Research facilities: 

• Software development kit for advanced numerical simulations (jem-jive). link.

• Mesh generation--Gmsh. 

• Visualisation--Paraview, VisIt and Ovito.

• Voronoi diagrams--Neper.

• Material Point Method code in Matlab

• FENICS: automating the finite element methods 

• Symbolic algebra packages--Maple/SageMath.

• From images to FE meshes: oof2.

• Commercial codes: Abaqus, LS-DYna, Tecplot

• Tool for coding: SublimeText, and XCode (for debugging and profiling) + iTerm2 (with zsh)

 

High quality research documents: 
I have been using LaTeX for writing reasearch articles/reports/documents since 2003.

For presentation slides, I use Keynote and LaTeXIt (on Mac OS).

• Document writing: LaTeX (editor: SublimeText)

• Graphics: vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape.

• Finding LaTeX codes for any symbols: detexify.

• Make animated GIF images from videos/images: in Mac OS X, simply use GIF Brewery 3 (you might need to use Quick View to convert format of your videos first). In Linux, you can use ffmpeg.

• Making tables with http://www.tablesgenerator.com.

• Link to a paper about how to prepare a high-quality scientific articles

 

Learning how to learn: 
The PDF beside provides some actionable, down to earth advices to better learning.

 

 

How to write a good scientific article: 

The PDF beside provides some actionable, down to earth advices to better writing. One

PDF is an article and the other is presentation slides for a writing workshop.  
 

Others: 

• Blog of Prof Rebecca Brannon at Univerisity of Utah: excellent notes on mechanics .

• imechanica: web for mechanics and mechanicians 

• Excellent lecture notes of Prof Fellipa at Colorado: introduction to FEM, nonlinear FEM, advanced FEM

• MIT courses on computational science & engineering (Prof G Strang)

• MIT course on waves and vibrations

• MIT course on linear finite elements (Prof KJ Bathe)

• MIT course on nonlinear finite elements

• An online book on Computational physics

• Learning Linux in 10 minutes

• Tutorials on Abaqus

• http://www.parresianz.com/index.html (with useful info on computational modelling)