About MSC CoSim 2023.2
Hexagon is proud to announce the availability of MSC CoSim 2023.2 as an application strongly supporting multiphysics solutions to enhance your productivity and aid smart manufacturing. MSC CoSim enables coupling between two or more Hexagons CAE solutions: Adams-Marc, Adams-scFLOW, Adams-scSTREAM, Marc-scFLOW, MSC Nastran-scFLOW, Adams-Marc-scFLOW and Marc-scSTREAM. Allowing you to simulate complex real phenomena such as flow through a reed valve or the aeroelastic behavior of an aircraft wing.
Release Highlights in MSC CoSim 2023.2
Introducing sub-cycling and sub-steps in MSC Nastran to Cradle CFD scFLOW for faster and robust co-simulation.
The sub-cycling capability allows a considerable speed-up in FSI analyses with MSC Nastran and scFLOW, as one no longer needs to perform the lengthy CFD iteration for each FEA iteration, enabling robust coupling between the codes for static cases.
Considering an aerodynamic analysis of an aircraft wing, this new capability enables the user to perform a non-linear static FE analysis coupled with a steady-state CFD analysis and use multiple sub-steps in MSC Nastran to ensure that each simulation code can have optimal time steps.
Further, using the MSC Nastran sub-step functionality now allows the user to change loading easily and constraints in the FEA simulation during a co-simulation.
Restarts for Adams to Marc for faster co-simulation analyses.
Co-simulation can be a lengthy analysis, and breaking them into sections can dramatically reduce the time it takes to study multiple scenarios with an identical start but a different ending. One can now perform an initial pre-loading simulation in the FEA to MBD co-simulation and subsequently study multiple load cases without running the pre-loading part more than once.