Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit Abaqus/CFD Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: You can now use the co-simulation technique to couple an Abaqus/CFD analysis to an Abaqus/Standard or Abaqus/Explicit analysis. This enhancement provides the ability to perform fluid-structure interaction (e.g., modeling flow in Abaqus/CFD and structural deformation in Abaqus/Standard) and conjugate heat transfer (e.g., modeling flow using the energy equation with natural convection in Abaqus/CFD and heat transfer in Abaqus/Standard).
Description: For Abaqus/CFD to Abaqus/Standard or Abaqus/Explicit co-simulation you create two models, each model representing a complementary portion of the total simulation model. You submit two analysis jobs for execution; and Abaqus exchanges interface data, as needed, between the two analyses. In Abaqus/CAE you create a co-simulation interaction in each model to specify the interface region and coupling schemes. Then you create a co-execution to identify the two models involved in the co-simulation and specify the job parameters for each analysis. Most of the coupling parameters are determined automatically based on the step types and the step parameters being coupled. You can display the results of a co-simulation in the Visualization module. Figure 6–1 shows the results of a conjugate heat transfer analysis using Abaqus/CFD and Abaqus/Standard.
Interaction module: InteractionCreate: Fluid-Structure Co-simulation boundary Job module: Co-execution
