* to the documentation pertaining to each of them:
*
* <ol>
- *
* <li> <b>%Triangulation</b>: Triangulations are collections of
* cells and their lower-dimensional boundary objects. Cells are
* images of the reference hypercube [0,1]<sup>dim</sup> under a
* The classes that describe triangulations and cells are located
* and documented in the @ref grid module. Iterators are described
* in the @ref Iterators module.
- *
- *
* <li> <b>Finite Element</b>: Finite element classes describe the
* properties of a finite element space as defined on the unit
* cell. This includes, for example, how many degrees of freedom are
* points on the unit cell.
*
* The finite element classes are described in the @ref feall module.
- *
- *
* <li> <b>%Quadrature</b>: As with finite elements, quadrature
* objects are defined on the unit cell. They only describe the
* location of quadrature points on the unit cell, and the weights
*
* The documentation of the classes describing particular quadrature
* formulas is found in the @ref Quadrature module.
- *
- *
* <li> <b>%DoFHandler</b>: %DoFHandler objects are the confluence
* of triangulations and finite elements: the finite element class
* describes how many degrees of freedom it needs per vertex, line,
* imply constraints on degrees of freedom, such as for hanging nodes
* or nodes at which boundary conditions apply; dealing with such
* constraints is described in the @ref constraints module.
- *
- *
* <li> <b>%Mapping</b>: The next step in a finite element program
* is that one would want to compute matrix and right hand side
* entries or other quantities on each cell of a triangulation,
* derivative and Jacobian determinants.
*
* These classes are all described in the @ref mapping module.
- *
- *
* <li> <b>%FEValues</b>: The next step is to actually take a finite
* element and evaluate its shape functions and their gradients at
* the points defined by a quadrature formula when mapped to the
* cells, and FESubfaceValues for evaluation on parts of faces of
* cells. All these classes are described in the @ref feaccess
* module.
- *
- *
* <li> <b>Linear Systems</b>: If one knows how to evaluate the
* values and gradients of shape functions on individual cells using
* FEValues and friends, and knows how to get the global numbers of
* of classes for this purpose, as well as with interfaces to other
* software packages that offer similar functionality. Documentation
* to this end can be found in the @ref LAC module.
- *
- *
* <li> <b>Linear Solvers</b>: In order to determine the solution of
* a finite-dimensional, linear system of equations, one needs
* linear solvers. In finite element applications, they are
* frequently iterative, but sometimes one may also want to use
* direct or sparse direct solvers. deal.II has quite a number of
* these. They are documented in the @ref Solvers module.
- *
- *
* <li> <b>Output</b>: Finally, once one has obtained a solution of
* a finite element problem on a given triangulation, one will often
* want to postprocess it using a visualization program. This
*
* A description of the classes that do so is given in the @ref
* output module.
- *
* </ol>
*
* In addition, deal.II has a number of groups of classes that go
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