$Id: README,v 1.13 2005/03/12 23:55:55 sarod Exp $
pdnmesh
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A 2D finite element program with special focus on electromagnetic 
 problems. It can do the following
1)Mesh generation using Delaunay triangulation.
2)Adaptive/Manual refinement of the mesh while solving.
3)Solving the problem using LU decomposition. LAPACK can be used
  to solve eigenproblems.
4)Full GUI support (GTK/GTKGLExt for UNIX, MFC for Win32). Can
  also run without GUI.
5)Generating Postscript output of the mesh/contour/gradient etc.
6)Generating a data file of the mesh that can be used in any other 
  better finite element program.
7)Performing integrations to calculate charge/flux on boundaries.


How to INSTALL?
===============
Please read INSTALL.

The operation of the program
============================
At command prompt, in Xwindows, type:
 pdnmesh 
Type 
 pdnmesh -h 
for help. Windows version runs in full GUI.

DXF files generated by CAD programs can be converted to pdnmesh 
input format.  Please read the tutorial for more information. 
If you have any questions, please post them to
    <pdnmesh-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

If you have bug reports and patches, please send them to
    <pdnmesh-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net>

Documentation
=============
The tutorial can be found usually at /usr/local/share/pdnmesh/tutorial/ 
or /usr/share/pdnmesh/tutorial/ but depends on where the program is installed.
Some examples can be found at /usr/local/share/pdnmesh/examples/ or
/usr/share/pdnmesh/examples/. Please point your browser to
http://pdnmesh.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ for the on-line tutorial.


Acknowledgements
================
1) Professor S.R.H.Hoole, a leading expert in  computational 
 electromagnetics,  for inspiration and guidance. 
2) For the red-black tree implementation, Thomas Neimann's article 
 and sample  code was helpful. Most other algorithms were referred 
 from Robert  Sedgewick's book on Algorithms.
3) Many other references were used (see tutorial).

More info
=========
For more information please visit http://pdnmesh.sourceforge.net/
