Use the reverse engineering technique to link COMSOL and ANSYS softwares

To simulate different topologies of deformable micro structures, some multiphysics softwares that forms our simulation platform are under investigation. The criteria for weighing the software is the precision of the results with an acceptable time of calculation to simulate different models with multiple variables. The existance of COMSOL 3.3, at a time linking all the physics and having a good interactive interface seemed to be a good solution. Being new, and under development, COMSOL 3.3 needed to be valid on different points and specialy needs to be linked to another software to complete what COMSOL cannot do. As a first step, we validated the numerical platform by comparing results of different softwares and also some analytical solutions. The basic advantages and drawbacks of each software were considered then we have developed a method to link COMSOL and ANSYS since we think they are complementary. In terms of time of calculation, an interesting result concerning the speed of COMSOL to solve the problem when compared to ANSYS, while keeping the same precision of calculation.