About Our Group

Our group is the leader in the development of adaptive higher-order computational methods for engineering and scientific problems described by partial differential equations (PDE). We care a lot about the fidelity of results, and thus error estimation and automatic adaptivity are an integral part of all our methods and software. 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.

Interested in Contributing?

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.

Our Conferences

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 :)