Digital System Prototyping for Medical Devices

Multiphysics simulation refers to the inclusion of multiple physical phenomena in a single computational model. This may or may not require multiple solvers. For example, a mechanical solver could be used to model stent deployment to a vessel wall, and then either a mechanical or computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver could be used to model drug diffusion in the vessel tissue. In situations using more than one solver, the ANSYS Workbench platform supports both 1-way coupling and 2-way co-simulation between physics solvers. This is a significant benefit of the ANSYS portfolio versus point solutions, which requires an interpreter to manage data exchange at the interface(s) between model domains.