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Differences between Matlab CALFEM and CALFEM.jl¶

• In CALFEM, the Edof matrix has an index representing the element number. This has been removed.
• CALFEM made some unfortunate choices in how they set up their matrices for dofs and coordinates. Both Julia and MATLAB use column major order which means that memory is stored column by column. We therefore also want to store for example the dofs for an element in a column. The concrete effect of this is that the following matrices are transposed in CALFEM.jl: Edof, Ex, Ey, Ez, Dof, Coord. The dofs for element k is therefore computed by Edof[:, k] instead of like in MATLAB Edof(k, 2:end).
• Some functions in CALFEM can compute a quantity for many elements at a time. In JuAFEM, you need to loop over the elements and call the function on each separate element.

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