[Getdp] Thin layers

Matt Koch mkoch at gvtc.com
Thu Jan 18 20:22:22 CET 2007


Hi All,

I was just wondering if there had been any more progress on the below?

Thanks,

Matt Koch

Christophe Geuzaine wrote:

>Stephane Hole wrote:
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>>Dear Christophe,
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>>I am interested in using surfaces instead of volumes for the simulation
>>of thin layers as I hope it would reduce drastically the calculation
>>times since less volume elements are generated.
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>>I saw in your PhD thesis that a weak formulation (for instance 3.14) can
>>be used for this purpose but I don't know how write it in GetDP.
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>>Can you tell me if it is possible to use such formulation, and if yes
>>how to write it. 
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>Hi Stephane - It's possible: I'll try to find some time to add an 
>example in the wiki. (The main idea is to define some basis functions 
>that are supported only on one side of the thin-layer-as-a-surface.)
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>Christophe
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>>Thank you,
>>Stephane.
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