Comparison of the parallelization efficiency of a thermo-structural problem simulated in SIMULIA Abaqus and ANSYS mechanical

Abstract

The linear friction welding (LFW) process is characterized by transient nonlinear physical phenomena which result in high stress and temperature gradients in metal objects. To develop an adequate resource efficient numerical model it is necessary to be able to solved with parallel computation for different sets of model parameters. In this paper the parallelization efficiency of a thermo-structural problem is simulated in SIMULIA Abaqus and ANSYS Mechanical and it is compared. © 2012 Kavala Institute of Technology.