Dr John D. McKinley wrote:
> Dear Azadeh Hoor,
>
>
>>I am a student of geotechnical engineering. I want to write
>>a finite element program for a dam.I am looking for a
>>program of mesh generation in order to learn the procedure.
>
>
> Are you really sure you want to write an FE program, including
> the mesh generation software? If what you're interested in is
> solving a problem related to the geotechnics of a dam, have you
> looked at the free versions of either SAGE-CRISP or Geo-slope's
> suite of software? Both are cut-down versions of commercial
> packages, capable of modelling small problems, but they may be
> suitable if you're actually looking at the modelling and not
> the software development side of the problem.
>
> <http://www.crispconsortium.com/>
> <http://www.geo-slope.com/>
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> John D. McKinley
> ----------------------
> Dr John D. McKinley
> Lecturer in Environmental Engineering
>
I myself always encourage students to code a FE programme, at least once
in their life time, "to learn" as Azaded said. I subscribe to the dictum
(perhaps biased) that if you cannot code an algorithm, you don't
understand it. One thing you will discover is how programmers "cheat". :-)
I presume Azaded has searched a bit for the information and is asking
here for perhaps personal experience. I learnt a lot of mesh generation
stuff from Barry Joe's work and his F77 geompack is still available free
(gratis) for non-commercial use. It comes in source code and you can
study it to see the implementation.
URL -- http://members.attcanada.ca/~bjoe/
Hope this helps,
ST
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