UTEP Computational Mechanics Laboratory

COMPUTERS

RESEARCH CODES

SOFTWARE

TUTORIALS

POLICIES

OPEN POSITIONS

Here are some tutorials and help on the following topics

Matlab

Here is a good introduction to Matlab

Here is a tutorial on programming FEM in Matlab

Fortran 90/95

Here is a good introduction Fortran 90/95, especially if you know Fortran 77

LS-DYNA

Here is a good introduction to using LS-DYNA

Here is a simple LS-DYNA input file

Here is a bit more involved guide to using LS-DYNA

This site has lots of example problems

Also, look at the examples in the installation directory as well as the user manual

Here are instructions to installing LS-DYNA on your own computer

Altair HyperMesh

Here is an introductory tutorial on HyperMesh

Here is a more advanced tutorial on HyperMesh

Here is a very complete , and large, tutorial on HyperMesh

Here the HyperMesh users guide

Here is a tutorial on interfacing with LS-DYNA

Here is a list of LS-DYNA cards supported under HyperMesh

Here is a tutorial on interfacing with Nastran

Here is a tutorial on interfacing with Ansys

Here is a tutorial on interfacing with Abaqus

Here is a tutorial customizing HyperMesh

Here is a tutorial on HyperMesh COMMANDS (this is for customization)

Here is a tutorial on TEMPLATES (for developing your own I/O)

Here are a lot more but you need to register with Altair

Altair HyperView

Here is a tutorial on using Hyperview

Here is a tutorial on using Hypergraph

Here is a more advanced tutorial on using Hyperview

Altair OptiStruct

Here is a tutorial on using Optistruct

Nastran

Fluent

An introduction to using Fluent

This Cornell link has a lot of good info on CFD and usign Fluent

Here is a tutorial on how to use Hypermesh to preprocess for Fluent

Unigraphics

GMSH
This is a very good free mesh generator

Gmsh homepage

Gmsh documentation

Gmsh tutorials

Here is a C++ program for converting Gmsh output to LS-DYNA input

Here is the binary for RH Linux

OpenDX
This is an excellent, very powerful, general purpose visualization program

OpenDX, visualization program (online documentation)

UNIX/Linux Stuff

Introduction to UNIX (and Linux)

How to backup your files

How to run jobs in background

How to remotely access the lab using ssh

Here is a good tutorial on using Emacs (a very good editor in UNIX/Linux)

Here is an introduction to Redhat Linux

Here is list of commonly used Unix commands

Running jobs on Topgun

Here is a nice site about good ways to do post-processing

mpeg_encode, a program to create movies