Maxwell Coupling

Coupling is provided in specific contexts between Maxwell and the following products:

Ansys Workbench

Coupling of Maxwell 2D/3D with Ansys Workbench is supported via the Workbench schematic. The following types of coupling with Workbench are supported:

Thermal feedback is supported for Maxwell magnetostatic, eddy current, and transient solution types.
Stress feedback is supported for Maxwell magnetostatic, eddy current, and electrostatic solution types.
Harmonic force is supported for Maxwell transient and eddy current solutions.
Partial Model Coupling

For more information, see “Maxwell to Ansys Thermal Coupling” and “Maxwell to Ansys Stress Feedback Coupling,” and "Coupling Maxwell with Both Ansys Thermal and Structural via Workbench."

Note: To use couple Maxwell with Ansys Workbench, you must integrate Maxwell with Ansys: from the Start menu, select Ansys EM Suite 2024 R2 > Modify Integration with Ansys 2024 R2.

HFSS

There are two possible coupling mechanisms between HFSS and Maxwell:

Near field coupling.
Magnetic bias source coupling.

While they serve different application objectives, they are similar in neither requires the geometry in the coupled designs to be identical.

For more information, see “Near Field Coupling between Maxwell and HFSS” and "Magnetic Bias Source Coupling between Maxwell and HFSS."

Twin Builder

Coupling between Maxwell and Twin Builder can take the following forms (initiated through the Twin Builder user interface):

Export a parametric matrix from Maxwell to an ECE model file for placement in Twin Builder.
Dynamically link a Maxwell capacitance or inductance project to a component in Twin Builder.
Dynamically link a Maxwell Transient design to Twin Builder to perform Transient-Transient cosimulation.
Dynamically link a Maxwell design to Twin Builder to perform State Space cosimulation.
Dynamically link to RMxprt through Dynamic SML.

Because the thermal and/or stress solutions are derived from the distributed power loss and force density, they are likely to be more accurate than analyses based on average losses/force.

For more information, see "Coupling Maxwell to a Twin Builder Component."

Ansys Fluent

Coupling without using Ansys Workbench is supported between Ansys Fluent and Maxwell 3D magnetostatic and Eddy current designs in Maxwell. A transient Ansys Fluent simulation can use a Maxwell solution to simulate the magnetic effect in the electric arc of contactors.

For more information, see "Coupling Maxwell Magnetostatic and Eddy Current Designs with Ansys Fluent."

LMS Virtual.Lab™

Maxwell supports one-way coupling with Siemens® LMS Virtual.Lab™.

Maxwell Coupling

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