Before starting with the Generic Co-simulation

No product in the world can do all things and answer very well all needs. This is why Simcenter Amesim is open to other tools and has a lot of possibilities to interact with the numerical simulation environments.

We can distinguish three major groups of coupling:

1. Import model from a third tool into Simcenter Amesim: this functionality makes it possible for a user to import in his Simcenter Amesim model some specific parts coming from another tool.

2. Export model from Simcenter Amesim to a third-party or in-house tool: in a lot of software used in the numerical simulation field, it can be interesting to dispose of a model developed under Simcenter Amesim.

3. Co-simulation: the goal here, is to address more generally the computation distribution on more than one machine by allowing bi-directional interactions between Simcenter Amesim and a third-party or in-house tool which can be of course Simcenter Amesim itself.

The Generic Co-simulation corresponds to this last case, when two different tools co-simulate together.

Table Table 1 shows the characteristics of the coupling supported by the Generic Co-simulation.

For more information on how to interface numerical simulation tools, please refer to the Characteristics for interfacing numerical simulation tools section at the end of this manual.

Physical nature of the coupling	Weak (relaxed) coupling	✓
Strong coupling	✓
Type of simulation	Model import
Co-simulation	✓
Sampling for meeting points	Programmed step
Variable step
Fixed step	✓
Communication protocol	Inter-process local protocol
Network protocol	✓
Direct local link	✓