We wish to acknowledge the direct and indirect support from the following people and organisations:

• The EPSRC (the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) for their financial support.
  
  
• MIMS, the Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Mathematics at The University of Manchester for their financial support.
  
  
• Dimitry van Heesch for his brilliant doxygen package which we used to produce the documentation.
  
  
• Xiaoye Sherry Li and colleagues for developing the sparse direct solver SuperLU – oomph-lib's default linear solver.
  
  
• Chris Paul, Head of Computing at Manchester's Department of Mathematics for keeping the machines running!
  
  
• The Manchester Centre for Novel Computing, for giving us access to their Silicon Graphics Origin 2000, for the early development of oomph-lib's MPI routines.
  
  
• Daoqi Yang for his brilliant book C++ and Object-Oriented Numeric Computing for Scientists and Engineers.
  
  

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