Intro to Finite Element Software via Elmer
After learning about Czoralski crystal growth last month, I saw a mention of simulating this growth process and realized that this simulation would be a great candidate for a high performance computing project. A search for such code on GitHub.com revealed arvedes’ simple example for transient Czochralski growth simulation with Elmer. I’d never heard of this program before but it is open source and on GitHub as the elmerfem repo! Since I am a total newbie to finite element analysis, I found a video to introduce me to the field.
As for Elmer, there is a decent (as far as I can tell) set of webinars on YouTube ranging from an Introduction to Elmer to how to use Elmer in various scientific applications. Looks like a promising place to begin exploring this tool to see what it can do and how it has been used.
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