Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Django

Django is a free and open source web application framework, written in Python, which follows the model–view–controller architectural pattern. It is maintained by the Django Software Foundation (DSF), an independent organization established as a non-profit.

Django's primary goal is to ease the creation of complex, database-driven websites. Django emphasizes reusability and "pluggability" of components, rapid development, and the principle of don't repeat yourself. Python is used throughout, even for settings, files, and data models. Django also provides an optional administrative create, read, update and delete interface that is generated dynamically through introspection and configured via admin models.

Source: www.djangoproject.com

Saturday, November 8, 2014

SU2 Compressible Flow Solver - open source

Stanford University Unstructured (SU2)
Computational analysis tools have revolutionized the way we design aerospace systems, but most established codes are proprietary, unavailable, or prohibitively expensive for many users. The SU2 team is changing this, making computational analysis and design freely available as open-source software and involving everyone in its creation and development. 

Source: http://su2.stanford.edu/

Thursday, November 6, 2014

iFEM, Finite Element, Matlab

iFEM is a MATLAB software package containing robust, efficient, and easy-following codes for the main building blocks of adaptive finite element methods on unstructured simplicial grids in both two and three dimensions. Besides the simplicity and readability, sparse matrixlization, an innovative programming style for MATLAB, is introduced to improve the efficiency. In this novel coding style, the sparse matrix and its operations are used extensively in the data structure and algorithms.

Source: http://www.math.uci.edu/~chenlong/programming.html

Monday, November 3, 2014

1st International Conference in Sports Science & Technology, Hotel Novotel Clarke Quay, Singapore 11 - 12 December 2014

1st International Conference in Sports Science & Technology
Hotel Novotel Clarke Quay, Singapore
11 - 12 December 2014
Annually, millions are spent on engineering and research into various aspects relating to sports. This has inadvertently improved sporting equipment and has resulted in safer practices and enhanced performance. Examples of engineering innovations are evident from sporting activities from motor racing, cycling to tennis and golf. In addition, technology has also been deployed to improve the experience of spectators through the use of wearable cameras and wireless sensors. Papers are invited on various aspects of engineer. The topics include, but not limited to, the following aspects:

Wearable Devices
Motion Capture
Real-time Performance Monitoring
Design and Analysis of Sporting Equipment
Performance Enhancing Clothing
Training Aids
Simulators
Robotics

JOURNAL DETAILS
For all three symposia, selected papers will be considered for publication in a special edition of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, a publication indexed by the Science Citation Index (SCI).
  • Guest Editors: Dr. Gerald Seet (MAE, NTU), Prof. Sunil Joshi (MAE, NTU), Dr. Govindasamy Balasekaran (PESS, NIE).
For the Advanced Materials symposium, authors with accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full length paper, to be peer-reviewed and published in a special issue of Materials & Design, an Elsevier journal (SCI) with impact factor of 2.913.
  • Guest Editors: Dr. Aravind Dasari (MSE, NTU), Dr. Weimin Huang (MAE, NTU), Dr. Zhong Chen (MSE, NTU).

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

GrabCAD Workbench: manage and share CAD files

GrabCAD Workbench

The fast, easy way to manage and share CAD files without PDM cost and hassle.
Workbench allows teams on any CAD system to work smoothly together by syncing local CAD files to cloud projects, tracking versions and locking files to prevent conflicts.

Source: http://grabcad.com/

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

OpenMDAO - Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization

OpenMDAO is an open-source (why?) Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization (MDAO) framework, written in Python. You can use it to develop an integrated analysis and design environment for your engineering challenges.

In layman’s terms: OpenMDAO is a piece of software that links other pieces of software together. It allows you to combine analysis tools (or design codes) from multiple disciplines, at multiple levels of fidelity, and to manage the interaction between them. OpenMDAO is specifically designed to manage the dataflow (the actual data) and the workflow (what code is run when) in conjunction with optimization algorithms and other advanced solution techniques. OpenMDAO also has extensive optimization capabilities built right in.

Link: http://openmdao.org/