ANSYS, Inc. is the leading provider of scientific CFD software in the world. ANSYS, Inc. acquired the assets of Newmerical Technologies International (NTI) in February 2015 with the intent of continuing to provide comprehensive design and engineering services for ice protection systems of aircraft, rotorcraft, jet engines and wind turbines, and related systems in cars, trucks and high-speed trains.

The in-flight icing specialists at ANSYS, Inc. remain a one-stop-shop for all aspects of in-flight icing, ranging from engineering services, the licensing of their state-of-the-art icing simulation systems Ansys FENSAP-ICE™ and Ansys FENSAP-ICE-TURBO™ and icing protection systems design.

Today, icing protection still remains an arduous exercise that utilizes an eclectic amalgam of empiricism and freeware, collated through technologies developed in a different era, often leading to confusion for manufacturers and regulators alike. FENSAP-ICE and FENSAP-ICE-TURBO distinguish themselves by their ability to bring scientific rigor and methodology to the hitherto heuristic and empirical icing protection design methodology.

In-flight icing simulation, and consequently ice protection, still remains as much of an art as a science, making icing certification a difficult engineering process in the production of a new aircraft or engine. The ANSYS, Inc. in-flight icing specialists provide a rigorous, sequential, verifiable and integrated approach that views ice protection as a system, rather than a disjoint series of steps that are difficult, if not altogether impossible, to link. FENSAP-ICE and FENSAP-ICE-TURBO are the only modular icing simulation systems available on the market today and are the only 3D, CAD-based software of their kind. They are perfectly compatible with Ansys CFD tools, as well as other third-party CFD tools used in aerodynamic departments, and hence allow a complete integration of aerodynamic design and ice protection, a hitherto impossible endeavor.

In addition, while several other companies and governmental agencies may also offer icing simulation services, our specialists are the only ones who have completely developed their own software, with a total mastery of their much more modern technology and the ability to rapidly deploy it to new situations and new applications.

FENSAP-ICE and FENSAP-ICE-TURBO are systems that are continuously evolving to cost effectively resolve undetected operational difficulties or meet new regulations as they arise. Examples would be Supercooled Large Droplets and Ice Crystals ingestion into jet engines. Enough science is built into the system to view current and evolving certification standards as minimum objectives, as they are meant to be, and go beyond them to further increase safety.

The Ansys icing groups' services include, but are not limited to: