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Ellipsis3d

by Sue Kientz last modified 2008-10-02 05:23 AM

Ellipsis3d is a three-dimensional version of the particle-in-cell finite element code Ellipsis, a solid modeling code for visco-elastoplastic materials. The particle-in-cell method combines the strengths of the Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations of mechanics while bypassing their limitations.

Ellipsis3d originated from CIItcom (CitCom version II), a multigrid mantle convection code developed by Louis Moresi. Subsequently, Chris Wijns contributed user-functionality and miscellaneous back end improvements. Later extensions to include the Cosserat continuum theory were introduced by Frederic Dufour. The two-dimensional version of ellipsis was extended into three dimensions by Richard Albert and Craig O'Neill.

More about Ellipsis3d:

Ellipsis pages at Monash University in Australia

Earthbyte page on Ellipsis

O'Neill, C., et al. (2006) Ellipsis 3D: A particle-in-cell finite-element hybrid code for modelling mantle convection and lithospheric deformation, Computers & Geosciences, 32(10), 1769-1779.

code status yes no contact
CIG developed   x  
CIG maintained   x  
CIG supported   x  
accepting bug reports x   RoundUp
license GNU Public License

Latest Release

Ellipsis3D-1.0.2.tar.gz [2007-4-18]
ellipsis3d with minor portability fixes.

Ellipsis3d Users Map

Shows location of all users who downloaded Ellipsis3d as of October 2, 2008.

Development Version

If you are interested in checking out Ellipsis3D from the CIG repository, use the following Subversion command:

svn checkout http://geodynamics.org/svn/cig/mc/3D/ellipsis3d/trunk ellipsis3d

Documentation

Ellipsis3d Documentation [2006-4-26]

Ellipsis3d documents and examples included with this release

Ellipsis3d Autodocs [2006-05-09]
Documentation generated via Doxygen.

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