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<h2 id="feature-comparison">Feature comparison</h2> <p>This table is contributed by a FEA-compare<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> project, which provides an alternative view of this table with the first row and Feature column being fixed for ease of table exploration. </p> <table><tbody><tr><th>Feature</th><th><a href="/facts/COMSOL_Multiphysics/xNPw1v8f">COMSOL Multiphysics</a></th><th><a href="/facts/MFEM/XzClp9aa">MFEM</a></th><th><a href="/facts/GetFEM%252B%252B/7rBF6T7h">GetFEM++</a></th><th><a href="/facts/Deal.II/RBBkBX0S">deal.II</a></th><th><a href="/facts/Elmer_FEM_solver/Vf5y5ShF">Elmer</a></th><th><a href="/facts/MOOSE_(software)/2gLTtWVP">MOOSE</a></th><th><a href="/facts/FEniCS_Project/RNHF2DT9">FEniCS Project</a></th><th><a href="/facts/FEATool_Multiphysics/2DQ7VUc6">FEATool Multiphysics</a></th></tr><tr><td>license:</td><td>Proprietary</td><td>BSD</td><td>LGPL</td><td>LGPL</td><td>GNU (L)GPL</td><td>LGPL</td><td>GNU GPL\LGPL</td><td>Proprietary</td></tr><tr><td>GUI:</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>Yes, partial functionality</td><td>Yes</td><td>Postprocessing only</td><td>Matlab and Octave GUI</td></tr><tr><td>Documentation:</td><td>user guides, reference manuals, API documentation, application libraries with solved examples, online tutorials</td><td>examples, miniapps, Doxygen, online documentation</td><td>User doc, tutorials, demos, developer's guide</td><td>extensive tutorials, video lectures, Doxygen</td><td>ElmerSolver Manual, Elmer Models Manual, ElmerGUI Tutorials, etc. LaTeX documentation available in PDFs</td><td>Doxygen, Markdown, example codes, test inputs</td><td>Tutorial, demos, book</td><td>Online FEATool documentation, tutorials, and model examples</td></tr><tr><td colspan="100495">Mesh</td></tr><tr><td>mesh elements:</td><td>intervals (1D); triangles, quadrilaterals (2D and 3D boundaries); tetrahedra, pyramids, prisms, hexahedra (3d)</td><td>segments, triangles, quadrilaterals, tetrahedra, hexahedra, prisms, pyramids</td><td>intervals, triangles, tetrahedra, quads, hexes, prisms, some 4D elements, easily extensible.</td><td>intervals (1D); triangles, quadrilaterals (2D and 3D boundaries); tetrahedra, pyramids, prisms, hexahedra (3d)</td><td>intervals (1d), triangles, quadrilaterals (2d), tetrahedra, pyramids, wedges, hexahedra (3d)</td><td>Tria, Quad, Tetra, Prism, etc.</td><td>intervals, triangles, tetrahedra (quads, hexes - work in progress)</td><td>intervals, triangles, tetrahedra, quads, hexes</td></tr><tr><td>mesh high-order mapping:</td><td>Any? Second-order is the default for most cases.</td><td>arbitrary-order meshes and NURBS meshes</td><td></td><td>any order</td><td>Yes, for Lagrange elements</td><td></td><td>(Any - work in progress)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>mesh generation:</td><td>Built-in</td><td>meshing miniapps and target-matrix mesh optimization</td><td>experimental in any dimension + predefined shapes + Extrusion.</td><td>external mesh generators via mesh exchange files, internally generated meshes for simple shapes, internal interfaces to gmsh</td><td>Limited own meshing capabilities with ElmerGrid and netgen/tetgen APIs. Internal extrusion and mesh multiplication on parallel level.</td><td>Built-in</td><td>Yes, Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) supported via mshr (CGAL and Tetgen used as backends)</td><td>Integrated DistMesh, Gmsh, and Triangle GUI and CLI interfaces</td></tr><tr><td>mesh adaptive-refinement:</td><td>Yes, full adaptive mesh refinement (h-refinement); no p-refinement but several higher-order elements are included. Mesh adaptation on the whole or parts of the geometry, for stationary, eigenvalue, and time-dependent simulations and by rebuilding the entire mesh or refining chosen mesh elements.</td><td>conforming and non-conforming adaptive refinement for tensor product and simplex meshes</td><td>Only h</td><td><i>h</i>-, <i>p</i>-, and <i>hp</i>-adaptivity for both continuous and discontinuous finite elements</td><td>h-refinement for selected equations</td><td>h, p, mached hp, singular hp</td><td>Only h</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>mesh input/output:</td><td>STL, PLY, NASTRAN, 3MF, VRML (import only), native format</td><td>VTK, Gmsh, CUBIT, NETGEN, TrueGrid, and MFEM format</td><td>gmsh, GiD, Ansys</td><td>DB, XDA, GMSH, Tecplot, UNV, UCD, Abaqus, VTK, Assimp, ExodusII</td><td></td><td>ExodusII, Nemesis, Abaqus, Ensight, Gmsh, GMV, OFF, TecPlot TetGen, etc.</td><td>XDMF (and FEniCS XML)</td><td>FeatFlow, FEniCS XML, GiD, Gmsh, GMV, Triangle</td></tr><tr><td>mesh check:</td><td>Avoids inverted and degenerated elements; various mesh quality measures</td><td></td><td>?</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>intersections (collision testing)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>CAD files support:</td><td>STEP, IGES, others.</td><td></td><td>No</td><td><a href="/facts/IGES/TtKwR0eF">IGES</a>, <a href="/facts/ISO_10303/1sUvrP4t">STEP</a> (with <a href="/facts/Open_Cascade_Technology/bEbtDvYk">OpenCascade</a> wrapper)</td><td>Limited support via OpenCASCADE in ElmerGUI</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>mesh operation:</td><td>Merge, copy, refine; convert; boundary layers; extrude, revolve, sweep, loft for 3D geometries</td><td></td><td>Extrude, rotate, translation, refine</td><td>Extrude, rotate, translation, refine</td><td></td><td>Merge, join, extrude, modular mesh modifier system</td><td></td><td>Merge, join, extrude, and revolve operations</td></tr><tr><td colspan="100495">Parallel possibilities</td></tr><tr><td>automatic mesh partitioning:</td><td></td><td>METIS and space-filling curve partitioning</td><td>Yes (METIS)</td><td>yes, shared (METIS/Parmetis/Zoltan) and distributed (p4est)</td><td>partitioning with ElmerGrid using Metis or geometric division, internal partitioning in ElmerSolver using Zoltan</td><td>Metis, Parmetis, Hilbert (shared and distributed meshes)</td><td>Yes (ParMETIS and SCOTCH)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Message_Passing_Interface/BEuBgDpm">MPI</a>:</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes (up to 310k processes)</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>threads:</td><td>Supports multithreading</td><td>Using <a href="/facts/OpenMP/69IpI80o">OpenMP</a>, RAJA, or OCCA backends</td><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Threading_Building_Blocks/6DChhaHg">Threading Build Blocks</a></td><td>threadsafe, some modules threaded and vectorized.</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/OpenMP/69IpI80o">OpenMP</a>:</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes (vectorization only)</td><td>Yes, partially</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/OpenCL/ns8y6np7">OpenCL</a>:</td><td>No</td><td>Through OCCA backends</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/CUDA/fvPpolot">CUDA</a>:</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>since 9.1, see step-64 for matrix-free GPU+MPI example</td><td>Preliminary API for sparse linear algebra</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="100495">Solver</td></tr><tr><td>Dimension:</td><td>0D, 1D, 2D, 3D (can coexist)</td><td>1D/2D/3D</td><td>Any, possibility to mix and couple problem of different dimension</td><td>1/2/3D</td><td>1D/2D/3D (dimensions may coexist)</td><td>1/2/3D</td><td>1/2/3D</td><td>1/2/3D</td></tr><tr><td>FE:</td><td>Lagrange (order 1-7), Hermite (order 3-7), discontinuous Lagrange (order 0-7), bubble, Gauss point, serendipity, Nedelec</td><td>Arbitrary-order Lagrange elements (continuous and discontinuous), Bernstein basis, Nedelec and Raviart-Thomas elements, support for NURBS spaces (IGA)</td><td>Continuous and discontinuous Lagrange, Hermite, Argyris, Morley, Nedelec, Raviart-Thomas, composite elements (HCT, FVS), Hierarchical elements, Xfem, easily extensible.</td><td>Lagrange elements of any order, continuous and discontinuous; Nedelec and Raviart-Thomas elements of any order; BDM and Bernstein; elements composed of other elements.</td><td>Lagrange elements, p-elements up to 10th order, Hcurl conforming elements (linear and quadratic) for</td><td>Lagrange, Hierarchic, Discontinuous Monomials, Nedelec</td><td>Lagrange, BDM, RT, Nedelic, Crouzeix-Raviart, all simplex elements in the Periodic Table (femtable.org), any</td><td>Lagrange (1st-5th order), Crouzeix-Raviart, Hermite</td></tr><tr><td>Quadrature:</td><td></td><td>Gauss-Legendre, Gauss-Lobatto, and uniform quadrature rules.</td><td></td><td>Gauss-Legendre, Gauss-Lobatto, midpoint, trapezoidal, Simpson, Milne and Weddle (closed Newton-Cotes for 4 and 7 order polynomials), Gauss quadrature with logarithmic or 1/R weighting function, Telles quadrature of arbitrary order.</td><td></td><td>Gauss-Legendre (1D and tensor product rules in 2D and 3D) tabulated up to 44th-order to high precision, best available rules for triangles and tetrahedra to very high order, best available monomial rules for quadrilaterals and hexahedra.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Transient problems:</td><td>Yes, BDF, Runge-Kutta (RK34, Cash-Karp 5, Dormand-Prince 5), and generalized alpha time stepping</td><td>Runge-Kutta, SSP, SDIRK, Adams-Bashforth, Adams-Moulton, Symplectic Integration Algorithm, Newmark method, Generalized-alpha method</td><td></td><td>Any user implemented and/or from a set of predefined. Explicit methods: forward Euler, 3rd and 4th order Runge-Kutta. Implicit methods: backward Euler, implicit Midpoint, Crank-Nicolson, SDIRK. Embedded explicit methods: Heun-Euler, Bogacki-Shampine, Dopri, Fehlberg, Cash-Karp.</td><td></td><td>implicit-euler explicit-euler crank-nicolson bdf2 explicit-midpoint dirk explicit-tvd-rk-2 newmark-beta</td><td></td><td>BE, CN, and Fractional-Step-Theta schemes</td></tr><tr><td>Predefined equations:</td><td>Incompressible Navier-Stokes, heat transfer, convection-diffusion-reaction, linear elasticity, electromagnetics, pressure acoustics, Darcy's law, and support for custom PDE equations</td><td>Miniapps and examples for Laplace, elasticity, Maxwell, Darcy, advection, Euler, Helmholtz, and others</td><td></td><td>The tutorial provides examples for many different equations</td><td>Around 50 predefined solvers</td><td>Phase Field, Solid Mechanics, Navier-Stokes, Porous Flow, Level Set, Chemical Reactions, Heat Conduction, support for custom PDEs</td><td></td><td>Incompressible Navier-Stokes, Heat transfer, convection-diffusion-reaction, linear elasticity, electromagnetics, Darcy's, Brinkman equations, and support for custom PDE equations</td></tr><tr><td>Automated assembly:</td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td>Visualization:</td><td>Built-in</td><td>In situ visualization with GLVis. Export to VisIt and ParaView.</td><td>External or with the Scilab/Matlab/Python interface. Possibility to perform complex slices.</td><td>External (export to .vtk/.vtu and many others)</td><td>ElmerGUI comes VTK based visualization tool (but Paraview is recommended)</td><td>Yes, VTK-based GUI, Python visualizatuion library</td><td>Buil-in simple plotting + External</td><td>Built-in with optional Plotly and GMV export</td></tr><tr><td>Output format:</td><td>Text and unstructured VTK-file for data. BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, JPEG, glTF, Windows clipboard, Microsoft PowerPoint (for images). GIF, Flash, AVI, WebM (for animations). Touchstone data (for networks).</td><td>VisIt, ParaView (VTU), GLVis format</td><td>vtk, gmsh, OpenDX.</td><td>*.dx *.ucd *.gnuplot *.povray *.eps *.gmv *.tecplot *.tecplot_binary *.vtk *.vtu *.svg *.hdf5</td><td>Several output formats (VTU, gmsh,...)</td><td>ExodusII, Xdr, etc.</td><td>VTK(.pvd, .vtu) and XDMF/HDF5</td><td>GMV and Plotly</td></tr><tr><td>Boundary elements solver:</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td>Existing but without multipole acceleration (not usable for large problems)</td><td></td><td>No</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Use multiple meshes:</td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes including different dimensions and taking account of any transformation.</td><td>Yes, autorefined from same initial mesh for each variable of a coupled problem</td><td>Continuity of non-conforming interfaces ensured by mortar finite elements</td><td></td><td>Yes, including non-matching meshes</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="100495">Linear algebra</td></tr><tr><td>Used libs:</td><td>MUMPS, PARDISO, SPOOLES; ARPACK, BLAS, BLIS, Intel MKL, LAPACK</td><td>Built-in and integrated with hypre. Optional integrations with PETSc, Ginkgo, SuperLU, Suite Sparse, libCEED, and more</td><td>SuperLU, MUMPS, Built-in.</td><td>Built-in + Trilinos, PETSc, and SLEPc</td><td>Built-in, Hypre, Trilinos, umfpack, MUMPS, Pardiso, etc. (optional)</td><td>PETSc, Trilinos, LASPack, SLEPc</td><td>PETSc, Trilinos/TPetra, Eigen.</td><td>Matlab/Octave built-in (Umfpack), supports integration with the FEniCS and FeatFlow solvers</td></tr><tr><td>Iterative matrix solvers:</td><td>GMRES, FGMRES, BiCGStab, conjugate gradients, TFQMR, or any precoditioner. Algebraic and geometric multigrid. Domain decomponsition (Schwarz, Schur)</td><td>Krylov methods (CG, MINRES, GMRES, BiCGStab)</td><td>All Krylov</td><td>All Krylov (CG, Minres, GMRES, BiCGStab, QMRS)</td><td>Built-in Krylov solvers, Krylov and multigrid solvers from external libraries</td><td>LASPack serial, PETSc parallel</td><td></td><td>Matlab/Octave built-in</td></tr><tr><td>Preconditioners:</td><td>Direct preconditioner, Krylov, SOR, SSOR, SORU, SOR line, SOR gauge, SOR vector, Jacobi, incomplete and hierarchical LU, SAI, SCGS, Vanka, AMS</td><td>Algebraic, Geometric, and p-multigrid. Block ILU preconditioning. Support for hypre's AMS and ADS preconditioners for H(curl) and H(div).</td><td>Basic ones (ILU, ILUT)</td><td>Many, including algebraic multigrid (via Hypre and ML) and geometric multigrid</td><td>Built-in preconditioners (ILU, diagonal, vanka, block) and</td><td>LASPack serial, PETSc parallel, algebraic multigrid (via Hypre)</td><td></td><td>Matlab/Octave built-in</td></tr><tr><td colspan="100495">Matrix-free</td></tr><tr><td>matrix-free:</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td>Experimental implementation</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>matrix-free save memory:</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>matrix-free speed-up:</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="100495">Used language</td></tr><tr><td>Native language:</td><td>Primarily C++ and Java</td><td>C++</td><td>C++</td><td>C++</td><td>Fortran (2008 standard)</td><td>C++</td><td>C++</td><td>Matlab / Octave</td></tr><tr><td>Bindings to language:</td><td>Full API for Java and Matlab (the latter via add-on product)</td><td>PyMFEM (Python)</td><td>Python, Scilab or Matlab</td><td>Python bindings to some functionality</td><td></td><td></td><td>Python</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="100495">Other</td></tr><tr><td>Predefined equations:</td><td>Yes, many predefined physics and multiphysics interfaces in COMSOL Multiphysics and its add-ons.</td><td>A large number of Bilinear and Linear forms</td><td>Model bricks: Laplace, linear and nonlinear elasticity, Helmholtz, plasticity, Mindlin and K.L. plates, boundary conditions including contact with friction.</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Coupled nonlinear problems:</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Binary:</td><td>Windows, Linux, macOS</td><td>Yes, via OpenHPC. Also available as part of Spack, xSDK, E4S, FASTMath, RADIUSS and CEED.</td><td>Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)</td><td>Linux, Windows, Mac</td><td>Windows, Linux (launchpad: Debian/Ubuntu), Mac (homebrew) (all with MPI)</td><td></td><td>Linux (Debian\Ubuntu), Mac</td><td>Windows, Linux, Mac</td></tr><tr><td>fullname:</td><td></td><td>Modular Finite Element Methods</td><td></td><td></td><td>Elmer finite element software</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Testing:</td><td></td><td>Comprehensive unit and regression tests. Continuous integration through Travis CI</td><td></td><td>13,000+ tests</td><td>More than 700 consistency tests ensuring backward compatibility</td><td>4300+ tests, Testing as a service for derived applications</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>scripting:</td><td>Full API for Java and, through add-on product, Matlab</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Runtime parsed mathematical expression in input files</td><td></td><td>Fully scriptable in as m-file Matlab scripts and the GUI supports exporting models in script format</td></tr><tr><td>automatic differentiation:</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td>Forward-mode for Jacobian computation, symbolic differentiation capabilities</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>multiphysics:</td><td>Yes, full custom and predefined multiphysics couplings between all kinds of physics</td><td>Arbitrary multiphysics couplings are supported</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td>Arbitrary multiphysics couplings are supported</td><td></td><td>Arbitrary multiphysics couplings are supported</td></tr><tr><td>Optimization Solvers:</td><td>With the Optimization Module add-on: Coordinate search, Nelder-Mead, Monte Carlo, BOBYQA, COBYLA, SNOPT, MMA, Levenberg-Marquardt</td><td>Integration with HiOp. Built-in SLBQP optimizer</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Support for TAO- and nlopt-based constrained optimization solvers incorporating gradient and Hessian information.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>HIP:</td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Symbolic derivation of the tangent system for nonlinear problems:</td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Support for fictitious domain methods:</td><td></td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"FEniCS Project". Retrieved 2017-06-21. <a href="https://fenicsproject.org/" target="_blank">https://fenicsproject.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"FEATool Multiphysics - Product Information". 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