MSC.Software and ACUSIM Announce Direct Coupling of MD Nastran and AcuSolve

By DE Editors

MSC.Software and ACUSIM Software, Inc., developer of AcuSolve, announced the direct coupling of AcuSolve with MD Nastran for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulations.

Using MSC.Software’s OpenFSI Interface, the structural and fluids solutions communicate without third-party software.

“We are thrilled to support MSC.Software’s OpenFSI Initiative and be the chosen CFD solution for MD Nastran’s new FSI capability,” says Farzin Shakib, founder and CEO of ACUSIM software. “Through this partnership, our mutual customers will now be able to benefit from this directly coupled FSI solution, and the added capabilities with MD Nastran, to more efficiently solve a wide variety of problems that were previously not possible.”

“Coupling with a leading CFD solver such as ACUSIM’s AcuSolve adds advanced fluid-structure interaction capabilities to the existing coupled physics capabilities in MD Nastran,” says Sanjay Choudhry, vice president of Product & Release Management at MSC.Software. “As a result, FSI problems in aerospace, automotive, energy,  biomedical and other industries can now be solved as a coherent model, where the fluid dynamics and structural dynamics interact in concert allowing force-displacement data communication at each time step for true coupling.”

MSC.Software and ACUSIM will be demonstrating AcuSolve’s direct coupling with MD Nastran during the upcoming webinar, “MD Nastran and AcuSolve coupling in SimXpert 2010 for industry leading FSI Simulations,” scheduled for Aug. 31 at 5:30 a.m. PDT and 10:30 a.m. PDT. Register for the free webinar here.

For more information, visit ACUSIM Software, Inc. and MSC.Software.

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.