Plastic Flow, thin shell type

Dave Pinella

Hi,

I'm interested in learning about plastic flow in thin shell type structures. Ultimately I want to write some code. I'm somewhat familiar with Moldflow and C-Mold but I'm more interested at the moment at learning about the CFD behind it. Two things:

1) Can anyone recommend some good books on this subject? My CFD books are more aerodynamics in nature.

2) Can anybody suggest any shareware programs or any code that would be a good starting point for me to learn?

My eventual goal is to write some code for these types of problems that I can customize for some specific applications that I'm interested in.

Thanks!

Dave P