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    Runing multiple instances of Ansys Mechanical ...

    Problem was solved. It is possible to run N instances of Ansys Mechanical at the same time to speed up calculations as long as you have N licenses. The problem was that I made a mistake: both input files (my_job_A.txt and my_job_B.txt) used the same working directory. There was a CWD ansys...
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    Boundary conditions for a hollow cylinder or tube under combined loading

    Hello experts, I´m trying to model in ANSYS Mechanical (v14.5) the linear buckling behavior of a cylinder under combined loading (axial compression plus some torque) applied at the ends. How should I set up the boundary conditions of a cylinder to keep rigid the ends while allowing their...
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    Runing multiple instances of Ansys Mechanical ...

    I also tried to run two different jobs at the same time in different terminals that used a different working directory. Unforutnately one of them crashes (windows alerts that Ansys stopped working) while the other finishes normally. Note that to avoid Ansys-lock-related problems I set the Ansys´...
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    Runing multiple instances of Ansys Mechanical ...

    Dear experts, I need to speed up the solution of a large list of Ansys Mechanical (14.5) jobs, typically more than 50000. Such analyses are performed by a perl script that runs each job in batch mode. Since my system size is small and the typical execution time of the jobs is between 1 and 10...

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