First of, deal.ii seems to be an amazing software package, with amazing capabilities, I am just trying to figure out how to harness the power of deal.ii, kudos to all the people who developed deal.ii !!!
I am a new user of deal.ii, and I have browsed, built and run several of the latest tutorials and I have browsed the code-gallery section. I have many years of experience working with FE codes, although not with the (high-level) C++ templates that deal.ii is built on, which is the case of a large number of engineering students and professionals. Although there are lots of Tutorials, because deal.ii can tackle such as wide spectrum of PDEs, each tutorial seems overwhelming and does not directly address the immediate or specific need of a new user. For example, let's say a new user is interested in solving basic linear elasticity cases on simple domains (2/3d), with different boundary conditions, exporting displacements and stresses, and with different linear equation solvers to see what is the performance of the software when increasing the model size. This is perhaps one of the most basic uses of FEA that a large number of people need. However, I could not find a repository with a (large) number of documented test cases on this topic. This would fit the philosophy of "learn by example", as opposed to learn most of the theory/documentation and figure out how to solve your specific case. Please, let me know if such a repository exists, and if it doesn't, wouldn't such a repository help lots of new users who need to get up to speed very quickly, and who do not have the time or the knowledge to go over lots of tutorials dealing with topics that do not help them to address their immediate needs? Your expertise and help will be greatly appreciated! -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/e048365b-38f0-4e2b-8979-265331ddf1den%40googlegroups.com.
