Physical Analyses#

OpenPisco currently supports several classes of physical analyses used in shape and topology optimization workflows.

The sections below provide an overview of the supported analyses and link to their theoretical formulation.

🏗️ Structural Mechanics

Elasticity, buckling, modal and harmonic analyses for structural applications.

Structural Mechanics
🌡️ Thermal Analyses

Thermal conduction, thermal eigenmodes and thermoelastic analyses.

Thermal Analyses
🌊 Fluid Mechanics

Incompressible steady-state laminar flow analyses.

Fluid Mechanics

Overview#

Structural Mechanics#

OpenPisco provides several structural analyses commonly encountered in mechanical engineering applications:

  • Linear Elasticity

    Static analysis of elastic structures subjected to prescribed loads and boundary conditions.

  • Static Buckling

    Linearized buckling analysis used to estimate critical loads and instability modes.

  • Modal Analysis

    Computation of eigenfrequencies and vibration modes.

  • Harmonic Analysis

    Frequency-domain response of structures subjected to periodic excitations.

See Structural Mechanics for the mathematical formulations and governing equations.

Thermal Analyses#

OpenPisco provides several thermal analyses:

  • Thermal Conduction

    Computation of transient or steady-state temperature fields.

  • Thermal Eigenvalue Analysis

    Spectral decomposition of thermal problems.

  • Thermoelasticity

    Weakly coupled thermo-mechanical analyses combining thermal and structural simulations.

See Thermal Analyses for details.

Fluid Mechanics#

Currently, OpenPisco supports:

  • Incompressible Steady-State Flow

    Laminar Newtonian flows governed by the Navier-Stokes equations.

See Fluid Mechanics for details.