what is ansys

Ansys is an American multinational company that develops and markets CAE/multiphysics engineering simulation software for product design, testing, and operation. It offers a suite of engineering simulation software products and services to customers worldwide. Ansys was founded in 1970 by John Swanson and went public on NASDAQ in 1996. The companys product portfolio consists of simulation platform offerings that are used in diverse multi-physics fields like heat transfer, fluid mechanics, statics, solid mechanics, etc. . However, Ansys is best known for finite element analysis (FEA), which has gained popularity as a modeling technique to simulate physical phenomena. Ansys provides a model-based embedded software development and simulation environment with a built-in automatic code generator to accelerate embedded software. The solutions provided by the company are used in a wide range of industries including aerospace, defense, automotive, biomedical, and other industrial sectors.