Category Archives: Fortran

Compiling Fortran code for Windows

Posted on 04/07/2016 by dougaj4

This post is a continuation of a recent series, using Fortran code published in  Programming the Finite Element Method (5th ed. John Wiley & Sons, I.M. Smith, D.V. Griffiths and L. Margetts (2014)). The compiled file provided in the download should … Continue reading →

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Running exe files from Excel

Posted on 30/06/2016 by dougaj4

Following on from the previous post (running a compiled Fortran finite element analysis program from Excel), this post looks at the details of calling any command line routine from Excel, through VBA.  The important points that need to be addressed are: Writing … Continue reading →

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Making non-linear FEA with Excel go (much) faster

Posted on 30/06/2016 by dougaj4

The spreadsheet presented in the previous post takes about 90 seconds to complete (with the iteration limit set at 500) on my computer, and is much slower on some other systems.  The VBA code that does all the hard work is based … Continue reading →

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature via F2PY – Part 3

Posted on 06/02/2016 by dougaj4

For the last of the current series on combining Fortran, Python and Excel with F2PY and ExcelPython I have updated the xlSciPy spreadsheet to include two other variants of the Tanh-Sinh function: Quad_TSi integrates a non-periodic function over a semi-infinite … Continue reading →

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature via F2PY

Posted on 31/01/2016 by dougaj4

Fast and accurate numerical integration routines based on the Tanh-Sinh method are available as Excel VBA based functions in the Tanh_Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet by Graeme Dennes.  Graeme’s VBA code is based on open source Fortran code by Takuya Ooura, which … Continue reading →

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