--- title: Ansys CFX Reviews meta_title: 'Ansys CFX Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 18 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Ansys CFX works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 18 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-10' parent_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # Ansys CFX Reviews **Vendor:** Ansys, Inc. **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About Ansys CFX ANSYS CFX is a high-performance computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software tool that delivers reliable and accurate solutions quickly and robustly across a wide range of CFD and multi-physics applications. CFX is recognized for its outstanding accuracy, robustness and speed with rotating machinery such as pumps, fans, compressors, and gas and hydraulic turbines. ## Ansys CFX Reviews ### 1. Robust solver that I have used **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madhan Kumar P. | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** It is the best robust solver that is more suitable for the turbomachinery applications. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** It lacks some of the k-epsilon family turbulence models. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it to simulate the performance characteristics of Wells turbine ### 2. ANSYS CFX Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** The only thing that makes ANSYS CFX different and unique from Ansys Fluent is its utility that allows the user to directly enter the profile(eg. parabolic) of parameters like velocity instead of writing a User Defined Function for the same The GUI of CFX is pleasing to the eye and at the same time user friendly, making it a lot easier to identify the required fields. It comes with a post processing utility(CFD-Post) which has a lot of features to post process the results and use expressions, planes, etc to compute derived parameters. Contours colors are pleasing to the eye! **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** It does not have its own meshing utility and the mesh needs to be imported from other utility such as Fluent Meshing/ICEM CFD. But since it is a solver in itself, I would not consider it as a disadvantage. Rest all is up to the mark as far as functionality is concerned. One thing which I think they can do is provide flexibility to the user modify the stuffs inside the black box based on the requirement of their problem as is the case with OpenFOAM. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** Interface is better than fluent solver and user friendly as well. Post processing utility is same as that of fluent. However, between Ansys Fluent(whole Workbench) and CFX, I would recommend Workbench since it has all the utilities + you can modify the functionalities by adding UDF **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have prepared numerous case files of simulation of a turbine component using Ansys CFD in order to put them into a cluster for computation. It serves as a very good utility in case one is planning to run multiple runs by varing the input parameters on the same geometry ### 3. Ansys CFX for refrigeration companies **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** Multi-phase modeling, User functions, and GUI. It is very easy and intuitive. The numerical scheme is based on Finite Volume Methods. It supports multi-phase flows with no mass transfer. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** ANSYS CFX does not support boiling and condensation under their multi-phase models. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** Integrate boiling and condensation models **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multi-phase flows through ducts and pipes. ### 4. Easier to work than Ansys Fluent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas M. | Ph.D. Candidate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** The interface of Ansys CFX is much neater than Ansys Fluent. I found it much easier to define materials and boundaries in CFX. Also, this will allow me to get much more accurate results compared to a simples Thermal transient analysis **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** The main issue, in my opinion, is the lack of deep information readily available for every user. Sometimes you need to email them and this will take time to solve the issues. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** Study before implementing. Boundary conditions, topology share, and other things are not always straight forward. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am developing a cooling system for a mechanical gripper. CFX has been helpful to confirm and improve the accuracy of my initial estimations made with Thermal Transient analysis. The flow simulation is much more accurate than the film coefficient boundary condition in thermal transient. ### 5. Flow analysis of turbo machines **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** In the CFX, adaptive networking can be used for GGI interfaces and single domains without restricted physics. It is a software that has a very high performance in turbo machines and has proven itself in this field. CFX is particularly good for turbo machine and solid multiphase problems as it can solve combined volume fractions. And common grid interfaces are very useful. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** CFX can't handle a true 2D mesh geometry. It can handle a pseudo-2D mesh which would be a 1 element thickness 3D mesh geometry. Gpu usage is not available for CFX. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** If you want to make flow analysis about turbo machines, it is a software that you can get the safest results. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the verification of my radial fan design, I performed the analysis of the system at a specific rpm in ANSYS CFX software. I had the opportunity to interpret the speeds on the fan blade surfaces according to the results. ### 6. Advanced simulations with great results for what is required in CFD **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manuel Y. | Analista de Gestión de la Calidad, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** The simulations obtained are very advanced, showing great results in the movement of fluids in the different states from which an understanding of their movement dynamics is required. I had the opportunity to perform fluid analysis in convergent-divergent nozzles for the study of shock waves that occur in supersonic flow and obtained impressive and illustrative results of the thermodynamic properties that occur in such flow. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** Many times errors occur in modeling that are not easy to detect, and generally not much help is available to start using the software, which is a bit annoying at the beginning. The processing requirements are a bit high, so a good computer is needed to run the simulations. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** As an Engineer, I recommend this software to all students and professionals who need to perform fluid simulations for their dynamic and thermodynamic analysis. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** At the university, we solved many problems in Incompressible Flow Dynamics, especially in convergent-divergent nozzles, and thanks to ANSYS, we were able to learn about the study of shock waves that occur both at the exit of nozzles and inside them. As an engineer, it is very beautiful to be able to observe how the dynamics of fluid movement occur, and with ANSYS, this becomes possible in a clear and efficient way. ### 7. Helped me improve my computional skills **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** Post Processing is very helpful. Downsides so many steps of process for loading the software. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** Not specifically, Downsides is the process of running simulations **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** For Post processing and 3D simulations it is very helpful **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it for my post-processing mostly and i have given introductory lecture to students. ### 8. Best thermal Simulation software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siddhant D. | Graduate Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** The software allows me to make thermal efficiency calculations which is very necessary for the mechanical engineering industry. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** The simulations sometimes take a long time to run and that increases computational cost. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** Calculating efficiency of a turbine Evaluating performance of an industrial engine ### 9. easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** The name of the function I need to use in the fluent module is itself a self-explanatory. I do not need to learn this tool from someone else. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** For the 3-D model with the high number of grid point, it requires huge time to run and also need high memory. I understand that it's the requirement for this tool. However, this is the thing which mostly irritating me. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used to analyze the CAD model and observe the fluid behavior over it. So, mostly I used it to solve the CFD problem. The useful thing is its shows result in different color codes. ### 10. Very convenient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** Ansys Cfx is a very simple looking program- with power. The simulations are easily set up and you can check the results fastly. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** Some empirical constants/variables are not explained in the documentation, so it's a try and error. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** It's way better than fluent. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cavitation Modeling- there are several mathematical models on that. ### 11. Sophisticated software for simulation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** It is efficient and we can solve complex models in less time with accurate results. It runs robustly for all fluid flows I. E., Steady state, incompressible, transient etc., **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** Needs more time to simulate the model. Software cost is high and liscense problem **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** It's a convenient software package for CFD and Heat Transfer Areas. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fluid dynamics problems in case of aerospace. Discretization the component into multiple bodies is easy. High resolution. ### 12. Very convenient and user friendly software for CFD analyses **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** User friendliness of the software and the fact that you can easily set up your problem. There are many tutorials out there for different types of problems. The post-processing is easy and very great and accurate Setting up the problem is very straightforward So many different tirbulence models **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** Sometimes the errors can be confusing. Geometry of design and meshing is sometimes trouble making. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** If you look for a convenient cfd modeling package use this If you are a first time it’s a great software for you **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blast wave simulation. Fluid solid interaction. Heat Transfer Cardiovascular cfd Supersonic flow analysis ### 13. CFD Engineer working with CFX on a daily basis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** Efficient modelling of laminar and turbulent flows, CHT models. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** Graphics are weird. Model visualization is not very good. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fluid flows in power tools, cooling problems in motors, Air velocity studies ,etc. ### 14. Structural design analsyis and CFD **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaleigh K. | Circulation Desk Attendant, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** ANSYS is an easy solution for doing multiple different types of analyses. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** Sometimes the program is extremely finicky and isn't always straightforward. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has made redesigning mounting systems extremely easy. ### 15. A very powerful FEA and CFD software. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** Ansys supports both FEA and CFD computations and does so with a wide variety of file types. This is the most powerful software of its class. WIth the training, a designer/engineer can model everything under the sun. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** The software is time consuming to learn, but necessary to full understand all the equations and functions. A trained user, can solve their design problem without doubt. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** As with all engineering programs, practice makes perfect. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ansys was used in vehicle modeling and aerodynamics. Ansys can be as accurate as you make it depending on the level of model required. ### 16. Great Tool for CAE Analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** its a great tool to analize 3d data for propolsion and powertrain **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** the tool needs automation for generating reports **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use the software to run cae analysis for atomizer performance ### 17. ANSYS - Leading Simulation Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** ANSYS acquired SpaceClaim back in 2014, this acquisition equipped ANSYS with a powerful geometry tool that the software never had before. Plus the already powerful FEA and CFD functionality, ANSYS might be the best simulation software. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** Sometimes it is hard to figure out how to change certain settings since it's hidden or not well explained in the user guide. I think more development work is needed in order to make the software easy to use. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** For FEA simulation, ANSYS is really good. For CFD simulation, ANSYS fluent is good but a little hard to use. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** FEA and CFD. It is quick and cheap to simulate real world problem in ANSYS, you do not need to make anay physical parts, it saves time and money. ### 18. CFD software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Ansys CFX?** This software has a very detail and user friendly user's guide. It is very easy to pick up as a beginner. Parallel processing is very fast. **What do you dislike about Ansys CFX?** I don't like the mesh program because it could be more automatic. CAD software is difficult to use. User manual for the CAD software is not that helpful. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys CFX:** It is a software for many modeling applications. **What problems is Ansys CFX solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fluid ## Ansys CFX Discussions - [What are the features of Ansys?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-features-of-ansys) - [What is Ansys CFX software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ansys-cfx-software) - [How do I get certified?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36374-how-do-i-get-certified) - 1 upvote - [Will not always open](https://www.g2.com/discussions/30302-will-not-always-open) - [How to get certified.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/29685-how-to-get-certified) - [View Ansys CFX pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-cfx/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-17+00%3A48%3A00+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d47a167f-165d-4840-9799-d36ec3406eab&secure%5Btoken%5D=a2be947fd1d4ee429e08e961e7fbee448edf4d5278e2b8b80fbc4ad51f8047c1&format=llm_user) ## Ansys CFX Features **Design** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Rendering tools **Tools** - Fluid analysis - Finite element analysis - Multibody dynamics **Work** - Discrete event modeling - Continuous event modeling - Mechanical event simulation - Manufacturing process simulation - Integrate **Environment** - Hardware support - Task - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity ## Top Ansys CFX Alternatives - [COMSOL Multiphysics®](https://www.g2.com/products/comsol-multiphysics/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (36 reviews) - [Altair HyperWorks](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-hyperworks/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (56 reviews) - [MATLAB](https://www.g2.com/products/matlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (750 reviews)