EnSight has been capable of post-processing coupled fluid-structure interaction data for many years. This is becoming more important as FEA and CFD companies go after the challenging applications of fluid-structure interaction. Fluid-structure interaction applications include tire hydroplaning, defense (including making personnel air carriers safer), airbag inflation for automotive occupant safety, sloshing and filling of fuel tanks, and thermal-stress in an exhaust manifold of a car.

EnSight also supports loosely coupled FSI solutions such as using MPCCI server module. For example, Fluent and Abaqus run a coupled simulation by using the MPCCI server module and adding MPCCI plug-in to their own respective programs. Other codes that have added or are in the process of adding support for MPCCI are Ansys, Ansys/CFX, MSC.Marc, MSC.Nastran, Permas, StarCD and RadTherm (see also http://www.scai.fraunhofer.de/mpcci).  Contact vendors for information about MPCCI support.

There is no additional charge for CEI interfaces to FEA or CFD codes. There are also no unique problems due to using coupled data from a CFD and FEA solver at the same time. The EnSight license you have today is ready to tackle the problem. CEI is working with the solver software developers to ensure a close working relationship and compatibility with the results files.

In some cases the coupled solutions are run sequentially in time rather than simultaneously. To learn more about how to shift results in time or how to load Telluride data into EnSight, check out our knowledge base, http://www.ensight.com/knowledge-base.html.

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