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["tomtzigt" <tomtzigt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Johan:

  I love your concept of 'hiding' the complexity of the FEM. In this
context, what in your mind would be required to hook Fenics up in an
environment like FEMLAB where you would be able to write the equations,
handle the boundary conditions, and automate design studies? In my taste,
there are a little bit too many clicks in FEMLAB to set parameters of the
equations but it does bundle enough components to create a usable FEM
environment for normal people.

Theo


>We have the opportunity to create a FEM system which can generate
>optimal solvers for essentially _all_ domains. We can solve the
>accessibility problem of the FEM, which is the complexity explosion of
>coefficients and indices once and for all and actually make it
>available to normal people (engineers at least), without having to
>sacrifice _any_ performance. Or perhaps we should say that "we have
>already solved" this problem (with regards to assembly at least), now
>it's essentially a question of packaging and further developing it.
>
>  Johan