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Elmer installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Mar 5 19:57:13 2007
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:57:10 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed Elmer on Athena for Sun and Linux. Elmer is a
multiphysics/Finite Element application capable of solving problems
that can be described by partial differential equations in fields such
as fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, heat
transfer and acoustics. It includes a front end, solver and
post-processor, and can import data from a variety of commerical
finite-element applications.
The basics for running it are:
add elmer
ElmerFront (to run front end)
ElmerSolver (in a dir containing a .sif model file, to run solver)
ElmerPost (to run post-processor- needs .ep file created by solver)
but the application is large and complex, with many components; you
really need to consult the documentation (starting from
http://web.mit.edu/elmer_v5.3/doc) and tutorials (tutorial files are
in the /mit/elmer_v5.3/tutorials_files directory in the elmer_v5.3 locker)
to get a feel for how it works.
There is additional important information in the README.athena file at the
top of the elmer_v5.3 locker.
Alex
