Dear Wolfgang, Thank you for your answer! I followed the link, the most interesting part, in the context of my question, are answers to "Why did you decide to use deal.II?" However, this survey is mostly among Deal.ii users, who already use it and like it. So I tried to estimate the total size of simulation software community by simply counting paper mentioning the product and indexed by Scopus in 2015 for names titled in Wiki page on FEM software. The result:
ansys 6413 53,02 % comsol 2289 18,92 % Ls-dyna 1211 10,01 % OpenFOAM 868 7,18 % abaqus fem 717 5,93 % nastran 221 1,83 % freefem++ 183 1,51 % deal.ii 95 0,79 % code_saturne 67 0,55 % libmesh 32 0,26 % So deal.ii is the second in the list of generic FEM free codes (after FreeFem++) that looks to be quite good. However, most of the new knowledge generated with FEM is done using Ansys (which is widely used in industry) and Comsol (more dedicated to scientific research) are cleary dominates here. I have probably missed some titles, however the general situation should be clear. So, any more reasons (in addition I have mentioned above) to prefer Deal.ii? Best regards, Kostya понедельник, 26 сентября 2016 г., 4:54:20 UTC+3 пользователь Wolfgang Bangerth написал: > > > Konstantin, > I have never used Comsol, and so can't really answer your question. But I > think you may enjoy reading some of the answers we got on the user survey > and > which are listed here: > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1K2nhtfGuf15Cdw6E4_nbPk82zS9-XNfuRqOjFBWkp7E/viewanalytics > > > Best > Wolfgang > > On 09/24/2016 05:40 AM, Konstantin Ladutenko wrote: > > Any Comsol users switched to Deal.II to share their experience? Or using > both > > Deal.II and Comsol on everyday tasks? > > > > Some questions behind this: > > 1) How I can motivate my colleagues to try Deal.II? > > 2) What are possible arguments to invest time into Deal.II instead of > buying > > one more Comsol license? > > > > My thought on this (still I am not actually using any of them, so any > comments > > are welcome): > > > > 1) License cost? > > > > Comsol license is quite expensive. However, if you put the scientist > salary on > > the board, it is not that straightforward. With Comsol it is quite easy > to > > become productive from day zero. To achieve the same technical level > with > > Deal.II you will need few weeks or even months of everyday use... There > are so > > many technical details under the hood hidden from Comsol user which you > are > > forced to be aware of with Deal.II. And even after mastering them both > it > > looks like using Comsol to create a new model (with new geometry and > physics) > > is cheaper compared to deal.ii as soon as you already have a license. > And this > > works even better when you scale up - for sure you need much less number > of > > licenses than a stuff count in the lab.. > > > > 2) Control. > > > > This is a real benefit from my point of view. You can put the C++ into > version > > control system and get all the improvements with simple diff. Probably > Comsol > > has some kind of "model review mode" to show all check boxes and list > choices, > > however, I was not able to locate this feature fast. > > > > 3) Adaptive mesh with hanging nodes. > > > > It seems to be a unique Deal.II feature to be able to do a local > refinement or > > coarsening of the model. For sure it is very good, especially for > large-scale > > simulations. > > > > The side effect is that it is very natural to do hp-refinement. For time > > domain problems it is easy for Deal.II to follow with dense mesh > alongside > > with places, where it is actually needed. > > > > 4) Large models for HPC > > > > This is mostly related to engenering tasks. However, if you have a large > > problem it can be easier to solve it with Deal.II using HPC cluster. > Using > > 100-1000 cores or more to get the result can speed up the progress a > lot, and > > such kind of clusters are quite affordable our days, it is quite easy to > get a > > HPC access for academic research. It looks like it is not feasible with > Comsol > > (at list I was not able to get data on more than a 20x parallel speedup > with > > 0.8 efficiency for Comsol 4.2 in the internet). > > > > 5) Comsol is an integrated environment. > > > > So it has the drawing, meshing, setting the model, evaluation, > visualisation > > in the same window, which is rather convenient. Actually this an > argument > > aginst Deal.II, where you should mostly rely on external tools for most > of the > > tasks. It is not a crucial problem, however, it complicates it a bit, > e.g. to > > set up a working environment or to become really productive... > > > > Any comments on this? More killer features of Deal.ii are welcome! > > > > Best regards, > > Konstantin Ladutenko > > > > -- > > The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ > > For mailing list/forum options, see > https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "deal.II User Group" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to dealii+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > <mailto:dealii+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Wolfgang Bangerth email: bang...@colostate.edu > <javascript:> > www: http://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/ > > -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. 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