New Simulation Using Simulation Results

[tfjield]

I've recently completed an Event Simulation to determine deformation and resulting stresses at the end of a compression cycle.  Now I would like to take those results and use them as a starting point for a thermal simulation.

How can I do this?  Thanks!

[John_Holtz]

Hi everyone,

Fusion does not have any ability to take the results from one analysis as the starting condition for another analysis.

Inventor Nastran has some limited ability to things like this, but mostly because the user has access to the input file (the Nastran solver file, .nas) and can make manual changes to the input model. For example, it is theoretically possible to use the displacements calculated in the explicit analysis to change the initial geometry (change the position of the nodes) in another analysis. It becomes tricky in this example because the large deformation that occurs in the explicit analysis changes the contact that would be required in the heat transfer analysis. For example, nodes that are not in contact in the undeformed model may be in contact in the deformed model, and therefore they need to conduct heat in the thermal analysis. Or nodes that are initially in contact may move so far that different sets of nodes are in contact and now need to conduct heat. I do not know if anyone has tried such an analysis because of the amount of manual work involved.