This chapter discusses features related to defining an analysis. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:

• “Abaqus/CFD analysis,” Section 6.1

• “Incompressible fluid dynamics,” Section 6.2

• “Abaqus/CFD to Abaqus/Standard or to Abaqus/Explicit co-simulation,” Section 6.3

• “Iterative equation solver,” Section 6.4

• “Dynamics enhancements,” Section 6.5

• “Contour integral evaluation improvements,” Section 6.6

• “Continued development of the XFEM-based crack propagation capability,” Section 6.7

• “Enhancements in Abaqus/Standard to Abaqus/Explicit co-simulation,” Section 6.8

• “Global damping and damping controls in matrix and substructure generation procedures,” Section 6.9

• “Damping controls in substructure property definition,” Section 6.10

• “Improved integration scheme in random response analysis,” Section 6.11

• “Use of arbitrary dynamic modes for substructure generation,” Section 6.12

• “Enhancements to coupled structural-acoustic analysis,” Section 6.13

• “Enhancements to steady-state dynamics user interface,” Section 6.14

• “Direct cyclic analysis in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 6.15

• “AMS eigensolver performance improvements,” Section 6.16

• “Random response analysis based on the SIM architecture,” Section 6.17

• “Submodeling based on the driven nodes only found lying within the global model,” Section 6.18

• “Enhancements to the geostatic procedure,” Section 6.19

• “Enhancements to complex eigenvalue extraction analysis,” Section 6.20

• “Enhancement to the geostatic and soils consolidation capabilities to model coupled heat transfer,” Section 6.21