Wolfgang Bangerth, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Colorado State University, and collaborator Timo Heister of the University of Utah have received $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue development of their open-source software library. called deal.II.
According to CSU’s Anne Manning, the deal. II software has a worldwide community of users and is now on version 9.0. Manning describes deal.II as a toolbox that provides the mathematical pieces for building custom simulations.
What sets deal.II apart, Manning says, is its utility as a research tool, flexibility for applications for which commercial software doesn’t exist, and its open source code supported by a community of coders, most of whom are volunteers.
So far, more than 1,100 scientific publications have resulted from using deal.II.
“It’s super fun to see that,” Bangerth said. “I would say that in the vast majority of cases, I don’t understand much about the field of a publication that uses our software.”
Bangerth and Heister previously received NSF funding for the project from 2011 through 2017, during which they grew the user base, provided training and updates, and taught workshops all over the world.
The new NSF funding will support a postdoctoral researcher and a graduate student to continue improving the software library, including scaling foundational features to make the entire package more self-sustaining, Manning said.
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