--- title: Ansys Fluent Reviews meta_title: 'Ansys Fluent Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 122 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Ansys Fluent works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 122 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # Ansys Fluent Reviews **Vendor:** Ansys, Inc. **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 122 ## About Ansys Fluent Ansys Fluent is the industry leading computational fluid dynamics, or CFD software, renowned for its advanced physics modeling capabilities and outstanding accuracy. As a general-purpose CFD software, Fluent can be used to model fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, chemical reactions, and more. Fluent offers a modern, user-friendly interface that streamlines the CFD process from pre- to post-processing within a single window workflow. Fluent is known for its advanced physics modeling capabilities, which include turbulence modeling, single and multiphase flows, combustion, battery modeling, fluid-structure interaction, and much more. Also known for its efficient HPC scaling, large models can easily be solved in Fluent on multiple processors on either CPU or GPU. Multiple solver options are available, including pressure-based and density-based CPU solvers to cover low-speed to hypersonic flows and a pressure-based native GPU solver. ## Ansys Fluent Reviews ### 1. Ansys for simulation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** NagaRaju M. | Employee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** Using ansys we can do many simulations, non linear, dynamics, etc.. I like doing simulation by applying different forces in different directions. I really like to test the component at what pressure it really braking. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** We want to know lot of fundamentals, without knowing the subjects (many basics) it is a big task doing simulation in ansys **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** People who started career in designing field learn one simulation software. I prefer Ansys because it is giving good results. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** I created piston in CATIA and imported that part to ansys. I applied different pressures on the surface of the piston(like oil pressure on piston) and I found at what pressure it is crashing ### 2. Ansys fluent is a very capable CFD code that can be used to solve most of CFD problems in short time **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hari kishore Reddy S. | Mechanical Design Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** Advanced scale resolving models are available I. e., Large Eddy Simulation(LES), Detached eddy Simulation(DES), Adaptive Eddy Simulation(AES) and it offers built in function to analyse the fluid structure reaction. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** It is not easy and parameters are needed to select very carefully and we probably need trail and error for multiple times to get the result **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** It is a very powerful software to solve complex CFD tasks. There is a bright future in future, if we learn ansys workbench. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly internal fluid flows in computational fluid dynamics. ### 3. Powerful tool for modeling flow **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** It was an independent application emphasizing on modeling fluid behavior, but now it is fully integrated into the ANSYS Workbench, allowing designers to have a flexible workflow from drafting geometry to post-processing. It offers built-in functions to analyze the fluid-structure interaction. It allows to bring the easy drag-and-drop transfer of data and results to share between applications (e.g. to use a fluid flow solution as a boundary condition constraint of a subsequent structural mechanics simulation). Advanced scale-resolving turbulence models are also available: large eddy simulation (LES), detached eddy simulation (DES) and scale-adaptive simulation (SAS). **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** To realistically model the environment in ANSYS Fluent is not easy and parameters are needed to select very carefully. In addition, Fluent resources are not as many as other simulation software. Therefore, to complete a project, users probably need to trial and error for multiple times to get their results. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** It is a very useful tool to run simulations for fluid behavior. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing the structural inputs to the analysis of the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) between wind and wind tower structure and helping with understanding the outputs. The results from ANSYS Fluent show the additional forces should be considered in the tower structure design where is not commonly calculated from the static study. ### 4. ANSYS Fluent is especially good for beginners and students **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** ANSYS Fluent is great for beginners studying Computational Fluid Dynamics. There are many different help options available, including the in-depth User's Guide Content, Context-Sensitive Help, and Online Technical Resources. It is a pretty basic system that can help beginners learn the basics. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** It can be glitchy at times and could definitely run faster. Sometimes I find myself waiting for it to load for longer than I would like. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** Great for beginners but a little slow/glitchy **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Learning the basics of fluid dynamics. I have realized its benefits in understanding the fundamentals of modeling systems. ### 5. CFD simulator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ram K. | Research Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** One of the best software to do computational fluid dynamics modeling for chemical and mechanical engineers alike. Also, inbuilt mesh generation is additional value addition. Earlier versions lacked it. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** Ability to couple with the chemistry module **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** Go for it. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD simulations for environmental applications. ### 6. Using ANSYS Fluent to model fluid flows **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** ANSYS Fluent is a great software for modeling, especially for anything related to fluid flows. I recently started using it for modeling and have been surprised by how perfect this modeling software is for any kind of engineering situation. It really has all you need to for building/importing models, setting parameters to match your situation, and modeling. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** It is difficult to learn. I'd suggest that taking an introduction class would be the easiest way to get started with ANSYS Fluent. The layout is kind of confusing at times. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just engineering modeling. ANSYS is the best software available for the modeling we're doing. ### 7. You don't need to remember the fundamentals **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charl E. | Data Scientist, Information Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** Fluent got a really useful upgrade and update when Ansys purchased the software and continued to develop it. The GUI and interface makes computational analysis readily available and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** The proprietary output and visualization options tend not to always be what I want, but workarounds are available. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fluid flow in mixed media. ### 8. Great tool to simulate fluid flow patters **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** Exhaustive database of fluid flow models and it has a wide reach, extensive technical support and access to resources such as forums, community and manuals **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** I wish it is faster. It takes almost a long time to startup and that is really inconvenient, sometimes even puts you off. The other con is that there must be an option to tweak the default settings. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** Good tool. Easy to learn. Go through tutorials as beginners. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fluid flow patterns, design of pipes, channels, reactors. It plays a prominent role in fabrication and helps me to understand the hydrodynamic patterns. ### 9. Reservoir Modelling and Simulation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajat W. | Process Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** Very powerful for reservoir modelling, flow models and simulations. Lots of features and very intuitive. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** Processing takes a lot of time if the reservoir considered is huge for simulation. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Characterization of reservoir is necessary to identify amount of fluid inside the reservoir. ### 10. Best CFD solver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vignesh Kumar S. | Graduate Research Assistant, Automotive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** More accurate and choices of solvers according to our problem needs **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** The animation saving option needs to be more straightforward like ANSYS CFX Software **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Aircraft system fluid flow and noise estimation. Good results comparable with real time scenario. ### 11. Flowing software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** High performance software was available to modify into complex business use, flexible in various stages of medical device industry. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** Although very throughly tested some issue in real world environment left some troubleshooting to be done. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** In clean room environment became essential software. ### 12. Fluid simulation toolbox **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** It has capabilities to simulate almost every type of fluid dynamics problem. Has a great GUI which is easy to learn **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** It is not free to use and has a hefty pruce tag. Runs the problem withiut authenticatung the boundary conditions which is useful some times but also creates issues other times **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** If you cab afford it its the best **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deaign optimization of a supersonic engine ### 13. User friendly for new users **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** The results are fairly accurate. The new 2019 version is really nice softwares. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** The modeling part isn't that good and not user friendly as compared to other s **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oilfield equipment. The results are accurate and closely resemble manual calculation. ### 14. YOU NEED THIS! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** I love how amazing it is for a beginning engineer to even the most advanced one! I usually run CFD sims and it can be tricky to learn, but the results are very validated. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** It can be really hard to learn sometimes, and I wish there were better tutorials **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** It is super useful! **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** I build racecars. Ansys helps us get quantitative numbers to validate our theories. ### 15. Gives good insight on fluid behavior **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** It's good at generating meshes and running simulations on different types of fluids in different environments. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** It's less intuitive than ANSYS as a whole. It requires more guidance and more boundary conditions. Searching for where and how to put these boundary conditions can be difficult. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helpful in running simulations on products that we are developing. Fluent gives helpful insight into how a fluid will behave in a system that we are looking into. ### 16. Amateur to Pro within the ANSYS **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** ANSYS gives you an instant control of the simulation you want to work with. The GUI is really user friendly and stacked as per the requirement. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** The fluid and solid are in different sections, which should be more interactive and create a sense of interaction as the user proceeds with the ongoing simulation **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Teaching and Research both are being solved by using the ANSYS Simulation ### 17. One stop CFD program **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Grace N. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2017 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** I think it's by far the best, complete CFD program out there, with features for both steady state and dynamic simulation **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** Mesh sizing and computational time. Also the error warnings doesn't always show what's wrong. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** A must learn if you like fluid modeling. Good but it's not a magic software, you need to truly understand the dynamics and how boundary works before relying on the results. I find students that just take a good converge result as a good modelling without considering how something logically works. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Any flow computational issues that need to be confirmed for projects before investment decision ### 18. Ansys for CFD **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** Easiness and the last version of Ansys fluent is very fiendly **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** The limitation for the student version on how many cores to use for simulation **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** Get used to drawing on Asnys **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD and airflow simulation ### 19. Fluid and solid analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** Very straight forward and streamlined process from modeling to meshing to analysis. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** Can be tough to import and not as feature heavy as comsol. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tissue fea ### 20. Excellent program to simulate and watch the behavior of a fluid and its characteristics. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel C. | Administrador, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2017 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** The best of ANSYS is the speed of create a net of elements constituents of a fluid, and the properties that provides to us in determinates conditions. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** To make the fluid gradient is necesary the density of the fluid that the software not provides, is the user who enters this property which can generate errors in the simulation **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** The best to people that works with fluids and gases, to make and know all the properties of the substance in any condition, it has tutorials to the beginners and many toolbar for a easily work **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** ANSYS provides a lot of properties of a fluid in determinate conditions that helps in a proyect of engineering, phisychs, chemistry, and more. This finite element processor for solving mechanical problems includes: analysis of dynamic and static structures (both for linear or nonlinear problems), heat transfer analysis and fluid dynamics, as well as acoustic and electromagnetic problems. ### 21. Ansys **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** The ability to integrate multiple functions like designing, meshing and analysis in one single package and esp their CFD is very impressive. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** The processing times for bigger files is way too much esp if the mesh size is so small. I would also want to more results in structural aspects. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** For CFD Ansys is the best software, though COMSOL offers better user interface but to understand the CFD , this is better. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** CFD, Design, Meshing at my work place ### 22. Ansys Simulation Software Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan K. | Research and Development Engineering Manager, NPI Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2015 **What do you like best about Ansys Fluent?** The ease of building models, and importing files from other design modelers is fantastic. With the acquisition of Fluent , Redhawk, and HFX this software covers all the basic needs and desires that a simulation/design engineer would need. The software can also be split into each of its subcomponents to more accurately meet the specific needs of the user without the requirement to purchase subscriptions to the entire library of tools. Learning and tutorials are fantastic ways of getting going in the software, and can teach quickly what the user needs to know. There is also a searchable online resource for help and technical support. **What do you dislike about Ansys Fluent?** The software's capability of accurately describing the contact of materials and components is very difficult to design. The friction coefficients and sliding ability of components are very much dependant on the settings and the accuracy of the material models that are built in the software. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Fluent:** Can be used as a full software suite with all the bells and whistles or be degraded into each separate tool dealing with magnetism, mechanics, fluids, or multiphysics analyses. Be sure that the proper tool is purchased for the required needs. **What problems is Ansys Fluent solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulation of real work environments during the design and evaluation process to mitigate and predict failure of components. Removing the need for design, test, redesign iterations in the engineering world and manufacturing realm of engineering. ## Ansys Fluent Discussions - [What is Ansys Fluent used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ansys-fluent-used-for) - 2 comments - [Which is the best CFD software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-is-the-best-cfd-software) - 1 comment - [Does Ansys student have fluent?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-ansys-student-have-fluent) - 1 comment - [View Ansys Fluent pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-fluent/reviews?page=3&qs=pros-and-cons§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+17%3A03%3A28+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f712493f-304e-4a97-ac50-4d6be445dc6f&secure%5Btoken%5D=4f3eb571ac63dbd0bbd0a2be8c305516fb562c4c3d7d8a27fabb818cbed3b681&format=llm_user) ## Ansys Fluent Features **Design** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Rendering tools - Stochastic Modeling - Presentation Tools **Tools** - Fluid analysis - Finite element analysis - Multibody dynamics - Design Analysis **Work** - Discrete event modeling - Continuous event modeling - Mechanical event simulation - Manufacturing process simulation - Integrate - Turbulence Modeling - Motion Modeling - Dynamic Modeling - Mathematical Modeling - Agent-Based Modeling - Monte Carlo Simulation **Environment** - Hardware support - Task - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity **Additional Functionality** - Activity Dashboard - Configurable Workflow - API - Data Verification - Data Visualization - Generative AI - 3D Imaging - Projections - Data Import/Export - Design Management - Drag & Drop - Real-Time Monitoring - Version Control - Visual Analytics - Third-Party Integrations - Access Controls/Permissions - Workflow Management - Direct Manipulation - Scenario Planning - Product Data Management - Predictive Analytics - Change Management - Process Control - Customization - Content Library - Document Management - Real-Time Data - Reporting & Statistics - Rules-Based Workflow - File Management - Compliance Management - Policy Management - Graphical Data Presentation - Customizable Reports - Graphical Workflow Editor - Reporting/Analytics - Industry Specific Database - Project Workflow - AI Copilot - Performance Management ## Top Ansys Fluent Alternatives - [MATLAB](https://www.g2.com/products/matlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (751 reviews) - [SimScale](https://www.g2.com/products/simscale/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (279 reviews) - [Altair Inspire](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-inspire/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (75 reviews)