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1. MpCCI FINE Turbo scanner has the option to extract already prepared boundary for the coupling This assumes that the model has been already prepared in the FINE Turbo interface This option is triggered by the option Select scan method in the Models Step in MpCCI GUI Automatic definition of moving referene frames parameter can be used in combination with a partner code having also supporting a mesh motion 2 10 6 FLUENT Remove the support for FLUENT 6 3 26 release Disable SGE control from FLUENT When running a coupled job under a SGE FLUENT ignores the number of processors specified at the command line and uses the total number of processors allocated for the coupled job In that FLUENT is automatically started with the option nosge MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 11 2 Changes and New Features in MpCCI 4 2 0 1 IT Release Notes e Specify the exit file name for interrupting a FLUENT computation This allows FLUENT to properly terminates the computation by saving the data for a later restart e MpCCl FLUENT subcommand option libudf has been renamed to libmpcci e Run 64 bit version if available default option value changed to true e Automatic definition of moving referene frames and moving grid parameter can be used in combina tion with a partner code having also supporting a mesh motion 2 10 7 ANSYS Icepak e Support of ANSYS Icepak 14 0 release 2 10 8 MSC Marc e Support of MSC Marc 2010 2 and MSC Marc 2011 release 2 10 9 MD NA2. The data structure for the moving reference frame MPCCI_MVREF has been renamed to MPCCI_MOTION for supporting general motion type definition The motion type has to be dis tinguished between moving reference frame and moving grid rotation translation movement see gt VIII 2 9 4 Moving Reference Frame Definition lt 8 IL MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II Release Notes 2 9 MpCCI GUI e Function defining the nodal coordinates smpcci_pnod has been extended The function may provide an optional rotational degree of freedom 2 5 MpCCl Grid Morpher e MpCCl Grid Morpher can be run in multi threaded mode for the following platforms aix51_power hpux1123_ia64 macosx_intel64 Inx4_x64 windows_x86 windows_x64 e Morpher options can be specified by a file gmo 2 6 MpCCI Environment e Fix for getting the next available port for starting the MpCCl server This avoids a termination of the MpCCl server if there is still an opened MpCCI Monitor e Improvement on handling a local MpCCI license server start stop The local license file was not correctly found by the MpCCI license command e MpCCI log file prefix change the log file is prefixed with the string mpcci_ and the jobname prefix provided in the gt V 4 7 Go Step lt 2 7 MpCCl Visualizer and MpCCI Monitor e Global variables can be displayed from the MpCCI server This option is available in the Edit Step see gt V 4 6 Edit Step lt e Additional vector display features The ve
3. 1 The above list is valid for MpCCl alone i e the MpCCI executables This does not automatically include all code adapters Some simulation codes can only be coupled on a subset of the above platforms A list of platforms for the supported codes is given in the following section and for each code in the corresponding chapter of the Codes Manual MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 31 5 Supported Platforms in MpCCl 4 2 II Release Notes 5 2 Codes Supported by MpCCI 4 2 on Different Platforms 6 Codes can only be supported on platforms they support themselves Apple Mac OSX on Intel 64 Bit macosx_inte164 OpenFOAM 1 7 HP UX 11 00 on PA RISC hpuxi1_parisc ANSYS 110 120 121 130 140 FLUENT 12 0 16 12 1 2 MSC Marc 2008r1 2010 RadTherm 10 0 0 10 0 2 10 1 0 10 2 0 HP UX 11 23 on Itanium II hpux1123_ia64 ANSYS 110 120 121 130 140 FLUENT 12 0 16 12 1 2 13 0 0 ANSYS Icepak 13 0 0 MSC Marc 2007r1 2008r1 2010 2011 IBM AIX 5 1 on Power3 processor aix51_power FINE Turbo 8101 891 892 89 3 FLUENT 12 0 16 12 1 2 13 0 0 ANSYS Icepak 13 0 0 MD NASTRAN 2010 1 MSC Marc 2008r1 2010 2011 RadTherm 10 0 0 10 0 2 10 1 0 10 2 0 STAR CD 4 06 007 4 08 006 4 10 008 4 12 003 4 12 015 Linux with glibc 2 3 on AMD64 or EM64T processor 1nx3_x64 ANSYS 110 120 121 130 140 Abaqus 6 12 1 FINE Hexa 2104 FINE Open 2111 211 2 211 3 FINE Turbo 810_1 89_1 892 89 3 FLUENT 12 0 16 12 1 2 12 1 4 13 0 0 A
4. FLUX 10 3 beta are supported ANSYS Icepak e ANSYS Icepak 4 4 6 to FLUENT 6 3 34 and ANSYS Icepak 4 4 8 corresponds to FLUENT 6 3 36 are supported e The adapter solution is derived from the standard FLUENT adapters for these versions MD NASTRAN e MD NASTRAN 2009 is supported e Only Fluid Structure application is enabled with MD NASTRAN MSC Marc e MSC Marc 2005r3 MSC Marc 2007r1 MSC Marc 2008r1 are supported e Parallel MSC Marc computation is supported e Axisymmetric model is supported PERMAS e PERMAS is currently not compatible with MpCCl 4 0 RadTherm e RadTherm 9 1 0 RadTherm 9 1 2 RadTherm 9 2 0 are supported STAR CD e STAR CD 3 26 is not supported e STAR CD 4 06 007 STAR CD 4 08 006 are supported MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 29 4 Prerequisites for MpCCI Installation IT Release Notes 4 Prerequisites for MpCCI Installation O Please see gt 5 Supported Platforms in MpCCl 4 2 lt for platform specific prerequisites Required Disc Space A full MpCCl installation all platforms and all code adapters plus a multi platform Java JRE and the MpCCI RSH and the OpenSSH for Microsoft Windows requires a free disc space of approx 1 0 GB Third Party Software Perl Java MpCCI RSH for Windows is provided by MpCCI This allows an access to all Windows operating system XP and Vista See gt III 2 6 MpCCI RSH for Microsoft Windows lt 30 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II Release Notes 5 1 Platforms Supported by t
5. e Fix the ANSYS product license features listing Although the command mpcci ANSYS products returns some product features some users get an additional warning that no valid license was found as below 22 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 IT Release Notes 3 7 MpCCI 4 0 1 2 gt mpcci ANSYS products mpcci ANSYS products No valid license files or servers found ane3f1 ansys struct ANSYS product license features settings is configured with the following order 1 ANSYSLMD LICENSE FILE can be used to identify one or several license server machine s or license file s 1 This setting must refer to the FLEXIm server setting and not to the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect port 2 ANSYSLIC_DIR can be used to specify the path to the license file license dat 3 Additionally the ANSYS default license port 1055 will be checked if no license features were previously found and if the default port was not already checked MD NASTRAN e Add an option for saving the f04 f06 files e Add Elastic Flap tutorial gt VII 3 Elastic Flap in a Duct lt STAR CCM e Defect concerning a missing MpCCl client shared library under Microsoft Windows the adapter library can now find the MpCCI client dynamic library User does not have to set in the java macro file the environment variable _MPCCI_LIBPATH e Remove the need to set in the java macro file the environment variable referring the MpCCl client library static String mpcciLibPath System ge
6. procedure is considered as a static analysis by MpCCI Only the iteration increment is then sent to MpCCl server 2 10 2 ANSYS Support of ANSYS 14 0 release Additional environment variable to define the list of ANSYS products to use In the case that MpCCl is not able to find a list of available ANSYS products for the ANSYS license file via the environment variable ANSYSLMD_LICENSE_FILE the user can define the MPCCI_ANSYS_PRODUCT_LIST environment variable containing the list of products separated by colon semicolon or space For example export MPCCI_ANSYS_PRODUCT_LIST ansys ane3f1 strucds It is required that ANSYS can run in standalone correctly and can get a license without any issue 2 10 3 FINE Hexa Support of FINE Hexa 2 10 4 release only The new FINE Hexa solver has been renamed to FINE Open by NUMECA International 10 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 IT Release Notes 2 10 Code Specific Changes MpCCl FINE Hexa scanner displays the component name without prefix IDs The component name is composed of boundary name surface Id block ID from the model MpCCl FINE Hexa scanner has the option to extract already prepared boundary for the coupling This assumes that the model has been already prepared in the FINE Hexa interface This option is triggered by the option Select scan method in the Model Step in MpCCI GUI Automatic definition of moving referene frames parameter can be used in combination with a partner code having also support
7. ANSYS model file has to be rescanned by using the Force rescan option STAR CD e STAR CD 4 10 008 is supported 3 10 MpCCl 4 0 0 0 3 10 1 Installation Configuration and Licensing Installation Users who have yet to upgrade to MpCCI 4 0 should install MpCCI in a new directory Licensing Users will need an appropriate license file to access MpCCI 4 0 MPICH MpCCl 4 0 does not need any MPI installation anymore Microsoft Windows MPICH installation could be removed 3 10 2 Coupling Server Improved Performance The MpCCI 4 0 coupling server based on a new design offers e A fast and robust mapping method e A support of advanced simulation application through flexible coupling schemes e A reduced memory usage and CPU load e Support of remeshing of coupling surfaces or volumes at runtime e Trace files in various formats Quantity configuration e Ramping and under relaxation per quantity e Quantity is defined per mesh which allows them to be sent and received on different parts MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 27 3 Changes and New Features in the Earlier Releases IT Release Notes Interpolation Schemes e Support of new element types quadratic elements axisymmetric elements polygons and polyhedra e Coupling between network and mesh based codes e Fast and robust interpolation based on shape function Flexible Coupling Schemes The coupling server supports e An asynchronous buffered coupling communicatio
8. C Environment 4 4 46 4444844 besa nb eee edd da we dass 22 38 9 Code pecie Changes oc ec eo ee Seda AAA A 22 dl MECCA oo ent adda dee aaa GGG ede bhdd Hdd was 23 8 74 WpCcl Environment oses eee eee S ARAL aa SAAS ede Re REE EEE 23 Sie Code Specie Changes 2 ec ee eR ee ee ee 23 So PEAU essar es Pe dete eee sd dd G4 EEAASE EG REE H EE EOS 24 Sool CONB IE Seer bak eee AA A 24 3502 MpECI Visualizer ac oe beeen eee dddbeed PRADA SEE meee a a EE a 24 Sos Bah Syo as eao paa ee a eaa a bA SG deae e eee 24 Soe MoeT pp cece Pe de eee eee bibi 25 38 5 Code Specie Changes es secda eee ee EE eR eee ee 25 Io EAO 26 55h oe es Pek eee eh ee ss a EEG wee e e OS 26 30 1 Cowpling Sener ok be eee ee eee EE RARE Ree ea 26 S82 pCO Visualz r ac oe ee eee eee dddagd AAAA 6 Ee meee bees 26 pie Dari ca ke ee eee de Re ee ee ee 26 Se WIpCO GOL 2b bn ene Pwan eee eee esse sad bhaae be pe eee eet Ges 26 mu Code Specife hanger o o oaaae paea a a ee ee RA A Ar a 27 Sot IBIS 28 oe ae a e e e AA R 27 3 10 1 Installation Configuration and Licensing e A a ae a 27 IS ORBE DEVET lt a ida a e ida A A 27 SIS MpECI Visualizer i o c o a aaae ie i a acia a aa Ge pe e ee a a aee A E A 28 ithe MPE GUD o a a kaa 5 So hee e dt eee eS 28 SIS Code Specife CIanp s da GG we aa AA a ae 28 4 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II Release Notes Contents 4 Prerequisites for MpCCI Installation 30 5 Supported Platforms in MpCCl 4 2 31 5 1 Platforms Supported by t
9. C Marc 2010 platform naming convention will be used It does not affect the usage of the MSC Marc application e MSC Marc executable will only be compiled once for the job if there are changes in the FORTRAN user routines or MpCCl adapter library e Modification of the data exchange sequence MSC Marc exchanges data at the start of the increment It allows MSC Marc to receive the time step quantity OpenFOAM e Support of OpenFOAM 1 5 and higher for Linux and Windows 64 bit platforms e Support 3D model application for FSI and thermal coupling calculation e Volume coupling is currently not supported RadTherm e Support of RadTherm 10 0 release STAR CCM e No support for STAR CCM 4 06 011 e Support of STAR CCM 5 06 010 e Fix for boundary names having trailing white space Under Microsoft Windows the definition of the coupled mesh had failed e The quantity mass flow rate MassFlowRate can be received on mass flow inlet boundary type That quantity will be converted into a mass flux rate for the boundary on STAR CCM side for the coupling e Fix for receiving quantity Temperature on mass flow inlet boundary type MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 21 3 Changes and New Features in the Earlier Releases II Release Notes e Fixed bug in the memory management in case of large models STAR CCM got a java heap memory error in case of surfaces with more than a million elements and a number of nodes over two millions e Added a remeshing modu
10. Cl server and does not terminate the complete coupled job FLUENT e Issue with parallel FLUENT connections to the MpCCl server has been solved FLUENT has received a connection timeout message during the initialization MSC Marc e MSC Marc 2007r1 support on Microsoft Windows 32 bit has been dropped 3 2 MpCCl 4 1 1 1 3 2 1 Coupling Server e In case of a client connection with an invalid job identifier to the MpCCI server the client process is now correctly informed and disconnected e When the MpCCl server was started on a remote machine the listening port number may be wrong and the client codes may not connect to the right MpCCI server This issue has been fixed 3 2 2 MpCCl Environment e Bug fix for the update command mpcci update to download the new files MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 15 3 Changes and New Features in the Earlier Releases IT Release Notes 3 2 3 MpCCI Visualizer and MpCCI Monitor e New feature available show peaks function enables to display the location of the minimum and maximum value on the model e Bug fix A connection to a host did not time out correctly 3 2 4 Batch System e Bug fix By submitting a coupled job from the command line the submit script was not correctly generated For example mpcci batch SGE submit pe parallel 4 q coupled cwd coupled csp 3 2 5 Code Specific Changes ANSYS e Add AIX platform support for ANSYS FINE Turbo e Support of FINE Turbo 8 9 1 release e Automati
11. Code Specific Changes Abaqus Supported quantities list has been updated Fix for Microsoft Windows platform to figure out information about the Abaqus installation by using the PATH variable if the Abaqus registry information is not available Abaqus 6 10 needs to update the MpCCl client library in order to be compatible with MpCCl 4 1 First make a backup of the MpCCl client library you find under the directory ABAQUS_INST ABAQUS _RELEASE External The MpCCI client library begins with the prefix libmpcci The new MpCCl client library may be found under the MpCCI installation directory MPCCI_HOME codes Abaqus lib lt ABAQUS_ARCH gt Please copy the libmpcci XXX dl1ls1 so to ABAQUS_INST ABAQUS RELEASE External di rectory Platform Processor Directory name MpCCl client library Windows x86 32 win86 32 libmpcci vc80 32 dll Windows x86 64 win86 64 libmpcci vc80 64 dll Linux x86 64 Inx86 64 libmpcci 64 so HP UX Ttanium hpux1123_ia64 libmpcci 64 sl AIX Power aix51_power libmpcci 64 so ANSYS Support of ANSYS 13 0 release FLUENT Support of FLUENT 13 0 release The quantity mass flow rate MassFlowRate can be received on a mass flow inlet boundary The user has to change the Mass Flow Specification Method to Mass Flow Rate in the boundary conditions panel This is a feature available up to FLUENT 13 Fix for thermal coupling with Euler multiphase model Fix for time step sub
12. Il Release Notes MpCCl 4 2 0 1 Documentation Part II Release Notes PDF version April 25 2012 MpCCl is a registered trademark of Fraunhofer SCAI www scai fraunhofer de mpcci N LA H Fraunhofer SCAI Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI Schloss Birlinghoven 53754 Sankt Augustin Germany Abaqus and SIMULIA are trademarks or registered trademarks of Dassault Systemes ANSYS FLUENT and ANSYS Icepak are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ansys Inc Elmer is an open source software developed by CSC FINE Hexa FINE Open and FINE Turbo are trademarks of NUMECA International Flowmaster is a registered trademark of Flowmaster Group NV FLUX is a registered trademark of Cedrat of Grenoble France MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks Inc MSC Adams MSC Marc MD NASTRAN and MSC NASTRAN are trademarks or registered trademarks of MSC Software Corporation OpenFOAM is a registered trademark of OpenCFD Ltd PERMAS is a registered trademark of Intes GmbH PosRad is a registered trademark of CD adapco Group RadTherm is a registered trademark of ThermoAnalytics Inc STAR CCM and STAR CD are registered trademarks of CD adapco Group ActivePerl has a Community License Copyright of Active State Corp FlexNet Publisher is a registered trademark of Flexera Software Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Mac OS X is a registe
13. Microsoft Windows architecture The MpCCI plugin for STAR CD could not be correctly loaded if STAR CD was installed in a directory containing white spaces A user who wants to use the displaced nodal coordinates from MpCCl in the newxyz f routine for another morphing step or grid movement calculation like a valve motion has met the following runtime issue libstarusr so undefined symbol starmpcci_newxyz_ MpCCl copies the required library at the start of the STAR CD calculation if required ccmg was not properly converted for the MpCCI Grid Morpher 14 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 IT Release Notes 3 2 MpCCI 4 1 1 1 3 Changes and New Features in the Earlier Releases 3 1 MpCCI 4 1 1 2 3 1 1 MpCCI Environment e Timeout connection has been increased for supporting large parallel applications connecting to the MpCCl server The MpCCl client library has been updated e Bug fix for the update command mpcci update to download the new files 3 1 2 Code Specific Changes All code adapters include the connection timeout change Abaqus e The MpCCI client library for Abaqus has to be updated Please follow the installation procedure described for Abaqus in section 3 3 4 This includes the fixes of the following items The bad hello string message from the MpCCl server If END SS is chosen in the Abaqus step definition the step ends after this time period or when steady state conditions are reached Abaqus will properly quit the MpC
14. NSYS Icepak 13 0 0 14 0 0 MD NASTRAN 2010 1 2011 1 2012 1 MSC Marc 2007r1 2008r1 2010 2011 OpenFOAM 1 5 1 6 1 7 RadTherm 10 0 0 10 0 2 10 1 0 10 2 0 STAR CCM 6 02 007 6 02 009 6 04 014 6 04 016 6 06 011 6 06 017 STAR CD 4 06 007 4 08 006 4 10 008 4 12 003 4 12 015 4 14 011 4 14 038 4 16 010 32 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 IT Release Notes 5 2 Codes Supported by MpCCl 4 2 on Different Platforms Linux with glibc 2 3 on x86 1nx3_x86 ANSYS 110 120 121 130 140 FINE Hexa 2104 FINE Open 211 1 211 2 211 3 FINE Turbo 810_1 891 892 89 3 FLUENT 12 0 16 12 1 2 12 1 4 13 0 0 ANSYS Icepak 13 0 0 MD NASTRAN 2010 1 2011 1 2012 1 MSC Marc 2007r1 2008r1 2010 2011 RadTherm 10 0 0 10 0 2 10 1 0 10 2 0 STAR CCM 6 02 007 6 02 009 6 04 014 6 04 016 6 06 011 6 06 017 STAR CD 4 06 007 4 08 006 4 10 008 4 12 003 4 12 015 4 14 038 4 16 010 Linux with glibc 2 4 on AMD64 or EM64T processor 1nx4_x64 ANSYS 110 120 121 130 140 Abaqus 6 12 1 FINE Hexa 2104 FINE Open 2111 2112 211 3 FINE Turbo 8101 891 892 89 3 FLUENT 12 0 16 12 1 2 12 1 4 13 0 0 ANSYS Icepak 13 0 0 14 0 0 MD NASTRAN 2010 1 2011 1 2012 1 MSC Marc 2007r1 2008r1 2010 2011 OpenFOAM 1 5 1 6 1 7 RadTherm 10 0 0 10 0 2 10 1 0 10 2 0 STAR CCM 6 02 007 6 02 009 6 04 014 6 04 016 6 06 011 6 06 017 STAR CD 4 06 007 4 08 006 4 10 008 4 12 003 4 12 015 4 14 011 4 14 038 4 16 010 Microsoft Window
15. STRAN e Support of MD NASTRAN 2011 1 release e Support of MSC NASTRAN 2012 1 release MD NASTRAN and MSC NASTRAN have been consoli dated to one product brand MSC NASTRAN Multi physics capability from the MD NASTRAN code can be retrieved in the MSC NASTRAN solution suite 2 10 10 OpenFOAM e Windows HPC support e Fix OpenFOAM controlDict preparation In case that the model contains user defined library definition for some boundaries MpCCI did not correctly update the libs entry 2 10 11 RadTherm Support of RadTherm 10 0 2 RadTherm 10 1 0 and RadTherm 10 2 0 release Older releases than RadTherm 10 0 0 are not supported anymore Extended RadTherm installation search Microsoft Windows architecture names have been renamed for the adapter library directory e No of parallel processes entry has been renamed to No of parallel solver threads This is a fix for handling the distribution of the code on a batch system environment Initial quantities transfer option has been extended RadTherm is allowed to send exchange and skip the initial quantities transfer action Such applications like a one way mapping from RadTherm to a CFD simulation code is supported e Fix for supporting multilayer part in RadTherm model The film temperature and heat transfer coefficient are correctly applied on the backside of the part For multilayer part only the first and last layer are selected as front and back side for the coupling Coupling of lay
16. TAR CCM table was not found Support for simulation model with preferred units system setting User should set the same units system in the MpCCI GUI Support of 6 DOF model for FSI The morpher will be set to 6 DOF plus displacement option instead of the standard option Total displacement This feature is only available from the new STAR CCM 6 04 014 Memory usage improvement for the MpCCI STAR CCM adapter for handling large models Additional new option for exporting the STAR CCM boundary information to MpCCI The default method is the export of the information in a single file instead of exporting individual files for each boundary STAR CCM boundaries without element information are automatically removed from the cou pled mesh definition Automatic definition of moving reference frames and moving grid parameters can be used in combination with a partner code having also supporting a mesh motion Scanner changes Scanner will not list regions without physics continuum attached Duplicated boundaries from the same region are listed only one time The duplicated boundaries are remembered in the scanner result file It is recommended to use different names for each boundary MpCCl scanner works in a case insensitive way 2 10 13 STAR CD Support of STAR CD 4 16 010 for Windows and Linux platforms The PGF90 releases of STAR CD 4 x for Linux 64 platform are not supported anymore Fix for STAR CD on
17. aced by usIII If ANSYS sun64 adapter is needed copy the adapter directory usIII to sun64 e ANSYS 12 1 is supported e Model dimension bug fix for model that is just created on the X Y plane FLUENT e FLUENT 12 1 is supported e Activate the At Exit hook in order to properly disconnect FLUENT to MpCCl server e Fixes for MpCCI Control Panel in FLUENT Some options were not correctly updated e bug fix FLUENT do not seems to be terminated by MpCCl by clicking on the kill button mostly for FLUENT serial computation e Fix issue with the Update Steady Mesh which was not correctly called MD NASTRAN e Current adapters are available for MD NASTRAN 2010 e Fix for detecting MD NASTRAN installation for MD NASTRAN 2010 e MpCCl Code Manual for MD NASTRAN is available MSC Marc e MSC Marc 2005r3 support has been removed RadTherm e RadTherm 9 3 is supported MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 25 3 Changes and New Features in the Earlier Releases IT Release Notes e Fix missing dll files for scanning the RadTherm model for Microsoft Windows platform STAR CCM e STAR CCM 4 04 001 4 06 011 5 02 009 5 02 010 are supported e Tutorial examples have been added STAR CD e STAR CD 4 12 004 4 12 016 releases are supported 3 9 MpCCl 4 0 0 1 3 9 1 Coupling Server Termination message e Deadlock issue when the simulation end time is reached The server will terminate gracefully with a normal exit code Parallel Clien
18. c model preparation for the coupled simulation automatic activation of the coupled region direct specification of the hosts for a parallel run FINE Hexa e Support of FINE Hexa 2 11 0 release e Automatic model preparation for the coupled simulation automatic activation of the coupled region direct specification of the hosts for a parallel run STAR CCM e Support of STAR CCM 6 02 release e Changes in the tutorial macro file the run command may in some cases not run as expected This has been replaced by the equivalent command step e Code adapter does additional checks on the model setup For example the boundary type and option are checked STAR CD e Support of STAR CD 4 14 x release on Microsoft Windows Linux platform To use STAR CD under Microsoft Windows please set the STARDIR to the current STAR CD installation to use for example set STARDIR C Program Files CD adapco STAR CD 4 14 014 16 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II Release Notes 3 4 MpCCl 4 1 0 1 3 3 MpCCl 4 1 0 2 3 3 1 Coupling Server e The MpCCI server is only using one port for the client connections from the simulation codes and the MpCCl Monitor e The command mpcci server has modified the option port to listen 3 3 2 MpCCI Environment e MpCCI detects the next available port for the MpCCl server and MpCCI Monitor process The user can suggest a port number to be used from MpCCl GUI 3 3 3 MpCCI GUI e Improvement of
19. case of point coupling e MpCCI Monitor can connect to the same MpCCl server port number as the simulation codes 2 4 MpCCI API e Coupling manager version has changed to 420 Simulation codes using the MpCCI client library should be recompiled It is recommended to use the variable MPCCI_CCM_VERSION in the mpcci driver structure e Changes in the list of quantities for coupling NDisplacement is not anymore supported The user should use the NPosition quantity for the FSI The MpCCI server internally works with nodal displacement for the mapping and converts it as nodal coordinate back Nodal displacement quantity has different meanings it may be an absolute or relative nodal displacement from the original grid or current grid position For simplification point of view only NPosition nodal coordinate is preferred for the coupled simulation e Changes in the definition of a transformation on a local mesh moving reference frame MpCCl allows the definition of a motion attached to a part The motion may be defined as a translation rotation Attaching the motion definition to a part allows different motions inside a mesh The mesh groups a list of parts The following list of functions resp data structure has been renamed resp extended smpcci_deft has been refactored to smpcci pmot The function additionally specifies the part ID for the motion see gt VIII 2 7 10 Definition of the Moving Reference Frame smpcci_pmot lt
20. ctor can be scaled with a relative or absolute value The vector drawing can be switched to arrow or line representation The default Drawskip value changed to 20 e Additional picking feature element can be selected by its element ID e Additional option for the mpcci ccvxcat command The command provides the possibility to replace part names from the existing ccvx file This feature allows to compare coupled data from the same model computed with two different CFD codes for example The additional command option is replace lt old gt lt new gt see gt V 5 3 8 mpcci ccvxcat lt e MpCCI Monitor can disconnect from running coupled simulation and reconnect at a later time 2 8 Batch System e Fix for submitting a batch job with specified host list or host pattern assignment from the MpCCI GUI e Improve the resource distribution in a batch system Distinguish SMP and DMP simulation code types for proper host assignment Homogenious distribution of multiple processes See additional details in gt V 3 6 Coupled Analysis in Batch Mode lt e Using MpCCl Grid Morpher in a batch system was not correctly handled The resource distribution did not provide a dedicated host for the computation MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 9 2 Changes and New Features in MpCCI 4 2 0 1 IT Release Notes 2 9 MpCCI GUI In the Coupling Step the copy of components is supported So components may be used in several regions and not only once Al
21. cycling option the nodal coordinates were updated at each time step Fix for setting the User Defined Time Step in case of using a volume of fluid model Fix for running FLUENT in parallel under Microsoft Windows system FLUENT installation path is specified as UNC format only if this one is defined on the system MpCCI libudf is now always copied to the FLUENT working directory avoiding compatibility issue when the user is changing a FLUENT release or if the user has upgraded its MpCCl installation Extend the search of the FLUENT installation on Microsoft Windows machine MpCCl is additionally checking the desktop shortcuts for locating any FLUENT installation Flowmaster An applied thermal boundary condition on a pressure was not taken into account for the Flowmaster calculation A patch is available from Flowmaster for the thermal coupling with pressure source 20 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II Release Notes 3 4 MpCCl 4 1 0 1 component and has to be requested The installation needs some support in order to reconfigure the co simulation environment for Flowmaster ANSYS Icepak e Support of ANSYS Icepak 13 0 release MD NASTRAN e Additional support for MD NASTRAN 2010 1 3 release which is recognized as MD NASTRAN 2010 1 release by MpCCl e Fix for receiving the time step quantity MSC Marc e Support of MSC Marc 2010 release e The MpCCI MSC Marc adapter architecture naming convention has changed For all MSC Marc releases the MS
22. der the MpCCl installation directory MPCCI_HOME codes Abaqus 1ib lt ABAQUS_ARCH gt Please copy the libmpcci XXX d11 s1l so to ABAQUS_INST ABAQUS_RELEASE External directory Platform Processor Directory name MpCCl client library Windows x86 32 win86 32 libmpcci vc80 32 dll Windows x86 64 win86 64 libmpcci vc80 64 dll Linux x86 64 Inx86 64 libmpcci 64 so HP UX Itanium hpux1123_ia64 libmpcci 64 sl AIX Power aix51_power libmpcci 64 so 3 4 MpCCI 4 1 0 1 3 4 1 MpCCI Licensing New FlexNet Publisher license server updated to version 11 6 The user needs to upgrade the MpCCI license file and the license server 3 4 2 MpCCI Platforms Support of Windows 7 32 and 64 bit platform Support of Mac OS X Darwin 10 64 bit platform OSF Alpha osf_alpha platform is no longer supported Linux Itanium linux_ia64 platform is no longer supported 3 4 3 Coupling Server The quantity values for orphaned nodes can be extrapolated by using a diffusion method A coupled simulation can be monitored in parallel by several MpCCl Monitor processes The MpCCl Monitor may dis connect with the MpCCI server at any time Support of the EnSight Gold file format for the MpCCl tracefile CCVX file support in case of simulation restarts By restarting a coupled simulation with the same job name a new cccvx file will be created with the next available index number The MpCCI Visualizer will aut
23. ent part ID on the MpCCl server now Duplicated part names will be automatically suffixed with the part ID The following part types are accepted for the coupling x STANDARD standard two sided part standard 1 Layer insulated part x MULTILAYER multilayer part x HIGH CONDUCTIVE high conductive part x ENGINE engine part face for backward compatibility reason 2 10 12 STAR CCM e Support of STAR CCM 6 04 016 STAR CCM 6 06 011 STAR CCM 6 06 017 release e The STAR CCM 5 0x releases are not supported anymore e Fix for retrieving STAR CCM installation from Microsoft Windows registry e New additional option field to append additional user macro classpath The user may provide his own java module beside the MpCCI STAR CCM adapter module e Standard java macro scripts for coupling are provided within the MpCCI distribution These are templates for standard steady state and transient implicit STAR CCM simulation The files are located under the directory codes STAR CCM adapters macro These macro files handle correctly an ABORT file and STAR CCM will save the data e Adapter library When starting STAR CCM with the graphical interface the adapter library defined in the macro file was not found The setting of the user macro classpath has been fixed MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 13 2 Changes and New Features in MpCCl 4 2 0 1 IT Release Notes Fixed issue with boundary names containing S
24. er between the front and backside is not supported 12 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 IT Release Notes 2 10 Code Specific Changes e Improve the portability of a RadTherm tdf file used for the coupling The MpCCI RadTherm adapter library is not bound to the MpCCl installation A local copy of the MpCCl RadTherm adapter library is performed before the code starts e MpCCI checks that there is no mixing part front and backside part in the same coupled region set e RadTherm model is automatically checked and hooked by MpCCI before the simulation starts The user does not need anymore to activate the RadTherm hook functions manually in the RadTherm GUI e MpCCI hooks automatically the Time Step Start and Iteration Start RadTherm hook functions The MpCCl RadTherm adapter decides which hook function to use according to the simulation type steady state or transient e Convection type is automatically adjusted to the type HandTfluid in the RadTherm model e Scanner Empty parts are not listed as candidates for the coupling For example Fluid part is not listed Correctly retrieves the simulation type steady state or transient for the scanner process A steady state simulation type is recognized by setting the end time simulation to zero Part ID definition for RadTherm backside component has been modified Old MpCClI projects must be newly set up RadTherm model has to be rescanned RadTherm backside components are defined with a differ
25. he MpCCl 4 2 Server 5 Supported Platforms in MpCCl 4 2 Platform lists for supported simulation codes are given in the Codes Manual 5 1 Platforms Supported by the MpCCI 4 2 Server Platform Bits MpCCl arch Support Apple Mac OSX on Intel 64 Bit 64 macosx_intel64 OK no visualizer HP UX 11 00 on PA RISC 32 64 hpux11 parisc OK no visualizer HP UX 11 22 on Itanium I 64 hpux1122_ia64 not supported HP UX 11 23 on Itanium IT 64 hpux1123_ia64 OK no visualizer IBM AIX 5 1 on Power3 processor 32 64 aix51_power OK no visualizer IBM AIX 5 2 on Power3 processor 32 64 aix52 power use aix51_power IBM AIX 5 3 on Power3 processor 32 64 aix53_power use aix51_power IBM AIX 6 1 on Power3 processor 32 64 aix61_power use aix51_power Linux with glibc 2 3 on AMD64 or EM64T processor 32 64 1nx3_x64 OK Linux with glibc 2 3 on Itanium 64 1nx3_ia64 use 1nx3_x86 Linux with glibc 2 3 on x86 32 1nx3_x86 OK Linux with glibc 2 4 on AMD64 or EM64T processor 32 64 1nx4_x64 OK Microsoft Windows 32 bit on AMD Tntel 32 windows_x86 OK Microsoft Windows 64 bit on AMD Tntel 32 64 windows_x64 OK OSF1 V5 1 with Alpha processor 64 osf_alpha not supported SGI IRIX64 6 5 on R10000 32 64 irix65_mips4 not supported SUN Solaris gt 2 7 on AMD64 compatible processor 32 64 solaris_amd64 not supported SUN Solaris gt 2 7 on Spare processor 64 solaris_sparc OK no visualizer SUN Solaris gt 2 7 on X86 compatible processor 32 solaris_x86 not supported
26. he MpCCl 4 2 Server 2 o e e e 31 5 2 Codes Supported by MpCCl 4 2 on Different Platforms 32 6 Known Bugs and Limitations in MpCCI 4 2 35 OA Adel sac eee ee oh Lae ew OPES eee AAS OMe Ree Ge we we EHS PRS ES 35 MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 5 1 Introduction MpCCl 4 2 IT Release Notes 1 Introduction MpCCl 4 2 The release notes relate to MpCCI 4 2 MpCCl 4 2 represents a new release change over MpCCI 4 1 Please read the changes and features section gt 2 Changes and New Features in MpCCI 4 2 0 1 lt for more details MpCCl 4 2 is available as an upgrade from an existing MpCCI 4 1 installation 6 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 IT Release Notes 2 3 Coupling Server 2 Changes and New Features in MpCCI 4 2 0 1 2 1 MpCCl Platforms MpCCl platform name for Linux and Windows has changed e linux_x86 is renamed to Inx3_x86 This platform designates a 32 bit linux operating system based on x86 processor type e linux_em64t linux_amd64 sles10_x64 have been grouped into the two platform names Inx3_x64 and Inx4_x64 Both platforms are compatible for Intel and AMD 64 bit processor type Inx3_x64 is dedicated for Linux with glibc 2 3 version Inx4_x64 is dedicated for Linux with glibc 2 4 version e Former Windows platform names winxp_ x86 em64t amd64 for Windows XP and Windows XP 64 bit vista_ x86 em64t amd64 for Windows Vista and Windows Vista 64 bit win7_ x86 em64tlamd64 for Windows 7 and Wi
27. hell axisymmetric element type could not be coupled Abaqus does not properly define the coordinate system to MpCCl server You may find this following error message in the MpCCl server log file Found two meshes with identical ID 1 and 1 matching quantity but non matching coordinate system types FLUENT MESH 1 CSYS AX Abaqus MESH 1 CSYS 2D MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 35
28. ing a mesh motion 2 10 4 FINE Open Support of FINE Open 2 11 1 FINE Open 2 11 2 FINE Open 2 11 3 release Co simulation perl module fixes MpCCl generates a new run file beside the original with all necessary settings for the co simulation The new run file has the prefix mpcci To visualize the simulation result the user has to open the corresponding run file MpCCl FINE Open scanner displays the component name without prefix IDs The component name is composed of boundary name surface Id block ID from the model MpCCI FINE Open scanner has the option to extract already prepared boundary for the coupling This assumes that the model has been already prepared in the FINE Open interface This option is triggered by the option Select scan method in the Models Step in MpCCI GUI Automatic definition of moving referene frames parameter can be used in combination with a partner code having also supporting a mesh motion 2 10 5 FINE Turbo Support of FINE Turbo 8 9 2 FINE Turbo 8 9 3 FINE Turbo 8 10 1 release Co simulation perl module fixes MpCCl generates a new run file beside the original with all necessary settings for the co simulation The new run file has the prefix mpcci To visualize the simulation result the user has to open the corresponding run file MpCCI FINE Turbo scanner displays the component name without prefix IDs The component name is composed of boundary name surface Id block ID from the model
29. le configuration for fluid structure interaction problem gt VI 15 2 5 2 MpCCl remeshing module lt User can set up in the MpCCI GUI the criteria for remeshing process This module is only activated if the NPosition quantity is exchanged STAR CD e The quantity mass flow rate MassFlowRate can be received 3 5 MpCCl 4 0 1 4 3 5 1 Code Specific Changes FLUENT e Fix force computation on a coupled wall having a shadow wall 3 6 MpCCl 4 0 1 3 3 6 1 Coupling Server e Fix for the coupling server on Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit platform The issue affect the mapping of flux density or integral based quantity For such quantity type e g WallForce RelWallForce AbsPressure OverPressure the integration of the value on the target mesh was not correct and introduced errors in the computation of mesh deformation The following MpCCI 4 0 1 1 and MpCCI 4 0 1 2 releases were affected It indirectly affects Windows 7 since Windows 7 falls back onto Vista if this installation exits 3 6 2 MpCCI Environment e Possibility to set the license check time out value by setting the environment variable MPCCI_LICENSE_TIMEOUT In case where the user get a license timeout the user can increase that value the default value is 30 seconds by setting this environment variable It may happen by using ANSYS or during the start of the MpCCl GUI where the MpCCI license availability is checked 3 6 3 Code Specific Changes ANSYS
30. n e Coupling on demand Trace Files in various Formats e Support of various visualizers Ceetron Paraview etc 3 10 3 MpCCl Visualizer Under Microsoft Windows and Linux MpCCl now offers a new viewer for its tracefiles The new viewer is automatically started by mpcci vis if available see gt 5 Supported Platforms in MpCCI 4 2 lt The new format is ccvx The MpCCl visualizer is also used as monitoring process MpCCI GUI allows to enable the online monitoring feature and to access the coupled quantity during the simulation For more information the new viewer provides an online documentation 3 10 4 MpCCI GUI A New Monitor Step MpCCI GUI is now offering the possibility to select some additional components that will not be coupled during the simulation These components may be visualized with the available quantities provided by MpCCl GUI 3 10 5 Code Specific Changes Abaqus e MpCCl 4 0 is not compatible with the current Abaqus 6 9 1 release The next Abaqus release should be compatible with MpCCI Please contact MpCCI for details ANSYS e ANSYS 11 0 and ANSYS 12 0 are supported e The mpcci command changed see gt VI 3 ANSYS lt 28 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II Release Notes 3 10 MpCCl 4 0 0 0 Flowmaster e Flowmaster 7 6 is supported FLUENT e FLUENT 6 3 26 and FLUENT 12 0 16 are supported e Remeshing and reallocation migration of nodes which can be handled by MpCCl FLUX e FLUX 10 2 and
31. n gives the possibilty to have a mesh size ratio in one direction larger than 2 5 times the size of the overlapping size MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 7 2 Changes and New Features in MpCCI 4 2 0 1 IT Release Notes e Additional orphans information gt V 3 3 2 3 Orphaned Nodes and Elements lt MpCCl server writes additional orphans information for each coupled mesh into the log file for example the number of orphaned nodes is provided as absulute value and as proportion in percent Orphans information is only provided on a mesh if at least one orphaned node exists This implies x If no orphaned nodes exists at all the MpCCl Monitor and MpCCI Visualizer do not show the information If the coupling involved different coupled meshes and you have on one mesh no orhpans information this mesh will be colored in gray e Synchronized one way coupling is supported in the Coupling configuration menu for each code gt V 3 4 3 3 Special Case Unidirectional Transfer lt e MpCCl tracefile writers EnSight Gold file format fix for supporting mixed elements in mesh EnSight Gold file format additional option to write the file at each coupling step The user has to enable the option Sflush in the gt V 4 6 Edit Step lt Comma separated values file format CSV is supported This file format only outputs data from a point coupling system and global variables CCVX file format has been extended to contain coordinates in
32. ndows 7 64 bit have been grouped into the two platform categories windows_x86 for Windows XP Windows Vista and Windows 7 windows_x64 for Windows XP 64 bit Windows Vista 64 bit and Windows 7 64 bit 2 2 New FSIMapper e New tool for performing a file based mapping using the FSIMapper gt X 1 Overview lt The FSIMapper is based on the MpCCI Visualizer tools It supports Abaqus FLUENT MD NASTRAN and EnSight Gold file format The following quantities may be mapped temperature pressure The FSIMapper is available for the Linux and Windows MpCCl platforms and can be called by using the command mpcci fsimapper 2 3 Coupling Server e Neighborhood search gt V 3 3 1 Association lt The automatic calculation of the neighborhood search parameters has been improved In previ ous version degenerated elements did provide a larger number of orphaned nodes because the method did consider only the minimal edge length of elements Now the neighborhood search parameters calculation considers the mean length of elements New option to overwrite the calculated normal distance The user should provide manually an absolute value in SI unit gt V 4 6 4 Relation Search lt which is applied for all coupling regions e Mesh checks gt V 3 2 Mesh Checks lt Partial overlapping check may be disabled in the gt V 4 6 Edit Step lt The coupling mesh interface still requires an overlapping of the regions This optio
33. omatically read all the ccvx files in case of a series of numbered files Polyhedra elements are automatically converted into basic element types if possible Additional element types QUAD12 QUAD16 TRIA10 18 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II Release Notes 3 4 MpCCI 4 1 0 1 e Communication protocol between the server and client has changed The in house code needs to use the new MpCCl client library 3 4 4 MpCCI API e Extension of the code specific information MPCCI_CINFO in order to support future applications with the coupling server gt VIII 2 9 7 Code Specific Information MPCCI_CINFO lt e Extension of the MPCCI_PART data structure The macro MPCCI_PART_AUXP part has been replaced by the macro MPCCI_PART_USRPTRO part offering an access to a memory storage for a user pointer The MPCCI_PART data structure has been extended with an additional user pointer list and the user can assign its own mesh information in the flags and state fields of the MPCCI_PART data structure for an own usage gt VIII 2 9 8 Coupling Components lt 3 4 5 MpCCI Environment e MpCCl provides a perl installation script for the Multi platform download 3 4 6 MpCCl Visualizer and MpCCI Monitor e The user may open a CCVX file from the MpCCI Visualizer This file may be located on the local machine or on a remote machine e The user may monitor a coupled simulation using the MpCCl Monitor A Connect to host menu enables the user to enter the MpCCI se
34. on the receiver side 3 8 2 MpCCl Visualizer e Possibility to read compressed ccvx gz file e Bug fix for coloring the vectors by the active scalar which is the default option e Bug fix for dialog boxes which lost the window focus Avoid the MpCCI Visualizer to freeze 3 8 3 Batch System e Improved code resource allocation method available resources are distributed to the code having the most processes CPU requested e The option port for the mpcci batch command was ignored if the port number was out of the range defined in the server MpCCI GUI configuration file Limitation has been removed e Enable the start of the MpCCI GUI on an interactive batch queue session by activating the environment variable MPCCI_IBATCH 24 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 IT Release Notes 3 8 MpCCI 4 0 1 1 3 8 4 MpCCI GUI e MpCCl project file csp version has changed The old project will be automatically converted e Detection of an incompatible setting for the Quantities Initial Transfer option All codes could not start with the option receive e Automatic verification of the validity of the monitor host provided e Show the MpCCl server output in case of using no xterm in the information or error dialog 3 8 5 Code Specific Changes Abaqus e Abaqus 6 10 is supported e Abaqus scanner recognized the solution type static or transient for heat transfer coupled analysis type ANSYS e ANSYS 11 0 sun64 platform has been removed and repl
35. r Releases 15 dl MoCCrELIZ accesoo ia A REG we EER BA aa A A 15 Sl MpEEI Bienen 0 e ee ae a AAS a a ao e de BOR 15 ALS Code Specife Changes oa a o E a a A A Ar Be 15 Bo IMPI e ea ee A ios e dd eS BRS 15 321 Conpling Server coca a a aa eee Ea S 15 3 2 2 MpCEl Environment 65652 bee a a ae ee 15 3 2 3 MpCCl Visualizer and MpCCl Monitor 4 a o a cada aati ued daaa a pk koea 16 SeA Bah Dyo RA 16 3 20 Code Specie Changes ca co cp raa A weaned EPS ws 16 2o MEETOD a eae Gk dai EE ES oo a A ES 17 MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 3 Contents II Release Notes Sok Couplink Saver oon ee kk KK RR O a a DS Da ew eS 17 33 2 MpCEl Environment e se 6 2h a ki RR DD Ree RS 17 ae IMPLIQUE He LS e OOS eee A 17 33A Gaede Specife Changes s ssc GK ee OOS ee Ed 17 BA N ML ca ei a A ee A A AR E 18 Sl Pipe Lise ooo dar i e AR AA 18 SA2 Will PESOS o o ooma RI SR RE AOD Ree EE 18 oa OUP Serrit lt oo 6 paa SK et ee ii as gh O A 18 dida MPE API pf siti eee wee reed ddd ewe Od depp Sse deeded 19 34 5 WpCtl Environment o a a sese ee RR Aa AAA a aaa 19 346 MpCCl Visualizer and MpCCl Monitor lt a aaa o 19 AT Batch Syste ERE 19 dale MPEC GUD sarosa adesea uuaa da aaa add 19 34 9 Code Specife Changes cesa coi ad AA A 20 dee WipUlClaQle cop eh ctditdedcec tee diddweidaded A 22 dl Code pecie Changes coco ee Seda eee eee aad weds 22 ay MIPUCI AOS oc bp bet daa add ded ee dodaci daes 22 301 Coupling Server ion de ee ea tee Seda ee AA dees 22 362 MpC
36. red trademark of Apple Inc OpenSSH has a copyright by Tatu Ylonen Espoo Finland Perl has a copyright by Larry Wall and others UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group Windows Windows XP Windows Vista and Windows 7 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp II Release Notes Contents Il Release Notes Contents 1 Introduction MpCCl 4 2 6 2 Changes and New Features in MpCCI 4 2 0 1 7 21 MpEL Platters o aa a a a A A a ee Re ed ew e s 7 me Dew PSIMapper o4 225 24654449 3 ee6 44 42444444944 6 ee 2 Mee PEE EG 7 2S CODI SEE a A RR a a SEs AA A Rd 7 EA OUR o OO Dee a aaa od AS 8 26 MpCCl Grd Morpher s coord A 9 20 IMpELI Environment 24 04 4440 RA aaa ed a a SA 9 27 MpCCI Visualizer and MpCCl Monitor lt o o saccra a aa arara a aaa aaa A 9 AS Bab BYENE A 9 20 NACE sitaaa Ae a A e papu aaa a A ODER ER G EAS RY AA OD 10 210 Code Specme Chants lt esse a ARA EYE A h e e aa AR 10 EL A cea a a A a a A 10 ZIDI ANGS iso a aada a AE A AAA 10 210S FINES 263 cece Pe dar aa A A Pe ene He bee 10 tes PINE SBE 3 2 4 2 2 amaneni de ee eae Oe Se 11 2005 FINES TUBO cen dd A a Ye ddd ee Pee 11 2100 FLVENT ocr oa da ER A A E A AA 11 210 7 ANSYS lepak cocoa e RO a linde e sea cda da ad 12 DIS MSC Ma a a a da A RAR a a AA A 12 210 9 MD NASTRAN rra A A AA ES 12 BOC penPOAM ooo a A eee been neas dad 12 E MUA SAT os a rr A aaa IR Bee Bh a oe deere 12 INIESTA RCENMER ocios ia a ee RS 13 E AI 14 3 Changes and New Features in the Earlie
37. rver host and port number e MpCCl Visualizer can read compressed CCVX GZ files e Animated GIF files can be exported 3 4 7 Batch System e Support of Microsoft Windows HPC batch system An MpCClI coupled simulation can be set up on the Microsoft Windows HPC head node and submitted to the job scheduler 3 4 8 MpCCI GUI e New 0 dimensional Point elements and Integration Point elements for components can be coupled e The coupling of components with different dimensions is enabled This means that components of one code with dimension x can be coupled with components of dimension y from another code Quantities can only be sent from components with the higher dimension see gt V 4 4 Coupling Step lt e The setting of the default value for a quantity will now be set on the receiver side but only for global variables the default setting remains at the sender e The name of the backup file when converting an old project file changed to csp bak000 where 000 will be continuously incremented e Components found by the scanner which have no type associated in the gui xcf will be ignored e Panels without components won t be listed in Coupling and Monitor Step anymore e The format of gui xcf changed for associating quantities with component dimensions see gt VIII 2 4 4 Component Types lt ComponentTypeDimensions gt lt MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 19 3 Changes and New Features in the Earlier Releases II Release Notes 3 4 9
38. s 32 bit on AMD Intel vindows_x86 ANSYS 110 120 121 130 140 Abaqus 6 12 1 FINE Hexa 210_4 FINE Open 2111 2112 211 3 FINE Turbo 810 1 891 892 89 3 FLUENT 12 0 16 12 1 4 13 0 0 FLUX 10 2 10 3 Flowmaster 7 6 7 7 7 8 8 0 8 1 ANSYS Icepak 13 0 0 14 0 0 MD NASTRAN 2010 1 2011 1 2012 1 MSC Marc 2008r1 2010 2010 2 2011 RadTherm 10 0 0 10 0 2 10 1 0 10 2 0 STAR CCM 6 02 007 6 02 009 6 04 014 6 04 016 6 06 011 6 06 017 STAR CD 4 14 011 4 14 038 4 16 010 MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 33 5 Supported Platforms in MpCCl 4 2 II Release Notes Microsoft Windows 64 bit on AMD Intel windows _x64 ANSYS 110 120 121 130 140 Abaqus 6 12 1 FINE Hexa 2104 FINE Open 211 1 211 2 211 3 FINE Turbo 810_1 89 1 89 2 89 3 FLUENT 12 0 16 12 1 4 13 0 0 FLUX 10 2 10 3 Flowmaster 7 6 7 7 7 8 8 0 8 1 ANSYS Icepak 13 0 0 14 0 0 MD NASTRAN 2010 1 2011 1 2012 1 MSC Marc 2007r1 2008r1 2010 2010 2 2011 OpenFOAM 1 7 RadTherm 10 0 0 10 0 2 10 1 0 10 2 0 STAR CCM 6 02 007 6 02 009 6 04 014 6 04 016 6 06 011 6 06 017 STAR CD 4 14 011 4 14 038 4 16 010 SUN Solaris gt 2 7 on Sparc processor solaris_sparc ANSYS 110 FLUENT 12 0 16 12 1 2 MSC Marc 2007r1 2008r1 2010 RadTherm 10 0 0 10 0 2 10 1 0 10 2 0 STAR CD 4 06 007 4 08 006 34 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II Release Notes 6 1 Codes 6 Known Bugs and Limitations in MpCCI 4 2 6 1 Codes Abaqus e Abaqus 6 10 model using SAX s
39. so the component properties name part id and aux information may be edited see gt V 4 4 Coupling Step lt Op option is activated for codes having the CopyComponents property in In the Coupling Step the quantity settings for default ramping and relaxation are now bound to the mesh and no longer to the code This means that in different region sets one can choose different values for those settings 2 10 Code Specific Changes 2 10 1 Abaqus Abaqus 6 12 is supported and only compatible with MpCCl 4 2 release Abaqus 6 10 and Abaqus 6 11 are only compatible with MpCCI 4 0 and MpCCl 4 1 releases These releases are not listed by the MpCCl Abaqus information command mpcci abaqus info On request an adapter for Abaqus 6 10 and Abaqus 6 11 can be provided for Linux platform to enable the compatibility with MpCCI 4 2 The Abaqus installation will require an update of the adapter library and the user has to perform a modification of the MpCCl installation for listing the Abaqus releases The instruction will be provided on request by contacting MpCCl support Abaqus 6 12 performs at the last increment a final data exchange before exiting the coupled simula tion Additional coupling configuration option in the Go Step for Abaqus Using the option Enforce quasistatic implies Abaqus to define a quasi static procedure as a transient simulation The pseudo simulation time will be defined at MpCCl server side Without this option a quasi static
40. t Connection e Solve issue with concurrency incoming connections on the server when running parallel codes on some platforms 3 9 2 MpCCl Visualizer e Fixed crash when using updatedelay and changing number of parts in the last received time step e Fixed bug with the vectors not colored by the selected scalar value if vectors are enabled before the scalar result e Fixed bug with monitor running over night and not showing the model anymore 3 9 3 Batch System e Extend support of SGE version 6 2 environment e Add option port for the mpcci batch command to specify an alternative port for the communication between the MpCCl server and the clients e Add an optional user environment variable MPCCI_IBATCH to force a job running in an interactive on a batch queuing system Setting this variable to 1 disable the batch system detection 3 9 4 MpCCI GUI e Fixed bug when reading a project file set with 3 codes Quantity settings are correctly restored e Fixed bug when using the self coupling feature Sometime the code id was not correctly generated 26 II MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II Release Notes 3 10 MpCCl 4 0 0 0 3 9 5 Code Specific Changes ANSYS e The scanner output information changed for supporting usage of mixed element type for a component definition simplifying the integration of new element type for the coupling e ANSYS user manual provides information on how to predefined loads on dummy surface elements
41. tenv _MPCCI_LIBPATH System setProperty jna library path mpcciLibPath All java macro files from the tutorial have been updated according to the previous usability improve ment 3 7 MpCCI 4 0 1 2 3 7 1 MpCCI Environment e Improve error message for the utility accessing the Microsoft Windows registry database 3 7 2 Code Specific Changes FLUENT e FLUENT 12 1 4 adapters for Linux 32 and 64 bit MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 23 3 Changes and New Features in the Earlier Releases IT Release Notes MD NASTRAN e Adapters for MD NASTRAN 2009 is removed from the support list e Adapters for supporting MD NASTRAN 2010 CL72204 STAR CCM e Fix for Perl Info Module running under windows 64 bit 3 8 MpCCl 4 0 1 1 3 8 1 Coupling Server Platform linux_em64t e This Linux platform requires at least a glibc version 2 5 gcc version 4 1 2 Otherwise you may get a floating point exception by starting the server In that case you can switch the MPCCI_ARCH to linux_amd64 Termination message e Improved the termination of the server in case that only one code is still connected The server checks if the other code is still active before closing the connection e Improved the automatic the neighborhood parameters setting Bounding Box e The server write a tracefile in case of a bounding box error A writer has to be activated in order to get that file Orphans nodes information e The orphans information is just available
42. the memory usage 3 3 4 Code Specific Changes Abaqus e The start of Abaqus is stopped if the user did not define a time step size to exchange between the codes or define a constant time step to use for the coupling In the previous release a default time step size of 0 1 was used if none of the both options was activated e If the option run until steady state is activated in Abaqus input deck Abaqus has normally terminated but did send a fatal error to the MpCCI server This has consequently terminated the full coupled simulation A new Abaqus client lib is delivered within this patch and you have to follow this installation procedure ANSYS e Fix issue for getting the appropriate initial action value in the APDL script Flowmaster e Fix for Flowmaster adapter on Microsoft Windows 64 bit OpenFOAM e Activate a call to data transfer before the execution of the solver STAR CCM e Fix remeshing module using the coupled regions remeshing method e Fix for 2D FSI problem model e Fix for detecting new STAR CCM release gt 5 06 on Microsoft Windows platform MpCCI 4 2 0 1 II 17 3 Changes and New Features in the Earlier Releases IT Release Notes Abaqus client library installation procedure First make a backup of the MpCCl client library you find under the directory ABAQUS_INST ABAQUS_RELEASE External The MpCCl client library begins with the prefix libmpcci The new MpCCl client library may be found un
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