Wish - collaboration offer?

Hello,

I am very surprised with the capabilities of this software, but I am a researcher on microwave engineering. How difficult would be to add code for electromagnetic problems, like comsol femlab or ansoft hfss do?

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

as I really don't know much about the governing equatios of electro-magnetics, I can't answer your question.

If there is an analogy between the models that are already included in Code-Aster and the models that you need, I think this can be very easy.

But it depends on what type of equation you need to solve...

For information, the available physical models in Aster are:
- non-linear transient thermal analysis
- non-linear mechanics (transient / steady / modal)
- acoustics (transient / modal)
so if the differential equations you need to solve are similar to one of these, it's OK.

If it's not the case, I would say that it really depends on your programming skills & available time/money to do the task.

OOOpps,
I forgot to mention ELMER ( www.csc.fi/elmer/index.phtml ): a very interesting multi-physics solver with electromagnetics capabilities!! I think this can be a very good solution for you.

It is allready on the list of software to add progressively in the CAELinux LiveCD:
but this can take time before I succeed in adding all these tools in a stable distro!!

Thank you very much for your response. Basically equations that model electromagnetic problems are differential equations, like in mechanics or fluids, so it should not be very difficult to add this capability to code_aster.

I have found Elmer very useful too, it seems to partially implement electromagnetic code (only static), and it is released also as GPL.

I will seriously study the possibility of collaborate with both software.

Thank you very much again.

The author of Gmsh also released a code under the GPL:
U may try to have a look at GetDP

www.geuz.org/getdp/
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Hello Luis,

I don't know much about microwaves. However, I understand that getDP has capabilities concerning microwves. It uses gmsh as meshing tool. Just in case you didn't already know.

roleic