FEniCS is organized as a collection of interoperable components that together form the FEniCS Project. A short overview of these components is given below. Further information can be found in the FEniCS Book and on the Launchpad page for each individual component.

Core components

DOLFIN

DOLFIN is a C++/Python library that functions as the main user interface of FEniCS. A large part of the functionality of FEniCS is implemented as part of DOLFIN. It provides a problem solving environment for models based on partial differential equations and implements core parts of the functionality of FEniCS, including data structures and algorithms for computational meshes and finite element assembly. To provide a simple and consistent user interface, DOLFIN wraps the functionality of other FEniCS components and external software, and handles the communication between these components.

Maintainers (in alphabetical order)

Johan Hake, Anders Logg, Garth N. Wells

Authors (past and present in chronological order)

Anders Logg, Johan Hoffman, Garth N. Wells, Johan Jansson, Ola Skavhaug, Kent-Andre Mardal, Martin Sandve Alnes, Johan Hake, Niclas Jansson, Johannes Ring, Kristian Oelgaard, Marie Rognes

For a full list of contributors, refer to the AUTHORS file found in the DOLFIN source tree.

FFC

One of the key features of FEniCS is automated code generation for the general and efficient solution of finite element variational problems. FFC (FEniCS Form Compiler) is a compiler for variational forms. It generates efficient low-level C++ code (UFC) from a high-level mathematical description (UFL) of a finite element variational problem.

Maintainers (in alphabetical order)

Anders Logg, Kristian Oelgaard, Marie Rognes, Garth N. Wells

Authors (past and present in chronological order)

Anders Logg, Marie Rognes, Kristian Oelgaard, Garth N. Wells

For a full list of contributors, refer to the AUTHORS file found in the FFC source tree.

FIAT

FIAT (FInite element Automatic Tabulator) supports generation of arbitrary order instances of the Lagrange elements on lines, triangles, and tetrahedra. It is also capable of generating arbitrary order instances of Jacobi-type quadrature rules on the same element shapes. Further, H(div) and H(curl) conforming finite element spaces such as the families of Raviart-Thomas, Brezzi-Douglas-Marini and Nedelec are supported on triangles and tetrahedra. Upcoming versions will also support Hermite and nonconforming elements.

Maintainers (in alphabetical order)

Robert C. Kirby

Authors (past and present in chronological order)

Robert C. Kirby, Anders Logg, Marie Rognes

For a full list of contributors, refer to the AUTHORS file found in the FIAT source tree.

Instant

Instant is a Python module that allows for instant inlining of C and C++ code in Python. It is a small Python module built on top of SWIG and Distutils. Instant is used by FFC and DOLFIN for just-in-time (JIT) compilation of variational forms and expressions.

Maintainers (in alphabetical order)

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Add list of Instant maintainers.

Authors (past and present in chronological order)

Note

Add list of Instant authors.

For a full list of contributors, refer to the AUTHORS file found in the Instant source tree.

UFC

UFC (Unified Form-assembly Code) is a unified framework for finite element assembly. More precisely, it defines a fixed interface for communicating low level routines (functions) for evaluating and assembling finite element variational forms. The UFC interface consists of a single header file ufc.h that specifies a C++ interface that must be implemented by code that complies with the UFC specification.

Maintainers (in alphabetical order)

Anders Logg, Martin Sandve Alnes, Garth N. Wells

Authors (past and present in chronological order)

Anders Logg, Martin Sandve Alnes, Kent-Andre Mardal, Ola Skavhaug, Hans Petter Langtangen, Garth N. Wells

For a full list of contributors, refer to the AUTHORS file found in the UFC source tree.

UFL

UFL (Unified Form Language) is a domain specific language for declaration of finite element discretizations of variational forms. More precisely, it defines a flexible interface for choosing finite element spaces and defining expressions for weak forms in a notation close to mathematical notation.

Maintainers (in alphabetical order)

Martin Sandve Alnes

Authors (past and present in chronological order)

Martin Sandve Alnes, Anders Logg, Garth N. Wells

For a full list of contributors, refer to the AUTHORS file found in the UFL source tree.

Additional components

ASCoT

Maintainers (in alphabetical order)

Marie Rognes

Authors (past and present in chronological order)

Marie Rognes

For a full list of contributors, refer to the AUTHORS file found in the ASCoT source tree.

Dorsal

Dorsal is a shell script that simplifies the installation of FEniCS on operating platforms that we do not support with prebuilt binaries. It does this by automating the process of fetching, compiling, and installing the various FEniCS sub-projects and their requisite dependencies on many different platforms.

Primary author and maintainer

Harish Narayanan

Major contributors (ordered by number of commits)

Garth N. Wells, Anders Logg, Joachim B. Haga, Johannes Ring, Roman Putanowicz and Ilmar Wilbers.

For a full list of contributors, refer to the file AUTHORS in the Dorsal source tree.

SyFi/SFC

Maintainers (in alphabetical order)

Kent-Andre Mardal, Martin Sandve Alnes

Authors (past and present in chronological order)

Kent-Andre Mardal, Martin Sandve Alnes

For a full list of contributors, refer to the AUTHORS file found in the SyFi source tree.

Viper

Viper is a minimalistic scientific plotter and run-time visualization module based on VTK. If installed, Viper provides built-in plotting for DOLFIN.

Maintainers (in alphabetical order)

Ola Skavhaug

Authors (past and present in chronological order)

Ola Skavhaug

For a full list of contributors, refer to the AUTHORS file found in the Viper source tree.