OOFELIE::Multiphysics link to Zemax‘OpticStudio
The OOFELIE::Multiphysics Solver is tightly combined with Zemax‘ OpticStudio through automated in-memory data exchange to help engineers accurately predict the behavior of optomechanical systems and MOEMS.
Presentation of the link with OpticStudio
In a variety of optical applications, optical designs have to be combined with thermo-mechanical matters. For this reason, the OOFELIE::Multiphysics Solver automatically links to the well-known optical design software Zemax‘ OpticStudio.
While combining data from finite element analyses with ray-tracing tools typically requests time-consuming human operations, the automated in-memory data exchanges between OOFELIE::Multiphysics and Zemax‘ OpticStudio will guarantee you a fast, easy-to-use, and reliable design flow.
Beyond the so-called “STOP” (Structural Thermal Optical Performance) analyses, this integrated solution also offers advanced modeling capabilities for the design of complex electro-optic devices such as MOEMS, including their steering mechanisms and active/adaptive optics.
Features
To interact with the optical design software ZEMAX‘ OpticStudio, OOFELIE::Multiphysics was provided with the following capabilities:
OOFELIE::Multiphysics link to Simcenter 3D
The OOFELIE::Multiphysics Solver is operated from Simcenter 3D, the simulation environment of SIEMENS. This integrated solution provides strongly coupled multidisciplinary analysis of a broad range of transducers, MEMS, microsystems, and optical devices products in the aeronautics, space, defense, automotive, shipbuilding, and consumer electronics markets
Key features
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Available features for this vertical application
The following physical fields are available in OOFELIE::Multipysics.
- Static and transient
- Linear and non-linear
- Modal
- Real and complex
- Wet-mode shapes
- Harmonic
- Random vibrations
- Strength assessment
- Topology optimization
- Density based (SIMP)
- Iso- and orthotropic materials:
- Viscous, viscoelastic and structural damping
- Perfectly matched layers (PML)
- 3D modelling
- (Oriented) Volume, membrane, shell, rod, beam, lumped mass elements
- Large displacements & pre-stress
- Identical nodes, contact, perfect/non-perfect mechanical gluing, rigid body assemblies, mean
- Special effects:
- Coriolis
- Centrifugal
- 2-ways coupling with:
- Thermal field
- Electrical field
- 1-way coupling with optics
- Static (steady-state) and transient
- Linear and non-linear
- Topology optimization
- Density based (SIMP)
- 3D modelling
- Identical nodes, perfect/non-perfect thermal gluing, thermal contact admittance
- 3D mutual radiation (ray tracing)
- Orbital model
- 2-ways coupling with
- Mechanical field
- Electrical field
- Static and transient;
- Linear and non-linear
- FEM / BEM coupling
- Dielectric materials
- Identical nodes
- Perfect/non-perfect electrical gluing
- RLC, electric dipole elements
- 2-ways coupling with
- Mechanical field
- Thermal field
- Static and Transient
- Linear
- Non-linear
- Any gas or liquid material (Newtonian behaviour)
- 3D, 2D planar and axisymmetric modelling
- Symmetry planes
- Incompressible & Boussinesq Law
- Boundary conditions
- Velocity and temperature at inlet
- Pressure at outlet
- Boundary conditions
- Non-slip flow
- Surface heat flux or temperature at walls
- 2-ways coupling with mechanical and thermal fields
- Physics
- Mechanical
- Thermal
- Static analysis
- Gradient based method with MMA optimizer
- Density-based approach
- Adjoint variable method for sensitivities computation
- Advanced SIMP laws
- Multimaterial with or without void
- Manufacturing constraint:
- Minimum member size
- Overhang
- Filters on:
- Sensitivities
- Densities
- Various objective and constraint functions
- Volume (Total or On specific material)
- Total mass
- Mechanical compliance
- Thermal compliance
- Displacement on points
- Rotation on points
- Temperature on points
- Eigen frequencies
- Uncertainty quantification in the model related to
- Loads definition
- Material properties specifications
The following couplings are accessible in OOFELIE::Multipysics.
- Static and Transient
- Linear and non-linear
- Complex Modal and Harmonic
- 3D modelling
- Thermo-elastic iso- and orthotropic materials
- Thermo-elastic damping effect
- Thermal dependency of material properties
- 2-ways coupling with electric field
- 1-way coupling with optics
- Coupling with Zemax’ OpticStudio
Automated data exchange via in-memory dialog - Description of surface deformations:
Zernike Standard or Fringe polynomials, grid of points, all aperture types - Rigid body motion recognition and ability to export separately to Zemax’ OpticStudio
- Thermo-optic effect:
- Accounting for refractive index change as a function of Temperature.
- Computation and visualization of refractive index gradients inside lenses.
- Automated exportation to Zemax’ OpticStudio
- FEM/BEM coupling
- Mesh morphing
- Fast Multipole Methods for BEM
- Pre-stress
- Pull-in voltage computation
- Static and transient
- Linear and non-linear
- Modal and harmonic
- Piezoelectric materials:
- Hexagonal C6
- Trigonal D3
- Triclinic C1
- Perfectly matched layers (PML)
- (Oriented) Volume, membrane, shell
- 2-ways coupling with thermal
- 1-way coupling with optics
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