Section: Software and Platforms

Software and Platforms

Platforms

FreeFem++ , http://www.freefem.org/ff++/

FreeFem++ is a PDE solver based on a flexible language that allows a large number of problems to be expressed (elasticity, fluids, etc) with different finite element approximations on different meshes. There are more than 2000 users, and on the mailing list there are 430 members. Among those, we are aware of at least 10 industrial companies, 8 french companies and 2 non-french companies. It is used for teaching at Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Centrale, Ecole des Ponts, Ecole des Mines, University Paris 11, University Paris Dauphine, La Rochelle, Nancy, Metz, Lyon, etc. Outside France, it is used for example at universities in Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, there is a userguide FreeFem++ in japan), Spain (Sevilla, BCAM, userguide available in spanish), UK (Oxford), Slovenia, Switzerland (EPFL, ETH), China. For every new version, there are 350 regression tests, and we provide a rapid correction of reported bugs. The licence of FreeFem++ is LGPL.

Library for preconditioned iterative methods

In the project-team we develop a library that integrates the direction preserving and low rank approximation preconditioners for both approached factorizations and domain decomposition like methods. It will be available through FreeFem++ and also as a stand alone library, and we expect to have one version of this library available in 2014.