High-Fidelity Design Exploration at Scale with nTop and Ansys

High-fidelity design space exploration has traditionally been impractical for two compounding reasons: generating geometry variants reliably required manual intervention at every step, and running physics on each variant took too long to do at scale. Most teams work around these constraints by evaluating only a handful of configurations and committing early—not because the right answer is obvious, but because broader exploration has been too expensive.

That tradeoff is now becoming avoidable.

nTop’s implicit modeling generates stable, analysis-ready geometry across thousands of parametric variants without manual cleanup. Ansys combines GPU acceleration, automated model preparation, and tools like Ansys optiSLang to orchestrate and scale simulation-driven design exploration and optimization.

This session shows what becomes possible when these capabilities are connected.

What You'll See

• Geometry variants without manual intervention
  nTop’s implicit modeling generates parametric variants that are always watertight and analysis-ready. The same workflow that produces one design produces thousands—no failures, no manual cleanup, no bottlenecks.
• Faster simulation at scale
  Ansys Discovery applies GPU-accelerated solvers and automated model setup to dramatically reduce the per-variant cost of high-fidelity analysis at the concept stage.
• Systematic design exploration and optimization
  Ansys optiSLang orchestrates simulation workflows, enabling exploration across large parameter spaces, automated trade-off analysis, and identification of optimal designs based on multiple objectives.
• An integrated workflow that removes handoff overhead
  nTop geometry flows directly into Ansys Discovery without CAD reconstruction or mesh repair. Initial setup takes ~30 minutes; subsequent variants run automatically removing the manual steps that traditionally slow iteration.
• A complete trade study, live
  Watch a multi-objective airframe optimization from parametric geometry through multi-physics results, with a preview of how the workflow extends to system-level analysis and surrogate modeling with Ansys SimAI.

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