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[Marie Rognes <meg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 31. aug. 2010 16:45, Evan Lezar wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I am sorry that I have been so quiet on the list - it has been a busy
> couple of months for me. I was responsible for some of the original
> waveguide demo, and was not sure where it should be located. I assume
> that you simply mean to move the demo to the la and not really change
> the content much.

Yes.

> Is the removal of the curl-curl demo due to the overlap with the
> waveguide demo?
>

Yes.


> One thing that I have just thought of is if there is place in the
> demos for application type demos. By this I mean the kind of thing
> that might make it into the upcoming Fenics book? If there is, then I
> will look at extending the waveguide demo to include more
> post-processing of the solution so as to be more meaningful to someone
> who wants to use Fenics to solve similar problems.
>

That would be great. Especially if you also want to write documentation
for it :)

I'll do the move, but will keep the demo simple for now -- just
illustrating how to do Nedelecs and how to solve a generalized
eigenvalue problem. Feel free to jump in at anytime you want to extend it.

--
Marie


> With all this said, I have no real objection to the reorganisation.
> --
> Evan Lezar
>
> Computational Electromagnetics Group
> Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
> University of Stellenbosch
> Stellenbosch
> South Africa
>
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>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Marie Rognes <meg@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:meg@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>
>     Currently, DOLFIN has two "pde" Nedelec demos:
>
>        pde/curl-curl
>        pde/waveguide
>
>     The latter solves a generalized eigenvalue problem and could rather
>     belong in
>     la/eigensolver/
>
>     Currently, in la/eigensolver/  there is one demo that both solves a
>     standard eigenvalue problem and a generalized eigenvalue problem
>     in two
>     different ways. (Both of which are currently broken with SLEPc 3.1 and
>     which I'm hoping that someone else(tm) will fix as I do not know
>     how to.)
>
>     I suggest we simplify and reorganize a bit, namely
>
>     (1) Remove pde/curl-curl
>     (2) Simplify the current la/eigensolver demo to only solve a standard
>     eigenvalue problem
>     (3) Move the waveguide demo into la/eigensolver as a demo for
>     generalized eigenvalue problems (and use of Nedelec elements).
>
>     I will fix and start writing documentation for these unless:
>
>        Any objections?
>
>     --
>     Marie
>
>
>
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