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This greatly helps project management. You do not need worry about the
individual files on disk (geometry, mesh etc). Graphically, you can see at-a-
glance how a project has been built.
Design Exploration
provides tools for
optimising designs and
understanding the
parametric response.
TIP: There are two ways to create the connectors between the
systems:
1) Use the mouse to draw a line (eg A2 to B2, B3 to C2 etc)
2) Or, simply drop the new system on the cell of the upstream one,
and the link will be generated automatically.
Icon Meaning
Up to Date
Refresh required. Upstream data has changed
Status after creating
Geometry in A2, not yet Update required. Local data has changed
opened mesh in A3 Unfulfilled. Upstream data does not exist
Attention Required
Solving
Update Failed
Update Interrupted
Changes pending (was up-to-date, but upstream
Status after model has data has changed)
converged, waiting for
post-processing
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Sharing Data between Different Solvers
Workbench can be used to transfer data between solvers. In this 1-way FSI (fluid-
structure-interaction) example, we transfer the loads from a Fluent CFD simulation
over to a Mechanical system to perform a stress analysis
Filename Directory
It is easy to see at-a-glace how a model has been built, and determine which files
were used for a particular simulation (pairing geometry files to solver runs)
membranes, highly
Very
deformable solids,
Numerical
1-way 2-way Coupling
(uncoupled)
Explicit Implicit
Iterative
Fully Coupled
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Modeling Approaches
Physical
Coupling Fully Coupled
Fluid and Solid equations solved in aBiomedical,
single monolithic
Strong
deformable solids,
Like Mass and Momentum in CFX, or coupled field elements in
the Mechanical solver Flutter, water hammer,
Fields remain very tightly coupled
Strong
Numerical
1-way 2-way Coupling
(uncoupled)
Explicit Implicit
Iterative
Fully Coupled
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Modeling Approaches
Physical
Coupling 2-way Iteratively Implicit
Fluid and Solid equations solved separately
Biomedical,
Strong
membranes, highly
Very
Numerical
1-way 2-way Coupling
(uncoupled)
Explicit Implicit
Iterative
Fully Coupled
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Modeling Approaches
Physical 2-way Explicit
Coupling
Same as previous except no iterations between the fluid
and solid fields within a time step Biomedical,
Strong
membranes, highly
Very
Numerical
1-way 2-way Coupling
(uncoupled)
Explicit Implicit
Iterative
Fully Coupled
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Modeling Approaches
Physical
Coupling 1-way
A converged solution is obtained forBiomedical,
one field, then used
as a boundary condition or external load for the second
Strong
membranes, highly
Very
Numerical
1-way 2-way Coupling
(uncoupled)
Explicit Implicit
Iterative
Fully Coupled
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Implicit vs Explicit
Deformation in Mechanical
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Static Data Transfers
Manual Export from CFD-Post
Use CFD-Post to map data onto a
Mechanical mesh, then export a
load file
The direct Project Schematic connection
does this automatically
May want to do this manually if you are
using MAPDL
Supports the same data transfer as the
direct schematic connection
Can also export Displacements from
Mechanical results for use in CFX
Workflow is not automated or persistent