| FEniCS Project | |
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| Stable release | 0.9.0 (October 10, 2024; 16 months ago (2024-10-10)[1]) [±] |
| Operating system | Linux,OS X,Unix,WSL |
| Available in | C++, Python |
| Type | Scientific simulation software |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
| Website | www |
TheFEniCS Project is a collection offree and open-source software components with the common goal to enable automated solution ofdifferential equations. The components providescientific computing tools for working with computational meshes,finite-elementvariational formulations ofordinary andpartial differential equations, andnumerical linear algebra.[2][3]
The FEniCS Project is designed as an umbrella project for a collection of interoperable components. The core components are[4]
DOLFIN, the computational high-performance C++ backend of FEniCS, functions as the main problem-solving environment (in both C++ and Python) and user interface. Its functionality integrates the other FEniCS components and handles communication with external libraries such asPETSc,Trilinos andEigen for numerical linear algebra,ParMETIS andSCOTCH for mesh partitioning, andMPI andOpenMP for distributed computing.
As of May 2022,DOLFINx is the recommended user-interface of the FEniCS project.[5]
The FEniCS Project was initiated in 2003 as a research collaboration between theUniversity of Chicago andChalmers University of Technology. The following institutions are currently, or have been, actively involved in the development of the project
Since 2019, the core components of the FEniCS project have received a major refactoring.[7] resulting inDOLFINx.[8] DOLFINx supports many new features not available in the old DOLFIN interface, including: