System Coupling participants are applications (that is, solvers) that send and/or receive data in a coupled analysis.

Each coupled analysis must have at least two coupling participants. You can add participants to the coupled analysis by specifying and loading their System Coupling Participant (.scp) setup files. When a participant definition loaded, the data model is populated with information from the participant's setup file.

Each participant object's display name is used, if available, and is shown in System Coupling's GUI, Transcript/Log files, and EnSight-formatted results. Otherwise, the internal object name assigned by System Coupling is used. Internally, participants are named according to the convention <Participant #>, where: