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*CO-SIMULATION
Define coupling regions and quantities to be communicated to and from another analysis process.

This option is used to define the surfaces comprising the co-simulation coupling regions and variables to be passed across those regions.

Products: ABAQUS/Standard  ABAQUS/Explicit  

Type: History data

Level: Step  

References:

Required, mutually exclusive parameters: 

EXPORT

Include this parameter to specify variables and accompanying surfaces for export to the third-party co-simulation process.

IMPORT

Include this parameter to specify variables and their regions for import from the third-party co-simulation process.

Data lines to define co-simulation surfaces and variables passed across them: 

First line:

  1. The name of the element-based surface.

  2. Give a list of physical quantity identifiers for the quantities to be passed across this surface. The identifiers are defined in “Preparing an ABAQUS analysis for co-simulation,” Section 7.9.2 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual.

Repeat this data line as often as necessary to define all of the co-simulation surfaces and their import or export variables.