pyOptFEM is a Python module which aims at measuring and comparing the performance of three programming techniques for assembling finite element matrices in 2D and 3D. For each of the matrices studied, three assembly versions are available: base, OptV1 and OptV2

Three matrices are currently implemented : Mass matrix, Stiffness matrix and Elastic stiffness matrix.

More details are given in html or pdf documentations :

• http://www.math.univ-paris13.fr/~cuvelier/software/docs/Software/FEM/pyOptFEM/VERSION/pyOptFEM_VERSION.pdf
• http://www.math.univ-paris13.fr/~cuvelier/software/docs/Software/FEM/pyOptFEM/VERSION/html/index.html

1. Requirements pyOptFEM works on Python3 or Python2 and needs numpy, scipy, sympy and matplotlib modules.

2. Testing and Working

• Python 3.3.2 under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (x86_64) with 16Go RAM and :
  • numpy (1.7.1)
  • scipy (0.12.0)
  • sympy (0.7.3)
  • matplotlib (1.3.0)
• Python 2.7.5 under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (x86_64) with 16Go RAM and :
  • numpy (1.7.1)
  • scipy (0.12.0) or (0.13.0)
  • sympy (0.7.1) or (0.7.1)
  • matplotlib (1.3.0) or (1.3.1)
• Python 2.7.5 under Windows 7 (64bit), Anaconda 1.7.0 distribution (http://continuum.io/downloads) with 4Go RAM and :
  • numpy (1.7.1)
  • scipy (0.12.0)
  • sympy (0.7.3)
  • matplotlib (1.3.0)