It has been developed by CSC[2] in collaboration with Finnish universities, research laboratories and industry.

Elmer FEM solver is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or any later.

[3] Elmer includes physical models of fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics, for example.

[3] These are described by partial differential equations which Elmer solves by the Finite Element Method (FEM).

Whilst the main module is the ElmerSolver tool, which includes many sophisticated features for physical model solving, the additional components are required to create a full workflow.