Ansys Fluent 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Ansys Fluent

4.6

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About Ansys Fluent

Ansys Fluent unlocks new potentials for CFD analysis. A fluid simulation software with fast pre-processing and faster solve times to help you be the fastest to break into the market. Fluent’s industry leading features enable limitless innovation, while never making a compromise on accura

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Ansys Fluent User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

63%

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.8

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.1

Functionality

4.6

Oladipo A.

Verified reviewer

Broadcast Media

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

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Reviewed September 2021

Ansys Fluent as an Engineering Software

The overall usefulness of this software is way more higher than its disadvantages, So, it is highly recommended.

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Pros:

The fact that it is easy to import CAD models through space claim. It is a software that can easily work on models from any other engineering software.

Cons:

One of the major disadvantage of this particular software is that it consumes a lot of space on the RAM/ memory of the PC. The software can not be used by anyone that doesn't have basic knowledge in Physics.

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Reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

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Reviewed August 2022

Ansys Fluent: thermo-fluid dynamic simulations within reach of (almost) everyone

My experience with Ansys Fluent is very positive. In particular, I used it during the PhD path mainly for the shape optimization of the cardiac bypass. It responded very well to the parametric study and I did not find it difficult to integrate with other software. Thanks to its ease of use it allows a fast progress of the works, which allowed me to publish several scientific-numerical papers. It is also excellent for newcomers to simulations because, even if you are not very well prepared on the fluid dynamics and / or thermal theory, you can get relevant results.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

The software, in the Workbench functionality, allows to decide the type of module to use depending on the physics to be solved. In particular, among the different choices for the fluid dynamics part, there is Fluent, a Finite Volume solver. It is very intuitive to import external CADs into the geometry module and prepare the mesh accordingly. The internal CAD is also very functional and, for complex components, it is useful for cleaning geometry. The preparation of the solver is also very intuitive. The tree diagram allows to not make mistakes. Very good package for displaying the results data, which is intuitive and easy to use. Among the best features that have been implemented in the latest versions is the "Named Function": a tool inside the solver part that allows to define mathematical functions, and much more, in order to bypass the use of UDFs which is always a bit difficult and not easy to understand. Exporting data is very easy since you prefer to use another software viewer or perform numeric post-processing operations with Matlab as an example.

Cons:

The hardest part of the program is the definition of the mesh. if you work with simple geometries you will not encounter particular problems, but since you want to use polygonal meshes for complex geometries, you have to use another package that integrates the mesh with the solver in a different way. The use of different packages for the management of the single parts makes the program heavy, which is slow in the opening and closing phases of the single packages. Another slightly critical point is the definition of the parameters. It is not easy to understand and you have to manage them through the Workbanch. This is not a particular problem once you are familiar with the program.

Dave D.

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Defense & Space

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

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Reviewed January 2022

Review

Mixed. I appreciate the software's technical capability and support from customer support team has been very good, but the solver can be a real pain to run at hypersonic speeds at times if there is any amount iof divergence from primitive geometry.

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

The price is good and there is a good deal of physical model functionality from low to hypersonic. Significant V&V has been done. I like the Fluent AERO capability that is being rolled out to do sweeps of AoA, Mach, etc.

Cons:

The software is very difficult to apply - significant amount of time needs invested in meshing. Other solvers (e.g. CDD++) are much easier to run successfully (i.e. quickly get solve an analysis). Find that other colvers are more capable numerically of running in the hypersonic regime. Fluent capability of integrating with Pointwise meshes that I receive from my customer is not great. Sometimes the technical support is good, other times can be a bit distant. Support received from other vendors is more engaged and actively trying to help (i.e. hands on).

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Reviewer

Research

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2023

My Love-Hate Relationship with Ansys Fluent

Overall, Ansys Fluent is an incredibly useful tool for simulation, but it comes with a steep learning curve. If you're willing to put in the time and effort to learn it, the results are well worth it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

As someone who used Ansys Fluent during my PhD studies for air quality, I found it to be a powerful but complicated simulation software. One of the best things about Fluent is that it allows you to create your 3D geometry using other software and save it in a format that Fluent can read, saving you the trouble of learning how to model in different software. The results provided by Fluent are excellent and provide a wealth of data for analysis, including animations and various plots.

Cons:

While it has a user-friendly interface, it takes a lot of time to learn and is not very intuitive. I highly recommend trying some tutorials before diving in. Also, running complex simulations with a mesh of millions of elements requires a powerful cluster and can take a long time. The results are great, however, it's not always easy to get there. Errors often appear during the learning process, but the software has a strong community of users, open forums, and assistance to rely on.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2023

Ansys Fluent - Review

Overall, I have been enjoying solving fluid problems using Ansys Fluent since 2019 and I would recommend this to my colleagues.

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Pros:

Ansys Fluent's main feature is the ability to run the simulation using GPU and CPU at the same time. Also, the model library, code, and algorithm are robust and proven in both many scientific research and practical applications.

Cons:

The fact that its price is much higher than its competitor makes customers put Ansys Fluent as a second choice.

Reasons for choosing Ansys Fluent

Its robustness

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Reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Best Tool for CFD Simulation

I have been using ANSYS Fluent for 5 years so far. I use it in all my CFD simulation and I have been very satisfied with it. I definitely recommend researcher to use it if available through their institutions.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

In my opinion ANSYS Fluent is the best software for CFD simulations. It has several add-ons that are extremely helpful for design and product development. It also offers engineers and researchers a lot of flexibility in terms of equations (flow, energy, and turbulence) and boundary conditions to setup the simulation as customizable as possible.

Cons:

What I don't like very much about ANSYS Fluent is the file management. I have had a hard time finding the files I save specially when the software crashes. Hopefully, with the newest updates ANSYS will fix these bugs.

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Reviewer

Design

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

Excellent

For general purpose... Ansys is the best... for particular and more material specific analysis ( like i designed my in composite and tested the equallent model on that) its not that accurate

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Best for simpler and small scale FEM analysis... can also work for Solidworks imported mesh.. thats a plus and helpful for me

Cons:

Just a bit slow.... requires more processor. But that isnt a drawback because FEM software have to calculate value on each node so in refined mesh they are compelled to require time.

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Reviewer

Airlines/ Aviation

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

fluent flow simulations

With the Fluent software, I generally made pipe internal flow analyzes and examined the heat transfer with the effect of temperature and flow rate. I also had the opportunity to examine the flow profiles of aircraft wing structures.

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Value for money

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Pros:

Ansys fluent provides the opportunity to easily solve multiple physics problems in different physics situations with flow simulations. It is especially solution-oriented in examining the interaction of multiphysical flows with each other. FSI contributes to the strength analysis of flow-borne structures by transferring the values of the flow results (such as temperature, pressure) to the structural side for the solution.

Cons:

Since Fluent software depends on the geometry to form the finite element mesh structure of the flow volume, it takes a long time to clean the geometries.

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Reviewer

Higher Education

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

Robust and user friendly

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It’s easy to start learning cfd using fluent without in-depth knowledge of fluid mechanics.

Cons:

I wish if we can also see the equations being used in the interface. It will become easier to relate the theory with application.

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Reviewer

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2021

Best for cfd analysis

overall experience is satisfactory, awesome software for simulation.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

best simulation software for cfd analysis . animations ,graph of simulated output can be easily extracted .optimization of varying input can be done for suitable output .FEM analysis can also be done. this software is best for mechanical projects . geometry can also be imported from other cad softwares.As being student of mechanical engineering I have working on project of savonious and darrieus vertical axis wind turbine, cfd analysis of wind turbine profile is to be done .using ansys it became easy to analyze the variation of output varying wind speed , aspect ratios and other factors.

Cons:

A bit slow if number of meshed element are too large, a bit difficult to use for beginners. licensing is a bit costly for students like me.

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