This chapter discusses features related to defining an analysis. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:

• “Coupled thermal-electrical-structural analysis,” Section 6.1

• “Time-harmonic eddy current analysis,” Section 6.2

• “Smoothed particle hydrodynamics,” Section 6.3

• “Change in default element stable time estimation for three-dimensional continuum elements,” Section 6.4

• “Continued enhancements to the XFEM-based crack propagation capability,” Section 6.5

• “New RNG k–epsilon turbulence model for fluid dynamic analysis,” Section 6.6

• “Enhancements to coupled structural-acoustic analysis,” Section 6.7

• “AMS eigensolver performance improvement,” Section 6.8

• “Enhanced iterative solver capability to handle dense linear constraints,” Section 6.9

• “Matrix generation enhancements,” Section 6.10

• “Matrix input enhancements,” Section 6.11

• “Defining a spectrum using values of S as a function of frequency and damping in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 6.12

• “Creating a spectrum from a user-specified amplitude in Abaqus/Standard,” Section 6.13

• “New modal and directional summation methods for response spectrum analysis,” Section 6.14

• “Performing response spectrum analyses using the high-performance SIM architecture,” Section 6.15

• “Using uncoupled eigenmodes to generate a coupled acoustic-structural substructure,” Section 6.16

• “Periodic media analysis technique in Abaqus/Explicit,” Section 6.17

• “Contact iterations solution technique no longer available,” Section 6.18

• “Synchronizing restart information written in a co-simulation,” Section 6.19

• “Including the effect of a residual stress field on contour integral evaluation,” Section 6.20

• “Performance improvement for modal steady-state dynamic analysis,” Section 6.21

• “Import of pipe elements from Abaqus/Standard to Abaqus/Explicit,” Section 6.22

• “New iterative solver option for incomplete LU factorization,” Section 6.23