PhaseFieldX
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The facts
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Where it runs
- Applications
- The documentation describes applications including phase-field fracture, solidification, and other material phenomena.checked 10 Oct 2026
What it does
- Assessment tools
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Author
- The documentation lists Miguel Castillón as an author and cites a 2025 PhaseFieldX paper.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Authoring tools
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Community and support
- The project welcomes community contributions and feedback, and its documentation links to contributing guidelines.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Container
- The project provides a pre-built Docker image with FEniCSx and PhaseFieldX installed.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Data export
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Delivery mode
- desktopchecked 23 Sep 2026
- Docker
- The installation guide provides a pre-built Docker image with FEniCSx and PhaseFieldX installed.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Examples
- The documentation provides example simulations for fracture, fatigue, elasticity, phase-field models, and Allen-Cahn, including a parallel simulation with MPI.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Features
- The documentation describes an interface for defining material properties, boundary conditions, and simulation parameters, plus visualization of crack propagation and stress distributions.checked 9 Oct 2026
- FEniCSx
- PhaseFieldX uses FEniCSx to solve partial differential equations and support computation and adaptive mesh refinement.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The installation guide instructs users to install FEniCSx, mpi4py, NumPy, pandas, PyVista, and gmsh, then install PhaseFieldX with pip.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The project describes its intended audience as researchers and engineers in materials science and engineering.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Interface
- The project describes an interface for defining material properties, boundary conditions, and simulation parameters.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Lesson library
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- License
- The project documentation states that PhaseFieldX is licensed under the MIT License.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Model coverage
- Documented models include phase-field fracture and fatigue, elasticity, Allen-Cahn, and Cahn-Hilliard; topology optimization and solidification are marked upcoming.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Modeling
- The theory documentation says fracture and fatigue models cover crack initiation, propagation, branching, coalescence, and fatigue-driven evolution without explicit crack tracking.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Open source
- The project is open source and lists the MIT License.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Optional dependencies
- Image post-processing such as crack measurement requires the additional imageio and scikit-image packages.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Other models
- The theory documentation covers elasticity, Allen-Cahn, and Cahn-Hilliard, and lists topology optimization and solidification as upcoming applications.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- PhaseFieldX simulates and analyzes material behavior using phase-field models for interfaces, phase boundaries, and discontinuities such as cracks.checked 10 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
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