Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis With Abaqus and FLUENT 2005
Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis With Abaqus and FLUENT 2005
Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis With Abaqus and FLUENT 2005
Key Abaqus Features and Benefits Co-simulation capability in Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit for fluid-structure interaction applications. Uses dedicated tools (Abaqus and FLUENT) to solve the respective subdomain problems. Coupled analyses can be steady-state or transient, two-dimensional or three-dimensional, with unidirectional or bidirectional coupling of the subdomains. Thermo-mechanical coupling of the structural and fluid subdomains through a general code coupling interface (MpCCI from Fraunhofer SCAI). A rich set of Abaqus features are available in coupled problems including contact, geometric and material nonlinearity, and other capabilities.
domain boundaries as each individual analysis moves forward in time. The advantage of this methodology is that it allows relatively independent setup of the fluid and structural subproblems using familiar general-purpose solution tools and it allows for the solution of a wide variety of FSI problems. The interface coupling between Abaqus and FLUENT is based on industry-standard scalable interprocess communication and mapping tools (MpCCI) and is provided by Fraunhofer SCAI. MpCCI provides for the transfer of film coefficients/heat fluxes/pressures from FLUENT to Abaqus and the transfer of temperature and structural position from Abaqus to FLUENT.
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