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Some personal experiences of things people may find complicated.

Installing Firedrake and PETSc from scratch: letting PETSc handle its own dependencies

16 Mar 2026

Debugging a misleading MUMPS error in PETSc: it was not about memory

10 Mar 2026

Generate cubic lattice structures using OpenSCAD

25 Sep 2024

Perform unit testing of Qt programs in GitHub Actions using Docker

30 Jul 2023

Build Qt inside a Docker container for GitHub Actions

09 Dec 2022

Weak (variational) formulation of Navier-Stokes equation

14 Nov 2022

High-performance computing: challenges of performance tuning and scaling of finite element models

27 Oct 2022

Generate volume mesh from a surface mesh using GMSH

27 Jun 2022

Use and import Python packages and modules inside ParaView (PvPython)

03 Jan 2022

Data visualizations inside a web browser using ParaView Glance

26 Sep 2021

Import 3D mesh files into FreeFEM - Part 1

31 Jul 2021

Separating different volume mesh blocks (regions) using FreeFEM

13 Jun 2021

Solving Stefan (moving-boundary) formulation of a diffusion problem - Part 3 - FreeFEM (C++) implementation

10 Apr 2021

Solving Stefan (moving-boundary) formulation of a diffusion problem using numerical and symbolic computing - Part 2

15 Feb 2021

Solving Stefan (moving-boundary) formulation of a diffusion problem using numerical and symbolic computing - Part 1

28 Dec 2020

Deriving weak formulation of partial differential equations

06 Nov 2020

Building OpenFOAM in a Conda virtual environment

18 Oct 2020

Using Conda as a build environment for Linux

10 Oct 2020

Flexibility of having multiple parallel instances of Linux using WSL

29 Sep 2020