Coupling OpenFOAM with Abaqus

skuznet · November 25, 2013, 16:56

I just found a OpenFOAM tutorial about coupling OpenFOAM and an external application through externalCoupled boundary conditions
/OpenFOAM/tutorials/heatTransfer/buoyantSimpleFoam/externalCoupledCavity
.
In this example OpenFOAM is coupled with a dummy external solver.

I wonder if someone did such coupling with Abaqus?

elvis · November 27, 2013, 04:15

Hi,
there is a commercial tool "MpCCI" by Fraunhofer SCAI
that supports the coupling of OpenFOAM and many other CAE Software
http://www.mpcci.de/mpcci-descriptio...e-adapter.html
It is a save bet to use MpCCI for many problems, but it is a expensive one.
Sorry that I can not answer your specific question about externalCoupled boundary conditions.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/open...ningSlides.tgz =>Fluid Structure Interaction Simulations with OpenFOAM; M. Lombardi
http://sourceforge.net/projects/open...ngMaterial.tgz

Multi-Zonal Multi-Physics Modeling: FSI and Congjugate Heat/Mass Transfer,
R. Campbell and B. Craven, PSU http://sourceforge.net/projects/open...ell_slides.pdf http://sourceforge.net/projects/open...ven_slides.pdf

skuznet · November 27, 2013, 15:35

Elvis,
Thank you for the information!

chriss85 · January 21, 2014, 10:08

In which version did you find this tutorial?
I have not been able to find it in 2.2, 2.1 and ext-3.0.

I am also interested in using this BC. If needed, I might look into it myself, but this would lower its priority quite a bit for me as I already have a working, albeit suboptimal solution for the coupling.

Edit: Nevermind, found it in 2.2.2, I was looking in 2.2.1.

chriss85 · January 21, 2014, 11:56

@skuznet: Just as a clarification, I'm not using Abaqus, I want to couple to an external python script that evaluates some differential equations.

November 25, 2013, 16:56	Coupling OpenFOAM with Abaqus	#1
skuznet Member Sergey Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 87 Rep Power: 12	I just found a OpenFOAM tutorial about coupling OpenFOAM and an external application through externalCoupled boundary conditions /OpenFOAM/tutorials/heatTransfer/buoyantSimpleFoam/externalCoupledCavity . In this example OpenFOAM is coupled with a dummy external solver. I wonder if someone did such coupling with Abaqus?

November 27, 2013, 04:15		#2
elvis Senior Member Elvis Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Sindelfingen, Germany Posts: 620 Blog Entries: 6 Rep Power: 24	Hi, there is a commercial tool "MpCCI" by Fraunhofer SCAI that supports the coupling of OpenFOAM and many other CAE Software http://www.mpcci.de/mpcci-descriptio...e-adapter.html It is a save bet to use MpCCI for many problems, but it is a expensive one. Sorry that I can not answer your specific question about externalCoupled boundary conditions. http://sourceforge.net/projects/open...ningSlides.tgz =>Fluid Structure Interaction Simulations with OpenFOAM; M. Lombardi http://sourceforge.net/projects/open...ngMaterial.tgz Multi-Zonal Multi-Physics Modeling: FSI and Congjugate Heat/Mass Transfer, R. Campbell and B. Craven, PSU http://sourceforge.net/projects/open...ell_slides.pdf http://sourceforge.net/projects/open...ven_slides.pdf mm.abdollahzadeh likes this.

January 21, 2014, 10:08		#4
chriss85 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 397 Rep Power: 19	In which version did you find this tutorial? I have not been able to find it in 2.2, 2.1 and ext-3.0. I am also interested in using this BC. If needed, I might look into it myself, but this would lower its priority quite a bit for me as I already have a working, albeit suboptimal solution for the coupling. Edit: Nevermind, found it in 2.2.2, I was looking in 2.2.1. skuznet likes this.

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skuznet Member Sergey Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 87 Rep Power: 12	Elvis, Thank you for the information!

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chriss85 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 397 Rep Power: 19	@skuznet: Just as a clarification, I'm not using Abaqus, I want to couple to an external python script that evaluates some differential equations.