Multigrid microsoftware for engineers on a Macintosh computer

DOI10.1016/0965-9978(92)90025-BMaRDI QIDQ1803716zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors C. Le Carlier de Veslud, R. Kouitat, Gérard Maurice

Publication date 29 June 1993

Published in Advances in Engineering Software (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0965-9978(92)90025-b

zbMATH Keywords

Apple Macintosh computerautomatic mesh generatorsfinite elementmultigrid softwareplane elasticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics for nonmathematicians (engineering, social sciences, etc.) (00A06) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to partial differential equations (35-04) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N55) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

Review text

This paper considers multigrid software for engineers implemented on an Apple Macintosh computer. The multigrid finite element software uses several automatic mesh generators starting from the nodes on the boundary. It is possible to use a logarithmic scale to determine the nodes in the neighbourhood of rapid variation of the unknown. The shapes are visualized in space with hidden surfaces removed. The user input provides menus and mouse action to make the program user friendly. The program is presently useful only for a limited set of physical situations, since it only treats problems with plane elasticity and with axisymmetric deformations and constraints. However, it is extended to include nonlinear problems as well as fluid flows which yield stress. The paper includes a variety of diagrams and figures which show valuable details of the algorithms implemented in this software.

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