Top 15 Most Popular Finite Element Softwares | Dec 2024

1. simFlow

simFlow is a powerful CFD software, focused on engineering and science. It combines an intuitive user interface with the advantages of the open-source OpenFOAM® libraries in something more than a compact OpenFoam® GUI....... TpSort Score | 197,000,000

2. GetDP

GetDP is a general finite element solver using mixed elements to discretize de Rham-type complexes in one, two and three dimensions. The main feature of GetDP is the closeness between the input data defining discrete problems (written by the user in ASCII data files) and the symbolic mathematical expressions of...... TpSort Score | 197,000,000

3. Agros2D

Agros2D is a multiplatform C++ application for the solution of partial differential equations (PDE) based on the Hermes2D library, developed by the group of Pavel Karban at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. The user can create models, solve them using adaptive higher-order finite element methods (hp-FEM), and visualize...... TpSort Score | 197,000,000

4. ANSYS AIM

ANSYS AIM makes upfront simulation easy by combining intuitive, guided workflows, accurate simulation results and optimization in a complete simulation tool. Integrated geometry modeling based on ANSYS SpaceClaim technology helps you create new 3-D concept models, or edit/repair existing geometry. Whether a simulation includes electromagnetics, thermal, structures, or fluids or...... TpSort Score | 5,360,000

5. SIGMA/W

SIGMA/W performs stress and deformation analyses of geotechnical, civil and mining works. It can perform a simple linear elastic deformation analysis or a highly sophisticated soil-structure interaction analysis with non-linear material models and coupling to seepage analysis.Many constitutive soil models enable you to represent a wide range of soils or...... TpSort Score | 1,840,000

6. elmer

Elmer is an open source multiphysical simulation software mainly developed by CSC - IT Center for Science (CSC). Elmer development was started 1995 in collaboration with Finnish Universities, research institutes and industry. After it's open source publication in 2005, the use and development of Elmer has become international.Elmer includes physical...... TpSort Score | 1,040,000

7. 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.Several predefined physics modes are available which easily can be combined to set up of different multiphysics simulation problems including fluid...... TpSort Score | 896,000

8. 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.The original design validation...... TpSort Score | 483,000

9. 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...... TpSort Score | 283,000

10. ADONIS

ADONIS is a free two-dimensional geotechnical finite element program.The graphical user interface and automatic mesh generator provide pre- and post-processing capabilities for the ADONIS.Scripting allows users to create their own solutions and customizations based on the core functionality provided by ADONIS.Users can define their own constitutive model and integrate it...... TpSort Score | 266,000

11. ABAQUS

Unified FEA product by Dausalt Systems...... TpSort Score | 248,000

12. 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...... TpSort Score | 112,000

13. COMSOL Multiphysics

COMSOL Multiphysics is an engineering, design, and finite element analysis software environment for the modeling and simulation of any physics-based system....... TpSort Score | 95,600

14. PLAXIS 3D

PLAXIS 3D is a finite element package intended for three-dimensional analysis of deformation and stability in geotechnical engineering. It is equipped with features to deal with various aspects of complex geotechnical structures and construction processes. Geotechnical applications require advanced constitutive models for the simulation of the non-linear, time-dependent and anisotropic...... TpSort Score | 80,800

15. FTOOL

FTOOL is a program that is aimed at teaching the structural behavior of plane frames, occupying an area little explored by educational programs, which are more concerned with the teaching of numerical analysis techniques, or educational versions of commercial programs, more concerned with introduce students to their interfaces. Its basic...... TpSort Score | 59,800