deal.II Authors

deal.II is a global project. It is run by a group of principal developers. Former developers with significant contributions in the past who are no longer active, are listed under developers emeriti. A subset of the active developers are administrators and responsible for the upkeep of the technical infrastructure such as the website, discussion forums, and other pieces. Finally, a large number of contributors have provided substantial patches over the years. These groups are listed below. If necessary, you can contact the project administrators.

Principal developers

Developers emeriti

  • Denis Davydov
  • Ralf Hartmann, DLR, Germany
  • Guido Kanschat, Heidelberg University, Germany
  • Toby D. Young, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Administrators

Contributors

Many people have contributed to deal.II over the years, many of them very substantial parts of the library. Their work is greatly appreciated: no open source project can survice without a community! The following people (in alphabetical order) have contributed to the library, with many more who have sent in fixes and small enhancements:

  1. Africa, Pasquale
  2. Aggarwal, Ashna
  3. Alexe, Mihai
  4. Allmaras, Moritz
  5. Alrashed, Fahad
  6. Alzetta, Giovanni
  7. Anderson, Michael
  8. Andrej, Julian
  9. Anselmann, Mathias
  10. Appel, Daniel
  11. Araujo Cabarcas, Juan Carlos
  12. Arndt, Daniel
  13. Arora, Rajat
  14. Babbar, Arpit
  15. Baker, Andrew
  16. Bangerth, Wolfgang
  17. Bardelloni, Mauro
  18. Barnafi, Nicolas
  19. Bentley, Alistair
  20. Bergbauer, Maximilian
  21. Bergstrom, Kirana
  22. Bezbaruah, Manaswinee
  23. Blais, Bruno
  24. Blank, Alexander
  25. Boddu, Vishal
  26. Bonito, Andrea
  27. Borelli, Marco
  28. Brands, Benjamin
  29. Bruna-Rosso, Claire
  30. Bucelli, Michele
  31. Budde, Till
  32. Bürg, Markus
  33. Burnell, John
  34. Bzowski, Krysztof
  35. Cai, Yong-Yong
  36. Calhoun-Lopez, Marcus
  37. Campos, Lucas
  38. Carnes, Brian
  39. Castanon Quiroz, Daniel
  40. Castellanos, David F.
  41. Castelli, Fabian
  42. Cavallini, Nicola
  43. Cazamias, Jordan
  44. Chandrashekar, Praveen
  45. Cheng, Jie
  46. Chen, Huimin
  47. Christopher, Joshua
  48. Christov, Ivan
  49. Chuang, Pi-Yueh
  50. Chueh, Chih-Che
  51. Cinatl, Emma
  52. Clevenger, Thomas C.
  53. Comellas, Ester
  54. Cosburn, Katherine
  55. Cox, Sam
  56. Cui, Cu
  57. Dannberg, Juliane
  58. Das, Sambit
  59. Davis, Andrew
  60. Davydov, Denis
  61. Dejene, Elias
  62. Demo, Nicola
  63. Dev, Chaitanya
  64. developers, Ginkgo
  65. Di Ilio, Giovanni
  66. Dominici, Stefano
  67. Dommaraju, Nivesh
  68. Dong, Brett
  69. Do-Quang, Minh
  70. Drzycimski, Kevin
  71. Dugan, Kevin
  72. El Geitani Nehme, Toni
  73. Emishaw, Luel
  74. Engelhard, Marco
  75. Esser, Patrick
  76. Evgrafov, Anton
  77. Feder, Marco
  78. Fehling, Marc
  79. Fehn, Niklas
  80. Fernando, Isuru
  81. Fildes, Rebecca
  82. Fink, Andreas
  83. Foucart, Corbin
  84. Fraters, Menno
  85. Friedlein, Johannes
  86. Frohne, Jörg
  87. Fuchs, Anian
  88. Fuchs, Sebastian
  89. Fumagalli, Ivan
  90. Galindo, Andres
  91. Garcia-Sanchez, Daniel
  92. Gassmoeller, Rene
  93. Gedicke, Joscha
  94. Geenen, Thomas
  95. Genet, Martin
  96. Gerault, Melanie
  97. Ghesmati, Arezou
  98. Giuliani, Nicola
  99. Gleeson, Brandon
  100. Glerum, Anne
  101. Goering, Christoph
  102. Goll, Christian
  103. Gonzalez-Pintor, Sebastian
  104. Gopalakrishnan, Krishnakumar
  105. Grayver, Alexander
  106. Grove, Ryan
  107. Gruber, Felix
  108. Guevremont, Olivier
  109. Guignard, Diane
  110. Hamed, Maien
  111. Hanophy, Joshua
  112. Harbour, Logan
  113. Harmon, Jake
  114. Harmon, Michael
  115. Harper, Graham
  116. Hassan, Mohammed
  117. Hayes, Nicole
  118. He, Bang
  119. Heien, Eric
  120. Heiniger, Christoph
  121. Heinz, Johannes
  122. Heister, Timo
  123. Heltai, Luca
  124. Herbst, Michael F.
  125. Hu, Jiuhua
  126. Ilangovan, Dakshina
  127. Imbert-Gerard, Lise-Marie
  128. Imfeld, Samuel
  129. Ingimarson, Sean
  130. Janssen, Bärbel
  131. Jayadharan, Manu
  132. Jazi, Armin Ghajar
  133. Jia, Pengfei
  134. Jin, Xing
  135. Jodlbauer, Daniel
  136. Kaessmair, Stefan
  137. Kajan, Marie
  138. Kammer, Christoph
  139. Kanschat, Guido
  140. Kauffman, Justin
  141. Kayser-Herold, Oliver
  142. Kenchan, Vishal
  143. Kergassner, Andreas
  144. Khattatov, Eldar
  145. Kim, Seungil
  146. Kinnewig, Sebastian
  147. Kirk, Benjamin Shelton
  148. Klewinghaus, Angela
  149. Kligge, Ingo
  150. Knieps, Alexander
  151. Köcher, Uwe
  152. Kokomov, Alex
  153. Kopp, Joachim
  154. Kormann, Katharina
  155. Korous, Lukas
  156. Kosakian, Aslan
  157. Kosik, Adam
  158. Kourakos, Giorgos
  159. Krehel, Oleh
  160. Kremitzki, Kurt
  161. Kronbichler, Martin
  162. Kuberry, Paul
  163. Kumar, Paras
  164. Kumor, Dustin
  165. Kynch, Ross
  166. Ladutenko, Konstantin
  167. Lata, Charu
  168. Lebrun-Grandie, Damien
  169. Lee, Adam
  170. Leicht, Tobias
  171. Lei, Wenyu
  172. Lei, Zhou
  173. Ligneul, Tulio
  174. Li, Yan
  175. Ljungkvist, Karl
  176. Mahadevan, Vijay
  177. Maier, Matthias
  178. Mang, Katrin
  179. Manigrasso, Cataldo
  180. Markowski, Mae
  181. Martin, Alberto F.
  182. Massing, Andre
  183. Matthews, Jonathan
  184. McBride, Andrew
  185. Meggendorfer, Stefan
  186. Mentler, Mathias
  187. Michoski, Craig
  188. Milicchio, Franco
  189. Miller, Scott
  190. Mobley, Phillip
  191. Mola, Andrea
  192. Morales Miranda, Adriana
  193. Much, Nils
  194. Müller, Helmut
  195. Munch, Peter
  196. Munoz Criollo, Jose Javier
  197. Myhill, Bob
  198. Nauber, Stefan
  199. Nayak, Pratik
  200. Neckels, David
  201. Nikolic, Dragan
  202. Novak, Emily
  203. O'Connor, Justin
  204. Omosebi, Omotayo
  205. Ospina, Santiago
  206. Ozeritskiy, Alexey
  207. Palkar, Vaibhav
  208. Patty, Spencer
  209. Pauen, Judith
  210. Paukner, Daniel
  211. Pauletti, M. Sebastian
  212. Pelteret, Jean-Paul
  213. Pereira, Rebecca
  214. Perry-Houts, Jonathan
  215. Peschka, Dirk
  216. Philipp, Jan
  217. Pitt, Jonathan
  218. Pitton, Giuseppe
  219. Porter, Geneva
  220. Posada, Fernando
  221. Potluri, Vachan
  222. Powell, Adam, IV
  223. Pratoori, Raghunandan
  224. Prieto Saavedra, Laura
  225. Prill, Florian
  226. Proell, Sebastian
  227. Puchert, Simon
  228. Puckett, E. Gerry
  229. Putz, Andreas
  230. Qiao, Lei
  231. Qin, Ce
  232. Quezada de Luna, Manuel
  233. Rapson, Michael
  234. Rastak, Reza
  235. Richter, Roland
  236. Richter, Thomas
  237. Rishin, Gennadiy
  238. Robey, Jonathan
  239. Rodriguez, Angel
  240. Roman, Jose E.
  241. Romero, Irabiel
  242. Rose, Ian
  243. Roth, Julian
  244. Rudraraju, Shiva
  245. Russell, Matthew
  246. Sabharwal, Mayank
  247. Salgado-Gonzalez, Abner
  248. Samii, Ali
  249. Sanchez-Vizuet, Tonatiuh
  250. Sartori, Alberto
  251. Schneebeli, Anna
  252. Schneider, David
  253. Schoeder, Svenja
  254. Schoof, Raphael
  255. Schrage, Jan
  256. Schreter, Magdalena
  257. Schulz, Ralf B.
  258. Schussnig, Richard
  259. Shapero, Daniel
  260. Sharma, Natasha S.
  261. Sheldon, Jason
  262. Shi-Dong, Doug
  263. Shields, Ben
  264. Simon, Konrad
  265. Soldner, Dominic
  266. Sonner, Florian
  267. Sparks, Stephanie
  268. Stadler, Michael
  269. Stark, Sebastian
  270. Stebel, Jan
  271. Steigemann, Martin
  272. Sticko, Simon
  273. Suttmeier, Franz-Theo
  274. Sutton, Oliver
  275. Talavatifard, Habib
  276. Tao, Zhen
  277. Tezzele, Marco
  278. Thiele, Jan Philipp
  279. Thompson, Ben
  280. Tian, Jihuan
  281. Tidke, Malhar
  282. Tomas, Ignacio
  283. Trophime, Christophe
  284. Tro, Sara
  285. Turcksin, Bruno
  286. Vanmaele, Ferdinand
  287. Vidal, Antoni
  288. Virk, Kuljit S.
  289. Virtanen, Heikki
  290. Wang, Jiaxin
  291. Wang, Kainan
  292. Wang, Yaqi
  293. Wang, Yuxiang
  294. Wang, Zhuoran
  295. Wei, Xiaoyu
  296. Wells, David
  297. Westerbaan, Peter
  298. Wetterauer, Sven
  299. Weygand, Daniel
  300. White, Joshua
  301. Wichrowski, Michał
  302. Wik, Niklas
  303. Witte, Julius
  304. Wollner, Winnifried
  305. Wülker, Christian
  306. Yang, Ming
  307. Yim, Jaeryun
  308. Young, Toby D.
  309. Yu, Feimi
  310. Zepeda Aguilar, Mario
  311. Zhang, Jiaqi
  312. Zhang, Wenjuan
  313. Zhao, Liang
  314. Zheng, Victor
  315. Zheng, Weixiong
  316. Zhou, Yuhan
  317. Zingan, Valentin

deal.II draws from some ideas which were first implemented in the predecessor library, DEAL, developed by Guido Kanschat, Franz-Theo Suttmeier, and Roland Becker. It has also benefitted from knowing about DiffPack, a library developed in Norway in the 1990s.