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

On 27/04/11 12:00, Kristian Ølgaard wrote:
> On 27 April 2011 12:38, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 27/04/11 11:08, Kristian Ølgaard wrote:
>>> On 27 April 2011 11:52, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:40:50AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>>>> We need a quick discussion round to resolve this issue - DOLFIN is now
>>>>> broken. I guess we need the form compiler to decide on the cell and
>>>>> element type, and then have UFL return a new form.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, Martin mentioned at some point that it would be easy to add such
>>>> a function to UFL (that takes a form and replacement elements and
>>>> returns a new form).
>>>>
>>>> Martin, could you add such a function?
>>>
>>> I think ufl.algorithm.transformations.replace would work if
>>> FiniteElementBase derived from 'Terminal'.
>>> Currently, it derives from 'object', what is the reason for that?
>>> Anyway, it should be simple enough to add something equivalent for elements.
>>>
>>
>> I was thinking that we only need to replace Coefficients, e.g. if a
>> Coefficient is defined using an 'incomplete element', FFC can create an
>> element, a Coefficient and the perform the replacement. Looks like UFL
>> can do this already.
> 
> Yes, I think that should be possible. But what about quadrature elements?
> 
> If the scheme is not specified when constructing the element (in the
> form), then the scheme
> will be determined by the commandline arguments (or metadata) to FFC. The
> QuadratureElement needs the scheme information in the constructor in order to
> generate the points for which it is defined.
> 

I don't see the problem. Couldn't FFC generate a new QuadratureElement
(of the correct degree) and define a Coefficient on it?

Garth

> Kristian
> 
>> The problem from the DOLFIN side is that the new UFL Coefficient will be
>> different from the DOLFIN/UFL Coefficient, and would be a
>> ufl.Coefficient and not a dolfin.Coefficient.
>>
>> Garth
>>
>>> Kristian
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Anders
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Garth
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26/04/11 07:32, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> revno: 1014
>>>>>> committer: Martin Alnæs <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> branch nick: ufl
>>>>>> timestamp: Fri 2011-04-15 21:44:37 +0200
>>>>>> message:
>>>>>>   Add warnings to set_foo functions in finiteelement.py,
>>>>>>   and remove repr modifications after construction time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   If this will break your code, it likely wasn't working
>>>>>>   correctly anyway and you need to rewrite it before you
>>>>>>   can update to this UFL version.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   The set_foo functions will be removed completely before UFL 1.0.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Happy easter holiday :)
>>>>>> modified:
>>>>>>   ufl/finiteelement.py
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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