Welcome to FUNtoFEM’s Documentation

If you are using FUNtoFEM with existing interface class and solvers, you should only need the FUNtoFEM Model and FUNtoFEM Driver. If you wish to create a new interface or a new driver, see the Programmer’s Guide.

Contents:

• Analysis Framework
  • MELD Transfer Scheme
  • FUN3D, Flow Solver
  • TACS, Structure Solver
  • Aeroelastic Framework
  • Aerothermal Framework
  • Aerothermoelastic Framework
• FUNtoFEM Model
  • Assembling the model
  • Exchanging the model data with an optimizer
  • Bodies and Scenarios
• FUNtoFEM Driver
  • Creating the solver manager
  • Creating the comm manager
  • Transfer Scheme Set Up
  • Running the coupled FUNtoFEM driver
  • Setting up a design optimization
  • Building and using the OnewayStructDriver
  • Driver Classes
• Transfer Scheme
• Programmer’s Guide
  • Create an interface class for a solver
  • Create a body class with shape parameterization
  • Create a new driver
• funtofem
  • Import Modules
  • MPI
  • Model Architecture
  • Discipline Solvers
  • Building a Coupled Funtofem Driver
  • Building a Tacs Oneway-Coupled Driver
  • Driver Call
• FUN3D Configuration Requirements
• Installing FUNtoFEM
  • Prerequisites
  • Steps to compile
  • FUN3D

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page

Authors

• Jan Kiviaho

• Kevin Jacobson

• Graeme Kennedy

• Liam Smith

• Lenard Halim

• Sejal Sahu

• Brian Burke

• Sean Engelstad

External Resources

Access publications by the SMDO Group here.

Return to FUNtoFEM GitHub Repository here.

Acknowledgements

FUNtoFEM was developed with funding from NASA through the Transformational Tools and Technologies program with grant number NNX15AU22A and funding from the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), contract number FA8650-18-2-2227.

License

FUNtoFEM is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this software except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License here.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.