S O F T E N G

Software Engineering Group Web Server

The Software Engineering Group

Computational Science & Engineering
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
This archive holds some of the publications and software written by the Software Engineering Group. SEG is part of the Computational Science & Engineering Department of the Science and Technology Research Council (STFC, formally CCLRC) and is based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

SEG has been involved in the development of numerical software for computational physics and the deployment of software engineering techniques for many years. It current research and development focus is on the use of advanced but pragmatic software engineering techniques to improve software quality and productivity in computational science and engineering.

The following links are to a presentation on the activities of the Software Engineering Group (PowerPoint, pdf, html).

Below are some links to the main web information pages for SEG

Current activities in the Group:

The software available on this server is:

  • FELIB (3.0, 4.0) - The Finite Element Library
  • EVEREST - Three-dimensional device simulation system
  • RALPAR - The Rutherford Mesh Partitioner
  • PARFEL - Parallel Finite Element Library
  • FELIB90 - Fortran 90/95 Version of FELIB

For publications, documentation and presentations follow:

  • Documentation
  • Presentations

The publications may be printed from the sources provided. The software is for the use of the academic community in their personal research and not for commercial exploitation. It comes with no guarantees in any form concerning it correctness or fitness for purpose.

Anyone wishing to make commercial use the software should contact the Software Engineering Group.

Please address all enquiries about SoftEng to:



Prof Chris Greenough
Software Engineering Group
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
DIDCOT OX11 0QX
+44 (0) 1235 445307
+44 (0) 1235 446626
C.Greenough@rl.ac.uk