Reply To: How do you approach this?

[Luca B.]

It's great to hear about your experience with Ansys APDL and your interest in expanding into fluid dynamics with Fluent. 

Ansys Fluent is a powerful tool for fluid simulation that offers fast pre-processing and solve times, which can be crucial for accelerating your workflow. It provides streamlined workflows for meshing and application setups, which could be beneficial for integrating fluid dynamics into your electrothermal mechanical simulations.

Moreover, PyMAPDL could be a valuable asset for you. It is a Python API that allows you to access the MAPDL solver and its simulation data. With PyMAPDL, you can convert Python instructions into APDL commands, which can then be transmitted to an MAPDL instance running anywhere. This could potentially enable you to automate and streamline the process of setting up and running your simulations, much like you're used to do with APDL.

As you're already considering, scripting to generate models in SpaceClaim and integrating them with Multiphysics in Workbench could also be a way forward in order to introduce automation capabilities.

Leveraging Ansys Fluent's capabilities for fluid dynamics, along with the automation potential of PyMAPDL, could be a promising path for you to explore. 

I suggest you to visit  the following pages that can give you more details:

• Ansys Fluent | Fluid Simulation Software  
• Fluids Engineering Courses
• Overview of PyMAPDL | Ansys Innovation Courses