ADINA is a commercial engineering simulation software program that is developed and distributed worldwide by ADINA R & D, Inc. The company was founded in 1986 by Dr.

Klaus-Jürgen Bathe Klaus-Jürgen Bathe is a civil engineer, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and founder of ADINA R&D, who specializes in computational mechanics. Bathe is considered to be one of the pioneers in the ...

, and is headquartered in Watertown,

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, United States. On April 7, 2022,

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acquired ADINA R&D, Inc. ADINA is used in industry and academia to solve

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, and electromagnetic problems. ADINA can also be used to solve

multiphysics In computational modelling, multiphysics simulation (often shortened to simply "multiphysics") is defined as the simultaneous simulation of different aspects of a physical system or systems and the interactions among them. For example, simultaneous ...

problems, including fluid-structure interactions and thermo-mechanical problems. Some of ADINA's nonlinear structural analysis

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is offered as the

NX Nastran NASTRAN is a finite element analysis (FEA) program that was originally developed for NASA in the late 1960s under United States government funding for the aerospace industry. The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (MSC) was one of the principal and o ...

Advanced Nonlinear module, Sol 601/701.

History

The development of ADINA was started in 1974 by Dr.

, shortly after he finished, as the principal developer, the finite element programs SAP IV and NONSAP. In 1986, Dr. Bathe founded ADINA R & D, Inc. in Massachusetts, USA, and he continues to lead the development of ADINA as

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of the company. ADINA R & D performs all developments of the ADINA program in-house, and focuses on reliable and efficient finite element procedures. ADINA R & D sponsored twelve bi-yearly

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at M.I.T. on

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finite element analysis, the proceedings of which are published by

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in the international journal Computers & Structures. In 2003, ADINA R & D signed an

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agreement with EDS. As a result of this agreement, some of ADINA's nonlinear structural analysis capabilities are now offered with

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. This version of ADINA is referred to as the Advanced Nonlinear module, Solution 601 / 701, for implicit / explicit solutions.

Software Architecture

ADINA is the

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for Automatic Dynamic Incremental Nonlinear Analysis. The ADINA program consists of four core

modules Broadly speaking, modularity is the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use. The concept of modularity is used primarily to reduce complexity by breaking a sy ...

: * ''ADINA Structures'' for linear and nonlinear analysis of solids and structures * ''ADINA Thermal'' for analysis of heat transfer in solids and field problems * ''ADINA CFD'' for analysis of compressible and incompressible flows, including heat transfer * ''ADINA EM'' for analysis of electromagnetic phenomena These modules can be used fully coupled together to solve

problems, where the response of the system is affected by the interaction of several distinct physical fields (e.g. fluid-structure interaction,

thermo-mechanical analysis Thermomechanical analysis (TMA) is a technique used in thermal analysis, a branch of materials science which studies the properties of materials as they change with temperature. Thermomechanical analysis is a subdiscipline of the thermomechanome ...

, piezoelectric coupling,

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, fluid flow-mass transfer coupling, electromagnetic forces on fluids and structures, etc.). Also, included in the ADINA suite of programs is a

graphical user interface The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, inste ...

(known as the ADINA User Interface, or AUI) with a solid modeler, ADINA-M, for the pre- and post-processing tasks. The AUI can be used to import solid models, and finite element models in Nastran format, providing an interface to many

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and CAE packages. Furthermore, as part of the ADINA suite,

Femap Femap (''Finite Element Modeling And Postprocessing'') is an engineering analysis program sold by Siemens Digital Industries Software that is used to build finite element models of complex engineering problems ("pre-processing") and view solution ...

can be used for the pre- and post-processing of ADINA data in structural, CFD, and FSI analyses.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:ADINA Finite element software Finite element software for Linux Computational fluid dynamics