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+ <title>The DEAL Tutorial</title>
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+ <h1>The <acronym>DEAL</acronym> Tutorial</h1>
+
+ <h2>or <acronym>DEAL</acronym> in several easy and some more hard lessons</h2>
+
+ <h3>Prerequisites</h3>
+ <p>
+ This tutorial is written in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">HTML
+ 4.0</a> which your browser may or may not support. If you run into problems
+ you are advised to try a recent browser or one that is able to parse Document
+ Type Definitions. The reason for this is the math support of HTML 4.0. Most
+ people should, however, not run into any
+ problems.</p>
+ <p>
+ You yourself should have some background knowledge on numerical methods, finite
+ elements and C++.
+ </p>
+
+ <h3>Usage of this document</h3>
+ <p>
+ This tutorial is split into several parts, starting with the stationary
+ Laplace problem and advancing to more complicated problems. If you have never
+ used <acronym>DEAL</acronym> we recommend that you begin at the beginning and
+ advance through the chapters in their proper order. This tutorial contains the
+ complete code for every example program and can be used as a reference, too,
+ if you are looking for code to solve a specific problem with
+ <acronym>DEAL</acronym>.
+ </p>
+
+ <h3>On <acronym>DEAL</acronym></h3>
+ <p>
+ <acronym>DEAL</acronym> is short for Differential Equations Analysis Library,
+ which says it all, really. Its purpose it the solution of partial differential
+ equations on unstructured grids with error control. You can find more
+ information on <acronym>DEAL</acronym> and some examples at
+ <a href="http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/DEAL/">
+ http://gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/DEAL/</a>. <acronym>DEAL</acronym> was written
+ by the numerics group at the IWR, University of Heidelberg.
+ </p>
+
+ <h3><a href="tutorial/01.laplace/index.html">Chapter 1: The Laplace
+ problem</a></h3>
+ <p>
+ We will solve the stationary Laplace problem on a square grid with zero
+ boundary condition on three of the edges and a constant boundary condition on
+ one edge.
+ </p>
+
+ <h3>Technical terms</h3>
+ <p>
+ There is a <a href="glossary.html">glossary</a> available to explain technical terms.
+ </p>
+
+ <hr>
+
+ <address>
+ <a href="mailto:schrage@gaia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de">Jan Schrage</a></address>
+ <p>
+ Last modified: Tue 5 Jan 1999
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