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Re: Dirichlet bc functions

 



Anders Logg wrote:
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 05:52:21PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
Do we want to insist that Dirichlet bc functions that do not appear inside a form are constructed with a FunctionSpace? DirichletBC is supplied with a FunctionSpace, so if the bc Function does not have a FunctionSpace, we could attach one automatically.

Garth
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I think this is already handled. Look in the Poisson demo. It uses a
Constant to set the BC and it does not have a FunctionSpace attached
to it. The DirichletBC class now uses its own FunctionSpace rather
than the one that the Function has (if any). There is a check (in
DirichletBC::check()) that checks that the FunctionSpace for the
Function is the same as the one in the DirichletBC.


It works for Constant, but not for Functions. I was getting an error when Function::interpolate is called. Function::interpolate leads to eval being called, in which case there is a test for the FunctionSpace which fails. Constant provides its own eval and therefore doesn't have a problem.

For now, I've added a test in DirichletBC for the FunctionSpace. What we can add is an attach function if there is no FunctionSpace associated.

Garth

Note that Function::in(V) returns true if the Function does not have a
FunctionSpace (which allows Functions with no specified space to be
used for setting DirichletBC).

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Anders


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