What is your ultimate goal?
Well...
My goal is
particle-in-cell simulations (
pretty far from what could be expected, I guess ).
This method is commonly used to simulate plasmas and particles in accelerators.
In short, a bunch of charged particles is injected into some region and then allowed to propagate according to external fields and particle-particle forces. Since the external fields are calculated from some external potential and currents distributions, an ability to solve electrostatics and magnetostatics problems is crucial.
are you happy with field visualization only? ... or are you looking for any other quantity you could obtain indirectly?
Currently it should be sufficient to have only fields.
Speaking of my original post, it seems like
ONELAB ( well-known "gmsh" mesher + less well-known related tools ) also has some support for electromagnetics, but I have not figured out yet how to use it.
As for my general plans, I have not seen any open-source software for particle-in-cell simulations integrated with CAD programs. A PIC-plugin for FreeCad seems a reasonable solution. Support for electromagnetics also would be useful, since I need a way to calculate fields for specified currents and potentials. Therefore, it is in my interests to have an electromagnetic workbench in FreeCAD. Unfortunately, right now it is too early to speak of it, since I don't have a clear understanding of how to implement it.
Meanwhile, here is some relevant
discussion at deal.ii mailing list.
(
Deal.ii is an excellent finite-element library; a quick look it's documentation [
1,
2,
3 ] is enough to fall in love with this project ).
