Fenics 2017.2 also remove VTK plotting, and most of plotting in FenicsSolver examples are ignored. For Fenics version 2017.2 on ubuntu, Python3 is recommended, since there is some binary string/unicode problem in Python 2. It is python2 and python3 compatible, just as fenics itself.

see the sister project OpenFOAM preprocessor within FreeCAD Cfd workbench.

turbulent flow and multiphase flow will be implemented by coupled to external CFD solver, OpenFOAM.

thermal, chemical, electrical, structure process (yet completed).

flow-structure interaction (coded but not yet tested).

drift-diffusion (plasma and semiconductor).

Naiver Stokes compressible laminar flow.

linear elasticity, nonlinear (hyper-elastic) elasticity, large deformation, plasticity.

Naiver Stokes incompressible laminar flow,.

Scalar Transport (heat transfer, mass transfer, electric potential, etc).

There has been some effort to give a GUI for setup FenicsSolver in FreeCAD's CFD module Features include boundary condition selection and setup in GUI, mesh and FenicsSolver input generation, but it is not a top priority in regarding research.Ī set of multi-physics FEM solvers based on Fenics with GUI support(via integration Fenics into FreeCAD FemWorkbench and CfdWorkbench), focusing on multi-body, reduced-order nonlinear problem and mutlti-solver coupling.It functions like COMSOL or Moose, but it is free and it is made of Python. LGPL licensed as FreeCAD and fenics-project Screenshot I am investigating a standard solver input format, to enable coupling with other multi-physics solver.

If the mesh input format can support complicate boundary mesh, the previous effort of GUI inside FreeCAD would be more useful to solve more realistic engineering problem. The API change in FenicsX should not affect FenicsSolver's json input format. Note Fenics-X, the next generation Fenics, is expected in 2020. This software project is an essential part of my research ambition in Measurement and modelling at extreme conditions and Automated and intelligent engineering design.

This solver has features beyond commercial commercial solvers, in its capability to solve multibody, multi-physics, multiscale and reduced-order nonlinear problems. This is derived from my personal independent research, although I am not yet financially independent in the University of Oxford. This is a sub-projects of intelligient engineering design

Comsol Xfem