§ About

Medusa is an open source C++ implementation of many common meshless methods. It is developed by the Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory, Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI). The library has been actively used since 2015 and has been used in practical applications, such as for dynamic thermal rating in icing conditions. It has also been used in a joint project between JSI, Ghent University and University of Luxembourg on fretting fatigue analysis. More recently, it is also being used for Fluid flow in complex porous media, which is a project done in collaboration with University of Wrocław.

See the publications page for more details about citing, if you are using Medusa.

§ Contact

The official email of medusa library is medusa@ijs.si and the official website is this website, http://e6.ijs.si/medusa/. Get in touch: if you are using or tried to use Medusa, we would like to hear your opinion about the library. Feel free to contact the developers with any question regarding the library, examples, usage, etc.

The physical address of our laboratory is

§ Name and logo

The Medusa library is named after jellyfish, which reside in subphylum Medusozoa. Additionally, word “medusa” or similar derivatives directly refer to free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles in many roman and slavic languages.

The name represents the meshless aspect of the library, drawing a parallel between the lack of mesh structure in meshless methods and lack of solid support structure in jellyfish.

The logo of the Medusa library shows the solution of the Poisson boundary value problem $\nabla^2u = 1, u|_{\partial \Omega} = 0$ on the medusa-shaped domain, solved with our library.

The domain shape is available for download here and the logo in vector format is available here.

§ Contributors

Medusa library was started by Gregor Kosec in 2015 and is currently maintained and developed by Gregor Kosec, Miha Rot, Mitja Jančič and Andrej Kolar-Požun. Contributors in alphabetical order are:

• Adrijan Rogan
• Andrej Kolar-Požun
• Blaž Stojanovič
• Filip Strniša
• Gregor Kosec
• Ivan Pribec
• Jure Močnik Berljavac
• Jure Slak
• Maks Kolman
• Miha Rot
• Mitja Jančič
• Urban Duh

§ Bugs and errors

If you come across any bugs or notice other errors, please open an issue on Gitlab. If you have any questions regarding the library, please email us at medusa@ijs.si.