Software

The long history of A&M in numerical methods has led to the development of several numerical tools and solvers.

Metafor

Finite Element solver for the simulation of solids submitted to large deformations

Object-oriented
Developed by the MN2L group

NI2D - Nonlinear Identification to Design

Software to quickly and robustly detect, locate, visualize and estimate nonlinear phenomena in vibration test campaigns

Matlab GUI
Developed by NOLISYS and the S3L laboratory

CUPyDO

Software to couple heterogenous fluid and structural solvers for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems

Open source
Object-oriented (Python-based)
Developed by the MTFC, AEA and MN2L groups

DARTFlo

Finite element code to quickly solve transonic potential flows for preliminary aircraft design and optimization

Open source (Apache 2.0)
Object-oriented (C++ / Python)
Interfaced with CUPyDO and openMDAO
Developed by the AEA, MTFC and MN2L groups

GENFEM

Generic implementation of the Extended Finite Element method

GPL licensing
Uses GMSH
Developed by the Computer-Aided Geometric Design group

CAD tools

Several tools under GPL licensing for CAD applications developed by the Computer-Aided Geometric Design group :

Fossils is an open-source software tool designed to simulate the action of muscles on bones from 3D models, helping researchers study biomechanics and the evolution of living and extinct organisms.

Odin

Odin is a research code for the simulation of nonsmooth flexible multibody systems which uses geometric methods for the description of the motion, for the spatial discretization of flexible components and for the time integration. The code is able to deal with mechanical systems composed of rigid bodies and flexible bodies (e.g., elastic beams) interconnected by kinematic joints and interacting through frictional contact conditions.

https://gitlab.uliege.be/am-dept/odin

Other contributions

The members of A&M also contribute to the further development of external numerical tools and solvers, such as

Moreover, the different research groups regularly use commercial software for their research.