Skip to main content.

Open Source Projects

Online Lab, Hermes, FEMhub, Agros, Himg

Media Snapshots

Nevada News, Jan 2010
Nevada News, June 2009

Conferences

FEMTEC 2011, ESCO 2010, FEMTEC 2009, ESCO 2008
FEMTEC 2006

Open Positions

We have open positions for graduate and Ph.D. students to work on our projects, both at UNR and outside of the U.S. Read more...

Sample Computations


*
Interface tracking in two-component flow.

*
Microwave heating.

*
Resonances in Einstein-Bose gases.

*
Image compression with adaptive hp-FEM

About the hp-FEM Group

The hp-FEM group at the University of Nevada, Reno belongs to the leaders in the development, implementation, and dissemination of modern computational methods for engineering and scientific problems described by partial differential equations (PDE). All our work is freely available through open source projects (see links on the left-hand side).

The Online Numerical Methods Lab

It is our goal to make modern computational methods accessible easily and free of charge to anyone including students, researchers, and the general public. Therefore we are developing an interactive online lab. This is a place where anyone can learn and compute with a wide range of numerical methods ranging from elementary techniques such as interpolation or rootfinding to cutting edge advanced adaptive higher-order finite element methods. To use the online lab, one does not have to buy or install any software, or own a strong computer. Everything takes place inside the web browser. The online lab is accessible from regular computers or laptops, but also from PDAs, iPhones, etc.

We Are Looking for Collaborators

If you are interested in contributing to some of our projects, we are looking for help! You do not have to be expert in math or FEM since we deal with a variety of problems including web-based computing, interface design, wrappers, testing and documentation writing, etc. The easiest way to see what is going on is to visit our project pages and subscribe to a mailing list. The home page of every project contains a list of simpler projects and easy-to-fix issues that we need help with.

Conferences ESCO and FEMTEC

In order to increase in various engineering and scientific communities the awareness about modern adaptive higher-order computational methods, we organize two series of international conferences: European Seminar on Coupled Problems (ESCO) in Europe and Finite Element Methods in Engineering and Science (FEMTEC) in the U.S. - see the Events page for more details.

The Dark Side of FEM

Do not format your harddisk yet! If the science is not working, maybe it's art. Visit our art gallery Dark Side of FEM :)

Internal Links

hpFEM Group Activity
hpFEM.org Gitosis
hpFEM.org Buildbot
hpFEM.org HowTo Programming Style

Latest News

  • September 2010: Hermes1D, Hermes2D and Hermes3D merged into a single git repository Hermes.
  • Septeber 2010: New version of Hermes2D merged into upstream.
  • August 2010: New Online Lab launched!
  • July 2010: New version of H2D in progress in branch change.
  • June 28 - July 3: ESCO 2010 was a great success!
  • May 2010: Special issue of MATCOM dedicated to ESCO 2008 finally printed.
  • March 24 - 28, 2010: Visit of Dr. Christopher Kees (U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratory)
  • March 18, 2010: Plenary lecture for 160 people on scientific computing and the Online Lab on the occasion of the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS). The presentation (minus movies) is here.
  • Glen Hansen from INL visited in February 2010 and gave several lectures on JFNK and Trilinos. The computer codes he used are here.
  • Bill Mitchell from NIST visited in December 2009.
  • New paper The FEMhub Project and Classroom Teaching of Numerical Methods. In: Proceedings of SciPy 2009.
  • Summer 2009:
    • Agros2D was used by the group of A. Fejfar at the Institute of Physics in Prague to model electric behavior of crystalline structures (see presentation).
    • The Hermes and FEMhub projects were presented 9 times during summer 2009 (7 invited presentations). See the Publications section for PDF files.
    • Preparations for ESCO 2010 started, preliminary web page is here.
  • July 2009:
    Idaho National Laboratory (INL) grant to explore the potential of adaptive multimesh hp-FEM for nuclear fuel performance analysis.
  • June 2009:
    Major DoE grant for advanced multiphysics computer simulations of nuclear reactor processes - Nevada News press release here.