NESC9908 TAURUS.

TAURUS, Postprocessor of 3-D Finite Elements Plots

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: TAURUS.

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2. COMPUTERS

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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

TAURUS reads the binary plot files generated by the LLNL three-dimensional finite element analysis codes, NIKE3D (NESC 9725), DYNA3D (NESC 9909), TACO3D (NESC 9838), TOPAZ3D (NESC9599) and GEMINI and plots contours, time histories, and deformed shapes. Contours of a large number of quantities may be plotted on meshes consisting of plate, shell, and solid type elements. TAURUS can compute a variety of strain measures, reaction forces along constrained boundaries, and momentum. TAURUS has three phases: initialization, geometry display with contouring, and time history processing.

This package is distributed by:
Energy Science and Technology Software Center
P.O. Box 62
1 Science.Gov Way
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
(865) 576-2606 TEL
(865) 576-6436 FAX
E-mail: ESTSC@osti.gov

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION:

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM:

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME:

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM:

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

TAURUS replaces the earlier non- interactive postprocessor, DYNAP, and interactive postprocessor, GRAPE. The Cray1 version of TAURUS makes use of several LLNL environmental system subroutines including the PLOTLIB graphics library (NESC 9692); NEA Data Bank alternatives for some of the LLNL-specific system routines are included. The LLNL-developed DIGLIB/VMS (NESC 9639) graphics software used with the VAX11 version is included with that version.

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9. STATUS

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10. REFERENCES

- TAURUS, NESC No. 9908.3090, TAURUS IBM3090 Version Tape
Description,
National Energy Software Center Note 88-71, May 31, 1988.

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS

The IBM version of TAURUS can be used with the IBM3270 family of graphic displays of the IBM5080 graphics display system.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED: CTSS (Cray1), VMS (DEC VAX11), VM,MVS (IBM3090).

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

Graphics device support for the IBM version is provided by the proprietary IBM Graphical Data Display Manager (GDDM) Version 2; this software is not included.

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

            B.E. Brown and J.O. Hallquist
            Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
            P.O. Box 808
            Livermore, California 94550

  3090      T. Kennedy
            IBM Corporation

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

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17. CATEGORIES

N. Subsidiary Calculations

Keywords: computer graphics, data processing, finite element method, interactive computing, plotters, three-dimensional.