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- From: rcpshdb@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (Han de Bruijn)
- Subject: Re: PC software to do Partial Diff EQ's ?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.070807.26196@dutrun2.tudelft.nl>
- Originator: rcpshdb@dutrun2.tudelft.nl
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- Reply-To: rcpshdb@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (Han de Bruijn)
- Organization: Delft University of Technology
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:08:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.111404.16892@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Herb Schilling:
- > A while ago I asked if there are any PC packages ( commercial or freeware )
- > to do partial differential equations ? [ ... ]
-
- > The only response that I got was posted to this newsgroup. [ ... ]
-
- Ah, and you have such a nice employer ... : Nasa's NASTRAN solves such
- partial differential equations. Many other expensive Structural Mechanics
- packages do it, such as ANSYS and MARC. The PHOENICS package solves it's
- P.D.E.'s in the Computational Fluid Dynamics area, among others such as
- FIDAP and FLOTRAN. For Electronics, you can buy finite element codes from
- a company called TMA: PISCES, SUPREM and others. They all cost money.
-
- But there is NO such thing as a Universal Partial Differential Equation
- Solver available anywhere. All serious packages are specializations for
- a certain area of interest: Mechanics, Fuids, Electronics. No freeware.
- Some of these can be ordered for PC's too, yes.
-
- Take my advice: if you ever want to get a sensible answer, be (far) more
- specific: _which_ (system of) P.D.E.'s do you want to solve?
- In _what_ kind of applications area?
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