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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:02:14PM -0500, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been curious about (FEM-based) computational frameworks for solving 
> PDEs on (connected, compact, curved) Riemannian manifolds with 
> (Lipschitz) continuous boundaries. Does anyone have any experience with 
> this?
> 
> If one were to approach such a problem with FEniCS, at what level should 
> they begin to look into extending (FIAT? FFC?) to allow for operations 
> such as element assembly using an atlas of charts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Harish

Try this:

  hg clone http://www.fenics.org/dev/exterior

It's currently restricted to simplices (in R^n for any n > 0), but
it should be possible to extend. (At least it's small enough that it
should be possible to experiment with.)

-- 
Anders