Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Software List (June 2025)

Rapidly produce proof-of-concepts and shorten your time to market with Ansys Discovery, a complete solution for real-time 3D simulation and analysis.

Ansys Icepak is a CFD solution for heat control in electronics that forecasts heat transfer, temperature and airflow in power electronics, IC packages, electronic assemblies/enclosures, and PCBs. It offers sophisticated electronic cooling solutions that use the industry-leading Ansys Fluent CFD (computational fluid dynamics) solver for fluid flow and thermal studies of electronic assemblies, integrated circuits (ICs), PCBs (printed circuit boards) and packages. You can perform radiation, convection, and conduction conjugate heat transfer studies, as well as species analysis and laminar and turbulent flow modelling, including convection and radiation with Ansys. You can also gain embedded Joule heating analysis that allows you to solve closely linked electrical and thermal domains at the same time. Electrical voltage and current excitations, as well as thermal sources and loads, can all be included. Users get a basic toolkit for setting up and running parametric runs for training design points in the new LPV ROM (Linear Parameter Varying Reduced-Order Model) functionality with Ansys. Solver initialization, meshing and MCAD geometry loading are 10 to 100 times quicker with Ansys Icepak solver and performance enhancements.

ANSYS Autodyn simulates the response of materials to short duration severe loadings. It is best suited for simulating large material deformation or failure. Integrated within ANSYS Workbench with its own native user interface.

Fluent is the industry-leading fluid simulation software used to predict fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, chemical reactions and other related phenomena. Known for delivering the most accurate solutions in the industry without compromise, Fluent’s advanced physics modeling capabilities include cutting-edge turbulence models, multiphase flows, heat transfer, combustion, shape optimization, multiphysics and much more.

Explore Ansys LS-DYNA, an explicit dynamics solver that simulates the extreme materials deformation response of structures to periods of severe loading.

Software uses finite element analysis (FEA) for structural analysis. Can model advanced materials, complex environmental loadings. Offshore hydrodynamics and layered composite materials.

ANSYS HFSS software is the industry standard for simulating high-frequency electromagnetic fields. Its accuracy, advanced solvers and high-performance computing technologies make it an essential tool for engineers.

Finite element analysis solution that provides robust, general-purpose stress, thermal, vibration and fatigue simulations.

Altair model-based development (MBD) tools can simulate complex products as systems-of-systems throughout the entire development cycle from early concept design to detailed design to hardware-in-the-loop testing (HIL).

PLAXIS 3D allows you to make safe, cost-efficient decisions that offer fast, reliable comprehensive analysis methods. The PLAXIS interface guides you across several modes to efficiently create models with intuitive digital geotechnical workflows. Used on projects of all types, ranging from excavations, embankment and foundations to tunneling, mining, and reservoir geomechanics.

Perform rigorous heat and material balance calculations for a wide range of chemical processes.

SageMath is a free and open-source mathematical software system.

Mix and match from the COMSOL Multiphysics® product suite to model physics-based designs and processes with numerical simulation. Explore all products here.

MapleSim is an advanced system-level modeling tool that enables innovation and reduces development risk, so you can create better products, faster.

Home of OpenFOAM, the CFD software licensed free and open source only, by us — The OpenFOAM Foundation — managed and developed primarily by CFD Direct. #OpenFOAM #OpenFOAMFoundation #CFD

Simcad Pro, offers an intuitive and interactive 2D/3D simulation modeling environment. Allows You to improve, optimize and visualize process flow systems. Integrates with live and historical data.

Altair HyperWorks Unlimited is a turnkey, state-of-the-art private appliance, available in both on-premises and cloud-based formats, that boxes up software, system administration, and infrastructure as a service into a single, intuitive platform.

SolidThinking Inspire enables engineers to create structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily. Software generates new material layout within a package space using the loads as an input.

Simio provides the software for simulation, production planning and scheduling innovations that gives you fast risk analysis and cost reduction.

FlexSim provides software to model, simulate, analyze, and visualize (in 3D!) any system in manufacturing, material handling, healthcare, warehousing, supply chain, and more.