Welcome to the documentation of Ikarus¶

Ikarus is a C++-based library built within the finite element architecture. It originated at the Institute for Structural Mechanics at the University of Stuttgart.

This project tries to provide an easy-to-read and an easy-to-use finite element framework. It is heavily inspired by the finite element software DUNE, the book DUNE — The Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment, deal.II and Kratos. Furthermore, it directly uses several modules from DUNE.

The design of CI and the documentation were inspired by Autodiff and Kratos.

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Ikarus provides the tools to create one's own examples and rapidly prototype finite element solution algorithms. This is done by using template metaprogramming in C++ to write generic code, which is compiled for the example.