http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/elmer/

Elmer is an open source multiphysical simulation software developed by CSC. Elmer development was started 1995 in collaboration with Finnish Universities, research institutes and industry.

Elmer includes physical models of fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics, for example. These are described by partial differential equations which Elmer solves by the Finite Element Method (FEM).

These pages are intended to give information on the Elmer software and to improve the information transfer in the Elmer community.

Elmer brochure (PDF)

Links related to Elmer

Elmer sites

• http://www.csc.fi/elmer
• Elmer official homepage (this site)
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/elmerfem/
• Elmer at sourceforge including most importantly svn and download
• http://www.elmerfem.org
• The server for Elmer community including discussion forums and wiki pages. Everybody is free to register.
• http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/physics/elmer/
• Elmer download repository at nic.funet.fi
• https://postit.csc.fi/sympa/arc/elmerupdates/
• Email list for updates on Elmer software

Mathematical libraries

• http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/views/metis
• METIS - Family of Multilevel Partitioning Algorithms
• (used by ElmerGrid in mesh partitioning)
• http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/linear_solvers/
• HYPRE, scalable algorithms and software for solving large, sparse linear systems of equations on parallel computers
• http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack/
• UMFPACK, unsymmetric multifrontal sparse LU factorization package

Preprocessors

• http://gid.cimne.upc.es/
  GiD - The personal pre- and postprocessor
• http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/
  Gmsh: a three-dimensional finite element mesh generator with built-in pre- and post-processing facilities
• http://www.mathcces.rwth-aachen.de/netgen/doku.php/
  NETGEN - automatic mesh generator with Elmer output
• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html
  Triangle, A two-dimensional quality mesh generator and delaunay triangulator
• http://www.salome-platform.org/home/presentation/overview/
  SALOME : The Open Source integration platform for numerical simulation

Postprocessors

• http://www.paraview.org/New/index.html
• ParaView - Parallel visualization application
• https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/
• VisIt visualization tool
• http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/
• Mayavi tool for interactive visualization of data

Compilers and build tools

• http://qt.nokia.com/products
• cross-platform application framework (for ElmerGUI)
• http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
• http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries
  gnu fortran compiler
• http://www.g95.org/
  G95 fortran compiler

3rd party Elmer distributions

• http://www.trueflaw.com/pub/elmer/
• Mac port of Elmer software
• https://elmer.dev.java.net/
  Elmer for SunGrid Project Home Page
• http://caelinux.com/CMS/
  Linux distribution for open source powered engineering
• http://www.freshports.org/science/elmer-fem/
  FreeBSD port of Elmer
• http://www.opennovation.org/ubuntu/
  Elmer at OpenInnovation Ubuntu repository

Pointers to Elmer

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_FEM_solver
• Elmer in English wikipedia
• http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer
• Elmer in Spanish wikipedia
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_(Software)
  Elmer in German wikipedia
• http://directory.fsf.org/project/Elmer/
  Elmer in free software directory
• http://www.cfd-online.com/Wiki/ELMER
  Elmer at cfd-online
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/elmerfem/
  Elmer at freshmeat