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,
Massachusetts, United States. On April 7, 2022,
Bentley Systems
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acquired ADINA R&D, Inc.
ADINA is used in industry and academia to solve
structural,
fluid
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,
heat transfer, and
electromagnetic problems. ADINA can also be used to solve
multiphysics problems, including
fluid-structure interactions and
thermo-mechanical problems.
Some of ADINA's nonlinear structural analysis
code
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is offered as the
NX Nastran Advanced Nonlinear module, Sol 601/701.
History
The development of ADINA was started in 1974 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 ...
, 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
technical director 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
academic conferences at M.I.T. on
nonlinear finite element analysis, the proceedings of which are published by
Elsevier in the international journal Computers & Structures.
In 2003, ADINA R & D signed an
OEM agreement with
EDS. As a result of this agreement, some of ADINA's nonlinear structural analysis capabilities are now offered with
NX Nastran by
Siemens PLM Software
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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
acronym for Automatic Dynamic Incremental Nonlinear Analysis. The ADINA program consists of four core
modules:
* ''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
multiphysics 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,
piezoelectric coupling,
Joule heating
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Joule's first law (also just Joule's law), also known in c ...
,
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 (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
CAD and
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packages.
Furthermore, as part of the ADINA suite,
Femap can be used for the pre- and post-processing of ADINA data in structural, CFD, and FSI analyses.
References
External links
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Finite element software
Finite element software for Linux
Computational fluid dynamics