Engineering analysis software has been traditionally dominated by large commercial vendors such as MathWorks (MATLAB), MSC (NASTRAN/PATRAN), ANSYS (ANSYS and Fluent), Dassault Systemes (CATIA) and SIEMENS (NX and FEMAP). This is probably because these tools attract a comparatively small user base and therefore have not featured heavily within the Open Source community. However, that assumption may now be seriously questioned, as there are numerous software tools emerging that challenge the commercial equivalents.
Open Source Computational Engineering Tools 2
Posted by Adrian Smith
on August 02, 2008