[Gmsh] GID Work Alike?

[Moritz Nadler]

Hallo,


did you have a look at Elmer?

http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/elmer


 From their homepage:
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Elmer is an open source multiphysical simulation software developed by CSC. 
Elmer development was started 1995 in collaboration with Finnish Universities, 
research institutes and industry.

Elmer includes physical models of fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, 
electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics, for example. These are described 
by partial differential equations which Elmer solves by the Finite Element 
Method (FEM).
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Elmer has a converter to convert gmsh msh files to Elmers native mesh format.


kind regards

Moritz





Brenda Ellen Make schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Over a year ago, I've wanted to learn a FEA/FEM, and CFD, to learn how 
> to design better things, but it's been really hard to get programs 
> talking to another.
> 
> I've had some limited success with Impact, which appears to be built on 
> GID, which does not seem open. Impact has some potential,
> but I've not had success with tetrahedrons of a number that one would 
> use in an average part. Though the method in which loads and forces are 
> set is both intuitive and quick.
> http://impact.sourceforge.net/
> 
> As opposed to setting up Calculix, which is not easy,
> http://www.dhondt.de/
> 
> Often, programs have remained dormant for years, like OpenFlower,
> http://openflower.sourceforge.net/news.html
> 
> Or are too new and undocumented to use.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfvm/]
> 
> Or their licensing is is restrictive, such as a Salome, which is built 
> on OpenCascade, which does not seem really open.
> http://www.salome-platform.org/forum/?groupid=12&forumid=13&thread=1053
> 
> Sadly, I've viewed Gmsh, as more or less a file converter, a stepping 
> stone toward a FEA or CFD program, but the more I look at the scene, the 
> more I appreciate what you have done with Gmsh, in fact Gmsh is probably 
> the most important open source engineering tool there is. Gmsh may have 
> begun as a simple meshing program, but I believe that it should be at 
> the center of engineering suite.
> 
> Could Gmsh please also evolve into a GID replacement, where loads, 
> materials, and stresses can be placed on nodes, and perhaps be able to 
> set conditions for CFD?
> Could also Gmsh work to encompass what existing FEA CFD software there 
> is, in an effort to have a workable open source FEA/FEM/CFD program for 
> students and researchers?
> 
> Thank You,
> BrendaEM
> 
> P.S. I'm not a programmer, but I'm could make set of tool buttons, for 
> Gmsh in svg : )
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