Dear Cactus and Einstein Toolkit users,

I have been working on a solver for elliptic PDEs based on the multigrid 
paradigm, and developed as a Cactus thorn using Carpet. The solver is now able 
to tackle some basic problems and could be applied to other cases of interest 
to this community. You can obtain a copy by checking out the Cosmology 
arrangement from its repository:

git clone [email protected]:eloisa/cosmology.git

There you will also find documentation, license information, and a test suite. 
There is no tutorial, but I think that what is under docs/ and par/ should 
suffice to get most people started. For more information, you can also peruse 
<http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1305.5576>, especially if you are interested in 
elliptic problems on spaces without boundaries.

Please notice that the spirit of the solver is not to replace existing 
state-of-the-art tools, but to provide a way of solving elliptic PDEs with is 
both easy to learn and to extend, and gives reasonable answers in a reasonable 
amount of time. In order to keep this flexibility, the solver is simply unable 
to compete with other software tailored to specific equations or geometries. In 
areas where these alternatives exist, they should be used instead.

Finally, beware of the lack of explicit support for some of the latest Carpet 
features, such as multipatch and cell-centered grids. Being unfamiliar with 
these features, I cannot estimate how much work would be necessary to include 
them. 

I hope many of you will find this tool useful, and I look forward to hear your 
feedback.

Eloisa


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