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DUNE-fem

Discontinuous Galerkin methods and adaptive meshes.

Install

pip install dune-fem mpi4py

mpi4py is a hidden requirement: without it the first import stops with "Please run pip install mpi4py before rerunning your Dune script."

Then check that openPASO sees it:

python check_install.py

What openPASO knows for DUNE-fem

17 kinds of problem. Ask for any of them in plain words; the names below are what the model uses internally.

Physics Description Dimensions Templates
adaptive_poisson h-adaptive Poisson with residual error estimator 2-D 2d
dg_advection DG method for pure advection equation (upwind flux) 2-D 2d
dg_advection_diffusion Steady advection-diffusion with upwind flux and SIPG diffusion on triangles 2-D 2d
eigenvalue Eigenvalue problem -Δu = λu via shift-invert inverse iteration 2-D 2d
heat Steady heat conduction (UFL) 2-D 2d
helmholtz Helmholtz equation -Δu - k²u = f with MMS verification 2-D 2d
hyperelasticity Neo-Hookean finite-strain hyperelasticity with automatic Newton via UFL 2-D 2d
linear_elasticity Linear elasticity (UFL vector space) 2-D 2d
maxwell Maxwell equations: 2-D TE-mode scalar Helmholtz proxy (-Δu - k²u = f); full H(curl) via NGSolve 2-D 2d
mixed_methods Mixed Poisson with Raviart-Thomas RT0 flux and DG-P0 pressure (H(div) x L²) 2-D 2d
navier_stokes Incompressible Navier-Stokes via Picard iteration (lid-driven cavity) 2-D 2d
nonlinear Nonlinear PDE via Newton method (UFL) 2-D 2d
poisson Poisson equation -Δu = f (UFL forms, DUNE backend) 2-D, 3-D 2d
poisson_mms 3D variable-coefficient Poisson manufactured-solution (MMS) convergence family — -div(kappa grad u) = f on [0,L]^3, affine kappa, exact Dirichlet data, uniform refinement with per-level L2/H1 error lines; theoretical L2 order k+1 / H1 order k 3-D 3d_varcoeff
reaction_diffusion Reaction-diffusion (transient) 2-D 2d
stokes Stokes flow with Uzawa iteration (UFL) 2-D 2d
time_dependent_heat Transient heat du/dt - alpha*Δu = f via implicit Euler time-stepping 2-D 2d