osman wrote:
I have been using FE for 30 years. Now am trying find a problem solving enviro (PSE) that lets me just specify the PDE (even in weak form), and a few selections and goes on to solve it :-)
Python seems like nice scripting language to accomplish that. Was
Yes, Python rocks in driving low-level code.
looking for program that try to do it. Like sfepy and from the fenics org syfi. Just playing around at home for fun :-)
The fenics project is a _big_ thing and SyFi inspires me a lot. Some code of Kent-Andre Mardal (of SyFi) served as a base for another project that might be interesting for you: SymFE (http://code.google.com/p/symfe/). SfePy is going to use it for base function generation and other stuff that can be prepared symbolically prior to actual computations.
SfePy, on the not-so-other hand, must be very simple as it was up to very recently written by one guy. I hope other people will join and help make it a powerful tool for doing FEA in Python in a simple way, but still keeping the code small.
Thanks for your help, and the free software.
You are welcome! Just tell us if you find some bugs :)
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