GrAL - The Grid Algorithms Library

Version 0.2, November 2001

The home page of GrAL is
http://www.math.tu-cottbus/~berti/gral

The author can be contacted at

See the file INSTALL for the installation procedure.

GrAL has been split into several modules, some of which have nothing to do with grids per se. See the file MODULES for a short description of the individual modules.

Many common makefile definitions and configuration settings have been factored out and can be found in the configuration module.

The documentation is available separately, but it can also be extracted from the sources. See the file INSTALL for details.
Please note that the documentation is still incomplete.

If you have questions, suggestions, found a bug, helpful criticism, or even want to contribute, do not hesitate to contact me!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The GrAL was developed during my work at the group Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computing (NMWR) at TU Cottbus, Germany, headed by Prof. Bader. Special thanks go to my colleagues, in particular Klaus-Dieter Krannich for porting to the SP-2 and many helpful criticism and discussions, and Klaus Schenk, who was the first user in the context of a Finite Volume solver for the 2D Euler equations.

I am grateful to my new employer
(C&C Research Labs, NEC Europe Ltd)
to allow me to continue work on GrAL.

FUTURE PLANS

The GrAL currently contains only a part of the components I have implemented. I am working on merging the following into GrAL (that means, modularizing and documenting it):

hierarchical grids and multigrid
grid refinement
simple FEM system (2D Poisson equation)
simple FV solver (2D Euler/Two-component Euler/Advection equation)