0965-9978/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2009.12.015 * Tel.: +1 915 747 6762. E-mail address: [email protected] The general-purpose partial differential equation (PDE) solver PDE2D uses a Galerkin finite element method, with standard triangular elements of up to fourth degree, to solve PDEs in general 2D regions. For 3D problems, a very different approach is...