Thanks. It does look like deal.II cannot read higher order elements. Is
there any plan to add this in future ?

For cylinder, I can use the boundary descriptions available inside deal.II
but this would become impractical for more complex situations.

praveen

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Michael Rapson <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know about support for reading in second order elements as I
> understand it deal.II treats the mesh as the 'geometry' without
> specifying the FE order, which is done later. It is recommended that
> you read in a fairly coarse mesh and then refine a few times in
> deal.II since this is faster. I presume your concern is that you need
> the boundary of your cylinder to be represented well. The way to do
> this is to use a Boundary object to describe the shape you want, then
> when you refine in deal.II new nodes are placed correctly on the
> boundary. The second mesh in Step-1 shows how this can be done.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Praveen C <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I am trying inviscid flow over a cylinder using DG scheme. For good
> results,
> > the boundary must be represented by second order elements. I generate
> second
> > order elements in gmsh. But it looks like deal.ii does not accept second
> > order elements in gmsh format. Can you confirm this ?
> > If this is so, what other grid options do I have to represent curved
> > geometries ? Which grid format should I use ?
> > Thanks
> > praveen
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