Defined Variations Parameters

A parameter is a characteristic of a model or a simulation that you can quantify and vary to determine its effect on the results of the simulation. A simulation can have input parameters and output parameters:

• Input parameters define the values to analyze for the model under investigation. They may include driving dimensions (such as length and radius).
• Output parameters are the response outputs from the analysis and are defined with monitors. They may include any measurable quantity from the simulation or model, such as: volume, mass, frequency, stress, velocities, pressures, forces, and heat flux. The value of an output parameter is based on the current state.

Best Practice: When adding parameters to a variation table, there should be no dependencies between parameters.