Supported System Coupling Functionality

System Coupling supports the following functionality for FMU participants:

Table 27: Supported capabilities for FMU participants

Analysis types

  • Steady

  • Transient

Coupling participant-type combinations

  • Ansys-Ansys

  • Ansys-FMU

  • FMU-FMU

Quantities that can be sent to or received by an FMU participant

  • Temperature

  • Heat rate

  • Heat Transfer Coefficient + Convection Reference Temperature1

Data transfer topologies2

  • Undefined⇒

    • Undefined

    • Surface

    • Volume

    • Planar surface

  • Undefined⇐

    • Undefined

    • Surface

    • Volume

    • Planar surface

1: Both quantities must be defined for this thermal data transfer to be valid.

2: Currently, only transfers of single-valued scalar data are supported.