diff --git a/devel/alt_search.py b/devel/alt_search.py
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+"""Alternative implementation of the search function."""
+
+from collections import deque
+import gzip
+import pickle
+from pprint import pprint
+import re
+import time
+
+import psutil
+
+from ansys.fluent.core.generated.solver.settings_252 import root
+from ansys.fluent.core.solver.flobject import NamedObject
+
+
+def get_name_components(name: str):
+    """
+    Given a name like 'abc_def' returns ['abc', 'def']
+    """
+    return name.split("_")
+
+
+PathCache = {}  # caching name -> paths
+NameCache = {}  # caching name_component -> names
+
+
+def build_cache(root_cls):
+    """
+    Build a trie from the settings module
+    """
+    print(f"Memory usage before building cache: {get_memory_usage():.2f} MB")
+    start_time = time.time()
+
+    # A depth-first algorithm is chosen for the following reasons:
+    # 1. Show the search results in a depth-first order of the settings API.
+    # 2. Can support a `depth` parameter in the search function to limit the depth of the search.
+    queue_order = 0
+    queue = deque([("", root_cls, "<solver_session>.settings", queue_order)])
+
+    while queue:
+        current_name, current_cls, current_path, rank = queue.popleft()
+        PathCache.setdefault(current_name, []).append((current_path, rank))
+        NameCache.setdefault(current_name, set()).add(current_name)
+        for name_component in get_name_components(current_name):
+            NameCache.setdefault(name_component, set()).add(current_name)
+
+        if not hasattr(current_cls, "_child_classes"):
+            continue
+
+        for k, v in current_cls._child_classes.items():
+            if not issubclass(v, NamedObject):
+                next_cls = v
+                next_path = f"{current_path}.{k}"
+            else:
+                next_cls = getattr(v, "child_object_type")
+                next_path = f'{current_path}.{k}["_name_"]'
+            # with open("alt_search.log", "a") as f:
+            #     f.write(f"{next_path}\n")
+            queue_order += 1
+            queue.append((k, next_cls, next_path, queue_order))
+
+    print(f"Cache built in {time.time() - start_time:.2f} seconds")
+    print(f"Memory usage after building cache: {get_memory_usage():.2f} MB")
+
+
+def search(
+    search_string: str,
+    wildcard: bool | None = False,
+    match_whole_word: bool = False,
+):
+    """
+    Basic string-based search
+    """
+    if not PathCache:
+        build_cache(root)
+    if match_whole_word:
+        names = NameCache.get(search_string, set())
+        results = [item for name in names for item in PathCache[name]]
+    elif wildcard:
+        r = re.compile(search_string)
+        results = [item for k, v in PathCache.items() if r.match(k) for item in v]
+    else:
+        results = [
+            item for k, v in PathCache.items() if search_string in k for item in v
+        ]
+    results.sort(key=lambda x: x[1])
+    return [x[0] for x in results]
+
+
+def get_memory_usage():
+    """
+    Print the memory usage of the current process.
+    """
+    process = psutil.Process()
+    memory_info = process.memory_info()
+    return memory_info.rss / (1024 * 1024)  # Convert bytes to MB
+
+
+def save_compressed_cache():
+    """
+    Save the cache to a compressed file.
+    """
+    with gzip.open("search_cache.pkl.gz", "wb") as f:
+        pickle.dump((PathCache, NameCache), f)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # Example usage
+    pprint(search("viscous", match_whole_word=True))
+    pprint(len(search("viscous", match_whole_word=True)))
+    pprint(search("read_case", match_whole_word=True))
+    pprint(len(search("read_case", match_whole_word=True)))
+    pprint(search("viscous"))
+    pprint(len(search("viscous")))
+    pprint(search("viscous*", wildcard=True))
+    pprint(len(search("viscous*", wildcard=True)))
+    save_compressed_cache()
+    with open("alt_search.log", "w") as f:
+        pprint(PathCache, stream=f)
+        pprint(NameCache, stream=f)
diff --git a/devel/alt_search_trie.py b/devel/alt_search_trie.py
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+"""Alternative implementation of the search function."""
+
+from collections import deque
+from pprint import pprint
+
+import psutil
+
+from ansys.fluent.core.generated.solver.settings_252 import root
+from ansys.fluent.core.solver.flobject import NamedObject
+
+
+class TrieNode:
+    """
+    A node in the Trie data structure.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.children = {}
+        self.results = []
+
+
+class Trie:
+    """
+    A Trie (prefix tree) data structure for storing and searching search results."
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._root = TrieNode()
+
+    def insert(self, word, result):
+        """
+        Inserts a word into the Trie and associates it with the given results.
+        """
+        node = self._root
+        for char in word:
+            if char not in node.children:
+                node.children[char] = TrieNode()
+            node = node.children[char]
+        node.results.append(result)
+
+    def search(self, prefix):
+        """
+        Searches all results in the Trie for the given word and collects results from all child nodes.
+        """
+
+        def collect_results(node):
+            results = list(node.results)
+            for child in node.children.values():
+                results.extend(collect_results(child))
+            return results
+
+        node = self._root
+        for char in prefix:
+            if char not in node.children:
+                return []
+            node = node.children[char]
+
+        return collect_results(node)
+
+
+def get_name_components(name: str):
+    """
+    Given a name like 'abc_def' returns ['abc', 'def']
+    """
+    return name.split("_")
+
+
+def get_all_ending_substrings(name_component: str):
+    """
+    Given a name component like 'abc' returns all ending substrings of length > 1: ['abc', 'bc']
+    """
+    return [
+        name_component[i:]
+        for i in range(len(name_component))
+        if len(name_component[i:]) > 1
+    ]
+
+
+def build_trie(root_cls):
+    """
+    Build a trie from the settings module
+    """
+    print(f"Memory usage before building trie: {get_memory_usage():.2f} MB")
+
+    # A depth-first algorithm is chosen for the following reasons:
+    # 1. Show the search results in a depth-first order of the settings API.
+    # 2. Can support a `depth` parameter in the search function to limit the depth of the search.
+    queue = deque([("", root_cls, "<solver_session>.settings")])
+
+    while queue:
+        current_name, current_cls, current_path = queue.popleft()
+        for component in get_name_components(current_name):
+            for substring in get_all_ending_substrings(component):
+                SettingsTrie.insert(substring, current_path)
+
+        if not hasattr(current_cls, "_child_classes"):
+            continue
+
+        for k, v in current_cls._child_classes.items():
+            if not issubclass(v, NamedObject):
+                next_cls = v
+                next_path = f"{current_path}.{k}"
+            else:
+                next_cls = getattr(v, "child_object_type")
+                next_path = f'{current_path}.{k}["_name_"]'
+            # with open("alt_search.log", "a") as f:
+            #     f.write(f"{next_path}\n")
+            queue.append((k, next_cls, next_path))
+
+    print(f"Memory usage after building trie: {get_memory_usage():.2f} MB")
+
+
+SettingsTrie = Trie()
+
+
+def search(search_term):
+    """
+    Basic substring search
+    """
+    results = SettingsTrie.search(search_term)
+    return results
+
+
+def get_memory_usage():
+    """
+    Print the memory usage of the current process.
+    """
+    process = psutil.Process()
+    memory_info = process.memory_info()
+    return memory_info.rss / (1024 * 1024)  # Convert bytes to MB
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    build_trie(root)
+    # Example usage
+    pprint(search("viscous"))
+    pprint(search("isco"))
+    pprint(len(search("viscous")))
+    pprint(len(search("isco")))
diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/3909.added.md b/doc/changelog.d/3909.added.md
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+Basic substring search within settings API based on a cache
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