A2D SHELLS

Nearly Automatic Differentiation of Geometric Nonlinear Shell Elements

• Develop scalable geometric nonlinear structural analysis of shell elements with a director method. The director method shell elements are adapted from TACS
• Compatible with CPU and GPU computations for parallel speedup.
• Use the package A2D for structured differentiation of the energy, jacobian, and residual evaluations.
• We have the express permission of the TACS repo owners to make this miniApp with TACS code => as this will be used to improve TACS in the near future.