Useful Links

Practical Applications of FEM

• Boeing 767 on Rigid Wall - Early NIST ANSYS Simulation

• CFD Simulation of vortex shedding

• Finite element simulation of full scale car crash

• Nastran Finite Element Analysis Demo Video

• Plastic deformation of aluminum block

• Von Karman vortex street (Re = 250)

• Von Karman vortex street (Re = 20,000)

Software Resources

• • ADOL-C (Automatic differentiation package)

  • Boost libraries

  • CGAL 

  • DAKOTA 

  • HDF

  • Matrix Template Library (MTL)

  • METIS 

  • MSTK

  • NAG 

  • Octave

  • PETSc

  • SuperLU 

  • Tahoe

  • TAUCS 

  • Toolkit for Advanced Optimization (TAO)

FEM Framework

• • deal.II

  • FEAP

  • FEnicCS

  • Getfem++

  • libMesh

  • OpenFOAM

Meshing Software

• • ABAQUS

  • CUBIT

  • Discretizer 

  • Gmsh (We will use in our course)

  • GRIDDER 

  • PATRAN

  • Triangle (2D mesh generator)

Visualization Software

• • MayaVi (developed at my alma mater - IIT Madras)

  • ParaView

  • Tecplot

  • VISIT

Online Video Lectures on FEM

• • Prof. K.-J. Bathe's lectures (MIT)

• Prof. R. Krishnakumar lectures (IIT-Madras, my alma mater)