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Elmer FEM

This is the official source code repository for the Elmer FEM software suite.

Elmer is a tool that can solve a large number of partial differential equations making it an ideal tool for multiphysical problems. It includes models for structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, electromagnetics and beyond. Elmer can be used from PCs to massively parallel HPC platforms.

Elmer Homepages

• Official home at CSC: http://www.csc.fi/elmer

• Elmer community: http://www.elmerfem.org/

• Elmer/Ice community: http://elmerice.elmerfem.org

Direct links

• Pre-compiled builds: Windows Installers, VirtualBox VM

• Ubuntu Launchpad: PPA

• Compilation: Linux/Ubuntu, Nix, Windows/msys2, macOS

• Docker: GitHub, nwrichmond/elmerice: Docker Hub

• Manuals and Tutorials (about 900 pages!): PDF

• Elmer license policy.

• List of references for citing Elmer: White Papers

Discussion and Media

• phpBB Discussion forum, preferred place for questions with long history!

• Youtube, webinars and random animations

• Elmer on Twitter:

• Elmer on LinkedIn: , networking oriented

• Discord, generic random discussions on engineering software.

• Elmer on Reddit (low traffic, no support):

• ElmerUpdates, low traffic mailing list