LMAG-2D: a software package to teach FEA concepts

Abstract

LMAG-2D is an educational finite-element analysis software package with CAD/CAE technology used to teach the finite element method to undergraduate and graduate students of electrical engineering. A user-friendly interface encapsulates the technical complexity of the method, allowing students and professionals, even in their first contact with this methodology, to appreciate its relevance to practical problems. LMAG-2D can be used to simulate complex two dimensional "real-world" electrostatic, magnetostatic and electrokinetic models, with planar and axial symmetries. Linear and nonlinear phenomena can also be simulated.