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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marie Rognes wrote:
> FFC wrote:
> > One or more new changesets pushed to the primary ffc repository.
> > A short summary of the last three changesets is included below.
> >
> > changeset:   1052:21eebc65e6fa13c9c35c4d3d12bbafc76c71f963
> > tag:         tip
> > user:        "Kristian Oelgaard <k.b.oelgaard@xxxxxxxxxx>"
> > date:        Thu Jan 17 11:37:24 2008 +0100
> > files:       src/ffc/__init__.py src/ffc/compiler/analysis/checks.py src/ffc/compiler/codegeneration/common/finiteelement.py src/ffc/compiler/representation/quadrature/monomialtabulation.py src/ffc/compiler/representation/tensor/monomialintegration.py src/ffc/fem/quadratureelement.py src/ffc/fem/vectorelement.py
> > description:
> > QuadratureElement: It is now possible to create mixed elements from QuadratureElement, VectorQuadratureElement has aslo been added with a functionality similar to VectorElement. Works with both tensor and quadrature representation.
> >
> >   
>
> What is a QuadratureElement?

It provides for functions which don't come from a finite element space, 
but the values of which are known (or evaluated) at discrete points. A 
typical example is the stress in a plasticity computation which is 
computed at quadrature points.

Garth