This Matlab program provides a platform to facilitate the implementation of Finite Element and Boundary Element formulations. It is intended as a research tool.
Three levels can be considered.
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Using an existing finite element formulation to solve a given problem.
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Implementation and validating a new finite element formulation. This is the main purpose of this code. It is designed to make it (relatively) easy to go from a variational formulation on paper to a working implementation that can be validated and assessed. The different finite element formulations, or boundary element formulations, available are located in the Library directory.
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The low level and generic tasks required by all finite element models, such as allocating degrees of freedom, the assembly of element matrices in a global system. All these aspects are provided by functions and scripts in the Core directory.
Further details will be made available in the Documentation directory.
See the Examples directory.
The first version of this code was originally developed at the Acoustics Group at the University of Technology of Compiegne, France, back in 2000. Various revisions were further develop, and the code was used for several research projects. It has since been used in other research groups, leading to several different version being developed independently. This repository is an attempt to bring some of these features together.