Ferrite-FEM/Ferrite.jl

Frontal solver example

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#839 opened on Nov 11, 2023

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It might be a fun project to implement a frontal solver to see where we are to develop specialized linear solvers. A starter should be the original paper by Irons [1] which contains a fortran code which we could port.

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[1] Irons, Bruce M. (1970). "A frontal solution program for finite element analysis". International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 2 (January/March): 5–32. Bibcode:1970IJNME...2....5I. doi:10.1002/nme.1620020104.

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Read Irons' paper and the Fortran code to understand the frontal solver algorithm. Examine the existing solver infrastructure in Ferrite.jl to see where to integrate.
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