Multidiscipline

Integrated CAE for Improved Accuracy

At most companies, CAE is performed as an isolated activity within a single functional team or engineering discipline. The performance, safety, and reliability of their products, however, is greatly influenced by the interactions between these disciplines. Multiphysics FEA can account for some of these interactions, but often the mathematical basis for disciplines are fundamentally different. Multibody dynamics, FEA, and controls systems models, for example, do not share the same numerical foundation, making it difficult to evaluate products from a true system level perspective.

Multidiscipline CAE enables CAE applications from nearly any mathematical regime to share data that enables system level modeling and analysis. More than multiphysics, MD makes it possible to integrate FEA, controls, multibody dynamics, finite difference, closed form equations, and more, to enable co-simulation across the boundaries of engineering disciplines. Multidiscipline solutions (MD) from MSC’s MD Solutions offer interactive analysis for coupled engineering physics such as motion-structures, thermal mechanical, systems and controls, multi-physics, fluid-structure interaction (FSI), composites failure chaining, implicit-explicit, and more. Our robust solver foundation allows engineers to solve the most complex engineering challenges. Depending on the type of analysis, engineers can use MD solutions in two ways – direct coupling (applying multiple physics to the model simultaneously) or automatic chaining (passing load cases from one analysis to the next).