Elmer FEM Course - Training
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Date: | 17.06.2015 9:30 - 18.06.2015 16:30 |
Location details: | - |
Language: | english-language |
lecturers: |
Peter Råback Thomas Zwinger |
Price: | - |
Elmer FEM Course is intended for persons with none or some prior knowledge of Elmer but some background on the solution of partial differential equations. The course will cover the use of Elmer through its graphical user interface, ElmerGUI. Also command-line operation of Elmer will be explained. The course will also include the basics of parallel computing and writing user subroutines with Elmer.
After the course the participants should be able to solve basic modeling problems themselves, modify them manually, and have basic knowledge on the general features of Elmer software.
Elmer FEM Course will be followed by a programming day that is intended for people who are working with their own developments.
DAY 1
- 9.00 Registration & Coffee
- 9.30 Session I: Welcome and Intro
An overview of the structure and capabilities of Elmer software is given. Also the graphical user interface ElmerGUI is demonstrated setting up a simple case. Finally instructions for the hands-on work will be given. - 11.00 Session 2: Hands-on session with ElmerGUI
The participants will go through simple exercices using ElmerGUI. Some of the cases can be chosen individually to best suite the profile of the participants (heat transfer, fluid dynamics, structural mechanics and electromagnetics). - 12.00 Lunch
- 13.00 Session 3: Hands-on session and structure of simulation
In this session we continue with the hands-on work of the previous session. We also explain the content of the Elmer files, the structure of Elmer simulation and demonstrate how to run Elmer cases from the command-line interface. - 14.30 Coffee
- 15.00 Session 4: MATC, and Pre- and Postprocessing
In this sessions we present MATC - the scripting language integrated with Elmer. We also discuss the diffrent pre- and postprocessing alternatives. - 16.30 End of Day 1
DAY 2
- 9.00 Session 5: Parallel computing with Elmer
The parallel computing principles and practices of Elmer is explained. This is demonstrated first on a PC and thereafter on a supercomputer platform. - 10.00-10.20 Coffee
- 11.00 Session 6: Programming with Elmer
In this session we demonstrate the programming practices of Elmer. User defined functions and custom solvers are explained and examples are shown. Also the creation of menu structures for user solvers is explained. - 12.00-13.00 Lunch
- 14.00 Session 7: Miscallenous topics & User problems
The last session can be tuned based on the wishes of the participants. The participants can continue to study some cases or we can go through some miscalleneous topics based on the interest of the audience new developments of Elmer in hybrid programming or Elmer capabilities for specific problems. - 14.30-15.00 Coffee
- 16.30 End of Course