Revision as of 22:35, 7 June 2013

GetDP is a rather general open source finite element solver using mixed elements to discretize de Rham-type complexes in one, two and three dimensions. GetDP is developed by the ACE group from the Montefiore Institute at the University of Liège, and is released under the GNU GPL.

Getting started

ONELAB allows to use GetDP as a black-box solver: you don't need to know anything about finite elements or de Rham complexes in order to run your first simulations:

1. Download and uncompress the Gmsh/GetDP bundle for Windows64, Windows32, Linux64, Linux32 or MacOSX. (If you prefer you can of course also download and install Gmsh and GetDP independently.)
2. Double-click on the Gmsh executable (gmsh.exe
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   on Windows).
3. Load one of the GetDP models (.pro file) through the File/Open menu, e.g. magnet.pro for the Template:GetDPFile example.
4. Click on Run.
5. ... that's it!

• Magnet-1.png

  Launch Gmsh and load the GetDP model magnet.pro with the File/Open menu.

• Magnet-2.png

  Click on Run to launch a computation. You can change any parameter and then Run again!

Featured GetDP models

• Electric Machines
• Electromechanical Relay
• Magnetodynamics with cohomology conditions
• Multiple scattering with Sommerfeld ABC and with Perfectly Matched Layer (PML)
• Time reversal in free space

All GetDP models

Category:GetDP

How does it work?

ONELAB variables can be accessed directly in the .pro files through the usual DefineConstant syntax for defining default values:

DefineConstant[ x = 1 ];
DefineConstant[ x = {1, Label "My variable"} ];
DefineConstant[ x = {1, Label "My variable", Min 0, Max 50, Step 5} ]
DefineConstant[ x = {1, Label "My variable", Min 0, Max 50, Step 5, Path "Variables/input/"} ];