Elmer Alternatives

COMSOL Multiphysics

COMSOL Multiphysics is an engineering, design, and finite element analysis software environment for the modeling and simulation of any physics-based system.

Features:

• Multiphysics modelling
• CAE
• CFD
• Finite element
• Heat flow
• Simulation

OpenFOAM

OpenFOAM is the leading free, open source software for CFD, owned by the OpenFOAM Foundation and distributed exclusively under the General Public Licence (GPL). The GPL gives users the freedom to modify and redistribute the software and a guarantee of continued free use, within the terms of the licence. OpenFOAM was created by Henry Weller in 1989 under the name “FOAM” and was released open source as “OpenFOAM” by Henry Weller, Chris Greenshields and Mattijs Janssens in December 2004.

Features:

• Web-Based
• CFD

ANSYS Fluent

ANSYS Fluent software contains the broad physical modeling capabilities needed to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer, and reactions for industrial applications ranging from air flow over an aircraft wing to combustion in a furnace, from bubble columns to oil platforms, from blood flow to semiconductor manufacturing, and from clean room design to wastewater treatment plants.

Features:

• CFD
• Finite element
• Simulation

FEATool Multiphysics

FEATool is a fully integrated multiphysics modeling and engineering simulation environment for Matlab and Octave, featuring built-in CAD and geometry tools, preprocessing and grid generation, solvers, and postprocessing and visualization.

Features:

• CAE
• CFD
• FEM
• Finite element
• Portable
• Simulation

KRATOS Multiphysics

Kratos is designed as an Open-Source framework for the implementation of numerical methods for the solution of engineering problems. It is written in C++ and is designed to allow collaborative development by large teams of researchers focusing on modularity as well as on performance. The Kratos features a "core" and "applications" approach where "standard tools" (databases, linear algebra, search structures, etc...

Features:

• CFD
• Python
• Simulation

Abaqus Unified FEA

The Abaqus Unified FEA product suite offers powerful and complete solutions for both routine and sophisticated engineering problems covering a vast spectrum of industrial applications. For example, in the automotive industry engineering work groups can consider full vehicle loads, dynamic vibration, multibody systems, impact/crash, nonlinear static, thermal coupling, and acoustic-structural coupling using a common model data structure and integrated solver technology.

ANSYS Workbench

The ANSYS Workbench platform is the backbone for delivering a comprehensive and integrated simulation system to our customers. Using Workbench for your product development simulations will result in higher productivity from integrated applications leveraging common and compatible data models. Workbench gives you access to multiphysics and systems level insights that could not be attained before.

FEATFLOW

FeatFlow (Finite Element Analysis Toolbox for Flow) is a finite element CFD Fortran code using a very efficient FEM discretization together with a geometric multigrid approach for solving linear systems. This results in a very fast and computationally efficient solver, typically yielding a magnitude or more of speedup compared commercially available solvers. FeatFlow can be used from MATLAB with the FEATool Multiphysics GUI interface.

Features:

• CAE
• CFD
• Finite element
• Simulation

Code_Aster for Windows

Code_Aster is a free software for numerical simulation in structural mechanics, developed mainly by the “Advanced Mechanical Analysis” department of EDF‘s research and development department (ERMES, ElectRo – MEchanics Studies). Since Code_Aster is provided for Linux environment only, we chose to rebuild it from sources to share its Windows binaries as many users were asking on the forum.

Features:

• FEM
• Finite element
• Simulation

COSMOSWorks

COSMOSWorks provides easy to use yet powerful design validation and optimization tools for designers and engineers alike. COSMOSWorks enables faster, less costly, and more optimized product development, as well as more in-depth examination of product performance than would ever be possible using even the most detailed prototypes.

Features:

• Finite element
• Simulation