Overview

DUNE-FEM is a DUNE module which defines interfaces for implementing discretization methods like Finite Element Methods (FEM) and Finite Volume Methods (FV) and Discontinuous Galerkin Methods (DG). Please read the detailed concept description.

Research Topics

Stabilization of Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes for Convection Dominated Problems

Compressible Flow
Simulation of Fuel Cells
Adaptive Multiscale Algorithms
Simulation of Torrential Floods
hp-adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Methods

Latest News

dune-fem-1.2.1 Maintenance Release

We have just released the 1.2.1 version of dune-fem. It does not offer any new features or interface changes, but fixes various known issues of the dune-fem-1.2.0 release version.

Please go to the Download section, or click here to get the tar-ball [dune-fem-1.2.1.tar.gz] immediately.

A note for svn-users: To obtain the new 1.2.1 version, please update your existing repository via svn.

10.01.2012

DUNE Spring School 2011

Front and rear view on the numerical solution to a burgers type equation on the sphere.

April 11^th – 15^th in Freiburg

This one week course held in Freiburg will give an introduction to the DUNE core modules including the DUNE grid interface library, and the DUNE-FEM module.The course will focus on the numerical treatment of evolution equations of the form

∂_tU + ∇ · ( F(U) - D(U) ∇U ) + S(U) = 0

using continuous and discontinuous Galerkin methods. After an introduction to the DUNE grid interface and DUNE-FEM, the final third part of the course will highlight on the discretization of PDEs on surfaces (see movie).

23.03.2011

Features

Higher order Lagrange Finite Element and Discontinuous Galerkin methods
Explicit, implicit and IMEX Runge-Kutta methods
Parallelization with dynamic load balancing
Local grid adaptation (conforming and non-conforming)
ISTL, UMFPACK + additional internal linear algebra solvers available
Input/Output routines for VTK, Grape, and Gnuplot
Checkpointing

Contact

DUNE-FEM is developed by the groups of Prof. Dr. Kröner from Freiburg, Prof. Dr. Ohlberger from Münster, and Dr. Dedner from Warwick. The main developers are basically A. Dedner, R. Klöfkorn, and M. Nolte.