Department of Mechanics: Software

Software developed at the Department of Mechanics:

• OOFEM - object-oriented finite element code, developed by Bořek Patzák and coworkers
• SIFEL - Simple Finite Elements, developed by Jaroslav Kruis and coworkers
• T3D - three-dimensional mesh generator developed by Daniel Rypl
• EduBeam - static analysis of planar frames, developed by Bořek Patzák and coworkers

Selected software potentially useful for scientific applications:

• Engauge Digitizer - conversion of an image file containing graphs into a text file with numbers specifying the coordinates of selected points
• FileSender - secure way to share large files provided by CESNET
• Gnuplot - portable command-line driven graphing utility
• Maxima - computer algebra system
• Octave - open-source tool similar to Matlab
• ParaView - open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application
• PDF scissors - a tool to crop pdfs; usefull for reading pdf files (especially the scanned ones) easily in ebook readers
• Scan Tailor - excellent tool for interactive post-processing of scanned pages
• QtGrace - a free inter-platform tool for data analysis, derived from Grace
• Veusz - scientific plotting package
• Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] - free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.

Comparison of software useful for scientific applications at WIKI with the list of pairs - software (experienced users):

• Numerical analysis software - MATLAB (J.Vondřejc), SciPy (J.Vondřejc)
• Computer algebra systems - Symbolic MATLAB Toolbox (J.Vondřejc)
• TeX editors - Kile (J.Vondřejc), Vim (J. Stránský)
• Reference management software - KBibTeX (J.Vondřejc)