Elmer Documentation
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The Elmer documentation is constantly under development. The create date of the manuals is printed in the cover 
of the manuals. The manuals are not always quite up to date. Particularly the SolverManual is still not ready.


The current set of Elmer manuals is as follows

ElmerguiManual.pdf
        Manual of the Graphical user interface of Elmer. 
ElmerOverview.pdf
	Overview over the different Elmer software with a view on the different
	executables, modules, manuals and strategies.
ElmerSolverManual.pdf
	Manual gives an overview of the capabilities of the solver with an 
	emphasis on generic services provided by the solver.
ElmerModelsManual.pdf
	This manual describes the different physical models that are defined
	in independent subroutines. 
ElmerTutorials.pdf
	The tutorials of the Elmer software are basically just example files with documentation.
ElmerGridManual.pdf
	The Manual of ElmerGrid utility.
ElmerParamManual.pdf
	Tutorial of the parametrized interface of ASCII based I/O.	
MATCManual.pdf
	Manual over the matc language that is used in several Elmer modules.

There are also some files related to the above documentation. Unfortunately these may reflect older versions 
of the documentation.

ElmerTutorialFiles.tar.gz
	The Files related to the tutorials in a directory tree.
ElmerGridFiles.pdf
	Examples related to the ElmerGrid documentation.


In addition to these manuals there are separate documentation for some input interfaces (GiD) and
for visualization tasks (making animations). Look at the www-pages for more information on these
topics. 


The following documentation is no longer actively developed. However, some information may still be
best presented in them.

ElmerFrontUserGuide.pdf
	Manual for the old graphical user interface of Elmer. ElmerFront is not actively developed 
	and this might be the final documentation of the program. (updated 14.2.2002)

OldElmerUserGuide.pdf (or ps.gz)
	The original user guide of Elmer software (1999). Particularly some appendices may still be useful.

OldElmerTutorial.pdf (or ps.gz)
	A graphical user guide oriented tutorial of the Elmer software (2000). This was never really maintained.

DSMCManual.pdf
	Manual on the Elmer interface of the DSMC package which was once loosely coupled with Elmer.