glass pressing) are inherently nonlinear. To meet this challenge, Polyflow uses the finite element analysis...

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Polyflow simulates nonlinear thermal effects, which is especially important when temperature distribution is not uniform. Nonlinear Thermal Effects Including Radiation Polyflow models include viscous heating to allow you to detect potential deterioration of a polymer grade or undesired rubber curing. Accurate modeling of high-temperature processes, such as glass forming, requires the use of advanced nonlinear material properties, accurate radiation prediction (using, for example, the discrete ordinate radiation model) and the Narayanaswamy model that accounts for material stress relaxation...

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Users can couple ANSYS Polyflow and ANSYS Mechanical to perform structural analysis within the ANSYS Workbench environment. Polyflow works with other ANSYS tools to streamline your design cycle through Simulation-Driven Product Development. ANSYS fluid dynamics tools are one part of our suite that delivers advanced functionality — depth, breadth, a plethora of advanced capabilities and integrated multiphysics — providing confidence that your simulation results reflect real-world outcomes. The comprehensive range of solutions provides access to virtually any field of engineering simulation...

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ANSYS Polyflow Geometry Flow volume automatically extracted Multiphase Flow Multi-zone meshing combines the strength of various meshing tools to automatically generate a hybrid grid for a tidal turbine. Blow molding of water fountain canister Die land automatically created to generate correct extrudate after all deformations Wide range of material properties and rheological models Final thickness of thermoformed dashboad component Other ANSYS Engineering Simulation Capabilities CAD Design Optimization Data Management Good design starts with identifying the relationship between performance...

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