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An RNTL labelled project by the French Ministry of Economy, Finances and Industry.
Open source software environment, related to a CAD-CAE link for the integration of numerical solvers, mesh algorithms and physical properties.
Project overview
Modern technological products (vehicles, structures, electrical or electronic equipment) are becoming increasingly more complex and must meet increasingly demanding performance and quality requirements. For example, in the case of structures and their requirements, needs are becoming greater to minimize risks and optimize costs. This requires increasingly refined simulations of the behavior and resistance of structures to ensure their reliability.
Digital simulation of a physical problem, the establishment of solutions, and their integration into the design process are often handled in very specialized environments.
The SALOME project is set in a context of priorities simultaneously calling for the integration of software components and architecture along with the development of new concepts for new objects. It defines and creates a software architecture based on reusable components to build a generic CAD-CAE link based on open software for digital simulation. It ensures the continuity of a number of internal developments and the mutuality of non-critical creations for the developers of numerical solving software (both pre and post CAE). It reduces training time to the specific training time for the encapsulated application. It is the only realisation of its kind in the field of open software today.
The SALOME project aims to improve the distribution of digital simulation software developed in France which are considered references in their application domains. It provides them with a generic, user-friendly, and efficient user interface which facilitates cost reduction and reduces the delays in performing studies. It is a means of facilitating the linkage of code, the reuse of portions of code, the inter-operability between simulation code and the CAD modeling software.
This pre-competitive project associates 3 laboratories, 3 software editors or service organizations out of which 2 are medium-sized, and 3 users.
The software components defining the platform will be freely available.
Project duration is 24 months and it is expected that the main architectural principles will be established after 8 months and that a prototype will be available by the thirteenth month.
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