Hi All,
I am trying to simulate deformation of a cell as it moves through a micro-constriction (due to fluid flow) and I was wondering which software is capable of that. I have found a group of papers (mostly from the same group) who have used ADINA Fluid-Structure-Interface to relate transit time of the cell through the constriction to its viscosity and shear modulus. This is exactly what I am looking for but ADINA is not user-friendly, so I was wondering if anyone could suggest me a more straight-forward software.
Thank you for taking the time to help me:)
Demanding a user-friendly FEA software capable of intensive FSI studies, you just walked into a rather deserted area ! As far as I know, Abaqus is user-friendly and has a pretty rigorous FSI ability however, it suffers from uncompleted CFD package. Ansys might do a better job in case of CFD but still not as strong as Abaqus in analyzing non conventional precise matters. I personally know a guy from metallurgy discipline who has a strong faith in using multiple stage coupled FEA analysis by means of two different software for each main stage so that he has never looked for FSI capabilities so far and instead stands on his own methods to read the CFD data into a different FEA software powerful in case of solid analysis. Bottom of line, my suggestion for you (if you need to make the job clean and sth to be proud of) search for the best relationship between a powerful CFD and a FEA software packages amongst the possible relations and pick the one you are comfortable with. And please let me know about your choice and keep this post updated.
Good Luck with your interesting topic
Hi Ardalan, Thank you again for your comprehensive response. I am not sure if my previous message was posted bc I can't see it here. But anyways, After investigating some of the options based on your suggestions, I decided to continue using ADINA and miraculously, I made some progress:)
Good for you since ADINA is of course one of those old-school FEA software with solid background and bright resume and I hope you can get the job done without too much non-user friendly frustrations ;)
Keep in mind that the last generic step to absolute scientific success in any field is "Vagueness Handling".
Take a look at JCP papers by Shravan Veerapaneni or by Seifert and contact the authors.
Thanks Denis for your help. They have a very interesting approach, and I think it is in the same line as Dissipative Particle Dynamics model. I need to look more into it though to actually be able to understand the details.
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