KFE is a library generating symbolic finite elements following a specification presented at the
NAFEMS americas conference in June 2016 (https://www.nafems.org/2016/americas/agenda/) .
Examples of finite elements described by the specification are presented in the table below.
The program currently only supports only 2D finite elements for point-based evaluation
and generate symbolic stiffness matrices for 1D elements in 1D, 2D and 3D.
Finite element mathematics can be described by a triplet as follows:
- Geometry
- Functional requirements
- Function (scalar polynomials or vector polynomials)
and represented by the following SysML diagram.
