Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : freefem3d Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ff3d * License : GPL Description : A language and finite element solver for partial differential equations in 3D
FreeFEM3D (aka ff3d) is a 3D solver of partial differential equations. It is a member of the familly of the freefem programs (see http://www.freefem.org). ff3d, as well as his cousins, is PDE solver driven by a user-friendly anguage. It is in some sense a general solver for vectorial PDEs of degree two (and a bit more). This makes possible to solve many kind of problems such as elastcity, fluids (Stokes and Navier-Stokes) and a lot more. The user only has to enter the equation associated to the problem, giving either the PDE or the associate variational formulation. Since up to now, no free volumic mesher can be found, ff3d does not use standard Finite Elements but a Fictitious Domain approach. The geometry is described using CSG. This description is done using the POV-Ray language but others such as VRML may be added. The processing of the results is still let to the user. One can use various graphic tools: OpenDX being the most powerful free software on the market nowadays. The implementation of a VTK base visualization module is underway. The goal of ff3d is to provide a good teaching tool as well as to give a research toolbox (the code is written in C++ and its design is such that new methods can be easily implemented). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux zion 2.4.22 #2 Wed Nov 26 09:43:33 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
