General Purpose FEA

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• ABAQUS -  general-purpose, nonlinear finite element analysis. By HKS. 
• ADINA - general purpose finite element system for advanced engineering linear and nonlinear analysis of structural, heat transfer, field and fluid flow problems
• ALG/NASTRAN - complete NASTRAN solution for static stress with linear material models, natural frequency (modal) and steady-state heat transfer analyses, by ALGOR
• ALGOR - analysis and simulation tools including static stress, Mechanical Event Simulation (MES) with linear and nonlinear material models, linear dynamics, steady-state and transient heat transfer, steady and unsteady fluid flow, electrostatics, full multiphysics and piping (reviews)
• ANSYS - FEA software, by ANSYS, Inc. (reviews)
• Ceetron - makers of high-speed 3D visualization and animation software for finite element analysis programs
• COSMOS/M - comprehensive analysis packages includes modeling, meshing, visualization of parts and assemblies from SRAC (reviews)
• EnSight - post processing for CFD and FEA by CEI
• FEMdesigner - a basic FEA solver for Microsoft Windows
• FEMLAB - finite element modeling and analysis of multidisciplinary problems, by COMSOL
• FlexPDE - 2D and 3D field analysis such as electromagnetics, heat flow and chemical reactions
• LapFEA - imports, exports and solves existing NASTRAN and pal 2 models, and performs 3D stress and vibration analysis of structures, components and mechanical systems. Runs on both Windows and Macintosh OS. From LapCAD Engineering.
• LS-DYNA - nonlinear dynamic finite element software, from Livermore Software Technology Corporation
• MSC.visualNastran - a group of FEA products that includes MSC.Marc, a nonlinear simulation technology for manufacturing applications; MSC.Nastran, an analysis tool for optimized designs; and MSC.Patran, a finite element modeler. From MSC.Software
• NEiNastran - based on NASA's NASTRAN FEA software and designed for personal computers, it offers many analysis types, including linear and nonlinear statics, dynamics and heat transfer. From Noran Engineering, Inc. (reviews)
• NX Nastran - Siemens PLM version of MSC.Nastran software
• NISA/Display - general and special purpose finite element programs for PCs, workstations & supercomputers by EMRC
• Pro/MECHANICA - design simulation tool for motion, structural, thermal and vibration analysis. From PTC. (reviews)
• SAMCEF - general solver with modules for linear, non-linear, and thermal analyses, by Samtech
• Strand7 - Windows based FEA with automatic meshing of CAD models, linear and nonlinear static, dynamic, heat transfer solvers, postprocessing and API