Simscape Fluids

 

Simscape Fluids

Model and simulate fluid systems

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Simscape Fluids™ (formerly SimHydraulics®) provides component libraries for modeling and simulating fluid systems. It includes models of hydraulic pumps, valves, actuators, pipelines, and heat exchangers. You can use these components to develop fluid power systems such as front-loader, power steering, and landing gear actuation systems. Simscape Fluids also enables you to develop engine cooling, gearbox lubrication, and fuel supply systems. You can integrate mechanical, electrical, thermal, and other physical systems into your model using components from the Simscape™ family of products.

Simscape Fluids helps you develop control systems and test system-level performance. You can create custom component models with the MATLAB® based Simscape language, which enables text-based authoring of physical modeling components, domains, and libraries. You can parameterize your models using MATLAB variables and expressions, and design control systems for your hydraulic system in Simulink®. To deploy models to other simulation environments, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems, Simscape Fluids supports C-code generation.

What Is Simscape Fluids?.
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What Is Simscape Fluids?
An actuation system controlled by two open center, 5-way, 3-position directional valves.

Fluid Power

Model actuation systems in construction equipment, production machinery, and aerospace applications. Evaluate thermal effects and design control algorithms.

FMTC Designs and Optimizes a Hybrid Hydrostatic Drivetrain with Model-Based Design
Model of a vapor-compression refrigeration cycle with conditions in the supercritical fluid region.

Heating and Cooling

Model thermal management systems for batteries, vehicles, buildings, and other applications. Evaluate system architecture and refine component-level requirements.

ESA and Airbus Create Upper-Stage Attitude Control Development Framework Using Model-Based Design
Aircraft fuel tank model with pumping station.

Fluid Transportation

Model fluid transportation in fuel tanks, supply networks, lubrication assemblies, and other systems. Automate tests under expected and abnormal operating conditions.

Simulating a Piezoelectric-Actuated Hydraulic Pump Design at Fraunhofer LBF and Ricardo
Digital twin of a pump used to detect faults in actual system.

Predictive Maintenance

Minimize losses, equipment downtime, and costs by creating algorithms that predict component failure. Model failed components, such as leaking seals or blocked orifices.

Lockheed Martin Simulates Orion Spacecraft Missions Using a Multidomain Power System Model
Model of a team turbine system based on the Rankine Cycle.

Virtual Testing

Verify system behavior under conditions that cannot be easily tested with hardware prototypes. Run sets of tests in parallel on a multicore workstation or a cluster.

Vintecc Develops PLC System for Multi-Axle Harvesting Machine Using Model-Based Design
Model of a liquid-cooled permanent magnet synchronous motor in an electric vehicle.

Model Deployment

Convert your Simscape model to C code to test control algorithms. Run HIL tests on dSPACE®, Speedgoat, OPAL-RT, and other real-time systems before performing physical tests.

Volvo Construction Equipment Streamlines Product Development with a Real-Time, Human-in-the-Loop Simulator
A generic hydraulic actuator parameterized to model three specific actuators.

Simscape Platform

Test integration of electrical, thermal, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems in a single environment. Identify integration issues and optimize system-level performance.

Virgin Orbit Simulates LauncherOne Stage Separation Events
Model of a hydraulically actuated machine tool that performs coarse drilling, fine drilling, and reaming.

MATLAB and Simulink

Use MATLAB to automate tasks such as model assembly, testing, and post-processing. Use Simulink to integrate control algorithms and hardware design in a single environment.

Toyota Front-Loads Development of Engine Control Systems Using Comprehensive Engine Models and SIL+M
Vehicle HVAC system model with blower, evaporator, heater, and duct components.

From Research To Production

Simscape models help you refine requirements, design control systems, test embedded controllers, and support in-service operation as a digital twin.

ABB Accelerates Application Control Software Development for a Power Electronic Controller

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Volvo Construction Equipment Streamlines Product Development with a Real-Time, Human-in-the-Loop Simulator

“It was technically impossible for us to build a full-scale hydraulic system model to run in real time without Simulink, Simscape, and Simulink Real-Time. Our simulator enables us to test new concepts for construction equipment, tune parameters, reduce lead times, and minimize issues in the field.”

Jae Yong Lee, Volvo Construction Equipment
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