Building

To build the adapter, follow the steps below:

1. Download and compile deal.II (version 9.1 is known to work). A detailed installation instruction is given in the installation section of the deal.II webpage. If you are familiar with CMake and want to stay in sync with the recent development version, you can clone directly the git repository and follow the steps in the README there.

2. Download and compile preCICE. A detailed installation instruction is given in the building section of the preCICE wiki. On debian-like systems, you could directly download and install debian packages.

3. Build the dealii-adapter: First, clone this git repository

   git clone https://github.com/precice/dealii-adapter.git .
   

   Building is similar to the example programs, run

   cmake -DDEAL_II_DIR=/path/to/deal.II .

   for configuration, where DEAL_II_DIR points to your installation (not source) directory. If you have set the variable DEAL_II_DIR globally, you could skip it in the command above. Afterwards, run make to build the adapter. By default, the adapter is built in debug mode. If you want to build a release version, use make release.

To run the deal.II adapter, copy the executable and parameter file (parameters.prm) in your target directory, e.g. Solid. Afterwards, create an output directory called dealii_output, where this programs stores its simulation result files, and run the executable by:

./coupled_elasto_dynamics path/to/parameters.prm

Example cases can be found in the tutorial cases for deal.II coupled with OpenFOAM.