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<p>
- <acronym>deal.II</acronym> emerged from the work at the
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym> emerged from work at the
<a href="http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de" target="_top">
Numerical Methods Group</a> of the University of Heidelberg, which
is at the forefront of adaptive finite element methods and error
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- Handling of locally refined grids, including algorithms to
- adaptively refine them, using error indicators and
- estimators.
+ Handling of locally refined grids, including different adaptive
+ refinement strategies based on local error indicators and
+ error estimators.
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</p>
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- Extensive documentation: about 200 pages of tutorials,
+ Extensive documentation: all documentation is available online
+ in a logical tree structure to allow fast access to the information
+ you need. In a printed version it comprises about 200 pages of tutorials,
several reports, and far more than 1,000 pages of programming
interface documentation with explanations of all classes,
functions, and variables.
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Modern software techniques that make access to the complex
data structures and algorithms as transparent as possible.
+ The use of object oriented programming allows for program
+ structures similar to the structures in mathematical analysis.
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Fast algorithms that enable you to solve problems with
up to several millions of degrees of freedom quickly.
+ As opposed to programming symbolic algebra packages the penalty
+ for readability is low.
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