fem_io


fem_io, a Fortran90 code which reads or writes FEM files, which describe the nodes, elements, and function values associated with a finite element method (FEM) model;

The finite element model is assumed to include three items:

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

fem_io is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version.

Related Data and codes:

fem_io_test

fem_to_gmsh, a Fortran90 code which reads FEM files definining a 1D, 2D or 3D mesh, namely a file of node coordinates and a file of elements defined by node indices, and creates a Gmsh mesh file.

fem_to_medit, a Fortran90 code which reads a pair of FEM files defining node coordinates and elements, and creates a corresponding MEDIT mesh file.

fem_to_triangle, a Fortran90 code which reads FEM files defining a 2D mesh of triangles, namely a file of node coordinates and a file of elements defined by node indices, and creates a corresponding pair of node and element files for use by Jonathan Shewchuk's triangle code.

fem_to_xml, a Fortran90 code which reads FEM files defining a 1D, 2D or 3D mesh, namely a file of node coordinates and a file of elements defined by node indices, and creates a corresponding XML file for input to DOLFIN or FENICS.

fem1d, a data directory which contains examples of 1D FEM files, three text files that describe a 1D finite element model;

fem2d, a data directory which contains examples of 2D FEM files, three text files that describe a 2D finite element geometry;

fem2d_pack, a Fortran90 code which is useful for 2D finite element calculations.

fem3d, a data directory which contains examples of 3D FEM files, three text files that describe a 3D finite element geometry;

gmsh_to_fem, a Fortran90 code which reads a mesh data file created by the GMSH code and writes a pair of node and element files that correspond to the FEM format.

medit_mesh_io, a Fortran90 code which can read or write MEDIT mesh files, which can be used to define the geometry of a finite element mesh in 2D or 3D, using triangles, quadrilaterals, tetrahedrons or hexahedrons.

medit_to_fem, a Fortran90 code which reads a mesh file created by the MEDIT code and writes a corresponding pair of node and element files that correspond to the FEM format.

triangle_to_fem, a Fortran90 code which reads the NODE and ELE files created by triangle() to describe a triangular mesh, and writes a corresponding pair of node and element files in the 2D FEM format.

Reference:

  1. Hans Rudolf Schwarz,
    Finite Element Methods,
    Academic Press, 1988,
    ISBN: 0126330107,
    LC: TA347.F5.S3313..
  2. Gilbert Strang, George Fix,
    An Analysis of the Finite Element Method,
    Cambridge, 1973,
    ISBN: 096140888X,
    LC: TA335.S77.
  3. Olgierd Zienkiewicz,
    The Finite Element Method,
    Sixth Edition,
    Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005,
    ISBN: 0750663200,
    LC: TA640.2.Z54
  4. Daniel Zwillinger, editor,
    CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae,
    30th Edition,
    CRC Press, 1996,
    ISBN: 0-8493-2479-3.

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Last revised on 07 July 2020.