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                    Finite Element Discretization Library
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                         http://mfem.googlecode.com

MFEM is a modular parallel C++ library for finite element methods. Its goal is
to enable the research and development of scalable finite element discretization
and solver algorithms through general finite element abstractions, accurate and
flexible visualization, and tight integration with the hypre library.

For building instructions, see the file INSTALL, or type "make help". Copyright
information and licensing restrictions can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.

The best starting point for new users interested in MFEM's features is the
interactive documentation in examples/README.html.

Conceptually, MFEM can be viewed as a finite element toolbox that provides the
building blocks for developing finite element algorithms in a manner similar to
that of MATLAB for linear algebra methods. In particular, MFEM provides support
for arbitrary high-order H1-conforming, discontinuous (L2), H(div)-conforming,
H(curl)-conforming and NURBS finite element spaces in 2D and 3D, as well as many
bilinear, linear and nonlinear forms defined on them. It enables the quick
prototyping of various finite element discretizations, including Galerkin
methods, mixed finite elements, Discontinuous Galerkin (DG), isogeometric
analysis and Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) approaches.

MFEM includes classes for dealing with a wide range of mesh types: triangular,
quadrilateral, tetrahedral and hexahedral, as well as surface and topologically
periodical meshes. It has general support for mesh refinement, including local
conforming and non-conforming (AMR) adaptive refinement. Arbitrary element
transformations, allowing for high-order mesh elements with curved boundaries,
are also supported.

MFEM is commonly used as a "finite element to linear algebra translator", since
it can take a problem described in terms of finite element-type objects, and
produce the corresponding linear algebra vectors and sparse matrices. In order
to facilitate this, MFEM uses compressed sparse row (CSR) sparse matrix storage
and includes simple smoothers and Krylov solvers, such as PCG, MINRES and GMRES,
as well as support for sequential sparse direct solvers from the SuiteSparse
library. Nonlinear solvers (the Newton method), and several explicit and
implicit Runge-Kutta time integrators are also available.

MFEM supports MPI-based parallelism throughout the library, and can readily be
used as a scalable unstructured finite element problem generator. MFEM-based
applications require minimal changes to transition from a serial to a
high-performing parallel version of the code, where they can take advantage of
the integrated scalable linear solvers from the hypre library. An experimental
support for OpenMP acceleration is also included.

For examples of using MFEM, see the examples/ directory, as well as the OpenGL
visualization tool GLVis which is available at http://glvis.googlecode.com.

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mfem's Issues

How to compute gradient of displacement and other functions in ex2.cpp

I am new to MFEM. In example ex2.cpp I would like to compute gradient of 
displacement field u and then stress sigma(u), strain eps(u), strain energy U 
and elementwise strain energy Ue. The functional form of these quantities as a 
function of u is given by

eps(u) = (grad(u) + grad(u)^T)/2

sigma(u) = 2*mu*eps + lambda*trace(eps) I

U = lmbda/2.0*(trace(eps))^2 + mu*trace(eps^2) 

Ue= \int_(Omega)(U/vol *v dOmega) , where vol is cell volume and v are trial 
functions 

Can you provide an example or illustration for this?
Also, how is it possible to apply a point load at specific location on free end 
of the cantilever beam (ex2.cpp)?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 17 Mar 2014 at 10:36

mfem data directory

How do you generate .mesh file (e.g. beam-tet.mesh) in the data directory of 
the MFEM code? Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 13 May 2013 at 9:27

Mesh file format for MFEM

I see that NETGEN with OCC can generate mesh which could be exported in 
different file formats. Can you kindly tell me which file format would be 
useful or do I need to add any extra line like MFEM mesh v1.0.... etc?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 29 Jul 2013 at 6:04

setting HYPRE_DIR

Shouldn't HYPRE_DIR be set before MPICC ?

# Parallel compiler
MPICC      = mpicxx
MPIOPTS    = $(CCOPTS) -I$(HYPRE_DIR)/include
MPIDEBUG   = $(DEBUG_OPTS) -I$(HYPRE_DIR)/include

# The HYPRE library (needed to build the parallel version)
HYPRE_DIR  = ../../hypre-2.8.0b/src/hypre

Regards,
Jian

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 16 Feb 2012 at 8:14

Ex1 help

For EX1, actually it is Delta u = const which is Poisson solver and not Laplace 
solver as in head comment. Now suppose, if I consider that I have a solid rod 
and I want to set outer boundary temperature is say 1000.0 degrees. I want to 
see distribution radially. 

To do this, shall I change:

ConstantCoefficient Temp(1000.0);

and change b->AddDomainIntegrator in LinearForm and a->AddDomainIntegrator in 
Bilinear to incorporate Temp instead of one?

Thanks and regs

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 30 Jul 2013 at 11:37

Report for Dev release

In OpenSuse 12.3, I tried to run this dev series while I got following error 
which may help you to fix the development issues.
Best,
Abhijit

make
cd lib; g++  -O3 -I/usr/X11R6/include  -DGLVIS_USE_LIBPNG -DGLVIS_USE_FREETYPE 
-I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -DGLVIS_MULTISAMPLE=4 
-DGLVIS_MS_LINEWIDTH=1.4 -I../../mfem -c aux_gl.cpp
cd lib; g++  -O3 -I/usr/X11R6/include  -DGLVIS_USE_LIBPNG -DGLVIS_USE_FREETYPE 
-I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -DGLVIS_MULTISAMPLE=4 
-DGLVIS_MS_LINEWIDTH=1.4 -I../../mfem -c aux_vis.cpp
cd lib; gcc  -O3 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../../mfem -c gl2ps.c
cd lib; g++  -O3 -I/usr/X11R6/include  -DGLVIS_USE_LIBPNG -DGLVIS_USE_FREETYPE 
-I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -DGLVIS_MULTISAMPLE=4 
-DGLVIS_MS_LINEWIDTH=1.4 -I../../mfem -c material.cpp
cd lib; g++  -O3 -I/usr/X11R6/include  -DGLVIS_USE_LIBPNG -DGLVIS_USE_FREETYPE 
-I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -DGLVIS_MULTISAMPLE=4 
-DGLVIS_MS_LINEWIDTH=1.4 -I../../mfem -c openglvis.cpp
cd lib; g++  -O3 -I/usr/X11R6/include  -DGLVIS_USE_LIBPNG -DGLVIS_USE_FREETYPE 
-I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -DGLVIS_MULTISAMPLE=4 
-DGLVIS_MS_LINEWIDTH=1.4 -I../../mfem -c threads.cpp
threads.cpp: In static member function ‘static void* 
communication_thread::execute(void*)’:
threads.cpp:560:73: error: invalid user-defined conversion from 
‘std::basic_istream<char>’ to ‘int’ [-fpermissive]
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.7/ios:45:0,
                 from /usr/include/c++/4.7/ostream:40,
                 from /usr/include/c++/4.7/iostream:40,
                 from ../../mfem/fem/../general/array.hpp:15,
                 from ../../mfem/fem/fem.hpp:15,
                 from ../../mfem/mfem.hpp:13,
                 from vsdata.hpp:16,
                 from visual.hpp:20,
                 from threads.cpp:16:
/usr/include/c++/4.7/bits/basic_ios.h:113:7: note: candidate is: 
std::basic_ios<_CharT, _Traits>::operator void*() const [with _CharT = char; 
_Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/include/c++/4.7/bits/basic_ios.h:113:7: note:   no known conversion for 
implicit ‘this’ parameter from ‘void*’ to ‘int’
threads.cpp:580:72: error: invalid user-defined conversion from ‘std::istream 
{aka std::basic_istream<char>}’ to ‘int’ [-fpermissive]
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.7/ios:45:0,
                 from /usr/include/c++/4.7/ostream:40,
                 from /usr/include/c++/4.7/iostream:40,
                 from ../../mfem/fem/../general/array.hpp:15,
                 from ../../mfem/fem/fem.hpp:15,
                 from ../../mfem/mfem.hpp:13,
                 from vsdata.hpp:16,
                 from visual.hpp:20,
                 from threads.cpp:16:
/usr/include/c++/4.7/bits/basic_ios.h:113:7: note: candidate is: 
std::basic_ios<_CharT, _Traits>::operator void*() const [with _CharT = char; 
_Traits = std::char_traits<char>] <near match>
/usr/include/c++/4.7/bits/basic_ios.h:113:7: note:   no known conversion for 
implicit ‘this’ parameter from ‘void*’ to ‘int’
make: *** [lib/threads.o] Error 1

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 24 Jul 2013 at 4:22

building library for using LAPACK

Hi,
I need to use methods for DenseMatrix Class, then I have to build (serial) 
library by compiling with LAPACK.

I defined the variable USE_LAPACK       = YES in the makefile, but this setting 
was ignored by the compiler, indeed I see the following compilation line when I 
run make:
cd linalg; g++ -O3  -DMFEM_USE_MEMALLOC      -c densemat.cpp


Finally, my code using DenseMatrixEigensystem doesn't work, and the following 
message is obtained:

DenseMatrixEigensystem::Eval(): Compiled without LAPACK

Could you help me?
Thanks a lot, Pasqua D'Ambra

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 27 Jan 2014 at 9:55

Attachments:

ex3.cpp crash when disable/change the mesh refinement

Dear all,

I am trying to use mfem for my problem. I focus on the electromagnetic 
calculation and use ex3.cpp for my test. For debugging and learning the code of 
mfem, I disabled the refinement from the example:

...
   // 2. Refine the mesh to increase the resolution. In this example we do
   //    'ref_levels' of uniform refinement. We choose 'ref_levels' to be the
   //    largest number that gives a final mesh with no more than 50,000
   //    elements.
   if(0){   /// disable refinement for test
      int ref_levels =
         (int)floor(log(50000./mesh->GetNE())/log(2.)/mesh->Dimension());
      for (int l = 0; l < ref_levels; l++)
         mesh->UniformRefinement();
   }
   mesh->ReorientTetMesh();
...


The program crashed. Furthermore, the program still crash even I set a smaller 
number refinement number:

      int ref_levels =
         (int)floor(log(30000./mesh->GetNE())/log(2.)/mesh->Dimension());


Could anyone help me to take a look at it?


Thanks,
Tang Laoya 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Dec 2014 at 2:18

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