Welcome to Hermes

Thank you for your interest in Hermes!

Hermes is a C++ library for rapid development of adaptive hp-FEM and hp-DG solvers, with emphasis on nonlinear, time-dependent, multi-physics problems.

This document is organized as follows:

• Section 1 provides general information about Hermes and the computational methods it uses, and gives references to underlying scientific articles.
• Section 2 describes how to install Hermes on various hardware platforms, and how to install matrix solver packages and various optional packages.
• Section 3 explains how to use Git and Github, and how you can contribute to the project if interested.

This document is under continuous development. If you find bugs, typos, dead links and such, please report them to the Hermes2D mailing list.

Introduction

• About Hermes
• Hermes Documentation
• Mathematical Background
• Interactive Web Accessibility
• Citing Hermes

Installation

• Linux
• Mac OS
• Windows (Cygwin)
• Windows (MSVC)
• Installation of Matrix Solvers
• Installation and Updating of Cython
• Installation of ExodusII and NetCDF libraries

Collaboration

• How to Submit Your First Pull Request
• Editing Sphinx Docs

Tutorial and Examples

Tutorial and examples are in separate repositories. Before using them, make sure to install the Hermes library in your system:

sudo make install

To get the Tutorial clone:

git clone git://github.com/hpfem/hermes-tutorial.git

To get Examples, clone:

git clone git://github.com/hpfem/hermes-examples.git

Both repositores contain a folder doc/ with documentation. To build the documentation, type “make html” in that directory.