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FEniCSx-beat vs Telewavesim

Both stand on physics simulation software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

FEniCSx-beat

Free plan LinuxMac

FEniCSx-beat offers a focused simulation workflow for FEniCSx-based cardiac research, including HPC job handling and ECG-related examples. Installation extras and documented CLI limitations should be considered before adopting it.

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Telewavesim

Free plan Linux

Telewavesim offers specialised seismic wave and reverberation modelling with Python and Fortran components. Its free distribution and notebooks help exploration, while installation dependencies and the documented version limitations require technical preparation.

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The facts

	FEniCSx-beat	Telewavesim
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Linux, Mac	Linux
Lowest paid plan	Not published	Free or on request
Plans published	None	1
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	finsberg.github.io	paudetseis.github.io
On physics simulation software	#62 of 89	#66 of 89

FEniCSx-beat: what it does well

Free MIT-licensed desktop software
Includes Monodomain and Bidomain APIs
Supports parameter-sweep HPC array jobs
Can restart runs after wall-time limits
Provides ECG and conduction demonstrations

What to know first

Pip installation requires FEniCSx first
Examples often need an additional demos extra
Postprocessing visualization requires PyVista
Some CLI capabilities remain future work

Telewavesim: what it does well

Models anisotropic layered wave propagation
Simulates ocean-bottom station reverberations
Python Model class for building layers
Jupyter notebooks demonstrate workflows
Free MIT-licensed software

What to know first

Linux platform only
Elastic-tensor material library is limited
Version 0.3.0 has limited testing
LAPACK linking may fail on some systems

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