Combined Module

As its name implies, the Combined module combines the capabilities of all of the other modules. This module does not provide capabilities on its own. Its main purpose is to provide an executable that links together the capabilities of other modules to allow them to be coupled together for testing and demonstration purposes.

Coupled Physics Tutorials

The following tutorial and example problems demonstrate how capabilities from multiple physics modules can be used together:

• Introduction to Coupled Thermo-Mechanical Modeling

• Using Stochastic Tools with Multiphysics Models

Solid Isotropic Material Penalization (SIMP) Topology Optimization

While core optimization algorithms are available in the optimization module, the examples here combine the use of such algorithms with mechanical and thermal physics. In particular, we use SIMP to optimize single and multiple material problems. Additionally, we can optimize for various conditions, whether they be various loads acting on a single system or various physics acting on the same mesh domain.

All the following examples employ SIMP topology optimization (see, e.g., Sigmund (2001)):

• Two-dimensional mechanical bridge with radial average filtering

• Two-dimensional mechanical bridge with Helmholtz, PDE filtering

• Two-dimensional mechanical bridge with adaptive mesh refinement

• Three-dimensional mechanical bridge with radial average filtering

• Multi-load with multiapp

• Thermal and mechanical optimization

• Multimaterial