Roadmap for release 0.3.0

[nikoscham]

Following the release of version 0.2.0, this roadmap outlines the vision for FEAScript 0.3.0. The primary focus of this release is a major architectural shift toward code efficiency and modularity.

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Physical Modelling

• 2D Navier-Stokes equations: Full implementation of the steady-state and transient solvers, building upon the Stokes solver developed in 0.2.0.
• Young-Laplace equation: Add support for modeling capillary hydrostatics.

Geometry & Meshing

• Add support for triangular elements: Transition from quadrilateral meshes to support more complex, unstructured 2D domains (see the issue here).
• Add mesh import support for the WASM version of Triangle (originally developed by Jonathan Shewchuk). This will allow mesh generation and case execution entirely in the browser (or in Node.js).

Numerical Solution & Performance

• Universal frontal solver integration: Standardize the usage of the frontal solver across all physical models to optimize memory usage.
• Code optimization: General refactoring to improve execution speed. Possibly using the stdlib library for optimizing the code.

Visualization

• vtk.js integration: Implement vtk.js for high-performance rendering computational meshes and complex results. Maintain Plotly.js support for simple, lightweight 1D/2D plots while offering vtk.js for advanced post-processing (see the issue here).

Various

• FEAScript modularization: Split the current monolithic structure into specialized packages to improve maintainability and allow users to pick only the tools they need (still under consideration: see the relevant discussion here).

Please feel free to

• Propose new features or optimizations
• Express interest in contributing to any of the above tasks
• Help define priorities for the 0.3.0 release