IFISS : a computational laboratory for investigating incompressible flow problems

Elman, H.C. and Ramage, Alison and Silvester, D.J. (2014) IFISS : a computational laboratory for investigating incompressible flow problems. SIAM Review, 56 (2). pp. 261-273. ISSN 0036-1445 (https://doi.org/10.1137/120891393)

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Abstract

The IFISS Incompressible Flow & Iterative Solver Software package contains software which can be run with MATLAB or Octave to create a computational laboratory for the interactive numerical study of incompressible flow problems. It includes algorithms for discretization by mixed finite element methods and a posteriori error estimation of the computed solutions, together with state-of-the-art preconditioned iterative solvers for the resulting discrete linear equation systems. In this paper we give a flavour of the code's main features and illustrate its applicability using several case studies. We aim to show that IFISS can be a valuable tool in both teaching and research.

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Elman, H.C., Ramage, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4709-0691 and Silvester, D.J.;
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