Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jason Reece <email@hidden>
> Date: 10 April 2004 10:23:11 BST
> To: Christopher Wright <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Engineering Analysis Software
>
> Hi there,
>
> One useful program in this area is FlexPDE, which is a universal
> partial differential equation solver. The guide that comes with it has
> many examples, including lots of thermal systems, as well as many
> others.
>
> Better still it has a free limited node version.
>
> Get it from here:
>
> http://www.pdesolutions.com/
>
> There is another program which I know very little about but looks very
> sophisticated called intuitiveFEM (I think)
>
> http://mactran.chonbuk.ac.kr/
>
> It would be useful to know what your opinion of these is.
>
> Jason
>
> On 9 Apr 2004, at 16:28, Christopher Wright wrote:
>
>> I'm a user and hitherto lurker on the list and a former
>> member/director
>> of the old MacSciTech group which foundered during Apple's financial
>> troubles. As a Machead engineer, I can't tell you how pleased I am
>> that
>> there's some serious effort to get back into science and technology.
>> Most
>> of my practice involves finite element analysis, and I limp along
>> with a
>> old version of COSMOS/M, unsupported for years, but still running
>> under
>> OS 9.1 and maybe Classic if I can figure out how to make the infernal
>> dongle respond properly.
>>
>> Is anyone on the list aware of efforts to compile any general finite
>> element software for OS X? My guess (probably better than a guess) is
>> that large-scale FEA packages like NASTRAN or ANSYS would run like a
>> dream on a G5, since they have been used on UNIX machinery for at
>> least
>> 15 years. I made a few tentative inquiries about a NASA-developed
>> package
>> called STARS which was originally scheduled for porting to Mac but
>> never
>> made it. Does anyone know of any similar effort to port FEA software
>> for
>> the G5? Are there any others of my kind who might be interested in
>> such
>> an effort?
>>
>> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
>> email@hidden | this distance" (last words of Gen.
>> ___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)
>> http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw
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