I have such a fondness for FEA. ANSYS and COSMOS were the ones I used, and I’ve written toy modelers and solvers (one for my HP 48g) and even tinkered with usin

I have such a fondness for FEA. ANSYS and COSMOS were the ones I used, and I’ve written toy modelers and solvers (one for my HP 48g) and even tinkered with using GPUs for getting answers faster (back in the early 2000s). Unfortunately my experience is that FEA is a blunt instrument with narrow practical applications. Where it’s needed, it is absolutely fantastic. Where it’s used when it isn’t needed, it’s quite the albatross.