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Steps to install Salome

Step 1: Go to the official website of Salome https://www.salome-platform.org/?page_id=15 and download the setup. Step 2: Right-click on the setup and select run as administrator. Step 3: The license agreement window appears on the screen. Select on the accept the agreement button and then select the next button. Step 4: After that, select the destination […]

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Steps to Install Gmsh

Step 1: Go to the official website of Gmsh https://gmsh.info/ and click on download Gmsh for windows. Step 2: The zip file of gmsh is downloaded. Unzip that zip file by clicking on it and selecting the extract button. Step 3: After extracting, right-click on the gmsh.exe button and select run as administrator. Step 4: […]

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Steps to install Cmder

Step 1: Go to the official website of cmder https://cmder.app/ to download the setup. Step 2: A cmder.zip file is downloaded. Unzip that zip file by right click on it and clicking on Extract to the “cmder\” button. Step 3: After unzipping the cmder.zip file, right-click on the Cmder.exe and click on the run as […]

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Steps to install Docker Desktop

Step 1: Go to the docker desktop official website https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/ and click on download docker desktop for windows. Step 2: Once the setup has been installed, then right-click on the setup and click on the run as administrator. Step 3: The docker desktop installation process is started. The configuration window appears on the screen, click […]

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Dolfin-x: An upgraded version of Dolfin

  FEniCSx is the new version of FEniCS that is currently actively developed. Dolfin-x is the computational environment of FEniCS and implements the FEniCS problem-solving environment in Python and C++. New features in Dolfin-x in addition to existing features of Dolfin include: Variational formulations with complex numbers support Support for quadrilateral and hexahedral elements Higher-order […]

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Built-in meshes in FEniCS

In FEniCS, we can either work with the inbuilt meshes or we can also import the mesh file generated in another pre-processing tool as a xdmf format. In order to create inbuilt meshes, firstly, dolfin module is imported as: Matplotlib library is used to display the mesh plots. The different types of inbuilt meshes in […]

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Boundary conditions in FEniCS

Boundary conditions (B.C.) are constraints necessary for the solution of a boundary value problem. A boundary value problem is a differential equation (or system of differential equations) to be solved in a domain on whose boundary a set of conditions is known. Boundary value problems are extremely important as they model a vast amount of […]

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