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Re: Evaluating the FEM solution at an arbitrary point

 

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:49:09PM +0100, Shilpa Khatri wrote:
>> We (Dag and I) are doing this because we would like to have Dolfin solve
>> the
>> Stokes/Navier-Stokes equations as one part of a timestep in our code
>> where we
>> are moving interfaces that are defined as a random set of points in the
>> domain.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shilpa
>
> Then I suggest first finding out which cells those points lie in, then
> then for each cell with a point get the expansion coefficients within
> that cell, then multiply those coefficients with the values of the
> basis functions at the points.
>
> The basis functions are available from the ufc::finite_element.
>
> We can implement a suitable interface for this at some point but
> until then, you can do it manually.

Sounds good. Is the GTS_Interface still in place for searching?

/Dag





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