Computational Mechanics Co. (ProPHLEX)

Description:

COMCO produces hp-adaptive FE solid and fluid mechanics codes (PHLEX), as well as a general FE Toolkit (ProPHLEX) for FE code creation. ProPHLEX may be applied to any class of physical phenomena described by a system of second order differential equations (linear or nonlinear). It has an object-oriented open-ended design, including data structure and programming utilities which permit the solution of user-specified problems. In addition, it has a series of pre-built applications (see keyword list below) which the user may also customise.

Availability:

See the ProPHLEX homepage. A low-cost package is available for academic use, and a demo of PHLEX may be downloaded for some platforms (20/1/00: NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE).

Platforms:

Unix platforms include HP, IBM, SGI, SUN. A Windows NT version is also available.

Note:

Some features of PHLEX are indicated by the following list of keywords: analysis may be steady/unsteady, linear/nonlinear, weakly/strongly coupled; manual/automatic mesh adaptivity, error estimation, customisable GUI, graphics post-processing.

Note:

COMCO has a web site at http://www.comco.com which includes ``Fea World'' (qv).

Keywords:

solid mechanics, linear elasticity, viscoplasticity, friction, contact, large deformation, fluid mechanics, incompressible viscous flow, turbulence, conjugate heat transfer, compressible flows. porous media flow, capillarity.