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FER/SubDomain: An Integrated Environment for Finite Element Analysis using Object-Oriented Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2002

Zhi-Qiang Feng  and
Jean-Michel Cros
Zhi-Qiang Feng
Affiliation:
Centre d'Études de Mécanique d'Ile de France, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Énergétique d'Évry (CEMIF-LMEE), Université d'Évry-Val d'Essonne, 40 rue du Pelvoux, 91020 Évry Cedex, France. feng@iup.univ-evry.fr.
Jean-Michel Cros
Affiliation:
Centre d'Études de Mécanique d'Ile de France, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Énergétique d'Évry (CEMIF-LMEE), Université d'Évry-Val d'Essonne, 40 rue du Pelvoux, 91020 Évry Cedex, France. feng@iup.univ-evry.fr.
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Abstract

Development of user-friendly and flexible scientific programs is a key to their usage, extension and maintenance. This paper presents an OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) approach for design of finite element analysis programs. General organization of the developed software system, called FER/SubDomain, is given which includes the solver and the pre/post processors with a friendly GUI (Graphical User Interfaces). A case study with graphical representations illustrates some functionalities of the program.

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Object-oriented programmingdomain decompositiongraphical interface.

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ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Volume 36 , Issue 5: Special issue on Programming , September 2002 , pp. 773 - 781
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2002

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