User guide#
The User Guide is the conceptual tour of femorph-solver, organised the way an engineer thinks about an analysis: pick the analysis type, then drill into the BCs / loads / result quantities that go with it.
Cross-cutting fundamentals (geometry, BCs, materials, result objects, visualisation) live under the Pre-processing and Post-processing sections and feed every analysis-type chapter. Solver-engineer topics (backend selection, threading, performance tuning) live under Solving.
By analysis type#
\(\mathbf{K}\, \mathbf{u} = \mathbf{f}\) — the workhorse static solve for design-by-analysis.
Natural frequencies and mode shapes via shift-invert Lanczos.
Steady-state forced-response sweep across a frequency band.
Newmark-β time-history response to time-varying loads.
Sector-only modal on N-fold rotationally-symmetric structures.
Linear bifurcation buckling — roadmap; workarounds today documented on the page.
Cross-cutting topics#
Geometry, materials, real constants, BCs. Cross-cuts every analysis type.
Solver backends, threading, performance, OOC limits. Independent of analysis type.
Result objects, strain / stress recovery, pyvista visualisation, VTK export.
Foundations#
FEA in three phases — the build-solve-inspect narrative every FEA workflow follows.
MAPDL compatibility — what carries over from a MAPDL deck, where the boundaries are.