Simulation software

CCES Member and Network Laboratories require a wide range of numerical simulation software for their Computational Engineering activities.

Please contact [email protected] for user support for any of the following simulation software.


Abaqus FEA

A suite of software applications for finite element analysis and computer aided engineering for a wide range of industrial applications, including dynamic vibration, multibody systems, impact/crash, nonlinear static, thermal coupling, and acoustic-structural coupling.

Operating system: Windows

Commercial software: see EPFL ANSYS information


ANSYS Fluent and ANSYS CFX

General-purpose software packages for the numerical simulation of a wide range of fluid flows. They contain the broad physical modeling capabilities needed to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer, and reactions for industrial applications including air flow over an aircraft wing, combustion in a furnace, bubble columns, oil platforms, blood flow and semiconductor manufacturing. 

Operating system: Linux and Windows

Commercial software, with following EPFL license for teaching and non-industrial academic research:

  • 50 Academic Teaching tokens
  • 50 Academic Research tokens
  • 96 Academic Research HPC tokens (for parallel computation)

Operating system: Windows, Linux

Commercial software: see EPFL ANSYS information


CD-adapco STAR-CCM+

General-purpose software package for the numerical simulation of a wide range of flows (of fluids or solids), heat transfer and stress. An extensive range of physical models are available, including multi-domain, multiphase, combustion and chemical reactions, dynamic fluid-body interaction, aeroacoustic analysis, fluid-structure interaction and electrical field simulation.

Operating system: Linux and Windows

Commercial software, with following EPFL license for teaching and non-industrial academic research:

  • 20 Academic tokens

COMSOL Multiphysics

A modular engineering simulation software environment for applications ranging from fluid flow and heat transfer to structural mechanics and electromagnetic analyses. Predefined multiphysics-application templates exist for many common problem types. There is also the possibility of choosing different physics or specifying your own partial differential equations (PDEs) and linking them with other equations and physics.

Operating system: Windows

Commercial software: EPFL site license


LAMMPS

A classical molecular dynamics code for the numerical simulation of soft materials (biomolecules, polymers), solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. LAMMPS can be used as a general particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale, and runs in serial or in parallel using message-passing and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality.

Operating system: C++ source code for general installation (executable available for Windows)

Open source software (GNU public license, distributed by Sandia National Laboratories).


OpenFOAM

General-purpose software packages used for the numerical simulation of a wide range of fluid flows. OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics and electromagnetics.

Operating system: source/binary pack for Linux

Open source software (GNU public license, with commercial support available from SGI).


Quantum ESPRESSO

Quantum ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of computer codes for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft).

Operating system: Fortran 95 / C source code for general installation

Open source software (GNU public license).