LifeV Documentation

LifeV Tutorials and HowTos

Step-by-step instructions for performing specific tasks and lessons are found in our How-to section. This is a very valuable set of resources for all levels of LifeV users and developers.

This is an open wiki, so you can also help us by adding your own how-tos and tutorials!

LifeV Manual

The LifeV developer is the major repository of documentation. It includes installation, internals explanation and developing with LifeV.

• user-guide tgz format.
• developer-guide PDF format.

LifeV Coding Standards

To avoid chaos and promote consistency, readability and productivity, a few guidelines/rules are available on the Coding Standards Wiki page.

LifeV Doxygen

Below you will find the doxygen documentation of the current or older LifeV releases:

• Version 1.2.0

LifeV Flyer

We prepared a flyer for the FEM fair that will be held in Berlin June 4 and 5 2004. Click below to download it.

• English version (PDF format).
• German version (PDF format).

LifeV Talks

You will find in the Talks folder the materials presented in conferences or seminar about LifeV.

LifeV's Solver Packages Documentation

There are a few very good free software libraries like ParMetis, TRILINOS that are interfaced with LifeV. Click to see their documentation.

• ParMetis Users Manual (PDF format).
• Trilinos Overview A broad overview of Trilinos (PDF format).
• Trilinos User Guide A guide to new users of Trilinos (PDF format).
• Trilinos Tutorial A complete tutorial for Trilinos users (PDF format).

Misc Documentation

• Programming Techniques by Todd Veldhuizen
• Wrapping Fortran Codes
• Array class by Frédéric Hecht

LifeV Reports

Yearly LifeV report.

• PDF report for 2005