ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

AGX Multiphysics

Okay kiddo, so you know how sometimes things can interact with each other in different ways? Like if you push a ball, it rolls away from you. Now imagine that we have a computer program that can simulate how lots of different things interact with each other all at the same time. That's what AGX Multiphysics does!

It's like a game where we get to play with all sorts of toys, but we can also see how they react to each other based on different rules. Imagine we have a toy car and a toy ramp. We can use AGX to see how the car will roll down the ramp, how fast it will go, and where it will end up at the bottom. And we can also change things like how steep the ramp is or how heavy the car is to see what happens.

AGX can do this for lots of different things, like fluids (like water), solids (like rocks), gases (like air), and even things you can't see like heat and electricity. So if we wanted to see what would happen if we put a piece of hot metal into a bucket of water, we could use AGX to simulate how the metal would cool down and how the water would heat up, all at the same time.

AGX Multiphysics is used by scientists and engineers to help them understand how things work and to design things like new cars, planes, or even buildings. Pretty cool, huh?