Section: New Software and Platforms

MODULEF

Functional Description

MODULEF is a legacy finite element library developed at Inria since the 1980's. Here, we limit ourselves to recent developments done within this library.

A numerical method to approximate the constitutive laws for rubber elasticity derived from polymer physics are implemented in Modulef.

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.

• Participants: Marina Vidrascu and Antoine Gloria

• Contact: Marina Vidrascu

• URL: https://www.rocq.inria.fr/modulef/