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Re: Re: [FFC-dev] Element area

 

I fixed this!  Maybe there was a problem with the commit 
(user error?)

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:59:16 -0500
>From: Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>  
>Subject: [FIAT-dev] Re: [FFC-dev] Element area  
>To: Discussion of FIAT development <fiat-dev@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>This is the problem that Garth spotted, but it looks like 
you are
>using an old version of FIAT since
>
>  1. you have shapes_new in there, and
>
>  2. the debug message "[[((-1.0, -1.0, -1.0),), " etc is 
still there
>
>/Anders
>
>On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:13:08PM +0200, 
jhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hi Anders,
>> 
>> I have started to look at how to solve the stabilization 
problem in the
>> best way. I first tried the approach with a piecewise 
constant function
>> for the stabilization parameter, but I seem to have missed 
something? Do
>> you find anything obvious wrong with the form-file below?
>> 
>> /Johan
>> 
>> 
>> name = "NSEContinuity"
>> scalar_element = FiniteElement("Lagrange", "tetrahedron", 
1)
>> vector_element = FiniteElement("Vector 
Lagrange", "tetrahedron", 1)
>> disc_scalar_element = FiniteElement("Discontinuous 
Lagrange",
>> "tetrahedron", 0)
>> 
>> q = BasisFunction(scalar_element)
>> p = BasisFunction(scalar_element)
>> uc = Function(vector_element)
>> f = Function(vector_element)
>> d1 = Function(disc_scalar_element)
>> 
>> i0 = Index()
>> i1 = Index()
>> i2 = Index()
>> 
>> a = q.dx(i0)*p.dx(i0)*dx
>> L = q.dx(i0)*f[i0]*dx - q.dx(i0)*uc[i1]*uc[i0].dx(i1)*dx -
>> (1/d1)*q*uc[i0].dx(i0)*dx
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> skalman:~/local> ffc NSEContinuity.form
>> This is FFC, the FEniCS Form Compiler, version 0.1.8.
>> For further information, go to http://www/fenics.org/ffc/.
>> 
>> Parsing NSEContinuity.form
>> Output written to NSEContinuity.py
>> [[((-1.0, -1.0, -1.0),), ((1.0, -1.0, -1.0),), ((-1.0, 
1.0, -1.0),),
>> ((-1.0, -1.0, 1.0),)], [(), (), (), (), (), ()], [(), (), 
(), ()], [()]]
>> ((-1.0, -1.0, -1.0), (1.0, -1.0, -1.0), (-1.0, 1.0, -1.0), 
(-1.0, -1.0, 1.0))
>> Warning: element untested
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/ffc", line 81, in ?
>>     main(sys.argv[1:])
>>   File "/usr/bin/ffc", line 59, in main
>>     execfile(outname)
>>   File "NSEContinuity.py", line 32, in ?
>>     disc_scalar_element = FiniteElement("Discontinuous 
Lagrange",
>> "tetrahedron", 0)
>>   
File "/home/hoffman/local/lib/python/ffc/compiler/finiteelemen
t.py",
>> line 66, in __init__
>>     self.element = DiscontinuousLagrange(fiat_shape, 
degree)
>>   
File "/home/hoffman/local/lib/python/FIAT/DiscontinuousLagrang
e.py",
>> line 87, in DiscontinuousLagrange
>>     if n == 0: return P0.P0( shape )
>>   File "/home/hoffman/local/lib/python/FIAT/P0.py", line 
35, in __init__
>>     Udual = P0Dual( shape , U )
>>   File "/home/hoffman/local/lib/python/FIAT/P0.py", line 
21, in __init__
>>     d = shapes_new.dims[ shape ]
>> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'dims'
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:02:04PM +0200, Garth N. Wells 
wrote:
>> >> Hi Anders,
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to stabilise a problem and for this I need a 
measure of the
>> >> element
>> >> area. Do you have any plans to make this sort of 
information available
>> >> through
>> >> ffc? I have seen that Johan H. hasn't yet defined the 
element length in
>> >> the
>> >> Navier-Stokes module yet. Johan, do you have a plan how 
to do this? It
>> >> could be
>> >> done easily by defining a constant in the .form file 
and then adding a
>> >> line c4 =
>> >> sqrt(det), but this would destroy the beauty of the ffc 
generated file.
>> >
>> > I will probably add a default Function h(x) that gives 
you the size of
>> > the element. Do you need the side length (diameter) or 
the area?
>> >
>> > This will probably not be until after the summer though, 
so what you
>> > can do now is to define a piecewise constant function 
that is defined
>> > as the mesh size or area or whatever, like so:
>> >
>> >    P0 = FiniteElement("Discontinuous 
Lagrange", "triangle", 0)
>> >    h  = Function(P0)
>> >
>> > and then define a corresponding Function in DOLFIN from 
a Vector and
>> > set the values of the Vector to the local mesh size (x
(i) area of
>> > triangle i).
>> >
>> >> A more general question - do you have a plan on how 
more complicated
>> >> nonlinear
>> >> problems, such as plasticity, will fit in with ffc + 
DOLFIN? I mean here
>> >> solving
>> >> equations in which the coefficients of an equation 
themselves come from
>> >> the
>> >> solution of a non-trivial nonlinear problem, such a 
plasticity return
>> >> mapping
>> >> algorithm.
>> >>
>> >> Garth
>> >
>> > This is already implemented. When you define a Function 
in FFC, then
>> > this corresponds to a Function in DOLFIN, and the DOLFIN 
Function
>> > could be either defined by an expression or it can be 
the solution of
>> > another problem.
>> >
>> > The Function concept is really central to both FFC and 
DOLFIN, and it
>> > is the key to working with FFC and DOLFIN. Each Function 
in FFC
>> > corresponds to a Function in DOLFIN, and it should not 
matter how the
>> > Function is defined in DOLFIN. There are a couple of 
things missing,
>> > like reading Functions from file, projection between 
different
>> > function spaces, but the basic stuff is implemented. 
(Take a look at
>> > Function.cpp, it's pretty short.)
>> >
>> > Ask again if something is unclear.
>> >
>> > /Anders
>> >
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>> 
>> 
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>
>-- 
>Anders Logg
>Research Assistant Professor
>Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
>http://www.tti-c.org/logg/
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