Dear All, I have just noticed the existence of a Debian/Ubuntu packages for Dolfin and I decided that I would like to give it a try. I have a few questions, which are not intended to give rise to a flame-war. 1)Can I use Dolfin as an almost complete replacement of commercial fem packages like e.g. Comsol Multyphyisics? 2)Is it correct that if I "just" want to focus on getting equations solved, I should mainly concentrate upon Dolfin and I can bypass for now the other bits of the Fenics project? If not, I think I am in the wrong list. 3)My background is in functional programming and I am mainly experienced in Fortran, R, some Python and with a rather superficial knowledge of C and C++. I thought, after browsing through the tutorial (http://www.fenics.org/wiki/Tutorial), that I would be nice to use the Python interface to Dolfin (it could make life significantly easier for me than using a low-level language I know rather little of). However, Dolfin tutorial (http://www.fenics.org/pub/documents/dolfin/dolfin-user-manual/dolfin-user-manual.pdf), seems to discuss everything in terms of C++. I appreciate that for many on this list it is probably trivial to migrate any C++ example into e.g. Python, but that is not the case for me. Where can I find anything similar but targeted to a Python rather than a C++ user? This insistence on Python is due to its being more high level and the Poisson example as a Python script looks way shorter to code than its C++ counterpart.
I would have plenty of other questions, but these are to me the fundamental points right now. Many thanks for any answers/suggestions Lorenzo _______________________________________________ DOLFIN-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev
