1 May 2016

Frontend Module :

• For functionality and CAD/EDA import filter, see technical specifications of the CST STUDIO SUITE®;

Mechanics Solver :

• Temperature dependent Young’s modulus.
• Displacement boundary condition.
• Traction boundary condition.
• Thermal expansion.
• Neo­Hookean material model for simulation of large deformations
  Various Stress plots: Von Mises, Hydrostatic and Tensor components.
• Strain plot including the visualization of the volumetric strain
  Nonlinear solver computes the Green­Lagrange and the Almansi­strain as well as the 2nd Piola­Kirchhoff and Cauchy stress tensors.
• Displacement plot including a deformed mesh plot.
• Import of force densities from EM­solvers.
• Export of deformed structure to CST MICROWAVE STUDIO.

Thermal Stationary Solver Module :

• Isotropic and anisotropic material properties
• Bioheat material properties
• Nonlinear material properties (Bioheat properties and thermal conductivity)
• Thermal contact resistance
• Convection for human voxel models
• Heat transfer by conduction in volumes
• Heat transfer by convection and radiation through surfaces
• Sources: fixed and floating temperatures, heat sources, eddy current and stationary current loss fields,volume/surface power loss distributions in dielectric or lossy metal materials imported from CST MICROWAVE STUDIO or CST EM STUDIO, crashed particle loss distribution from CST PARTICLE STUDIO.
• Adiabatic / fixed or floating temperature / open boundary conditions.
• Automatic parameter studies using built­in parameter sweep tool.
• Automatic structure optimization for arbitrary goals using built­in optimizer.
• Network distributed computing for optimizations, parameter sweeps and remote calculations.
• Thermal conductance matrix calculation.
• Equivalent Circuit EMS/MPS/DS Co­Simulation for linear problems.

Thermal Transient Solver Module :

• Isotropic and anisotropic material properties.
• Bioheat material properties.
• Nonlinear material properties (Bioheat properties, thermal conductivity and heat capacity).
• Thermal contact resistance.
• Convection for human voxel models.
• Heat transfer by conduction in volumes.
• Heat transfer by convection and radiation through surfaces.
• Sources: fixed, initial and floating temperatures, heat sources, eddy current and stationary current loss fields,volume/surface power loss distributions in dielectric or lossy metal materials imported from CST MICROWAVE STUDIO or CST EM STUDIO, crashed particle loss distribution from CST PARTICLE STUDIO.
• Adiabatic / fixed or floating temperature / open boundary conditions.
• Network distributed computing remote calculations.

Post Processing and Visualization :

• 2D and 3D field vizualisation.
• Integration and vizualisation of fields along arbitrary paths
  Advanced reporting facilities.
• Multiple 1D result view support.
• Online visualization of intermediate results during simulation
  Import and visualization of external xy­data.
• Copy / paste of xy­datasets.
• Fast access to parametric data via interactive tuning sliders
  Hierarchical result templates for automated extraction and visualization of arbitrary results from various simulation runs.
• These data can also be used for the definition of optimization goals.

Automation :

• Fully parametric 3D modelling
• VBA compatible macro language
• Automatic macro recording
• OLE automation server
• Template based post processing
• Automatic, multi­-dimensional parameter sweeps.
• Automatic structure optimization for arbitrary goals using built­in optimizer.

Documentation :

• CST STUDIO SUITE® ­ Getting Started.
• CST MPHYSICS® STUDIO ­ Workflow and Solver Overview.
• Online Help System, including step­ by­ step tutorials.

Minimum Hardware Requirements :

• Intel® Xeon® based PC, 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended), DVD drive, at least 30 GB of free hard disc space (60 GB recommended).
• Fully OpenGL compliant graphic card.
• Windows 7, Windows 2008 Server R2, Windows 8, Windows 2012 Server, Windows 8.1, Windows 2012 Server R2 and Windows 10.
• All solvers support RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.x, 6.x and 7.x. and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.x. Some features may not be available, however.
• Hardware recommendation depends on your application. If in doubt, please contact your local sales office for further information. For further details, please see our hardware recommendations.

General :

• CST MPHYSICS® STUDIO is a configurable tool with a choice of options. Please contact your local sales office for further information.