COMSOL Multiphysics vs. FEATool Multiphysics vs. LiveLink for MATLAB vs. MatConvNet Comparison


COMSOL Multiphysics Comsol Group	FEATool Multiphysics Precise Simulation	LiveLink for MATLAB Comsol Group	MatConvNet VLFeat
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About Simulate real-world designs, devices, and processes with multiphysics software from COMSOL. General-purpose simulation software based on advanced numerical methods. Fully coupled multiphysics and single-physics modeling capabilities. Complete modeling workflow, from geometry to postprocessing. User-friendly tools for building and deploying simulation apps. The COMSOL Multiphysics® software brings a user interface and experience that is always the same, regardless of engineering application and physics phenomena. Add-on modules provide specialized functionality for electromagnetics, structural mechanics, acoustics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical engineering. Choose from a list of LiveLink™ products to interface directly with CAD and other third-party software. Deploy simulation applications with COMSOL Compiler™ and COMSOL Server™. Create physics-based models and simulation applications with this software platform.	About FEATool Multiphysics - "Physics Simulation Made Easy" - a fully integrated physics, FEA, and CFD simulation toolbox. FEATool Multiphysics is a fully integrated simulation platform with a unified interface for several Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) multi-physics solvers, such as OpenFOAM, SU2 Code, and FEniCS. This uniquely allows for modeling coupled physics phenomena such as found in fluid flow, heat transfer, structural, electromagnetics, acoustics, and chemical engineering applications, within a single user-friendly interface. With these capabilities, FEATool Multiphysics has become trusted tool by engineers and researchers worldwide to accelerate innovation and quickly achieve results in the energy, automotive, semi-conductor, and process industries.	About Seamlessly integrate COMSOL Multiphysics® with MATLAB® to extend your modeling with scripting programming in the MATLAB environment. LiveLink™ for MATLAB® allows you to utilize the full power of MATLAB and its toolboxes in preprocessing, model manipulation, and postprocessing. Enhance your in-house MATLAB code with powerful multiphysics simulations. Base your geometry modeling on probabilistic or image data. Use multiphysics models together with Monte Carlo simulations and genetic algorithms. Export COMSOL models on state-space matrix format for incorporating into control systems. Interface in the COMSOL Desktop® environment enables the use of MATLAB® functions while modeling. Manipulate your models from the command line or script to parameterize the geometry, physics, or the solution scheme.	About The VLFeat open source library implements popular computer vision algorithms specializing in image understanding and local features extraction and matching. Algorithms include Fisher Vector, VLAD, SIFT, MSER, k-means, hierarchical k-means, agglomerative information bottleneck, SLIC superpixels, quick shift superpixels, large scale SVM training, and many others. It is written in C for efficiency and compatibility, with interfaces in MATLAB for ease of use, and detailed documentation throughout. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. MatConvNet is a MATLAB toolbox implementing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision applications. It is simple, efficient, and can run and learn state-of-the-art CNNs. Many pre-trained CNNs for image classification, segmentation, face recognition, and text detection are available.
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Audience Companies and designers looking for a multiphysics software solution for their design needs	Audience Engineers, researchers, teachers, students	Audience Statistical Analysis solution for companies	Audience Anyone in need of a deep learning software
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Company Information Comsol Group Founded: 1986 United States www.comsol.com	Company Information Precise Simulation Founded: 2012 www.featool.com	Company Information Comsol Group www.comsol.com	Company Information VLFeat United States www.vlfeat.org/matconvnet/
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Categories CFD Circuit Simulation Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Electromagnetic Simulation Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Industrial Design Materials Science Multiphysics Simulation Optical Design Simulation	Categories Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Multiphysics Simulation Simulation	Categories Multiphysics Simulation Statistical Analysis	Categories Deep Learning
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