Recommend FEM software.

[Lou Pecora]

I have been looking around the web at various free FEM software
(libraries, frameworks, UI's, etc.) for solving PDEs like Helmholtz
equations. I found two that look rather complete, well supported, and
with good documentation. These are,

OFELI (http://www.ofeli.net/presentations.html) - a C++ framework which
takes some programming in C++ (which I know).

freefem++ - a framework with a UI and its own programming language on
top of C++ code- lots of documentation and looks very mature.

It is hard to tell by just looking at these if either is worth looking
further into. Before spending that time, I thought I ask to see if
anyone has used the code and what they would recommend.

Thanks for any insight and information.

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-- Lou Pecora

[Dann Corbit]

In article <pecora-0B325C....@ra.nrl.navy.mil>,
pec...@anvil.nrl.navy.mil says...

Use this search:
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=%
22Finite+Element%22

And then, when you have found the tools that sound interesting, try the
user groups associated with them.

[Lou Pecora]

In article <MPG.2590626be...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Dann Corbit <dco...@connx.com> wrote:

> > anyone has used the code and what they would recommend.
>
> Use this search:
> http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=%
> 22Finite+Element%22

Yes, this is where I found the master list of possible software
frameworks.

> And then, when you have found the tools that sound interesting, try the
> user groups associated with them.

I did not try this. Good idea. Thanks.

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-- Lou Pecora