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Structural Optimization with FEniCS and dolfin-adjoint
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Introduction
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Sofa, *Structural Optimization with FEniCS and dolfin-adjoint*, is a compilation of tutorials and examples used for the authors' research in Solid Mechanics. 

`FEniCS <https://fenicsproject.org/>`_  is used to solve the PDEs in Solid Mechanics and `dolfin-adjoint <http://www.dolfin-adjoint.org/>`_ automatically computes the adjoint derivative of the objective function. For a nice introduction to FEniCS, refer to `The FEniCS Tutorial <https://fenicsproject.org/tutorial/>`_. For an application of FEniCS to Solid Mechanics, refer to `The FEniCS Book <https://fenicsproject.org/book/>`_ Chapters 26 & 27 and `Numerical Tours of Computational Mechanics with FEniCS <https://comet-fenics.readthedocs.io>`_.


About the authors
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Luis Santos is a PhD Candidate in the `Department of Mechanical Engineering <https://enme.umd.edu/>`_ at the University of Maryland, College Park. 

Raphael Pedersen is an undergraduate student also in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at `University of Maryland\, College Park <https://umd.edu/>`_ .


Contents
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   fenics_region_selector   
   fenics_intro
   basic_optimization


Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`