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Re: FEM for Electromagnetics

 

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:08:10AM -0500, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
> Hello Evan,
> 
> I would look at start at the demos (dolfin/src/demo/pde). The 
> mixedpoisson and stokes demos have vector elements, unfortunately in my 
> quick test it looks like Nedelec hasn't been fully integrated in dolfin 
> just yet. The convectiondiffusion demo gives some time stepping routines 
> that might be helpful.
> 
> -- Andy

What's the problem with Nedelec? I thought it worked.

-- 
Anders


> Lezar, Evan, Mr <elezar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have recently come across Fenics in my search for a finite element 
> > library to use in my PhD research. I am involved in computational 
> > electromagnetics and typically use tangentially continuous edge, face 
> > and volume based vector basis functions to solve Maxwell’s equations. 
> > These are higher order Nedelec basis functions.
> >
> > At the moment I am trying to come to terms with what is going on the 
> > in the code base and thought a good start would be to implement a 
> > solver for a simple 2D waveguide eigenvalue problem (The source-free 
> > vector Helmholtz equation).
> >
> > Is there anyone that has tackled something similar, or can give me a 
> > couple of pointers to get going?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Evan Lezar
> >
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