Topics

Here is a list of all topics with brief descriptions:

Infrastructure	See Module Documentation for the hand-written documentation of these modules
Core	Logging, timing, types, constants and string tools
Containers	Cell, Map, Bitset and the other BELFEM container classes
Linear Algebra	Backend-agnostic linear algebra API and LAPACK wrappers
Sparse	Sparse storage and the solver interfaces (UMFPACK, MUMPS, STRUMPACK, PARDISO, PETSc)
I/O	HDF5, ASCII, CSV, configuration files and XML
Communication	MPI communication abstraction layer
Mesh	Mesh data structures, I/O (Gmsh, HDF5, Exodus, VTK) and parallel partitioning
Visualizer	Optional VTK rendering of meshes and curves (USE_VTK, off by default)
Mathematics	See Module Documentation for the hand-written documentation of these modules
Graph	Graph algorithms and partitioning (BFS, DFS, RCM, METIS, SCOTCH)
Tensor	Fourth-order tensor helper
Quaternion	Quaternion value type for 3D rotations
Spline	Spline interpolation
Optimizer	NLOPT-backed bound-constrained minimisation
Homology	Cohomology algorithms, cut generation and theory
Finite Elements	See Module Documentation for the hand-written documentation of these modules
FEM Overview	How the finite-element modules fit together
FEM Kernel	DOF management, hanging nodes, assembly, time stepping and the nonlinear controller
Interpolation	Shape functions, integration points and Nedelec elements
IWG	Integral weak forms (Poisson, heat conduction, elasticity, time stepping)
Maxwell	Electromagnetics: h-phi formulation, thin shells, HTS, cohomology cuts
Thermal	Transient heat conduction and the magneto-thermal coupling belfem selects for a thermal deck
Postprocessing	Mesh-level postprocessing: volumes, surfaces, normals, gradients, mesh checks
Physics and Circuits	See Module Documentation for the hand-written documentation of these modules
Materials	Material property framework (pure metals, HTS, alloys, user-defined)
Database	Precomputed lookup tables on tensor grids
Gas Models	Equation-of-state and transport models
Gas Tables	Tabulated thermophysical property data
Circuit	Lumped-element circuit simulator coupled to the FEM problem
Executables	Belfem and the material, gas and db2exo tools, with their command-line interface