As stated in the System Coupling Overview in the System Coupling User's Guide:
The Ansys portfolio of simulation software facilitates the creation of multidisciplinary physics analyses—not only within the context of a single product, but also through the use of Ansys System Coupling. System Coupling can integrate multiple individual analyses, enabling you to leverage different physics solvers and/or static external data sources in a single multiphysics simulation. When two or more analyses are coupled, an examination of their combined results can capture more complex interactions than an examination of those results in isolation, producing more accurate results and yielding an optimal solution....
Forte supports Command-Line Interface (CLI) System Coupling, which enables you to run the coupled simulation from the command line. This type of analysis involves preparing the project files of Forte and other participants and putting them in a working directory. In the working directory, you open a command line prompt and execute a series of commands, which may be put into a Python script. The commands typically include loading participants, specifying controls for the coupling-related analysis settings, and starting the coupled simulation.
Forte also supports Graphical User Interface (GUI) System Coupling. The preparation of Forte and other participants is the same as in CLI System Coupling. The only difference is that the commands to set up and run System Coupling are issued from a graphical user interface.
In How to Set Up and Run a Coupled Simulation, we describe detailed steps for setting up either a CLI or GUI System Coupling simulation, with Forte as one of its participants.
This overview is divided into the following sub-sections: