CAPABILITIES

Thermal effects

• Conditional thermal effects to catch temperature dynamics and heat transfer

Components

• Over 70 ready-to-use front end components. The library covers everything from standard valves, restrictions, lines, accumulators, pumps, sensors and more
• Components have standard ISO hydraulic schematic icons to easily recognize the environment for application engineers
• Geometry based valve design using Elements. Includes building blocks like different poppet geometries (conical, ball, etc.), spool valves with flow forces and pistons

Animation/ Visualization

• Visualize system behavior with neat animation feature of hydraulic components (e.g. valves, cylinders, volumes), by varying icon position and color brightness for pressure

Hydraulic effects

• Real time capable hose, line and pipe models to catch delays, pressure spikes and water hammer effects. They use  different approaches like frequency dependent friction, delay based or distributed lumped
• Use a large range of predefined standard hydraulic fluids or simply define your own
• Detailed models for variable density, bulk modulus and viscosity
• Gas fraction mixture equations in the hydraulic fluid
• Employ resistance models covering both laminar-, transition- and turbulent region as well as cavitational effect

Model integration

• Interact with models from other domains like controls, pneumatics, vehicle dynamics, liquid cooling and mechanical

Examples

• Simulate, modify or extend any of the 18 complete system examples for different application area

Export & Co-simulation

• Export sub-systems using FMI to use within different tools without the need of Hydraulics license
• Co-simulate several subsystems using various fluids.