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pdnMesh is an automatic mesh generator and solver for Finite Element problems. It will also do post-

$Id: README,v 1.12 2004/12/04 05:33:13 sarod Exp $
pdnmesh
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A 2D finite element program. It can do the following
1)Mesh generation using Delaunay triangulation
2)Adaptive 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).
5)Generating Postscript output of the mesh and the contour.
6)Generating a data file of the mesh that can be used in any other 
  better finite element program


How to INSTALL?
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Please read INSTALL.

The operation of the program
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At command prompt, in Xwindows, type:
 pdnmesh -i your_input_file
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. Please read the documentation 
supplied for more information. If you have any questions, please post them to
    <[e-mail]>

If you have bug reports and patches, please send them to
    <[e-mail]>



Acknowledgements
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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.

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