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Re: Issues with interpolate

 



Johan Hake wrote:
On Thursday 02 July 2009 13:07:47 Garth N. Wells wrote:
Marie Rognes wrote:
Garth N. Wells wrote:
Marie Rognes wrote:
The following code gives r = 0.0. It is not supposed to be.

The problem seems to be that f's vector is still all zeros at the call
to interpolate. Could this be easily fixed?
This example should have led to an error message since f is not a
discrete function. I'll take a look.
Ok, thanks!

However,

(a) Why is f not a discrete function? (It is defined on a finite element
space?)
On second thought, it may be a discrete function. I think that this is
defined in the Python interface and not the C++ interface, so I'll take
a look.

A user defined function is not a discrete function untill you either call interpolate() or vector, also in python. The problem with the later is that you then create a vector which is initialized to 0.

I think this has been discussed before, but should we populate the vector using f.interpolate() when vector is called on a userdefined function?


Or perhaps Function::vector() should throw an error if the vector has not already been allocated.

Garth


johan

(b) I would very much like this not to give an error, but rather work ;)
I would use something like this all the time when checking convergence.
Just do

   f.interpolate()

Garth

--
Marie

Garth

--
from dolfin import *

mesh = UnitSquare(1,1)
V_h = FunctionSpace(mesh, "CG", 1)
f = Function(V_h, "1.0")

Q_h = FunctionSpace(mesh, "DG", 1)
Pi_f = interpolate(f, Q_h)

r = norm(Pi_f)
print "r = ", r
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--
Marie


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