The MpCCI environment offers a general coupling environment. MpCCI coupled systems can be used for

• - Fluid-Structure-Interaction
• - Thermal interactions and radiation
• - Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics
• - CFD – EMAG for electrical devices
• - Coupled manufacturing processes
• - and many more multi-disciplinary areas

Many engineering problems require multidiscipline physical simulations. Such problems require the solution of two or more distinctive physical subsystems that are tightly coupled. Examples include fluid-structure interaction, thermo-mechanical interaction, thermo-electric interaction, and piezoelectric interaction problems. In these situations, one physical subsystem may affect the response of another subsystem through:

• - the constitutive behavior, such as the yield stress defined as a function of temperature;
• - strain dependence on other solution fields, e.g. thermal strains or piezo;
• - electric effect;
• - surface tractions/fluxes, for example a fluid exerting pressure on a structure;
• - body forces/fluxes, such as heat generation due to flow of current in a coupled thermal-electrical simulation;
• - geometric changes, such as fluid in contact with a deforming structure.