New version of Hermes2D - 2.0 was just released

[Lukas Korous]

New version of Hermes2D - 2.0 was just released

http://www.hpfem.org/hermes/

Current release

Hermes 2.0 released on February 19th, 2013

• Rapid speedup of assembling and I/O
• Cleaner, better-documented code
• New way of testing, memory-leaks detection, speed optimizations
• More thorough exception-safe API
  
• Support for Microsoft Visual studio 2012
• Small tweaks and bugfixes
  

Features of Hermes

• Eight levels of automatic hp-adaptivity, all with arbitrary-level hanging node
• in spaces H^1, Hcurl, Hdiv or L^2.
  
• Database of around 30 time integration methods that can be switched instantly without altering the problem definition.
  
• Each physical field can
  
• lie in any of the spaces H^1, Hcurl, Hdiv or L^2
  
• be defined in its individual subdomain
  
• be discretized either using hp-FEM or hp-DG
  
• be discretized on its own mesh that evolves in time independently of meshes for other fields.
  
• Strong support for meshes with curved elements.
  
• Monolithic discretization via novel adaptive multimesh hp-FEM/hp-DG preserves all nonlinear physics on the discrete level.
  
• Assembling, solution and visualization parallelized via Open MP.
  
• There is a modern platform-independent engineering GUI to Hermes based on Nokia QT called Agros2D (http://agros2d.org).
• Hermes is available through the web browser in NCLab (http://nclab.com). Complete functionality is available via Python scripting. First interactive graphical modules are available for - linear elasticity, - electrostatics, - general linear second-order PDE.
  
• Interfacing to Trilinos and many matrix solver packages, exception-safe APi and other standard features are included

For more information, download, tutorial, and examples, visit http://hpfem.org/hermes/

With kind Regards,
Lukas Korous
Hermes2D development