Software package list @ NEPTUNIUS project

Here are the links to the documentation pages of the software and packages available at NEPTUNIUS virtual laboratory:

Application Name: Ansys Fluent
Discipline: Computational Fluid Dynamics
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ANSYS FLUENT software contains the broad physical modeling capabilities needed to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer, and reactions for industrial applications ranging from air flow over an aircraft wing to combustion in a furnace, from bubble columns to oil platforms, from blood flow to semiconductor manufacturing, and from clean room design to wastewater treatment plants. Special models that give the software the ability to model in-cylinder combustion, aeroacoustics, turbomachinery, and multiphase systems have served to broaden its reach.

Application Name: OpenFOAM
Discipline: Computational Fluid Dynamics
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The OpenFOAM® (Open Field Operation and Manipulation) CFD Toolbox can simulate anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options. OpenFOAM is produced by OpenCFD Ltd and is freely available and open source, licensed under the GNU General Public Licence. The core technology of OpenFOAM is a flexible set of efficient C++ modules. These are used to build a wealth of: solvers, to simulate specific problems in engineering mechanics; utilities, to perform pre- and post-processing tasks ranging from simple data manipulations to visualisation and mesh processing; libraries, to create toolboxes that are accessible to the solvers/utilities, such as libraries of physical models. Domain decomposition parallelism is fundamental to the design of OpenFOAM and integrated at a low level so that solvers can generally be developed without the need for any ’parallel-specific’ coding.

Application Name: Ansys CFX
Discipline: Computational Fluid Dynamics
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ANSYS CFX is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program, used to simulate fluid flow in a variety of applications. The ANSYS CFX product allows engineers to test systems in a virtual environment. The scalable program has been applied to the simulation of water flowing past ship hulls, gas turbine engines (including the compressors, combustion chamber, turbines and afterburners), aircraft aerodynamics, pumps, fans, HVAC systems, mixing vessels, hydrocyclones, vacuum cleaners, and more.

Application Name: StarCCM+
Discipline: Computational Fluid Dynamics
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STAR-CCM+ delivers the entire engineering simulation process in a single integrated software environment. This unique approach brings unrivalled ease-of-use and automation to CAD preparation, meshing, model set-up and iterative design studies, enabling your Engineers to deliver better results, faster. Innovations such as built-in surface-wrapping, advanced automated meshing (creating either polyhedral or predominantly hexahedral volume meshes) and the ability to “copy and paste” components between models have quickly established STAR-CCM+ a reputation for producing high-quality results in a single code with minimum user effort.

Application Name: MpCCI
Discipline: Fluid Structure Interaction
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MpCCI (Mesh-based parallel Code Coupling Interface), developed at the Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, is the standard for simulation code coupling and provide an application independent interface for the coupling of different simulation codes, enabling a direct communication between the coupled codes by providing adapters for them. These code adapters make use of the already existing application programming interfaces (APIs) of the simulation tools. MpCCI accesses the results of each code on the user-prescribed interface boundary at each iteration or time step, automatically translating and interpolating between meshes as needed to pass them to the other code. MpCCI supports distributed, parallel execution of multiple applications.

Application Name: Ansys
Discipline: Structural analysis
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Application Name: Gambit
Discipline: Preproccesor, Mesh generator
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GAMBIT: A geometric modeling and grid generation tool often shipped with FLUENT technology. GAMBIT software allows users to create their own geometry or import geometry from most CAD packages. It can automatically mesh surfaces and volumes while allowing the user to control the mesh through the use of sizing functions and boundary layer meshing. Being Fluent acquired by Ansys, Gambit is no more developed and its capabilities have been merged into Ansys package.

Application Name: Paraview
Discipline: Postprocessor
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ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView's batch processing capabilities. ParaView was developed to analyze extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources. It can be run on supercomputers to analyze datasets of terascale as well as on laptops for smaller data.

Application Name: TGrid
Discipline: Preproccesor, Mesh generator
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TGRID: A mesh generator for generating unstructured mesh from defined surface mesh, also usually shipped with FLUENT technology. TGRID software is very powerful and contains a "wrapper" to help easily mesh large, complex geometries. It can also be used to repair surfaces meshes. Being Fluent acquired by Ansys, Tgrid is no more developed and its capabilities have been merged into Ansys package.