Welcome

phyem is an open-source finite element library that bridges port-based thinking to numerics and enables LEGO-like simulations. The name, phyem, stands for

• Python

• port-Hamiltonian

• fem

• physics

It was initiated as a part of the ERC advanced project PortWings awarded to prof.dr.ir. Stefano Stramigioli.

Introduction

phyem is Python-shelled; users interact with it through Python scripts or in Python console (Python3 only). The library is made user-friendly such that only a basic level of Python programming skills is required.

Important

It has two major modules:

module	description	Environment
the mathematical kernel	It is for setting up the problem and the discretization theoretically.	Natural Python; it works with Windows, Linux or Mac.
implementations	The discretization is sent to one of the implementations. It uses a particular finite element setting, generates algebraic systems to be solved, and eventually gives results to be post-processed.	Depends on particular implementations; the msepy implementation is in natural Python.

In other words, they represent the theoretical and numerical aspects of the library, respectively. And the former is pure Python; while the later has Python shells and APIs to back-ends of different kernels to make fully use of resources in the open-access community.

Tutorial

The tutorial of phyem has four parts,

• About
• Installation
• Documentations
• Summary

More

More examples, demonstrations, explanations, etc., are available.

• Jupyter notebooks 🪐
• Gallery🖼

Contact & contributors

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• Contact
• Contributors

Error

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