Release of v0.3 (Prometheus)
We are happy to announce that Ikarus has made it to version 0.3. In this version, some new features are added, and maintenance-related fixes have been done by us (Tarun and Alex). We are moving forward to the first version (v1.0) release, and we consider v0.3 to be a bigger milestone.
As this is the first blog, we would like to start by sharing the thoughts behind the reasons for creating Ikarus. Being researchers ourselves, we found it motivating to have an independent code for investigating various aspects of computational mechanics. On that note, we proceeded with the finite element approach to implement a generic code for solving partial differential equations, which was inspired by generic algorithms. Consequently, Ikarus was born, granting us the wings to perform intensive research in this field. It is basically a C++ library, providing several features to carry out finite element analysis.