[SciPy-User] ANN: SfePy 2010.2

[Robert Cimrman]

(resending - the Monday post did not get through)

I am pleased to announce release 2010.2 of SfePy.

Description
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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
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- 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
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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