Coupling in the Maxwell Application

Coupling is provided in specific contexts between the Maxwell application and the products listed below.

Ansys Workbench™ Application

Coupling of the Maxwell 2D/3D solvers with the Ansys Workbench application 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."

Ansys HFSS™ Application

There are two possible coupling mechanisms between the HFSS and Maxwell applications:

• 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."

Ansys Twin Builder® Application

Coupling between the Maxwell and Twin Builder applications 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® Application

Coupling without using the Ansys Workbench application is supported between the Ansys Fluent application and Maxwell 3D magnetostatic and Eddy current designs in the Maxwell application. 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™

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