DuMu^x course material

The material is organized as follows

• Exercises: click here to go to the exercise description
• Slides: click here to download the slides
• Links: click here to go to a list of useful links

Installation of the course

To get started with the course, you have two options. Depending on whether you already have DuMu^x installed or not, choose the one that fits your needs.

Install DuMu^x together with the course

The easiest way to install everything you need is to use the install scripts provided in DuMu^x, for instance, with this sequence of commands (you need wget and python3 (>= 3.5 and <= 3.10) installed):

wget https://git.iws.uni-stuttgart.de/dumux-repositories/dumux/raw/master/bin/installdumux.py
python3 installdumux.py --dumux-version 3.7 --dune-version 2.9
cd dumux
python3 dumux/bin/installexternal.py dumux-course --dumux-branch releases/3.7 --dune-branch releases/2.9
./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol bexec rm -r CMakeFiles CMakeCache.txt
./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol --opts=./dumux/cmake.opts all

If you don't have wget and don't want to install it, you can just manually download the installdumux.py script from the git repository.

Install the course into your existing DuMu^x project

If you already have an installation of DuMu^x, navigate to your DuMu^x root directory and then run the following commands:

python3 dumux/bin/installexternal.py dumux-course
./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol --opts=./dumux/cmake.opts --only=dumux-course all

This will download and then configure the course repository using dunecontrol. If there is an error with the build setup try deleting the CMake cache and reconfigure by running

./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol bexec rm -r CMakeFiles CMakeCache.txt
./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol --opts=./dumux/cmake.opts all

After this, you can start with the exercises.

Requirements

For a successful installation and the execution of all exercises, the following software packages are needed:

• gcc >= 9.3
• cmake >= 3.14
• git
• pkg-config
• paraview (to visualize the results)
• gnuplot (to plot some curves)
• wget (to download some config files during the installation)

For some excercises you might need UMFPack. UMFPack can be installed via Suitesparse. For instance on Ubuntu use apt-get install libsuitesparse-dev.

Troubleshooting

If installdumux.py script fails, the terminal output can be found in installdumux.log.

On a recent mac with silicon chip you may get an error similar to clang: error: the clang compiler does not support '-march=native'. In this case copy configure options file cmake.opts by running

cd dumux
cp dumux/cmake.opts mycmake.opts

In mycmake.opts delete the line containing -march=native \. Rerun dunecontrol using mycmake.opts :

./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol bexec rm -r CMakeFiles CMakeCache.txt
./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol --opts=mycmake.opts configure
./dune-common/bin/dunecontrol --opts=mycmake.opts make -j

Continue with the command mentioned above (from installexternal.py) but always use --opts=mycmake.opts for dunecontrol.

When was this course last updated?

Last updated for: DuMu^x course 2023.