Table 1.
Feature comparison between versions of FieldML and precursor format
| Feature | Exnode Exelem | FieldML | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.1 | v0.2 | v0.3 | v0.4 | v0.5 | ||
| Technical | ||||||
| XML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Independent FieldML API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| External data sources | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Imports | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| HDF5 support | ✓ | |||||
| Parallel I/Oa | ✓ | |||||
| Model | ||||||
| 1D elements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 2D Quadrilateral elements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D Hexahedral elements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 2D Simplex elements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 3D Simplex elements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Boolean evaluators | ✓ | |||||
| User-defined tensor products of bases | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Curvilinear coordinates | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
aParallel I/O is made possible due to the use of HDF5. However, only very basic testing of this feature has been done