Welcome to EdelweissMeshfree

EdelweissMeshfree is a light-weight, platform-independent, parallel meshfree framework for the simulation of coupled problems in solid mechanics. It is based on EdelweissFE, which is a hard dependency. Furthermore, by default, it makes use of the Marmot library for cell, material point, particle, and material formulations.

EdelweissMeshfree aims to be…

  • … a development and learning environment for constitutive models and meshfree methods such as the Material Point Method (MPM) and Reproducing Kernel Particle Method (RKPM),

  • … an easy to use tool for coupled problems,

  • … a very flexible tool for implementing and employing special techniques (e.g., the indirect displacement control technique), which are often more difficult and time consuming to implement in mature, MPI-parallelized codes,

  • … an efficient tool for nonlinear simulations up to medium sized problems (~ \(10^5\) degrees of freedom).

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Execute a simulation

Unline EdelweissFE, EdelweissMeshfree does not make use of input files. All simulations are directly executed via Python scripts.

Run a simulation simply by calling

python your_simulation.py

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