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Object oriented design philosophy for scientific computing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2002

Philippe R.B. Devloo  and
Gustavo C. Longhin
Philippe R.B. Devloo
Affiliation:
Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, UNICAMP, Brazil. phil@fec.unicamp.br.
Gustavo C. Longhin
Affiliation:
Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, UNICAMP, Brazil. phil@fec.unicamp.br.
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Abstract

This contribution gives an overview of current research in applying object oriented programming to scientific computing at the computational mechanics laboratory (LABMEC) at the school of civil engineering – UNICAMP. The main goal of applying object oriented programming to scientific computing is to implement increasingly complex algorithms in a structured manner and to hide the complexity behind a simple user interface. The following areas are current topics of research and documented within the paper: hp-adaptive finite elements in one-, two- and three dimensions with the development of automatic refinement strategies, multigrid methods applied to adaptively refined finite element solution spaces and parallel computing.

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Finite element methodobject oriented programmingadaptivitymultigridsubstructuring.

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ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Volume 36 , Issue 5: Special issue on Programming , September 2002 , pp. 793 - 807
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2002

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