| Original author(s) | Kenneth Brakke |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.70 / August 25, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-08-25) |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux,Windows NT andMac OS X |
| Platform | SGI,HP,MS-Windows andMacintosh |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Computational fluid dynamics |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | facstaff |
Surface Evolver is an interactive program for the study ofsurfaces shaped bysurface tension and other energies, and subject to various constraints. A surface is implemented as asimplicial complex. The user defines an initial surface in a datafile. The Evolver evolves the surface toward minimal energy by agradient descent method. The aim can be to find a minimal energy surface, or to model the process of evolution bymean curvature. The energy in the Evolver can be a combination of surface tension,gravitational energy,squared mean curvature, user-definedsurface integrals, orknot energies. The Evolver can handle arbitrarytopology, volume constraints, boundary constraints, boundarycontact angles, prescribed mean curvature, crystallineintegrands, gravity, and constraints expressed as surface integrals. The surface can be in anambient space of arbitrarydimension, which can have aRiemannian metric, and the ambient space can be aquotient space under agroup action.[1][2]
Evolver was written atThe Geometry Center, sponsored by theNational Science Foundation, theDepartment of Energy, Enterprise Minnesota, and theUniversity of Minnesota.
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