{"id":171370,"date":"2023-06-05T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/what-are-the-differences-between-mfx-cfx-and-system-coupling-fluent\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:30:27","slug":"what-are-the-differences-between-mfx-cfx-and-system-coupling-fluent","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/what-are-the-differences-between-mfx-cfx-and-system-coupling-fluent\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the differences between MFX\/CFX and System Coupling\/Fluent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list comparing MFX to System Coupling (SC):  \u2022MFX allows forces to be transferred from a pair of wall boundaries to a set of shell elements (2-to-1 mapping) while SC is limited to 1-to-1 mapping for co-simulation \u2022Mesh smoothing options with CFX are more robust and have more control than Fluent \u2022MFX allows mixed steady\/transient couplings and allows restarts from steady-state to transient, neither of which are supported with SC \u2022Cases requiring transient rotor-stator can be solved with MFX\/CFX, but cases requiring FSI regions in sliding mesh zones cannot be solved with SC\/Fluent \u2022SC\/Fluent allows re-meshing whereas MFX is limited to mesh smoothing \u2022MFX does not support many features based on CONTA17* elements, however these are fully supported with SC \u2022SC supports local\/shared memory and distributed parallel for MAPDL, whereas MFX only supports local parallel for MAPDL \u2022SC has an easier WB workflow for restarts \u2022Creation of backup points is simpler with SC \u2022SC requires an &#8220;ANSYS Structural&#8221; or higher license plus any Fluent license, while  MFX requires an &#8220;ANSYS Mechanical&#8221; or higher license plus any CFX\/CFD-Flo license, or a single &#8220;ANSYS Multiphysics&#8221; license, or a single &#8220;ANSYS Mechanical CFD-Flo&#8221; license \u2022Neither MFX or SC CFX allow for the run to be dynamically changed using &#8220;Edit Run in Progress&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-171370","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-18-1","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-system-coupling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2\/6\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["1110"],"siebel_km_number":["2049218"],"product_version":["18.1"],"km_published_date":["2017-04-27T01:08:10.176Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["System Coupling"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/171370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/171370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}