README.FEM

NFT-2.1 includes support for Finite Element Method using the METU-FP toolkit. 

The METU-FEM solver uses the PetSc framework for parallel numerical computation.
It is hard to prepare and distribute portable binaries that use PetSc.

In order to have FEM support, you will have to download and build the
METU-FEM package. You will also need TETGEN for mesh generation.


METU-FP:

  homepage: http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/metu-fp/

  installation: Compile the toolkit, and copy the generated executable,
                `forward` into the NFT-2.0/bin/ directory.

TETGEN:

  homepage: http://tetgen.org/

  installation: Compile tetgen and copy the generated 'tetgen' executable,
                into the NFT-2.0/bin/ directory.