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About a year ago there was a discussion on these forums as to whether FEM methods have already been integrated into NDSolve in Mathematica. The answer back then was that NDSolve`FEM was just an internal context in Mathematica 8 without any further use.

My question now: Has this changed in version 9, i.e. is there any FEM functionality integrated into Mathematica now?

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    You'll have to wait for @ruebenko for a definitive answer (if he's not under NDA about this, as many WRI employees are for planned future functionality), but I think the answer is no--this is still a work in progress. As I understand it, the goal is to use it to solve general PDEs and implement a PDE analog of the DifferentialRoot object. Unsurprisingly, this ambitious project may take a while to complete. – Oleksandr R. Jul 08 '13 at 11:43
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    @Wizard, there is no FEM in NDSolve in Version 9 and it's unclear when such a method is fully implemented in NDSolve. I am under a NDA and not allowed to comment on future versions of Mathematica. Sorry I can not be more concrete here. If you which for such a Method, I'd suggest writing to tech support - such customer requests will help prioritize projects like a build in FEM. –  Jul 08 '13 at 13:06
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    I voted to close as a duplicate since the answer has not changed since the last question. I think it will be announced quite clearly when the feature is finally available, but nobody can say anything about it until then, so further questions on this topic don't seem to serve any purpose. – Oleksandr R. Jul 08 '13 at 13:22

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