Department of Mechanics: Software

Software developed at the Department of Mechanics:

• OOFEM.org - 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
• MuPIF.org - Multi-Physics, distributed integration framework

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.
• Mendeley - reference manager combined with scientific social network. Here is a simple overview (in Czech): File:Mendeley-tahak.pdf
• matlabfrag, matlab2tikz - handy free tools for exporting Matlab and Matlab/Octave figures consistently into LaTex

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), LyX (M.Jirásek)
• Reference management software - KBibTeX (J.Vondřejc)

A selection of interesting computational platforms developed by our colleagues at other universities:

• Akantu: An optimized open-source object-oriented finite-element library, developed by the team of Prof. Jean-Francois Molinari at the LSMS (Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory), EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne).
• MARS - Modeling and Analysis of the Response of Structures: Commercial software implementing the Lattice Discrete Particle Model (LDPM) for concrete developed by Prof. Gianluca Cusatis (Northwestern University, USA).