FEM software

[matteo82]

I need to use a FEM software for stress analysis inside a common rail nozzle(diesel engine).
Inside nozzle i had to put 2000 bar pressure
Somebody have done similar works?
What you think will be best software?

 

[A5]

If you're doing this for school, your department should have something available.

If it's for work, they should have something they want you to use.

For other, uh, I dunno. COMSOL is the gold standard as far as I'm aware, but it is incredibly expensive.

 

[neocpp]

If you don't mind coding a bit and want it for cheap, you can use something like freefem++ (I have used it before, and it works pretty well, especially if you need to solve additional PDEs on hard boundary conditions).

Abaqus is pretty good if you can deal with their licensing and seems to be preferred in academia at least in my line of work.

In addition to COMSOL, Ansys is another good commercial package.