I started my career doing FE modeling and analysis with ANSYS and NASTRAN. Sometimes I miss these days. Thinking about how to simplify a real world problem so far that it is solvable with the computational means available was always fun. Then pushing quads around for hours until the mesh was good had an almost meditative effect. But I don't feel overwhelmingly eager to learn a new software or language.
Much to my surprise, it seems there hasn't been much movement there. ANSYS still seems to be the leader for general simulation and multi-physics. NASTRAN still popular. Still no viable open-source solution.
The only new player seems to be COMSOL. Has anyone experience with it? Would it be worth a try for someone who knows ANSYS and NASTRAN well?
Much to my surprise, it seems there hasn't been much movement there. ANSYS still seems to be the leader for general simulation and multi-physics. NASTRAN still popular. Still no viable open-source solution.
The only new player seems to be COMSOL. Has anyone experience with it? Would it be worth a try for someone who knows ANSYS and NASTRAN well?