No, the name was chosen to symbolize the rising of a new code out of the
ashes of many previously failed software projects.

It is also the logo of the University of Chicago and the name FEniCS can be
an acronym for many things involving finite elements, computational science
and computer science.

--
Anders


Fri Jan 09 2015 at 10:55:58 AM skrev Jan Blechta <[email protected]
>:

> As there is 92th birthday of professor Brian Spalding today, there is a
> good time for easier question. Was FEniCS project named in a honor
> to PHOENICS, purportedly "the first commercially available general
> purpose CFD software" [1]?
>
> Jan
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Spalding
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