Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Open Source Computer Aided Design Software
FreeCAD
3D computer assisted design program
sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad
Open CASCADE
Allows for 3D surface and solid modeling, visualization, data
exchange and rapid application development
www.opencascade.org
BRL CAD
Has interactive editing for 3D solid modeling. Can also use for image
processing and analysis
brlcad.org
OpenSCAD
Used for creating solid 3D CAD objects
www.openscad.org
Commercial Computer Aided Design Software
The listed CAD software have similar functionality in their ability to create 3D solid
models ready for importing into a CFD meshing program.
• Geomagic www.geomagic.com
• CATIA www.3ds.com
• Autodesk www.autodesk.com
• Solidworks www.solidworks.com
• PRO/Engineer www.ptc.com
• IronCAD www.ironcad.com
CFD-FSI Packages
OpenFOAM
Open source CFD software package built using C++ and compiled under
UNIX. The code is open and therefore allows full customisation and
extensions to its standard capability
www.openfoam.com
ADINA
ADINAR & D, Inc., Watertown, MA, USA). A commercial finite element
software used to solve FSI models
ANSYS
Includes ICEM meshing, CFX and Fluent CFD solvers, and CFD-Post for
post processing. Also includes multi-physics for structural and FSI
www.ansys.com
CD-Adapco
Includes STAR-CD and STAR-CCM for simulations involving flow of
fluids and solids, heat transfer and stress analysis
www.cd-adapco.co
The simulation was performed
using a finite element solver (FEMLAB 3.1; COMSOL, Inc
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