Welcome to OpenPisco’s documentation!

Getting Started

• Introduction
  • Features/capabilities
  • User interfaces
    • Python API
    • OpenPiscoCL
    • OpenPisco (GUI)
• Installation
  • Dependencies
  • Install the last stable release with conda/mamba
  • Install external finite element solvers
    • Install Code_Aster
    • Install FreeFem
    • Install ZSet
  • Install external finite volume solver
    • Install OpenFOAM
• Testing
• OpenPisco and OpenPiscoCL interfaces
  • What are OpenPisco and OpenPiscoCL?
  • How do OpenPisco and OpenPiscoCL work?
  • How can OpenPisco and OpenPiscoCL be used?
  • Module tags
    • Header
    • Plugins
    • Mesh
    • Zones
    • Level sets
    • Physical analysis
    • Optimization problems
    • Optimization algorithms
    • Outputs
    • Actions
• Tutorials
  • Topology optimization of a cantilever beam using structured level sets
    • Test case
    • Data setting : header
    • Data setting : implicit zones
    • Data setting : grids
    • Data setting : levelsets
    • Data setting : physical problems
    • Data setting : outputs
    • Data setting : optimization problems
    • Data setting : optimization algorithms
    • Actions setting
    • Run
    • Output
  • Topology optimization of a cantilever beam using unstructured conformal level sets
    • Test case
    • Data setting : header
    • Data setting : implicit zones
    • Data setting : grids
    • Data setting : levelsets
    • Data setting : physical problems
    • Data setting : outputs
    • Data setting : optimization problems
    • Data setting : optimization algorithms
    • Actions setting
    • Run
    • Output
  • Topology optimization of a 2D cantilever beam using conformal level sets
    • Test case
    • Data setting : header
    • Data setting : implicit zones
    • Data setting : grids
    • Data setting : levelsets
    • Data setting : physical problems
    • Data setting : outputs
    • Data setting : optimization problems
    • Data setting : optimization algorithms
    • Actions setting
    • Run
    • Output
  • Conformal remeshing using implicit geometries and mmg3d
    • Run
    • Output
  • Overhanged surfaces detection for additive manufacturing
  • Topology optimization of a bridge using conformal level sets
    • Test case
    • Data setting : imports
    • Data setting : implicit zones
    • Data setting : grids
    • Data setting : levelsets
    • Data setting : physical problems
    • Data setting : optimization problems
    • Data setting : outputs
    • Data setting : optimization algorithms
    • Run
    • Output
• XML Reference Guide
  • Introduction
  • Core Component Tags
    • Zones
    • Grids
    • LevelSets
    • PhysicalProblems
    • OptimProblems
    • TopologicalOptimizations
    • Actions
    • Outputs

Principles

• Software Design
  • Interactions between macroscopic components
  • Focus on criteria
  • RST directory Tree
    • Actions
    • MuscatExtentions
    • CLApp
    • Demos
    • ExternalTools
    • Optim
    • PhysicalSolvers
    • QtApp
    • Structured
    • TestData
    • Unstructured
• Topology Optimization
  • Topology optimization in a nutshell
  • Principles of topology optimization with level sets
    • First approach: Shape capturing with fixed mesh
    • Second approach: Shape tracking with body-fitted meshes
• Level Set
  • Structured Level Set
  • Unstructured Level Set
    • Body-fitted vs non conformal level sets
    • Regularization
    • Transport
    • Reinitialization
• Remeshing
  • Overview
  • Level set remeshing
  • Adaptive remeshing
  • Required entities
  • Overlapping mesh tags
• Lagrangian mesh displacement
• Optimization problem
  • Topology optimization problem
    • Design space and implicit zones
    • Advance
• Optimization algorithms
  • Null space optimization algorithm
  • Unconstrained optimization algorithms
• Physical Solvers
  • Auxiliary field/scalar
  • FieldsNames
  • SolveByLevelSet
  • Physical solvers available
    • External tools
      • Code_Aster
      • Freefem++
      • Zset
      • OpenFOAM
    • Internal tools
  • Physical analysis available
    • Linear elasticity analysis
    • Thermal (conduction) analysis
    • Thermal (conduction) analysis based on eigenvalues
    • Thermoelasticity (conduction) analysis
    • Static buckling analysis
    • Modal analysis
    • Harmonic analysis
    • Incompressible steady-state laminar fluid flow analysis
    • Physical analysis summary
  • Fields available
    • stress
    • strain
    • strain rate
    • von_mises
    • potential_energy
  • Scalars available
    • volume
    • mass
    • int_potential_energy
    • Fields/Scalars summary
• Criteria
  • Physical criteria
  • A word about adjoint problems
  • A word about the direction of the sensitivity
    • Elastic compliance
    • Von Mises stress
    • Target displacement
    • k-th eigenfrequency
    • Effective radiated power (ERP)
    • Target temperature
    • Buckling
    • Worst-case elastic compliance
    • Fluid related force criterion
  • Geometrical criteria
    • Volume
    • Surface
    • Mass
    • Minimal thickness
    • Maximal thickness
    • Center of mass deviation
  • Criteria operations

Developer Guide

• Developer Guide
  • Core Architectural Principles
  • Software Architecture
    • Macroscopic Components
    • Package Structure
    • XML-based Language
  • Development Standards
    • The Factory Pattern
    • Naming Conventions
    • Code Formatting
    • Error Handling
  • Muscat Best Practices
    • Initialization
    • Typical FEA Workflow
    • Important Developer Notes
  • Common Development Workflows
    • Interfacing a New Physical Solver
    • Creating a New Optimization Criterion
      • Core Concepts
      • Practical Implementation Steps
    • Interfacing a New Optimization Algorithm
• OpenPisco Developer Quick Reference
  • Core Concepts
  • LevelSetBase
  • Optimization (Optim module)
    • OptimAlgoBase
    • CriteriaBase & PhysicalCriteriaBase
  • PhysicalSolvers
  • Actions
  • Factory Pattern
• Muscat Quick Reference
  • 1. Mesh IO
  • 2. Filters
  • 3. Implicit Geometry
  • 5. Examples
• Create your own optimization criterion
  • Principles
  • Compatibility with OpenPisco and OpenPiscoCL applications
• Interface your own optimization algorithm
  • How to add your own optimization algorithm
    • Principles
    • Compatibility with OpenPisco and OpenPiscoCL applications
• Interface your own physical solver
  • Principles
  • Compatibility with OpenPisco and OpenPiscoCL applications
• Interface a physical solver with shape optimization capabilities
  • Custom criterion implementation
  • “Augmented” Physical solvers
• Additive manufacturing
  • Overhang surfaces detection
  • Backing surfaces detection
  • Surfaces export to Stl
  • Contact surface penalization
  • Filter simply connected bodies in tag
  • Generate general equivalent force field
  • Push Force Field To Physical Problem
  • Simulation of additive manufacturing process using inherent strain method

OpenPisco Package Tree

• OpenPisco package
  • Subpackages
    • OpenPisco.Actions package
      • Submodules
    • OpenPisco.CLApp package
      • Submodules
    • OpenPisco.Demos package
      • GetDemoPath()
    • OpenPisco.ExternalTools package
      • Subpackages
      • Submodules
    • OpenPisco.MuscatExtentions package
      • Submodules
    • OpenPisco.Optim package
      • Subpackages
    • OpenPisco.PhysicalSolvers package
      • Submodules
    • OpenPisco.QtApp package
      • Subpackages
      • Submodules
    • OpenPisco.Structured package
      • Submodules
    • OpenPisco.TestData package
      • GetTestDataPath()
      • Subpackages
      • Submodules
    • OpenPisco.Unstructured package
      • Submodules
  • Submodules
    • OpenPisco.BaseElements module
      • CheckIntegrity()
    • OpenPisco.ConceptionFieldFactory module
      • CheckIntegrity()
      • ConceptionFieldFactory
      • Create()
      • InitAllConceptionField()
      • RegisterClass()
    • OpenPisco.ExtractConnexPart module
    • OpenPisco.ImplicitGeometry module
      • CheckIntegrity()
      • ImplicitGeometryLevelset
    • OpenPisco.LevelSetBase module
      • CheckIntegrity()
      • LevelSetBase
    • OpenPisco.TopoZones module
      • CheckIntegrity()

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page