From: guido Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:46:06 +0000 (+0000) Subject: new authors file and updates on documentation X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=30de4006902fde87e010359ea7a69a72caf9edee;p=dealii-svn.git new authors file and updates on documentation git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@7738 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/doc/authors.html b/deal.II/doc/authors.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c72f1fc080 --- /dev/null +++ b/deal.II/doc/authors.html @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ + + + + + Contributors to deal.II + + + + +

Contributors to deal.II

+ +The library is maintained and mostly written by the +deal.II authors: +

Wolfgang Bangerth + +: started the original design and coding + of deal.II in early 1998 and keeps maintaining + and improving the library + +
Guido Kanschat + +: contributed experience from earlier object-oriented finite + element software projects from the beginning and joined in coding + later. + +
Ralf Hartmann + +: started contributing code in 1999 and joined in maintaining + the library. +

+ +

+ + The following people contributed major parts of the library (in + alphabetical order): +

Michael Anderson: + Linear complexity grid reordering algorithm in 2d. + +
John Burnell: + Configuration on Microsoft Windows systems. + +
Brian Carnes: + Hierarchical finite element classes. + +
Benjamin Shelton Kirk: + Tecplot output. + +
Stefan Nauber: + Postscript output. + +
Thomas Richter: + Povray output; + multi-threading work; + refinement functions; + MinRes linear solver. + +
Anna Schneebeli: + Help and advice for Nedelec elements, writing the excellent + report on Nedelec elements. + +
Jan Schrage: + Initial parts of the tutorial. + +
Michael Stadler: + Reading 3d data in UCD, accepting boundary data in 3d; + + Eulerian mappings. + +
Franz-Theo Suttmeier: + Initial parts of the linear algebra. +

+ +

+ Furthermore, we thank the numerous people sending in comments, + patches and even single functions, but are not listed above. +

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README file, mailing list archives

README

First, there is the README file of the library. It gives information on system requirements, - installation, and copyright. More specific questions may also - have been discussed on the mailing list, of which we also have - an - - online archive. + installation, and copyright.

Tutorials

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deal.II is copyright of the deal.II authors, Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf - Hartmann and Guido Kanschat. Various other people have also contributed to - the development. It is distributed under an list of contributors). It is distributed under an OpenSource license. The full text of the license can be found in license.html.

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Contact

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We have a mailing list for discussion + of issues of general interest to users and developers of + deal.II.

+ +

More specific questions may be sent to the authors + immediately at the address firstName.last_name at + dealii.org.

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- deal.II: A Finite Element Differential - Equations Analysis Library -

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What is deal.II?

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- deal.II is a C++ program library targeted at - adaptive finite elements and error estimation. It uses - state-of-the-art programming techniques of the C++ programming - language to offer you a modern interface to the complex data - structures and algorithms required for adaptivity and enables you - to use a variety of finite elements in one, two, and three space - dimensions, as well as time-dependent problems. -

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- The main aim of deal.II is to enable - development of modern finite element algorithms, using among other - aspects sophisticated error estimators and adaptive - meshes. Writing such programs is a non-trivial task, and - successful programs tend to become very large and complex. We - therefore believe that this is best done using a program library - that frees the application programmer from aspects like grid - handling and refinement, handling of degrees of freedom, input - of meshes and output of results in graphics formats, and the - like. Also, support for several space dimensions at once is - included in a way such that programs can be written independent of - the space dimension without unreasonable penalties on run-time and - memory consumption. -

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- deal.II emerged from work at the - - Numerical Methods Group of the University of Heidelberg, - Germany, which is at the forefront of adaptive finite element - methods and error estimators. It is presently developed in - Heidelberg, at the Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology - of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in - Braunschweig, and at the Institute for Computational - Engineering and Sciences (ICES, formerly TICAM) in Austin, - Texas. It is used in several large research projects around the - world. deal.II presently has about 200,000 - lines of code and has several hundred users around the world. -

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What deal.II can offer you

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- If you are active in the field of adaptive finite element methods, - deal.II might be the right library for your - projects. Among other features, it offers: -

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- Support for one, two, and three space dimensions, using a - unified interface that allows to write programs almost - dimension independent. -
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- Handling of locally refined grids, including different adaptive - refinement strategies based on local error indicators and - error estimators. -
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- Support for a variety of finite elements, including Lagrange - elements of order one through four, discontinuous - elements, Nedelec elements, and elements composed of other elements. -
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- Extensive documentation: all documentation is available online - in a logical tree structure to allow fast access to the information - you need. If printed it comprises more than 400 pages of tutorials, - several reports, and presently some 3,800 pages of programming - interface documentation with explanations of all classes, - functions, and variables. All documentation comes with the - library and is available online locally on your computer after - installation. -
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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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- Support for several output formats, including many common - formats for visualization of scientific data. -
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- Support for a variety of computer platforms. On - multiprocessor machines, many operations are parallelized. -
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- Free source code under an Open Source license, and the - invitation to contribute to further development of the - library. -
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Online documentation

- -

- deal.II has quite extensive online - documentation, so we dedicated a - separate - page on documentation to this subject. -

- - -

- Those parts of the online documentation that are most often - accessed are the API references. For your convenience, they are - also listed in the navigation panel on the left. -

- -

- To see what is going on with deal.II, visit the - News page. -

- - - -

Authors

- -

- deal.II was originally designed and written by - Wolfgang Bangerth, starting in early 1998; he is - still maintaining and managing the library, contributing code, and - writing documentation. Guido Kanschat helped with advice in the early - implementation stages on questions of the design of - object-oriented finite element software and later joined into the - coding. Ralf Hartmann started working on - deal.II in early 1999, continually contributed - new methods and classes and finally joined the - deal.II maintainers at the beginning of 2001. -

- -

- Other persons have contributed to the library as well, and are, in - alphabetical order: -

Michael Anderson: - Linear complexity grid reordering algorithm in 2d. - -
John Burnell: - Configuration on Microsoft Windows systems. - -
Brian Carnes: - Hierarchical finite element classes; - - random fixes and enhancements. - -
Benjamin Shelton Kirk: - Tecplot output. - -
Stefan Nauber: - Postscript output. - -
Thomas Richter: - Povray output; - multi-threading work; - refinement functions; - MinRes linear solver. - -
Anna Schneebeli: - Help and advice for Nedelec elements, writing the excellent - report on Nedelec elements. - -
Jan Schrage: - Initial parts of the tutorial. - -
Michael Stadler: - Reading 3d data in UCD, accepting boundary data in 3d; - - Eulerian mappings. - -
Franz-Theo Suttmeier: - Initial parts of the linear algebra. -

- -

- There are a number of people who have sent in single functions, or - small bug fixes; they are not listed above, but we are thankful - for their contributions, of course! -

- - -

- deal.II draws from some ideas which were first implemented in the - predecessor library, - DEAL, developed by Guido Kanschat, Franz-Theo - Suttmeier, and Roland Becker. This library is now being maintained - and developed by Franz-Theo Suttmeier at the University of - Dortmund. -

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License

- -

- deal.II is Open Source, in the - sense advocated by the - Open Source - Initiative. You are free to use it for non-commercial purposes, - i.e. in particular in research and education, and you are - guaranteed full access to the source code. For the details, see - the ReadMe file, and the - full text of the license. -

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Contact

- -

- There are two email addresses for contact with - deal.II developers and users: -

- -

- Mail to Wolfgang.Bangerth, Guido.Kanschat or - Ralf.Hartmann at dealii.org if - you have questions about obtaining deal.II, - license issues and anything that applies to the library - immediately. -

- -

- The deal.II mailing list has been - established to communicate everything interesting to all - deal.II users. This includes bug reports and - announcement of enhancements offered by you. It does NOT include - job offers and asking for internships!!! Mail to - dealii at - dealii.org. The archive of this list is here. -

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- Information on updates will be distributed through the mailing - list. -

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