Software Title Tags

WAMIT® is the most advanced set of tools available for analyzing wave interactions with offshore platforms and other structures or vessels. 

Trucksim delivers the most accurate, detailed, and efficient methods for simulating the performance of multi-axle commercial and military vehicles.

STROBOSCOPE is a general-purpose simulation programming language and system for modeling a wide range of complex processes, such as those in construction, transportation, manufacturing, the health services, etc.

Creo is a fully integrated, 3D CAD solution that allows engineers to seamlessly conceptualize, design, analyze, and validate products. Creo features technologies that empower design engineers to simulate and optimize products for weight, performance, cost, and sustainability, using a wide variety of materials and manufacturing processes. 

PowerFactory is a leading power system analysis software application for use in analysing generation, transmission, distribution and industrial systems. It covers the full range of functionality from standard features to highly sophisticated and advanced applications including windpower, distributed generation, real-time simulation and performance monitoring for system testing and supervision.

Modelon Impact is a cloud-native system simulation software platform. Users can move through layers of sub-systems
– building and analyzing singular or holistic systems. Modelon’s comprehensive physics-based libraries offer thousands of proven models and components spanning a broad range of industries and applications. 

Maxsurf Naval Architecture Software provides integrated tools for hull modelling and optimization, comprehensive stability, motions & resistance prediction, structural modelling, structural analysis, and export to vessel detailing. Maxsurf operates from a single parametric 3D model in order to ensure smooth communication and coordination across various involved in the project.

Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator is a molecular dynamics program from Sandia National Laboratories. LAMMPS makes use of Message Passing Interface for parallel communication and is free and open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Interactive Heat Transfer (IHT) is a software package that facilitates the solution of heat transfer problems. IHT centers around a Workspace where model equations are assembled, a Solver that solves the set of equations and performs parametric studies, and a Browser and Graphing tool that display results.

GHS is a software system for the design and evaluation of all types of ships and floating structures. It addresses flotation, trim, stability, and strength by calculating the forces involved using mathematical and geometrical models of the vessels.

eQUEST was designed to allow you to perform detailed analysis of today's state-of-the-art building design technologies using today's most sophisticated building energy use simulation techniques but without requiring extensive experience in the "art" of building performance modeling.

EnergyPlus is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption, heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and plug and process loads and water use in buildings.

Delft3D is a integrated modelling suite, which simulates two-dimensional (in either the horizontal or a vertical plane) and three-dimensional flow, sediment transport and morphology, waves, water quality and ecology and is capable of handling the interactions between these processes. The suite is designed for use by domain experts and non-experts alike, which may range from consultants and engineers or contractors, to regulators and government officials, all of whom are active in one or more of the stages of the design, implementation and management cycle.

CarSim is used to simulate the performance of passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks by analyzing vehicle dynamics, developing active controllers, and calculating a car's performance characteristics.

CARLA has been developed from the ground up to support development, training, and validation of autonomous driving systems. CARLA provides open digital assets (urban layouts, buildings, vehicles) that were created for this purpose and can be used freely. The simulation platform supports flexible specification of sensor suites, environmental conditions, full control of all static and dynamic actors, maps generation and much more.

AirSim is a simulator for drones, cars and more, built on Unreal Engine (we now also have an experimental Unity release). It is open-source, cross platform, and supports software-in-the-loop simulation with popular flight controllers such as PX4 & ArduPilot and hardware-in-loop with PX4 for physically and visually realistic simulations. It is developed as an Unreal plugin that can simply be dropped into any Unreal environment.

AERMOD View is a complete and powerful air dispersion modeling package which seamlessly incorporates the following popular U.S. EPA air dispersion models into one integrated interface: AERMOD ISCST3 ISC-PRIME

ADONIS is Free Finite Element Software for Geo-Engineers. The goal of the ADONIS development is to improve the modeling and computational simulation in geotechnical engineering. 

20-sim is modeling and simulation software package for mechatronic systems. With 20-sim you can enter models graphically, similar to drawing an engineering scheme. With these models you can simulate and analyse the behavior of multi-domain dynamic systems and create control systems.

SolidWorks 3D CAD software offers three packages building in functionality and tiered to best suit the needs of your organization. All packages utilize the intuitive SolidWorks user interface to speed your design process and make you instantly productive.

SolidWorks Premium combines the capabilities of SolidWorks Professional with powerful simulation and design validation toolsets, as well as advanced wire and pipe routing functionality.

EViews offers academic researchers and students access to powerful statistical, forecasting, and modeling tools through an innovative, easy-to-use object-oriented interface.

Engineers and scientists use the COMSOL Multiphysics® software to simulate designs, devices, and processes in all fields of engineering, manufacturing, and scientific research. COMSOL Multiphysics® is a simulation platform that provides fully coupled multiphysics and single-physics modeling capabilities.

BIOVIA Materials Studio is a complete modeling and simulation environment designed to allow researchers in materials science and chemistry to predict and understand the relationships of a material's atomic and molecular structure with its properties and behavior. Using Materials Studio, researchers are engineering better performing materials of all types, including catalysts, polymers, composites, metals, alloys, pharmaceuticals, batteries and more.

CrystalMaker software provides innovative tools for teaching & research in materials science, solid-state physics, chemistry, mineralogy and crystallography.

• Build, display & manipulate all kinds of crystal and molecular structures.
• Design new materials and relax their structures.
• Animate structural behaviour; generate video for teaching or presentations.
• Simulate diffraction properties for powders and single crystals.

The site license bundle at U-M includes CrystalMaker, SingleCrystal, and CrystalDiffract.

Autodesk is best known for AutoCAD, but also develops a broad range of software for design, engineering, and entertainment. The manufacturing industry uses Autodesk's digital prototyping software—including Autodesk Inventor, Fusion 360, and the Autodesk Product Design Suite—to visualize, simulate, and analyze real-world performance using a digital model in the design process. The Revit line of software for building information modeling is designed to let users explore the planning, construction, and management of a building virtually before it is built.

Students and educators can get free one-year educational access to Autodesk products and services, renewable as long as they remain eligible. Refer to Terms and Conditions below.