README.md

fenics_helpers

Little Helper classes that come up repeatedly when writing solvers in FEniCS

Installation

• via pip/pip3

> pip3 install --user git+https://github.com/BAMresearch/fenics_helpers.git

• via including it into setup.py of another project

# within setup.py 
setuptools.setup(
    name="your project",
    ...
    install_requires=["some", "packages",
    "fenics_helpers @ git+https://github.com/BAMresearch/fenics_helpers"],
    "more", "packages"],
    ...
)

• via conda (build for linux os and python version >=3.7)

> conda install --channel pdiercks fenics_helpers

Example: Local damage model

The local damage example illustrates the use of .boundary to conveniently select the boundaries like

bot = fh.boundary.plane_at(-10, "y") 
right = fh.boundary.plane_at(10, "x") 

and the adaptive .timestepping module.

Example stdout: