I would not usually call finite element models black box. It’s true that they can be used like mysterious black boxes by particular users, but the gears inside the model do map directly to gears in the physical world, and the people who wrote the code do understand that mapping.
I would not usually call finite element models black box. It’s true that they can be used like mysterious black boxes by particular users, but the gears inside the model do map directly to gears in the physical world, and the people who wrote the code do understand that mapping.