FEATool Multiphysics v1.13

FEATool Multiphysics v1.13 (Build 20.12.350)

• New 3D CAD geometry modeling functionality
  • Chamfer (bevel edges)
  • Fillet (round edges)
  • Extrude/Revolve faces to solids
  • Loft faces
  • Split objects by cutline/cutplane
  • Sketching in 2D Workplanes
• Support for user defined solver monitor functions
• View, edit, and modify OpenFOAM case and dictionary files

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.4

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.4 (Build 20.09.249)

• Improved GEOMTool geometry engine with planar 2D support, faster and more robust geometry decomposition/analysis
  • Added chamfer and fillet geometry operations
  • Added split geometry object by cutplane/cutline
• Algrebraic Multigrid (AMG) linear solver option

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.3

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.3 (Build 20.06.157)

• Support for boundary and subdomain integral constraints
• Generalized slice plot postprocessing option
• Gradient reconstruction for evaluation of first order derivatives
• Animation of multiple time steps/solutions postprocessing option
• Streamline plot option
• Updated postprocessing dialog box GUI
• Improved OpenFOAM and SU2 discretization scheme options

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.2

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.2 (Build 20.05.138)

• Support for multiple imported CAD geometries
• Improved Gmsh import
• OpenFOAM and SU2 support for pressure inlet boundary conditions
• Added arrow plot scaling option
• Added solver settings GUI option for numerical integration order

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.1

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.1 (Build 20.04.101)

• Full support for FEniCS external solver
  • Supports conversion of most FEATool models to FEniCS Python simulation scripts
  • Time dependent and nonstationary problems
  • Nonlinear and discontinuous coefficients
• Improved postprocessing and visualization
  • Faster and more efficient 3D graphics
  • GUI support for more colors and colormaps, titles, and plot configurations
• GUI functionality to view partial grids
• Faster GUI command/terminal output speed
• Improved and more accurate Robin boundary condition treatment
• Faster expression evaluation via nodal interpolation
• Electrostatics micro strip capacitance tutorial

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12

FEATool Multiphysics v1.12.0 (Build 20.03.062)

• New SU2 CFD solver with built-in GUI and CLI interfaces
• Built-in algebraic turbulence model for Navier-Stokes physics mode
• Support for several OpenFOAM turbulence model variants (Spalart-Allmaras, k-epsilon (RNG and realizable), and k-omega (SST))
• New BREP based 3D CAD engine with support for BREP, IGES, OBJ, STEP, and STL CAD format import, export, and conversion
• Support for 2D boundary layers in Gmsh

FEATool Multiphysics v1.11.1

FEATool Multiphysics v1.11.1 (Build 19.11.332)

• Support for IGES and STEP CAD file import
• Improved feature and boundary recognition for STL CAD file import
• Geometry and grid export to web browser
• Support for parsing space derivatives in time equation coefficients

FEATool Multiphysics v1.11

FEATool Multiphysics v1.11

• Dedicated and improved treatment of internal/interior boundaries
• Fluid-structure interaction physics mode and solver
• MUMPS and iterative (GMRES and BiCGStab with ILU(k)) linear solvers
• Support for Gmsh v3/4 GEO file format geometry import and export
• New polyhedron, ellipsoid, cone, and torus geometry object primitives
• Support for external BRL-CAD and OpenCASCADE (Gmsh) geometry engines
• New examples and tutuorials for thermo-mechanical couplings, fluid-structure interaction, and non-Newtonian flow
• Added P1/P2 bubble, Nedelec curl, and Raviart-Thomas vector finite element shape functions