[gsoc] PDE module -- Develop Partial Differential Equation module under Scilab

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 02/04/2012 17:20, Ehsan Eslamian wrote:
> Dear Sylvestre,
>
> Sorry for late reply, to be honest I haven't used Scilab products 
> before, I looked at links you sent, they are quite promising products, 
> the meshing capability which creates Delaunay mesh is very good but I 
> think we can improve GetFEM++ or FreeFEM. As you said There is no 
> point to start from scratch, especially when we have very limited time 
> to develop a code.
> As my background is more in fluid mechanics, we can improve fluid 
> dynamic capabilities of solver for example, by adding higher order of 
> accuracy to the N-S equations or add more turbulence model to it, but 
> it depends how you want to improve existing codes. What areas are you 
> interested to improve ??
I am not really interested by improving some other libraries. My main 
focus is to improve Scilab and its features...
I believe that our first priority should be to base development on 
already existing libraries...

> So it would seem very interesting project and I am passionate to work 
> on it, it has lots of thing for myself to learn.
> I have started to prepare the proposal, a bit tight deadline !!, but 
> hopefully I will submit it on time.
>
Good luck ;)

> Kind Regards,
> Ehsan
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Sylvestre Ledru 
> <sylvestre.ledru at scilab-enterprises.com 
> <mailto:sylvestre.ledru at scilab-enterprises.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Eshan,
>
>     Le dimanche 01 avril 2012 à 02:19 +0100, Ehsan Eslamian a écrit :
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     >
>     > I am Ph.D. student at Anglia Ruskin University(UK), working on CFD
>     > analysis of swirl flow inside nozzle, and I did my MSc on
>     Aeronautical
>     > Engineering at Queen Mary University.
>     > I have looked at your SoC projects, and I am interested about PDE
>     > module. I have wrote several numerical analysis code such as
>     > Rung-Kutta or Lagrange interpolation with C++ and python, also y a
>     > finite difference code for heat transfer with Matlab, but I am not
>     > sure that I am suitable for this project or not ??
>     Hey, why not :)
>     However, for PDE project, I would prefer improvements of the existing
>     ecosystem instead of a new design from scratch.
>     For example,
>     What is your opinion about extending:
>
>     http://wiki.scilab.org/Contributor%20-%20CGLAB%20module /
>     http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/cglab/
>
>     Improving the Scilab connector of getfem:
>     http://download.gna.org/getfem/html/homepage/
>
>     Update (redevelop) the freefem scilab connector:
>     http://wiki.scilab.org/Contributor%20-%20FreeFEM
>
>
>
>     S
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> -- 
> */Ehsan/*
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