Virtual Marine Arsenal

CAESES/FFW is an upfront CAD tool and comes with a set of embedded variation and optimization strategies – ranging from single-objective strategies for fast and efficient studies, to more complex multi-objective techniques. Examples for simulation tools that have been coupled to CAESES/FFW are STAR-CCM+, ANSYS Fluent/CFX, NUMECA products, OpenFOAM, SHIPFLOW etc...

Dakota stands for "Design and Analysis toolKit for Optimization and Terascale Applications" and it is a general purpose optimization toolbox mostly developed by Sandia National Laboratories.

Dakota is a general-purpose software toolkit for performing systems analysis and design on high performance computers. Dakota provides algorithms for design optimization, uncertainty quantification, parameter estimation, design of experiments, and sensitivity analysis, as well as a range of parallel computing and simulation interfacing services.

Godzilla is "Genetic Optimisation and Design of Zoomorphs Is Leo Lazauskas’s Acronym". It is the evolutionary optimisation module for Michlet. Evolutionary algorithms use principles gleaned from natural genetics and evolution to guide the search for global optima of difficult functions.

HyperSizer is design, analysis, and optimization software for composite and metallic structures. It provides a CAE software interface that is used from preliminary design to final analysis. HyperSizer performs sizing optimization to determine the lightest weight combination of material systems and cross sectional geometric dimensions including layup ply angles and stacking sequences.

Opt4J is a Java-based framework for evolutionary computation. It contains a set of (multi-objective) optimization algorithms such as evolutionary algorithms (including SPEA2 and NSGA2), differential evolution, particle swarm optimization, and simulated annealing.

The Sculptor family of products provides real-time morphing technology based on Arbitrary Shape Deformation (ASD) for a wide range of 3D models including STL, point cloud data, CAD data, and analysis mesh data.

The SU2 (Stanford University Unstructured) suite is an open-source collection of C++ based software tools to perform PDE analysis and solve PDE-constrained optimization problems on unstructured grids.

SU2 is under active development at Stanford University in the Aerospace Design Lab (ADL) of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.