2. Participants

The following improvements have been made to System Coupling's participant coupling:

  • Added Ansys Rocky as a solver in the System Coupling ecosystem.

    • Coupling occurs on walls. Rocky can receive displacements and temperatures as inputs. Rocky outputs forces and heat flows.

    • Two-way Rocky and Mechanical structural coupling.

    • Two-way Rocky and Mechanical thermal coupling.

  • Updated the Maxwell magnetostatic solver with additional variables available for coupling. Inputs are displacements and rotations (single-valued parameters). Outputs are forces and torques (also single-valued parameters).

  • Added ability to model two-way impact of electromagnetic forces on the electrical switchgear mechanism for electric arc modeling.

  • Can now couple Fluent or AEDT and rigid body solvers (for example, Ansys Motion FMU) to perform two-way fluid-structure interaction.

  • FMU proxy participants now support real, integer and string FMU parameters (attributes).