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Re: Release plans

 

Marie Rognes wrote:
Kristian Oelgaard wrote:


On 29 January 2010 01:23, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There seem to be just a couple of issues remaining in order of importance:

1. QuadratureElement

2. DOLFIN fem unit test

3. evaluate_basis_derivatives

4. RestrictedElement

Among these, I would say 1-2 are crucial to fix before 0.9.0,
but 3-4 are less crucial.

It would be good to have evaluate_basis_derivatives working, but I
don't know how much work is involved.

First my apologies for the late reply, Internet was down again all morning and it pisses me off.

Now that BDM elements also compiles for gcc it looks like everything is in place for evaluate_basis. CG and CR elements work, and so does all linear elements and DG constants. 2nd and 3rd order elements of BDM, RT, and DG type does not give the same result but there are explanations for this and at least it looks like they agree with the values you would get from FIAT if you tabulate on the reference element.

evaluate_basis_derivatives works for CG elements and for most elements of degree 1.

I'm working on some kind of unit testing framework for evaluate_basis and evaluate_basis_derivatives, such that we can make sure that at least cpp code and FIAT agrees on the reference element. If this test works, then the only bug can be in the transformation back to the physical element, but since this works for CG elements I don't see why it shouldn't for other elements too. However, I'll put this development on hold until Quadrature and Restricted elements work.


RestrictedElement is also good to have, but I would say it is less
important, especially since it's unclear what exactly it should do and
how it should be implemented.

It should be implemented like I did it in the old FFC :)
w.r.t. the demo, it should test if restrictions on a MixedElement are propagated to the sub elements and that a restricted element can appear in a MixedElement.


I'm taking care of RestrictedElement (onto facets/cells etc) at ze moment.


This was actually slightly more mind-boggling than planned.
I ended up letting FFC convert restricted mixed elements to mixed restricted elements.
That kept the codegeneration complexity low and my head from exploding.

I'll clean up and push tomorrow, unless that is too late ;)

Also, question for Kristian: About the IR for evaluate_basis for mixed elements: You want a (non-nested) list of sub-elements, right?

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Marie





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