Multiphysics technology has been a part of Abaqus from the beginning.Starting with Abaqus V2 (in 1979), Abaqus/Aqua simulates hydrodynamic wave loading on flexible structures for offshore pipelines. These capabilities, developed over many years and fully integrated as core Abaqus functionality, have been used extensively for many engineering applications on products and engineering projects in use today. The Abaqus Unified FEA product suite has significant capabilities that are used to solve multiphysics problems. Even during manufacturing, multiphysical effects need to be controlled, whether that is the flow of plastic in injection molding, or moisture build-up during electronic assembly. The different physical disciplines such as structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and electromagnetics are in reality tightly connected, because the interaction between multiple physical phenomena and the conversion of energy from one form to another is crucial to most industrial applications.įor example, in order to design efficient and reliable lithium ion batteries, engineers must account not just for the electrochemical behavior, but also thermal runaway, as well as fluid dynamics of the electrolyte and structural bending and swelling.
