Re: Package categories

[Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 13:44 +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
> > "Christophe Prud'homme" <prudhomm@debian.org> writes:
> > > > Salome
> > > to my knowledge Salome does not provide a fe code !
> > > 
> > 
> > AFAICT from http://www.salome-platform.org/home/presentation/overview/
> > while salome doesn't perform FEA calculations, it can be used to
> > create meshes and display results from FEA - which is why I suggested
> > it in that category. It wouldn't however fit in a numerical methods
> > category.
> 
> Indeed: Salomé proper doesn't include a solver, but it does just about
> everything else (meshing, MED file editing, post-processing).  And
> Salomé-MECA adds modules to set up and monitor/control a complex Aster
> run, so in a sense it is a complete FEA front end.


And http://www.opennovation.org/ provides a much better categorisation
of engineering type packages than I did.

Categories there are:

Partial Differential Equation (PDE) Solvers
        General Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
        Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
        Electromagnetism and Optics
        Software for Phase Field simulations
        Boundary Element Method (BEM)

        Pre- and post-processing frameworks and tools


Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

Multi-body dynamics

Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)
 (Ab initio and Molecular dynamics codes listed here)


Chris