[Getdp] Information about GetDP

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Lukáš Oliva wrote:
>   Hello to GetDP community,
> I am brand new user of Gmsh and GetDP and I have few questions about
> this interesting software. I read the documentation and few examples,
> but it is not very easy to cope with the scripting language for me.
> 
> 1) What is the bit length of basic type used by GetDP (how precious it
> is eg. integration).
> 

Everything is coded in double precision. That's (usually) not the
limiting factor in the accuracy of the methods though: I would advise 
you to read a little bit (or take a course) on the numerical analysis of
partial differential equations.

> 2) How the different numerical methods (finite elements, boundary finite
> elements) are programmed? Could it be programmed using that scripting
> language or is it necessary to use C (some else method, eg. Method of
> Moments)?
> 

In GetDP the weak formulation is written in a text file. You don't have
to program or compile anything unless you need some new numerical method
that is not implemented yet.



>   I would be gratefull for any information.
> 
> Lukas Oliva
> 
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Christophe Geuzaine
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Mathematics
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