I am pleased to announce release 2010.3 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.

Development, mailing lists, issue tracking: http://sfepy.org Documentation: http://docs.sfepy.org/doc Git repository: http://github.com/sfepy Project page: http://sfepy.kme.zcu.cz

Highlights of this release

• significantly rewritten code for better interactive use
• cleaner and simpler high level interface
• new tutorial section:
  • Interactive Example: Linear Elasticity [1]

[1] http://docs.sfepy.org/doc/tutorial.html#interactive-example-linear-elasticit...

Major improvements

Apart from many bug-fixes, let us mention:

• new examples:
  • demonstration of the high level interface
• new tests:
  • tests of the new high level interface
• simplified but more powerful homogenization engine

For more information on this release, see http://sfepy.googlecode.com/svn/web/releases/2010.3_RELEASE_NOTES.txt (full release notes, rather long and technical).

Best regards, Robert Cimrman and Contributors (*)

(*) Contributors to this release (alphabetical order):

Vladimír Lukeš, Osman, Andre Smit, Logan Sorenson