Flux3D features the use of parameters to describe geometries. Points coordinates are entered in local coordinate systems. Points, lines, and surfaces can be extruded, and basic geometric patterns including points, lines, faces and volumes, can be duplicated using geometric transformations.
Faces and volumes are automatically generated by Flux3D from the lines. Using the parameters, users can create generic models of their devices and adapt them at will.
Flux3D offers an automatic 3D mesh generator. It creates first or second order tetrahedra. A constraint mesh generator and a brick mesh generator connected to the current mesh generator are scheduled for commercial release in the first quarter of 1996.
Flux3D features multiple formulations and the combination of these formulations together within a single problem. Flux 3D offers a coupling with Boundary Element Formulations. Flux3D also offers special elements such as shell elements that do not require a volume mesh.
Flux3D features an open postprocessor. From the basic quantities computed by Flux3D (potentials, gradients, curls, B, H, E, u) the user can define formulas. Formulas can be used in the same way as regular quanitities. Flux3D displays distribution color shaded maps, equipotential lines, variation curves and 3D variation plots. Quantities can be integrated on any support in the domain; along lines, on faces, and in volumes. Fake volumes, faces, and lines can be entered in the processor anywhere in the domain to be used as support for display or integration. The far field can also be completed in the case of open boundary problems.