Section: New Software and Platforms

Platforms

Modulef

The numerical method to approximate the constitutive laws for rubber elasticity derived from polymer physics (as used in [15] , [25] ) are implemented in the Inria software Modulef (joint work of M. Vidrascu, projetc-team REO, and A. Gloria).

It is based on

• algorithms from stochastic geometry to generate suitable polymer networks;

• Delaunay tessellation algorithms to deal with steric effects (courtesy of the Inria project-team GAMMA2);

• the introduction of 1-dimensional finite elements for the polymer-chains in Modulef.

CMA-ES

To solve the inverse problem for the reconstruction of an explicit constitutive law from in silico experiments in [25] , we relied on the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy developed in the project-team TAO.

https://www.lri.fr/~hansen/cmaesintro.html

FreeFEM++

The numerical methods proposed in [14] for the approximation of homogenized coefficients were implemented in FreeFEM++, a user-friendly PDE-solver.

http://www.freefem.org/ff++/