| Developer(s) | Wolfgang Bangerth, Timo Heister, Guido Kanschat, Matthias Maier et al. |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2000 |
| Stable release | 9.5.0
/ 7 July 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Finite element analysis |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1 or later |
| Website | dealii |
deal.II is a free, open-source library to solve partial differential equations using the finite element method.[1][2] The current release is version 9.5, released in July 2023.[3] It is one of the most widely used finite element libraries[citation needed] and provides comprehensive support for all aspects of the solution of partial differential equations. The founding authors of the project — Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann, and Guido Kanschat — won the 2007 J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for deal.II.[4] However, it is a worldwide project with around a dozen "Principal Developers", but over the years several hundred people have contributed substantial pieces of code or documentation to the project.
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Features
The library features
- dimension independent programming using C++ templates on locally adapted meshes,
- a large collection of different finite elements of any order: continuous and discontinuous Lagrange elements, Nedelec elements, Raviart-Thomas elements, and combinations,
- parallelization using multithreading through TBB and massively parallel using MPI. deal.II has been shown to scale to at least 16,000 processors[5] and has been used in applications on up to 300,000 processor cores.
- multigrid method with local smoothing on adaptively refined meshes[6][7]
- hp-FEM
- extensive documentation and tutorial programs,
- interfaces to several libraries including Gmsh, PETSc, Trilinos, METIS, SUNDIALS, VTK, p4est, BLAS, LAPACK, HDF5, NetCDF, and Open Cascade Technology.
History and Impact
The software started from work at the Numerical Methods Group at Heidelberg University in Germany in 1998. The first public release was version 3.0.0 in 2000. Since then deal.II has gotten contributions from several hundred authors[8] and has been used in more than 2,000 research publications.[9]
The primary maintainers, coordinating the worldwide development of the library, are today located at Colorado State University, Clemson University, Heidelberg University, Texas A&M University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a number of other institutions.[10] It is developed as a worldwide community of contributors through GitHub[11] that incorporates several hundred changes by dozens of authors every month.
See also
References
- ^ Bangerth, W; Hartmann, R; Kanschat, G. (2007). "deal.II - a general-purpose object-oriented finite element library" (PDF). ACM Trans. Math. Softw. 33 (4): 24. doi:10.1145/1268776.1268779. S2CID 207163483.
- ^ "deal.II Homepage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ "Version 9.5.0 released". dealii. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ "Developers of Finite Element Library Receive Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software". Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ Bangerth, W.; Burstedde, C.; Heister, T.; Kronbichler, M. (2011). "Algorithms and Data Structures for Massively Parallel Generic Finite Element Codes". ACM Trans. Math. Softw. 38. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.724.8034. doi:10.1145/2049673.2049678. S2CID 1158172.
- ^ Janssen, B.; Kanschat, G. (2011). "Adaptive multilevel methods with local smoothing for H1- and Hcurl-conforming high order finite element methods". SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 33 (4). doi:10.1137/090778523.
- ^ Kanschat, G. (2004). "Multi-level methods for discontinuous Galerkin FEM on locally refined meshes". Computers & Structures. 82 (28): 2437–2445. doi:10.1016/j.compstruc.2004.04.015.
- ^ "deal.II Authors". Retrieved 14 June 2019.
- ^ "List of Publications". Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- ^ "deal.II author list". Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- ^ "deal.II github page". GitHub. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
External links
This page was last edited on 11 January 2024, at 17:56