Multiphysics Analysis made real

Many real-world physical problems that engineers and scientists must solve involve the simultaneous interaction of two or more physical effects. Common investigations related with product performance are:

Fluid Solid Interaction (FSI) Analysis (fluid/structural coupling)

Thermal/Stress Analysis (thermal/structural coupling)

Joule Heating (thermal/electric/structural coupling)

just to name a few.

On the other hand, each physical problem is governed by different laws and equations and engineers often use specialty CAE software for each discipline:

• Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for structural analysis

• Thermal codes for radiation/convection/conduction thermal flow

• Computing Fluid-Dynamics (CFD) for fluid analysis

• Explicit FEA codes for process simulation and crash analysis

In general, different CAE disciplines need specific modelling strategies (grid shape, system units, etc.) and, often, it is not possible to use one and the same model for different simulations.

With Smart|Coupling that is not a problem!

Its tools for grid matching and data interpolation give you the possibility to quickly transfer data and results between different CAE tools, even on heterogeneous OS platform (e.g. transfer a wall pressure field form Fluent on UNIX to Nastran on Windows).

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