ADINA is a commercial engineering simulation software program that is developed and distributed worldwide by ADINA R & D, Inc. The company was founded in 1986 by Dr.

Klaus-Jürgen Bathe Klaus-Jürgen Bathe is a civil engineer, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and founder of ADINA R&D, who specializes in computational mechanics. Bathe is considered to be one of the pioneers in the ...

, and is headquartered in Watertown,

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, United States. On April 7, 2022,

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acquired ADINA R&D, Inc. ADINA is used in industry and academia to solve

structural A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such as ...

fluid In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that continuously deforms (''flows'') under an applied shear stress, or external force. They have zero shear modulus, or, in simpler terms, are substances which cannot resist any shea ...

heat transfer Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical systems. Heat transfer is classified into various mechanisms, such as thermal conduction ...

, and

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problems. ADINA can also be used to solve multiphysics problems, including fluid-structure interactions and thermo-mechanical problems. Some of ADINA's nonlinear structural analysis code is offered as the NX Nastran Advanced Nonlinear module, Sol 601/701.

History

The development of ADINA was started in 1974 by Dr.

, shortly after he finished, as the principal developer, the finite element programs SAP IV and NONSAP. In 1986, Dr. Bathe founded ADINA R & D, Inc. in Massachusetts, USA, and he continues to lead the development of ADINA as

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of the company. ADINA R & D performs all developments of the ADINA program in-house, and focuses on reliable and efficient finite element procedures. ADINA R & D sponsored twelve bi-yearly

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at M.I.T. on

nonlinear In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input. Nonlinear problems are of interest to engineers, biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and many other ...

finite element analysis, the proceedings of which are published by

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in the international journal Computers & Structures. In 2003, ADINA R & D signed an

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agreement with EDS. As a result of this agreement, some of ADINA's nonlinear structural analysis capabilities are now offered with NX Nastran by Siemens PLM Software. This version of ADINA is referred to as the Advanced Nonlinear module, Solution 601 / 701, for implicit / explicit solutions.

Software Architecture

ADINA is the

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for Automatic Dynamic Incremental Nonlinear Analysis. The ADINA program consists of four core modules: * ''ADINA Structures'' for linear and nonlinear analysis of solids and structures * ''ADINA Thermal'' for analysis of heat transfer in solids and field problems * ''ADINA CFD'' for analysis of compressible and incompressible flows, including heat transfer * ''ADINA EM'' for analysis of electromagnetic phenomena These modules can be used fully coupled together to solve multiphysics problems, where the response of the system is affected by the interaction of several distinct physical fields (e.g. fluid-structure interaction,

thermo-mechanical analysis Thermomechanical analysis (TMA) is a technique used in thermal analysis, a branch of materials science which studies the properties of materials as they change with temperature. Thermomechanical analysis is a subdiscipline of the thermomechanom ...

, piezoelectric coupling,

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, fluid flow-mass transfer coupling, electromagnetic forces on fluids and structures, etc.). Also, included in the ADINA suite of programs is a

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(known as the ADINA User Interface, or AUI) with a solid modeler, ADINA-M, for the pre- and post-processing tasks. The AUI can be used to import solid models, and finite element models in Nastran format, providing an interface to many CAD and

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packages. Furthermore, as part of the ADINA suite,

Femap Femap (''Finite Element Modeling And Postprocessing'') is an engineering analysis program sold by Siemens Digital Industries Software that is used to build finite element models of complex engineering problems ("pre-processing") and view solution ...

can be used for the pre- and post-processing of ADINA data in structural, CFD, and FSI analyses.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:ADINA Finite element software Finite element software for Linux Computational fluid dynamics