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Index

.hdf5 file, 69 constructive solid geometry, 67

.pvd file, 45 contour plot, 137
.vtu file, 45 convergence rate, 132
.xdmf file, 69 coordinates, 123
coupled systems, 73
abstract variational formulation, 15 CSG, 67
advection–diffusion–reaction, 73 curve plots, 34
assemble, 64, 119, 120 cylinder flow, 65
assemble_system, 120
assembly, 119 Debian, 7
DEBUG log level, 67
backward difference, 38 deep copy, 81
boundary conditions, 92 degrees of freedom, 25, 29, 30, 129
boundary markers, 88 degrees of freedrom, 123
boundary specification (class), 88 dimension-independent code, 114
boundary specification (function), 21, Dirichlet boundary condition, 92
22 Dirichlet boundary conditions, 20
BoxField, 136 DirichletBC, 20
Docker, 6
C++ expression syntax, 22 dof to vertex map, 124
CellFunction, 88 dofs, 29
CFD, 56 DOLFIN, 3
channel flow, 60
chemical reactions, 73 editor, 7
Chorin’s method, 57 Eigen, 115
Circle, 102 elasticity, 50
code, 8 Emacs, 7
CompiledSubDomain, 91 energy functional, 130
components, 81 error, 28, 133

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error functional, 131 initial condition, 80

errornorm, 131 installation, 5
exact solution, 16 integration by parts, 13
exporting solutions, 27 interpolate, 40
Expression, 21, 32 interpolation, 41
expression syntax (C++), 22
Jacobian, 50
FacetFunction, 88 Jupyter, 19
fenicsproject, 6
FFC, 3 Krylov solver, 68, 115, 117
FIAT, 3 KrylovSolver, 121
finite element method, 9
finite element space, 20 Lagrange finite element, 20
flat program, 109 lhs, 41, 97
flux functional, 131 linear algebra backend, 115
ft01_poisson.py, 18 linear solver, 115, 117
ft02_poisson_membrane.py, 34 linear system, 64, 120
ft03_heat.py, 44 LinearVariationalProblem, 118
ft04_heat_gaussian.py, 46 LinearVariationalSolver, 118
ft05_poisson_nonlinear.py, 50 Linux, 5
ft06_elasticity.py, 54
Mac OS X, 5
ft07_navier_stokes_channel.py, 65
magnetostatics, 100
ft08_navier_stokes_cylinder.py, 73
MATLAB, 122
ft09_reaction_system.py, 80
Maxwell’s equations, 100
ft10_poisson_extended.py, 97, 117,
Measure, 104
127
Mesh, 19
ft11_magnetostatics.py, 107
mesh, 19
ft12_poisson_solver.py, 111
mesh generation, 102
function evaluation, 126
MeshFunction, 88
function space, 20
method of manufactured solutions, 16,
functionals, 130
48
FunctionSpace, 20
mixed finite element, 76
generate_mesh, 67, 102 mixed function space, 76
GNU/Linux, 5 MixedElement, 76
grad, 58 mshr, 3, 67, 102
multi-material domain, 87
HDF5 format, 69
heat equation, 37 nabla_grad, 54, 58
heterogeneous media, 87 Navier-Stokes equations, 56
near, 62, 85
implicit Euler, 38 Neumann boundary condition, 83, 92
incremental pressure correction scheme, Newton’s method, 50
57 nodal values, 29, 30, 129
infinite domain, 101 nonlinear problem, 46
info, 116 norm, 133
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numbering system of PDEs, 50

cell vertices, 30
degrees of freedom, 30 tensor, 51
terminal window, 18
P1 element, 20 test function, 13
packages, 7 test problem, 16
parameters, 116 TestFunction, 20
ParaView, 27 time step, 38
performance, 6 time-dependent expression, 41
Periodic Table of the Finite Elements, time-dependent problem, 37
20 TimeSeries, 69, 76
PETSc, 3, 115 tolerance, 23
plot, 25 trial function, 13
plotting, 25 TrialFunction, 20
Poisson’s equation, 11
postprocessing, 27, 127 Ubuntu, 7
preconditioner, 68, 115, 117 UFL, 3, 24
PROGRESS log level, 67 unit testing, 111
Progress, 67
project, 40, 128 variational formulation, 12
projection, 41 vector-valued functions, 54
Python, 8 VectorElement, 77
Python module, 111 VectorFunctionSpace, 54, 62
verification, 16, 65, 111
reaction system, 73 vertex to dof map, 124
Reynolds number, 60 vertex values, 29, 123, 124
rhs, 41, 97 Vim, 7
Robin boundary condition, 92 visualization, structured mesh, 136
rounding errors, 23 VTK format, 45

scaling, 55, 60 Windows, 5

scitools, 136
set_log_level, 67 XDMF format, 69
SLEPc, 122
source, 5
space dimensions, 114
split, 81
splitting method, 57
Spyder, 19
strain-rate tensor, 57
stress tensor, 51, 56
structured mesh, 136
subdomains, 83
surface plot (structured mesh), 137
SymPy, 48
sympy, 139
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