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[Johan Jansson <johanjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 04:18:06PM +0200, Johan Hoffman wrote:
> Great work Johan!
> 
> I hope to be able to try it out as soon as possible. In particular I'll
> start working on a fluid-structure interaction problem with the fluid
> (guess what...) in a tube is interacting with its elastic boundary,
> probably modelled as a membrane. Hopefully Ko would be suitable to handle
> the structure problem?
> 
> /Johan
> 
> 

Yes, definitely. Ko doesn't include a membrane model (yet at least),
it's all solid mechanics. But I assume the tube walls have a finite
thickness? If they are not unreasonably thin, the performance penalty
should not be severe.

  Johan