tjhei/dealii-p4est-tutorial

Example repository for the 2020 p4est&deal.II tutorial

deal.II - p4est Tutorial

This is the example repository for the 2020 p4est&deal.II tutorial. The goal is to teach basics about the deal.II library and how it interfaces with p4est. For more information, please see the tutorial website at http://www.p4est.org/school.html.

Recordings

The lectures, demos, and Q&A are now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xjCsXnfYI

Prerequisites

To run the examples you will need:

• deal.II version 9.2.0 or newer
• installed with dependencies p4est, Trilinos or PETSc
• ParaView to visualize solutions

Ways to run the tutorials:

1. VirtualBox image at https://www.math.clemson.edu/~heister/dealvm/
2. Docker images at https://github.com/dealii/docker-files (if you are experienced with using Docker)
3. A manual installation, see deal.II download page

Additional Resources

Some useful resources to study:

• https://www.dealii.org/ - The main website of deal.II
• deal.II tutorials - Tutorials and Code documentation
• The original deal.II and p4est paper (preprint)
• Wolfgang's video lectures

The tutorials

1. step-2/ Meshes and Finite Element spaces - slightly modified deal.II step-2
2. step-amr/ Parallel Mesh Refinement with p4est - a new program
3. step-40/ Solve Laplace in parallel - slightly modified deal.II step-40
4. Take a look at deal.II step-50: large-scale matrix-free geometric multigrid.