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Aeroelastic coupling

Commands of the aeroelastic_coupling chapter of the database, 10 entries. The status words are defined once, on the compatibility matrix, which says what each rests on and what the script builder does with it. Read it before this page: broken and removed are refusals, so a row here can be telling you the emitter will not write that command for that version.

ASSIGN_AEROELASTIC_COORDINATE_SYSTEMS

Phase init, layout payload_lines. Manual: SRC-003 p.375.

Links user-defined coordinate systems for the aeroelastic interpolation, one index per line after the count. THE PAGE FORBIDS A VALUE OF 1 AND DOES NOT SAY WHICH VALUE. The parameter table has a single row, NUM_INDEX, which is the count; the index lines have no row of their own. On that row the manual says setting the value to 1, glossed as the reference, throws an error. So the sentence sits on the COUNT and its gloss describes an INDEX, and the two readings differ: a count of exactly one coordinate system refused, or the reference frame refused among the indices. The sample settles nothing, passing a count of 3 and the indices 2, 3 and 4, which satisfies both. The three editions that carry this chapter word it identically (SRC-725 p.374, SRC-003 p.375, SRC-740 p.378); the February 2026 edition has no Aeroelastic Coupling Toolbox at all, its scripting reference ending at the Acoustics Toolbox (SRC-741 p.369), so no edition disagrees and none settles it. Nothing is enforced here for that reason. This entry previously asserted the index reading as fact, which was an interpretation presented as a citation; PLN-20260808-1100 carries the probe.

Argument Specification
num_index int
frame_indices int_list (optional)
Version Status Evidence
26.101 documented SRC-725 p.374, same grammar as 26.120
26.120 documented SRC-003 p.375
26.121 documented SRC-740 p.378, same grammar as 26.120
26.123 documented SRC-751 p.382, unchanged from SRC-750 p.382
26.124 documented SRC-752 p.382, the SRC-751 file, carried from 26.123; not run on 26.124

ASSIGN_AEROELASTIC_SURFACES

Phase init, layout payload_lines. Manual: SRC-003 p.375.

Mesh boundaries whose deflections the toolbox interpolates; one index per line after the count, -1 selects all boundaries with no index lines.

Argument Specification
num_boundaries int
boundary_indices int_list (optional)
Version Status Evidence
26.101 documented SRC-725 p.374, same grammar as 26.120
26.120 documented SRC-003 p.375
26.121 documented SRC-740 p.378, same grammar as 26.120
26.123 documented SRC-751 p.382, unchanged from SRC-750 p.382
26.124 documented SRC-752 p.382, the SRC-751 file, carried from 26.123; not run on 26.124

DELETE_AEROELASTIC_STRUCTURAL_NODES

Phase init, layout bare. Manual: SRC-003 p.375.

Deletes all imported structural nodes.

Version Status Evidence
26.101 documented SRC-725 p.374, same grammar as 26.120
26.120 documented SRC-003 p.375
26.121 documented SRC-740 p.378, same grammar as 26.120
26.123 documented SRC-751 p.382, unchanged from SRC-750 p.382
26.124 documented SRC-752 p.382, the SRC-751 file, carried from 26.123; not run on 26.124

EXECUTE_AEROELASTIC_ANALYSIS

Phase exec, layout bare. Manual: SRC-003 p.375.

Runs the steady-state aeroelastic analysis. For unsteady coupling the manual instructs the regular solver execution with SET_AEROELASTIC_COUPLING_IN_UNSTEADY enabled instead (SRC-003 p.275).

Version Status Evidence
26.101 documented SRC-725 p.374, same grammar as 26.120
26.120 documented SRC-003 p.375
26.121 documented SRC-740 p.378, same grammar as 26.120
26.123 documented SRC-751 p.382, unchanged from SRC-750 p.382
26.124 documented SRC-752 p.382, the SRC-751 file, carried from 26.123; not run on 26.124

IMPORT_AEROELASTIC_STRUCTURAL_NODES

Phase init, layout inline. Manual: SRC-003 p.375.

Imports the structural node list; the file is three comma separated columns X,Y,Z per node (SRC-003 p.274), interpreted in the given coordinate system. The node order fixes the FSIDisp.txt displacement order.

Argument Specification
structural_coordinate_system int
delete_existing enum in
nodes_path path
Version Status Evidence
26.101 documented SRC-725 p.374, same grammar as 26.120
26.120 documented SRC-003 p.375
26.121 documented SRC-740 p.378, same grammar as 26.120
26.123 documented SRC-751 p.382, unchanged from SRC-750 p.382
26.124 documented SRC-752 p.382, the SRC-751 file, carried from 26.123; not run on 26.124

SET_AEROELASTIC_COUPLING_IN_UNSTEADY

Phase init, layout inline. Manual: SRC-003 p.376.

Toggles the FSI execution inside the unsteady solver; with ENABLE the coupling runs on the regular solver start.

Argument Specification
state enum in
Version Status Evidence
26.101 documented SRC-725 p.375, same grammar as 26.120
26.120 documented SRC-003 p.376
26.121 documented SRC-740 p.379, same grammar as 26.120
26.123 documented SRC-751 p.383, unchanged from SRC-750 p.383
26.124 documented SRC-752 p.383, the SRC-751 file, carried from 26.123; not run on 26.124

SET_AEROELASTIC_ITERATIONS

Phase init, layout inline. Manual: SRC-003 p.376.

Two-way coupling iterations: the total count in steady mode, the count per time step in unsteady mode (SRC-003 p.275).

Argument Specification
num_iterations int
Version Status Evidence
26.101 documented SRC-725 p.375, same grammar as 26.120
26.120 documented SRC-003 p.376
26.121 documented SRC-740 p.379, same grammar as 26.120
26.123 documented SRC-751 p.383, unchanged from SRC-750 p.383
26.124 documented SRC-752 p.383, the SRC-751 file, carried from 26.123; not run on 26.124

SET_AEROELASTIC_POST_PROCESSING_SCRIPT

Phase init, layout inline. Manual: SRC-003 p.376.

FlightStream script executed between FSI iterations, before the external executable; the documented mechanism for exporting the aerodynamic forces the executable consumes (SRC-003 p.275), for example the surface section loads export.

Argument Specification
script_path path
Version Status Evidence
26.101 documented SRC-725 p.375, same grammar as 26.120
26.120 documented SRC-003 p.376
26.121 documented SRC-740 p.379, same grammar as 26.120
26.123 documented SRC-751 p.383, unchanged from SRC-750 p.383
26.124 documented SRC-752 p.383, the SRC-751 file, carried from 26.123; not run on 26.124

SET_AEROELASTIC_STRUCTURAL_EXECUTION_COMMAND

Phase init, layout inline. Manual: SRC-003 p.376.

Full command executed per coupling iteration in the working directory. The dry run observed a bare invocation: no arguments are appended by the solver.

Argument Specification
command str
Version Status Evidence
26.101 documented SRC-725 p.375, same grammar as 26.120
26.120 documented SRC-003 p.376
26.121 documented SRC-740 p.379, same grammar as 26.120
26.123 documented SRC-751 p.383, unchanged from SRC-750 p.383
26.124 documented SRC-752 p.383, the SRC-751 file, carried from 26.123; not run on 26.124

SET_AEROELASTIC_WORKING_DIRECTORY

Phase init, layout inline. Manual: SRC-003 p.375.

Runtime folder of the coupling: FlightStream writes FSIDisp.txt and the loads exports there and executes the runtime command there (SRC-003 pp.274-275). The dry run confirmed it is the working directory of the external executable's process.

Argument Specification
directory_path path
Version Status Evidence
26.101 documented SRC-725 p.374, same grammar as 26.120
26.120 documented SRC-003 p.375
26.121 documented SRC-740 p.378, same grammar as 26.120
26.123 documented SRC-751 p.382, unchanged from SRC-750 p.382
26.124 documented SRC-752 p.382, the SRC-751 file, carried from 26.123; not run on 26.124