I am pleased to announce release 2010.2 of SfePy. Description ----------- SfePy (simple finite elements in Python) is a software for solving systems of coupled partial differential equations by the finite element method. The code is based on NumPy and SciPy packages. It is distributed under the new BSD license. Mailing lists, issue tracking, git repository: http://sfepy.org Home page: http://sfepy.kme.zcu.cz Documentation: http://docs.sfepy.org/doc Highlights of this release -------------------------- - significantly updated documentation - new wiki pages: - SfePy Primer [1] - How to use Salome for generating meshes [2] [1] http://code.google.com/p/sfepy/wiki/Primer [2] http://code.google.com/p/sfepy/wiki/ExampleUsingSalomeWithSfePy Major improvements ------------------ Apart from many bug-fixes, let us mention: - new mesh readers (MED (Salome, PythonOCC), Gambit NEU, UserMeshIO) - mechanics: - ElasticConstants class - conversion formulas for elastic constants - StressTransform class to convert various stress tensors - basic tensor transformations - new examples: - usage of functions to define various parameter - usage of probes - new tests and many new terms For more information on this release, see http://sfepy.googlecode.com/svn/web/releases/2010.2_RELEASE_NOTES.txt (full release notes, rather long). Best regards, Robert Cimrman and Contributors (*) (*) Contributors to this release (alphabetical order): Vladimír Lukeš, Andre Smit, Logan Sorenson, Zuzana Záhorová