Re: GSOC 2013 - FEM LIBRARY

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Marco Vassallo
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> my name is Marco and I'm working on the implementation of a Finite Elelment
> Library.
> The idea is to create wrappers in Octave for Dolfin, which is the
> problem-solving
>  C++ environment of Fenics.
> Something similar has been done for Python, but we want to go directly from
> Octave
>  to Dolfin instead of using the Octave interpreter for Python.
> So, first of all, I need to check the compatibility between Octave and
> Dolfin.
> I noted that, unfortunately, including in the same .h file both the Octave
> and
> Dolfin header file generates some error at compilation time because both
>  Octave and Dolfin define a class "Array". Does anyone encountered
>  a similar problem somewhere?
> Thus, as a first step, we want to write an Octave function for reading
> Dolfin mesh (.xml) and converting it into the Octave format. This function
> could be added to the msh package.
> I will try to keep you updated/discuss also on this blog
>
> http://gedeone-gsoc.blogspot.it/
>
> Marco V.

really cool, looking forward!