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<h1 class="short">ONELAB</h1>

<h1>Open Numerical Engineering LABoratory</h1>

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ONELAB is an open-source, lightweight interface to finite element software. It
is completely free: the default ONELAB software bundle contains the mesh
generator <a href="http://gmsh.info">Gmsh</a> and the finite element solver
<a href="http://getdp.info">GetDP</a>. Many other codes (free or not) can be
easily interfaced as well.
</p>

<h2>Getting started</h2>

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  <li>Download the ONELAB software bundle:
  <ul>
    <li>Desktop version for <a href="http://onelab.info/files/onelab-Windows64.zip">Windows</a>
      (<a href="http://onelab.info/files/onelab-Windows32.zip">32 bit</a>),
      <a href="http://onelab.info/files/onelab-Linux64.zip">Linux</a>
      (<a href="http://onelab.info/files/onelab-Linux32.zip">32 bit</a>) and
      <a href="http://onelab.info/files/onelab-MacOSX.dmg">MacOS</a>
    <li>Mobile version for <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.geuz.onelab">Android</a> and
      <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onelab/id845930897">iOS</a>
    <li><a href="http://onelab.info/files/onelab-source.zip">Source code</a>
  </ul>
  <li>Launch the app <img src="http://geuz.org/gmsh/gallery/icon.png" height=20px>
  <li>Open a model:
  <ul>
    <li>Desktop version: go to the <code>File/Open</code> menu and select a
    GetDP <code>.pro</code> file,
    e.g. <code>models/Magnetometer/magnetometer.pro</code>
    <li>Mobile version: select one of the preloaded models
  </ul>
  <li>Press <code>Run</code>
  <li>... then explore  
    <a href="http://gitlab.onelab.info/doc/models/wikis">other models</a>, or
    learn how to create your own with 
    <a href="http://gitlab.onelab.info/doc/tutorials/wikis">the tutorials</a>
</ol>

<h2>Additional information</h2>

<p>
  ONELAB can interface finite element and related software (<em>ONELAB
    clients</em>) in two ways:
</p>
<ol>
  <li>By directly embedding the ONELAB C++ library or the ONELAB Python
    module. This is what <a href="http://getdp.info">GetDP</a> (a finite element
    solver for electromagnetism, heat transfer, acoustics and generic
    PDEs), <a href="http://gmsh.info">Gmsh</a> (a mesh generator and
    post-processor (Gmsh also plays the role of ONELAB server) and Onelab/Mobile
    (GetDP and Gmsh
    on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onelab/id845930897">iPhone,
      iPad</a>
    and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.geuz.onelab">Android</a>)
    do. Any C++ and Python code can do the same.
  <li>By preprocessing the input files of any software. The different steps of a
    simulation (meshing, solving, post-processing) are then controlled by a
    python script. <a href="https://www.csc.fi/web/elmer">Elmer</a>,
    <a href="https://www.openfoam.com/">OpenFOAM</a>,
    <a href="https://www.code-aster.org/">Code_Aster</a>,
    <a href="https://www.3ds.com/fr/produits-et-services/simulia/produits/abaqus">Abaqus</a>
    or <a href="http://www.calculix.de">CalculiX</a> can for example be readily
    interfaced this way.
</ol>
<p>
  The ONELAB interface allows to call such clients and have them share
  parameters and modeling information.  The implementation is based on a simple
  client-server model, with a server-side database, an (optional) graphical
  front-end, and local or remote clients communicating in-memory or through
  TCP/IP sockets. Contrary to most available solver interfaces, the ONELAB
  server has no <em>a priori</em> knowledge about any specifics (input file
  format, syntax, ...) of the clients. This is made possible by having any
  simulation preceded by an analysis phase, during which the clients are asked
  to upload their parameter set to the server. The issues of completeness and
  consistency of the parameter sets are completely dealt with on the client
  side: the role of ONELAB is limited to data centralization, modification and
  re-dispatching.
</p>
<p>
  See the <a href="http://gitlab.onelab.info/doc/tutorials/wikis">tutorials</a>
  for examples.
</p>

<h2>Sponsors</h2>

<p>
  The ONELAB project was funded by the Walloon Region under
  <a href="http://recherche-technologie.wallonie.be/projets/index.html?IDD=17018">WIST3
    grant n° 1017086</a> and <em>Fonds de maturation</em> grant n° 1217742
  (AWE), and was sponsored by <a href="http://www.gdtech.eu">GDTech</a>
  and <a href="http://www.audaxis.com">Audaxis</a>. Additional funding has
  been provided by <a href="http://www.belspo.be">the Belgian Science
    Policy</a> under grant IAP P7/02.
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