Hello FEniCSx community, I am wondering what you think about MFEM. At first glance, it looks like a very powerful open source finite element software. Their website contains many examples, that are generally split between serial and multithreading. They don’t seem much more complicated than their F…

Just having a quick look at it, their weak form is constructed from predefined Integrator terms, MFEM - Finite Element Discretization Library . From my perspective that restricts the generality of the toolkit, making it harder to apply to a system that’s not already in the list. It also obfuscates…

Thanks and sorry, I do not want to spark anything impolite. I just wanted an objective comparison. If not by the devs then, by the users, like dparsons provided, his answer is very informative, to me at least.

I agree, I used MFEM for some time. I like C++ and, for me, the fact that MFEM is based on this language is not a drawback, it is almost a plus. But we were researching in new Galerkin schemes, some of them not simple at all (like those in GitHub - danielacos/Papers-src: Open source code used for t…

[image] rrgalvan: I agree, I used MFEM for some time. I like C++ and, for me, the fact that MFEM is based on this language is not a drawback, it is almost a plus. Note that DOLFINx is also based on C++ and has a Python interface. MFEM also has a Python interface, GitHub - mfem/PyMFEM: Python …

Comparison between FEniCSx and MFEM

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