Which corporation housed in Southpointe publishes engineering analysis software across a range of disciplines including finite element analysis, structural analysis, computational fluid dynamics, explicit and implicit methods, and heat transfer?
Southpointe Southpointe is a 589 acre suburban business park located in Cecil Township near Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh and is a familiar landmark along Interstate 79. It is home to many corporations, including Fortune 500 members CONSOL Energy and Mylan as well as ANSYS, Inc..
Material point method The material point method (MPM) is a numerical technique used to simulate the behavior of solids, liquids, gases, and any other continuum material. In MPM a body is described by a number of small Lagrangian elements referred to as 'material points'. These material points are surrounded by a background mesh/grid that is used only to calculate gradient terms like acceleration and the deformation gradient. Unlike other mesh-based methods like the finite element method, finite volume method or finite difference method, MPM is not a mesh based method and is instead categorized as a meshless/meshfree method, examples of which are smoothed particle hydrodynamics and peridynamics. Despite the presence of a background mesh, MPM does not encounter the drawbacks of mesh-bashed methods (high deformation tangling, advection errors etc.) which makes it a promising and powerful tool in computational mechanics.