Getfem++ User Guide

• Introduction
• How to install
• Build a mesh
• • Add an element to a mesh
  • Remove an element from a mesh
  • Simple structured meshes
  • Mesh regions
  • Methods of the getfem::mesh object
  • Using dal::bit_vector
  • Face numbering
  • Save and load meshes
  • • From getfem file format
    • Import a mesh
• Selecting finite element methods
• • Examples
  • Other methods of the mesh_fem object
  • Obtaining generic mesh_fems
• Selecting integration methods
• • Methods of the mesh_im object
• Mesh refinement
• Linear algebra procedures
• Standard assembly procedures
• • Laplacian (Poisson) problem
  • Linear Elasticity problem
  • Stokes Problem with mixed finite element method
  • Assembling a mass matrix
• Compute arbitrary elementary matrices - generic assembly procedures
• Incorporate new finite element methods in getfem++ 
• Incorporate new approximated integration methods in getfem++ 
• Level-sets, Xfem, fictitious domains
• • Representation of level-sets
  • Mesh cut by level-sets
  • Adapted integration methods
  • Discontinuous field across some level-sets
  • Fictitious domain approach with Xfem
• Support for Xfem methods
• Interpolation of a finite element method on non-matching meshes
• • mixed methods with different meshes
  • mortar methods
• Compute L² and H¹ norms
• Compute derivatives
• Export and view a solution
• • Saving mesh and mesh_fem objects for the Matlab interface
  • Producing mesh slices
  • Exporting mesh, mesh_fem or slices to VTK
  • Exporting mesh, mesh_fem or slices to OpenDX
• Interpolation on different meshes
• The model bricks
• • The model state variable
  • Basic properties of a brick
  • Brick parameters
  • generic elliptic brick
  • Source term brick
  • Constraint brick
  • Dirichlet condition brick
  • Example of a complete Poisson problem
  • Predefined solvers
  • Isotropic linearized elasticity brick
  • Qu term brick
  • Helmholtz brick
  • linear incompressibility (or nearly incompressibility) brick
  • Small displacement plasticity brick
  • Contact and friction conditions brick
  • Linearized plate brick
  • Large strain elasticity brick
  • Large strain incompressibility brick
• Parallelization of getfem++ 
• Catch errors
• Example : Laplacian program
• Appendix A. Finite element method list
• • Dof graphical codification
  • Classical P_K Lagrange elements on simplices
  • Classical Lagrange elements on other geometries
  • Elements with hierarchical basis
  • • Hiercarchical elements with respect to the degree
    • Composite elements
    • Hierarchical composite elements
  • Classical vectorial elements
  • • Raviart-Thomas of lowest order elements
    • Nedelec (or Whitney) edge elements
  • Specific elements in dimension 1
  • • GaussLobatto element
    • Hermite element
    • Lagrange element with an additional bubble function
  • Specific elements in dimension 2
  • • Elements with additional bubble functions
    • Non-conforming P₁ element
    • Hermite element
    • Morley element
    • Argyris element
    • Hsieh-Clough-Tocher element
    • A composite C¹ element on quadrilaterals
  • Specific elements in dimension 3
  • • Elements with additional bubble functions
    • Hermite element
• Appendix B. Cubature method list
• • Exact Integration methods
  • Newton cotes Integration methods
  • Gauss Integration methods on dimension 1
  • Gauss Integration methods on dimension 2
  • Gauss Integration methods on dimension 3
  • Direct product of integration methods
  • Composite integration methods
• References
• Index

How to install

Since we used standard GNU tools, the installation of the getfem++ library is somewhat standard. If the getfem++ archive is on your current directory you can unpack it and enter inside the directory of the distribution with the commands

gunzip -c getfem-x.xx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd  getfem-x.xx

Then you you have to run the configure script with

./configure

or if you want to set the prefix directory where to install the library you can use the --prefix option (the default prefix directory is /usr/local):

./configure --prefix=dest_dir

then start the compilation with

make

(or preferably with gmake) and the installation with

make install

You can also check if the compilation is correct with (this will build all test programs, and run them)

make check

If you want to use a different compiler than the one chosen automatically by the ./configure script, just specify its name on the command line:

./configure CXX=mycompiler

If you want to use a specific BLAS library, you may have to supply the necessary link flags and libs to the configure script with

./configure BLAS_LIBS="-L/path/to/lib -lfoo -lbar ....etc"

More specific instructions can be found in the README* files of the distribution.

If you want to use MUMPS as the default sparse direct solver instead of SuperLU, see the indication of section *.

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