This repository contains a Software Development Kit (SDK) for the FEMhub Online Laboratory (http://lab.femhub.org). Its purpose is to allow users to develop their own open source applications and make them available to many users of the Online Lab. While the SDK runs locally on your computer, the FEMhub Online Lab is powered with a powerful cloud.
- Install FEMhub using the instructions for developers http://femhub.org/devel.html/.
- Add the path to the femhub directory to your PATH.
In the directory of the femhub-online-lab/ type:
femhub -s spkg-installThis will install the Online Lab SDK in your local FEMhub.
Change dir to your local FEMhub directory and do:
./femhub lab(auth=False)Then open your browser (preferably Chrome or Firefox) at http://localhost:8000/. You should see a desktop-like setting with blue background and a few icons on the left.
Double click on the "Module Basic" icon. You should see a simple mesh editor with a preloaded mesh. Click "submit" and the tab should switch. Click "Run" and after approx. 4 seconds (most of which are needed to initialize Mayavi plotting), you should see a color map of computed solution. The equation that this module solves is
-mbox{div}(c_1 nabla u) + (c_2, c_3)cdot nabla u + c_4 u = c_5.
The piecewise-constant parameters c_1, c_2, ..., c_5 as well as the boundary conditions can be changed in the simple menu on the left.
It is possible to create such graphical application for every code that is in FEMhub. The only prerequisites are that the package has Python wrappers and that it is installed in FEMhub. The list of FEMhub packages can be found at http://femhub.org/codes.php.
The module Basic is written using the Hermes2D package. So in order to write a new module, first clone the git repository of Hermes2D using the instructions here: http://hpfem.org/hermes/doc/src/installation/linux.html. The C++ source files of the module Basic can be found in .../hermes/hermes2d/modules/basic/. In order to create a new module, in .../hermes/hermes2d/modules/ do:
cp -r basic/ my_module/Add the new directory my_module/ to CMakeLists.txt, descend to the directory my_module/, and change "basic.cpp" to "my_module.cpp" and "hermes_basic" to "hermes_my_module". Rename the files "basic.h" and "basic.cpp" to "my_module.h" and "my_module.cpp", respectively. The file "my_module.cpp" needs to be included in "main.cpp", so you need to change the name there as well. Now do "cmake ." in the directory hermes2d/, change dir to modules/my_module/ and type "make". Your new module should compile. Before adjusting it in any way you like, we recommend that you make its Python wrappers operational.
The python wrappers for the module Basic are in the directory .../hermes/hermes2d/hermes2d/modules/basic/. Do not edit anything in this directory. Instead, change dir to .../hermes/hermes2d/hermes2d/modules/ and type:
cp -r basic/ my_module/Make appropriate adjustments in the CMakeLists.txt file both in the burrent directory and in the subdirectory my_module/. Replace "basic" with "my_module" where appropriate. Go to hermes2d/ and type "cmake .", and then go to hermes2d/hermes2d/modules/my_module/ and type "make". If the compilation succeeds, you are ready to start developing your new module!
The source code of the Javascript GUI is located in the femhub-online-lab repository in the file ui/js/femhub/femhub.module-basic.js. Copy this file to femhub.module-my_module.js and adjust the names as appropriate. Icons ar elocated in ui/img/femhub/icons/. You will have to edit a few more files such as ui/css/femhub/femhub.icons.css and ui/templates/femhub/femhub.html. To test your GUI, go to item (3) at the beginning of these instructions, install the updated Online Lab SDK in FEMhub, run FEMhub, and launch the lab.
If you would like your application added to the FEMhub Online Lab at http://lab.femhub.org, send a message to the FEMhub mailing list femhub@googlegroups.com, and we'll take it from there!
The workflow is under development and so are these instructions. We'll improve them in near future.