Best Simulation & CAE Software - Page 2
Simulation & computer-aided engineering (CAE) software supports engineering analysis tasks. Simulation & CAE software encompasses finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), multibody dynamics (MDB), and optimization capabilities. Simulation software is used by engineers and analysts to imitate a real-life phenomenon based on mathematical formulae before manufacturing. Due to its close relationship with CAE software, simulation software can also be referred to as CAE simulation software. Simulation & CAE software enables users to simulate, validate, and optimize products and manufacturing tools.
Simulation products are used for both academic and industrial applications across a variety of industries such as communications and agriculture. Many simulation products offer a wide range of functionality in the form of all-purpose multiphysics platforms that can be applied to a diverse range of use cases. Some fit-for-purpose simulation systems provide more limited functionality in a single area such as for modeling network or mechanical structures. Simulation & CAE products are frequently implemented with other CAx applications, such as computer-aided design (CAD) software and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software, to support an organization’s product lifecycle management (PLM).
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Best Simulation & CAE Software At A Glance
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Altair® Inspire™ is an intuitive, powerful family of integrated software products that accelerates simulation-driven design throughout the product development lifecycle, from concept to reality, while
- Automotive
- Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- 42% Small-Business
- 28% Enterprise
7,241 Twitter followers
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ANSYS LS-DYNA is the most commonly used explicit simulation program with multi-physics capabilities to simulate the response of materials to short periods of severe loading. Its many elements, contact
- Automotive
- Higher Education
- 47% Small-Business
- 33% Mid-Market
30,411 Twitter followers
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Ansys HFSS is a 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software for designing and simulating high-frequency electronic products such as antennas, antenna arrays, RF or microwave components, high-speed int
- Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Higher Education
- 45% Small-Business
- 28% Mid-Market
30,411 Twitter followers
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Autodesk® CFD software provides computational fluid dynamics and thermal simulation tools to help you predict product performance, optimize designs, and validate product behavior before manufacturing.
- Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- 61% Small-Business
- 32% Mid-Market
275,942 Twitter followers
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Moldflow software for plastic injection molding simulation helps reduce manufacturing defects. Access tools for injection mold design, plastic part design, and mold processing.
- Automotive
- 46% Small-Business
- 36% Mid-Market
275,942 Twitter followers
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DEP MeshWorks is a CAE driven platform designed for rapid concept CAE and CAD model generation, parametrization of CAE models, enabling optimization, advanced meshing and CAD morphing.
- Automotive
- 73% Mid-Market
- 18% Small-Business
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Siemens Capital is an advanced electrical and electronic (E/E) systems design platform for industries where precision, speed, and reliability are critical—including automotive, aerospace, defense, ind
- Aviation & Aerospace
- Automotive
- 58% Enterprise
- 31% Mid-Market
36,775 Twitter followers
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Ansys Materials offers a range of materials information management software, designed for companies to realize their in-house Material Intelligence. Ansys Granta MI™ offers a scalable solution to cr
- 60% Small-Business
- 27% Mid-Market
30,411 Twitter followers
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Advanced Design System is the world’s leading electronic design automation software for RF, microwave, and high-speed digital applications. ADS pioneers the most innovative and powerful integrated cir
- 69% Small-Business
- 31% Enterprise
13,584 Twitter followers
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OptiStruct is a proven, modern structural solver with comprehensive, accurate and scalable solutions for linear and nonlinear analyses across statics and dynamics, vibrations, acoustics, fatigue and m
- Automotive
- 38% Mid-Market
- 38% Small-Business
7,241 Twitter followers
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Maple is a general-purpose computer algebra system developed and sold commercially by Waterloo Maple Inc.
- 60% Mid-Market
- 40% Enterprise
2,904 Twitter followers
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PRO/II is a software for steady state chemical process simulation and extensively used by oil and gas refineries.
- Oil & Energy
- 64% Mid-Market
- 27% Enterprise
15,454 Twitter followers
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Ansys Discovery is the first simulation-driven design tool to combine instant physics simulation, proven Ansys high-fidelity simulation and interactive geometry modeling in a single user experience.
- 36% Enterprise
- 36% Small-Business
30,411 Twitter followers
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Model and simulate decision logic using state machines and flow charts
- Automotive
- 36% Enterprise
- 36% Small-Business
100,648 Twitter followers
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ANSYS Forte incorporates proven ANSYS Chemkin-Pro solver technology, the gold standard for modeling and simulating gas phase and surface chemistry. While legacy engine-combustion CFD simulations utili
- Automotive
- 70% Small-Business
- 20% Enterprise
30,411 Twitter followers
