FEM: Risolutore Elmer

Risolutore CalculiX

Risolutore Z88

FEM

Risolutore Elmer
Posizione nel menu
Solve → Risolutore Elmer
Ambiente
FEM
Avvio veloce
Nessuno
Introdotto nella versione
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Vedere anche
Risolutore Calculix, Risolutore Z88, Tutorial FEM

Descrizione

Elmer è un software di simulazione multifisica open source sviluppato principalmente da CSC - IT Center for Science (CSC). Lo sviluppo di Elmer è stato avviato nel 1995 in collaborazione con università, istituti di ricerca e industria finlandesi. Dopo la sua pubblicazione open source nel 2005, l'uso e lo sviluppo di Elmer sono diventati internazionali.

Elmer include modelli fisici di dinamica dei fluidi, meccanica strutturale, elettromagnetica, trasferimento di calore e acustica, per esempio. Questi sono descritti da equazioni alle derivate parziali che Elmer risolve con il metodo degli elementi finiti (FEM). https://www.csc.fi/web/elmer

La creazione dell'oggetto SolverElmer nel contenitore Analysis in FreeCAD, dà accesso alle equazioni di Elmer per analisi semplici o multifisiche.

Poiché FreeCAD ha già un'ampia integrazione di Calculix e Z88 come solutori per analisi meccaniche e termo-meccaniche, Elmer sarà preferito per la fluidodinamica computazionale (CFD), il calore, l'elettrostatica, la magnetostatica e le forze elettriche. Può anche essere utilizzato per la FEA meccanica tramite l'equazione di elasticità o qualsiasi combinazione delle suddette equazioni.

Installazione

Elmer requires two components to be interfaced with FreeCAD:

• ElmerGrid is the interface handling meshes
• ElmerSolver is handling the computation.

There are standalone programs for both of these applications but their installation and usage are beyond the scope of the FreeCAD integration.

1. Go to the CSC binaries resources for Elmer: binaries OR CSC binaries
2. Download and install the version best suited to your Operating System (Windows 64 bits or Linux)
3. In FreeCAD go to Edit → Preferences → FEM → Elmer
4. Link the correct path for both ElmerGrid and ElmerSolver

   

   Above: Elmer preferences dialog menu showing fields to locate important Elmer binaries on Windows OS

You are ready to use Elmer in FreeCAD.

Utilizzo

1. Switch to the FEM Workbench
2. Create an Analysis container by pressing the icon.
3. Create a FEM Solver for Elmer, by pressing the icon.
   • Note: A successful analysis will require at least a Model (2D or 3D), a Material (Fluid or Solid), a Mesh, Equations and Boundary conditions

   

   Above: Example of a tree view once a Solver for Elmer is activated

4. Edit the parameters for the solver in the Property editor Data tab of the SolverElmer object in the model tree view
5. Double-click on the SolverElmer object to prepare an analysis run

   

   Above: Dialog box to run an Elmer analysis

6. Select the path to write the analysis in by clicking ...
7. Click Write to write the case files in the directory selected previously
8. Click Run to start the analysis

About Equations

• To perform the analysis of a particular physical behavior, an Equation must be used (Flow, Heat, Electrostatics...)
• Disambiguation: The term Equation is used in FreeCAD to describe the different physical mechanisms, the term Solver is used in all Elmer documents. Thus when using in FreeCAD the "Flow Equation", in reality Elmer uses the "Flow Solver" to find a solution to the Navier-Stokes equation.
• One or several equations can be used at once with Elmer by simply adding the equation object under the SolverElmer object, thus performing multi-physics analyses:

1. Click on the SolverElmer object in the model tree view
2. Select an equation:
   • Elasticity equation
   • Electricforce equation
   • Electrostatic equation
   • Flow equation
   • Flux equation
   • Heat equation

Notes

• Parameters for the Solver and for the Equations are independently set through the Property editor Data tab of their respective objects in the tree view.
• Each equation will have a priority, for example, if trying see the effect of a convective flow of hot air, the equation for Flow should be solved with higher priority than Heat, otherwise the solver will first solve Heat through conduction and then Flow.
• 2D vs 3D cases: Elmer can be used to solve both 2D and 3D cases. However, when defining a 2D case, the faces need to be mapped in the XY plane of FreeCAD, otherwise the solver will try to compute a 3D case on a face, and normal vectors will be under-defined. Further information can be found in the FreeCAD forums: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=48175

Documentazione

The following link gives access to the full documentation for Elmer. This includes the manuals as well as tutorials. Note that documentation and files appended with "gui" generally concern the usage of the Elmer GUI and not the FreeCAD implementation of Elmer.

Risolutore CalculiX

Risolutore Z88

FEM

FEM

• FEM Analysis

• Materials: Solid, Fluid, Nonlinear mechanical, Reinforced (concrete); Material editor

• Element geometry: Beam (1D), Beam rotation (1D), Shell (2D), Fluid flow (1D)

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Constraints

• Electromagnetic: Electrostatic potential, Current density, Magnetization

• Fluid: Initial flow velocity, Initial pressure, Flow velocity

• Geometrical: Plane rotation, Section print, Transform

• Mechanical: Fixed, Displacement, Contact, Tie, Spring, Force, Pressure, Centrif, Self weight

• Thermal: Initial temperature, Heat flux, Temperature, Body heat source

• Overwrite Constants: Constant vacuum permittivity

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• Mesh: Mesh Netgen, Mesh GMSH, Mesh boundary layer, Mesh region, Mesh group, Nodes set, Mesh to mesh

• Solve: CalculiX Standard, Elmer, Mystran, Z88; Equations: Deformation, Elasticity, Electrostatic, Electricforce, Magnetodynamic, Magnetodynamic 2D, Flow, Flux, Heat; Solver: Solver control, Solver run

• Results: Purge, Show; Postprocessing: Apply changes, Pipeline from result, Warp filter, Scalar clip filter, Function cut filter, Region clip filter, Contours filter, Line clip filter, Stress linearization plot, Data at point clip filter, Filter function plane, Filter function sphere, Filter function cylinder, Filter function box

• Utilities: Clipping plane, Remove clipping planes, Open FEM examples; Mesh clear, Mesh display info

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• Additional: Preferences; FEM Install, FEM Mesh, FEM Solver, FEM CalculiX, FEM Concrete; FEM Element Types

User documentation

• Getting started
• Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
• Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate

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• Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
• Workbenches: Std Base, Arch, Assembly, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web

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• Addons: Addon Manager, External workbenches, Scripting and macros

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• Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub