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Scientific Modelling Software

last edited 2 years ago by karl

This is a table of software considered for a (FEM like) development environment.

A naive search on google scholar get
  • CMISS 139 hits
  • libmesh 16 hits
  • lifev 37
  • sundance 3710 sundance && pde 26

Orange means that the License is more restrictive than we would like to use.  However we can learn valuable lessons from these projects anyway.

Package

Licence

Parallel Support

Notes

alberta


no mention


arch



last release 99-04-11

CalculiX

GPL

no mention


Cast3M

limited


free for research and education.

Code Aster

GPL


documentation in French

DAGH

GPL


latest release 1998

Deal II

QPL + citation


licence prohibits development of proprietary software + "Every publication presenting numerical results obtained with the help of deal.II shall state the name of the library and its principal authors (at present Wolfgang Bangerth, Guido Kanschat and Ralf Hartmann), as well as cite at least one of the papers by these authors on deal.II."

Elmer

GPL

no


Felt



last release in 2000

FreeFEM freefem3d

LGPL GPL


2D modelling language, licence may change to or from GPL

FreePOOMA

BSD-like

MPI and OpenMP


Gascoigne


yes

source not yet available, no promise of availability on parallel module.

GetFEM++

LGPL

no

python interface

libmesh

LGPL

yes

actively developed, Clough-Tocher C1 piecewise cubic triangles

LifeV

LGPL

MPI/PetSc

C++ finite element library, used to simulate blood flow and action potential propagation in the heart, large test suite

NGSolve

LGPL

no mention


OOFEM

GPL

yes

looks good

Ofeli

GPL

no mention


Openfoam

GPL

yes

second order finite volume

OpenSees



structural and geotechnical systems subjected to earthquakes

overture

limited

yes

finite difference and finite volume, on a collection of structured grids, research and development purposes only.

padfem


yes


Phaml

public domain

yes

multigrid, Parallel Hierarchical Adaptive MultiLevel, Fortran 90, linear elliptic partial differential equations

Rheolef

GPL



Radia



binary only available for download

SLFFEA

LGPL


mechanics emphasis.

Sundance

LGPL

Yes

High level mathematical description. C++. Only simplicies implemented.

Yade.

GPL et al.

not yet


Z88

GPL

no mention