Features
Feature Comparison for the Dune 2.4 Release Series
The following table shows a comparison of selected features between SGrid (deprecated), YaspGrid, and SPGrid:
| SGrid | YaspGrid | SPGrid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provides entities for codimensions | all | 0, dim | all |
| Can communicate on codimensions | none | 0, dim | all |
| supports superentity iterators for codimensions | none | none | all |
| Supported domains | ∏ [ai,bi] | ∏ [ai,bi]2 | ∏ [ai,bi] |
| Supports periodic boundary conditions1 | no | no3 | yes |
| Supports anisotropic refinement | no | no | yes |
| Coordinate type is a template parameter | yes | yes | yes |
Feature Comparison for the Dune 2.3 Release Series
The following table shows a comparison of selected features between SGrid, YaspGrid, and SPGrid:
| SGrid | YaspGrid | SPGrid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provides entities for codimensions | all | 0, dim | all |
| Can communicate on codimensions | none | 0, dim | all |
| supports superentity iterators for codimensions | none | none | all |
| Supported domains | ∏ [ai,bi] | ∏ [0,bi] | ∏ [ai,bi] |
| Supports periodic boundary conditions1 | no | no2 | yes |
| Supports anisotropic refinement | no | no | yes |
| Coordinate type is a template parameter | yes | no | yes |
1 in the sense of Appendix B of M. Nolte: Efficient Numerical Approximation of the Effective Hamiltonian, University of Freiburg, 2011
3 Since the 2.4 release, YaspGrid supports arbitrary tensor product grids.
3 YaspGrid supports periodic domains through a parallel approach