The Libraries

Simcenter Amesim is delivered with standard libraries, but you can complete them with optional libraries. In this section, you can see all the libraries which are provided by Simcenter Amesim:

The Standard Library

Simcenter Amesim is delivered with a standard library consisting of three categories:

	Simulation: contains components for analyzing statistics of runs, setting simulation parameters, print intervals, interactive components and for 3D models.
	Signal, Control: contains all the components necessary to control, measure and observe your system. It may be used to create block-diagram models of systems.
	1D Mechanical: complements other Simcenter Amesim libraries. It is often used in isolation to simulate complete mechanical systems. Linear and rotary motion elements are included.

The Extra Libraries

You can complete the basic application with the following categories. The categories are available in the menu Sketch

Category path list. When the Path List dialog box opens, you can select the categories you want to add to the path list from the available category list. Then the category bar is updated and displays the available categories. You can display the category bar on the right, on the left or on the top of the Simcenter Amesim interface at your convenience.

You will find further details in the user manual of each category.

	2D Mechanical: used to handle the equation of motion in the 2D plane.
	3D Mechanical: used to model the kinetic and dynamic behavior of multi-body systems in 3D space.
	Air Conditioning: used to model steady state and dynamic behavior of air conditioning systems.
	Aerospace and Marine: used to provide flight mission definition, atmosphere models, sensors and power generation models for assessing system performance in realistic conditions.
	Aircraft Electrics: used to model aerospace electrical systems.
	Aircraft Fuel System: a basic set of components dedicated to fuel system applications.
	Automotive Electrics: used to model automotive electrical components.
	Cam and Followers: used to model cams and followers.
	CFD1D: used to simulate gas flows in pipes and networks.
	Cooling System: allows you to combine models for the cooling system, lubrication system, and exhaust system to study the complete thermal behavior of an engine.
	Discrete Partitioning: used to divide big hydraulic systems into smaller sub-systems. This makes it possible to run a simulation as a form of co-simulation, improving simulation times.
	Electric Motors and Drive: used to model electric parts of the car which replace mechanical and hydraulic actuation.
	Electrical Storage: contains detailed dynamic models of electric storage systems, enabling the representation of high frequency phenomena.
	Electrical Basics: contains the elements that cover basic needs for electrical components.
	Electrical Static Conversion: contains the elements that cover power electronics components for electrical motors.
	Electromechanical: contains elements such as air gaps, metal elements, magnets and coils to construct a magnetic circuit such as a solenoid. Contains dynamic effects such as hysteresis and electric properties.
	Electrochemistry components: offers a set of component submodels ready for use with existing Simcenter Amesim components. It can be used in most engineering applications where flows of electrons and ionic species take place due to electrochemical reactions.
	Engine Signal Generator: contains the elements that cover the generation of control signals for engines
	Filling: specialized for determination of the time taken to fill the lubrication circuits of an engine with oil during startup.
	Fluid Storage: provides a set of components suitable for the modeling of fluid storage systems at various conditions (e.g. cryogenic ones). These components are compatible with the Gas library.
	Fuel cell components: dedicated to users developing fuel cell systems, for designing and optimizing the integration of fuel stacks inside systems.
	Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers: dedicated to users developing hydrogen-related systems. This library provides a better understanding of the interactions between the components and the multi-physic phenomena of the system. It can be used to design and optimize the integration of the components inside the system.
	Gas: dedicated to the design of pneumatic systems where both variations of pressure and temperature have a great influence on its behavior. This library allows you to model mixtures of several gases computing time evolution of concentrations which can also vary throughout the system.
	Gas Component Design: contains the basic building blocks of any pneumatic component and system, to model pneumatic components such as LPG injectors, actuators, compressors, oxygen regulators, dampers or any kind of pneumatic valve.
	Gas Mixture: contains a large set of pneumatic components which can be combined to model various systems using gas mixtures with up to 20 species.
	Gas Turbine: contains mixture definition, compressor, turbine, combustion chamber and other components useful to model and simulate complex thermodynamic cycles.
	Generic Co-simulation: contains submodels designed to provide co-simulation features - these submodels are designed to communicate between two solvers.
	Heat Exchangers Assembly Tool: used to study heat exchanger interactions within a confined environment, such as under the hood for automotive applications.
	Hydraulic: contains many general hydraulic components suitable for simulating ideal dynamic behavior based on component performance parameters.
	Hydraulic Component Design: contains the basic building blocks of any hydro-mechanical system. The interpretation of the model layout is very easy and intuitive.
	Hydraulic Resistance: creates large hydraulic networks, evaluate the pressure drops through the elements and modify the design of the system.
	IFP Drive: used to compute fuel consumption, raw emissions and performance for conventional and hybrid vehicles.
	IFP Engine: is dedicated to the modeling of performance, consumption and emissions for engines.
	IFP Exhaust: used to model exhaust systems, and study fuel consumption and emissions of vehicles.
	Liquid Propulsion: used to model liquid engines, such as an expander cycle.
	Moist Air: contains a set of thermal-pneumatic and thermal-hydraulic components for modeling systems dealing with moist air.
	Pneumatic: comprises a set of basic components from which it is easy to model and observe the evolution of temperatures, pressures and mass flow rates in pneumatic systems.
	Pneumatic Component Design: contains the basic building blocks of any pneumatic-mechanical system. The interpretation of the model layout is very easy and intuitive.
	Powertrain: used to model systems such as driveline or complete manual, automatic or specialized gearboxes, including vibration and loss effects.
	Thermal: used to model traditional heat transfer modes between solid materials and to study the thermal evolution in these solids when submitted to different kinds of heat sources.
	Thermal Hydraulic: used to model thermal phenomena in liquids and to study the thermal evolution in these liquids when submitted to different kinds of heat sources and power sources.
	Thermal Hydraulic Component Design: used to study the pressure levels, the flow rates distribution, the temperatures and the flow rates evolution in the system.
	Two-Phase Flow: used for modeling thermo-hydraulic systems where there is a change of phase (liquid-vapor).
	Vehicle Dynamics: is dedicated to ECU design, testing, robustness and fault diagnostics, ride and handling, behavior related to steering systems, behavior related to braking, and pre-sizing of vehicles.
	Vehicle Dynamics iCAR: is dedicated to chassis and subsystem specification, design and validation.

Other Simcenter Amesim libraries of submodels exist, but they are not visible in the Library tree. Indeed, they do not have any category icons since the submodels are obtained when drawing connections between components on the sketch.

	Hydraulic lines: used to model hydraulic pipes and hoses with wave effects (lumped, distributed, Godunov, and Lax-Wendroff
	Pneumatic lines: used to model pneumatic pipes and hoses with wave effects (lumped, distributed).