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Units and Space Dimensions
Most physics interfaces support 2D (and in some cases also 1D) models in addition to 3D models. The units for intensive physical quantities such as density in the physics interfaces are the same regardless of the space dimension (for density, kg/m3 in SI units). This makes it possible to use common material property values also in models with other space dimensions than 3D using their well-known, physical units regardless of the dimension you are modeling in. In planar 2D, this means that the implementation includes an implicit unit depth in the out-of-plane direction, except for some physics interfaces (for solid mechanics and electric currents, for example), where the thickness is a user-defined property that defines the volume of the model domain. In axisymmetric models, the volume of the domain is defined by the 2D cross section in the rz-plane that is the geometry you define for such models. The volume that it defines is the area of the 2D cross section integrated a full 360 degrees in the circumferential direction.