Funz

As a starting point, Funz is the integration of some numerical engineering tools (some that you probably have already used):

• a pre-compilation engine:
  • parsing/replacing variables for your simulation input files (eg. search ‘$x’ everywhere and replace by an arbitrary numerical value),
  • parsing/replacing variables formula (eg. once ‘$x’ i replaced, evaluate and replace ‘@{$x +1}’ also),
• a loop to pre-compile different arbitrary values of ‘$x’,
• a network protocol to send/receive pre-compiled input files on remote calculation servers,
• an output file parser to extract interest values,
• a driver to set up arbitrary values of ‘$x’, possibly coming from a “design of experiments” algorithm (optimization, inversion, sensitivity analysis, …).

Integrated simulation software (plugins)

Simulation softwares are coupled in Funz through plugins. Following are available:

• Excel
• Python
• R
• Modelica
• Cast3M
• bash
• VBS
• cmd.exe
• MCNP
• Scale
• Cristal
• Telemac
• and more… on GitHub repository

Integrated design of experiments (algorithms)c

Design of experiments “drivers” are integrated in Funz as standardized ‘.R’ files by GdR MASCOT-NUM. Following are available:

• Brent root finding
• GradientDescent local optimization
• EGO global optimization
• and more… on GitHub repository