Sundance User's Guide

The Basics

• The Finite Element Method
• Declarative Programming
• About the code and the documentation
• Handles and Memory Management
• Parallel computation

Components for Simulation Setup

• Mesh Sources and Transformations are used to create, import, or transform discrete geometry
• Cell Filters are used to define subregions (e.g., node sets, side sets)
• Symbolic Expressions are used to define equations and boundary conditions
• Discrete Spaces and Functions are used to represent finite-element spaces and fields

Problem Setup

• Specification of Weak Forms of Equations
• Specification of Boundary Conditions
• Setup and use of Linear Problems
• Setup and use of Nonlinear Problems

Solvers

• Linear Solvers
• Nonlinear Solvers

Examples

Some example simulators developed in Sundance can be found here

FAQ

• Creating a DiscreteFunction from values stored in a file