Hello everyone,

I am trying to follow Wolfgang's suggestion here 
(https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/dealii/KrSp6k0FSx8) to implement a 
mixed formulation for elasticity. I'm experimenting with the Hu-Washizu 
3-field variational form.

The most straightforward approach appears to be to declare dim basis 
functions for displacements, and dim*(dim+1)/2 basis functions for strains 
and stresses respectively.

I am not exactly sure how the FEValuesExtractors::SymmetricTensor orders 
the elements it extracts into the symmetric tensor object.

For instance, for a rank 2 tensor, does it assume that the first dim entries 
are the diagonal entries, and the next dim*(dim-1)/2 entries are the off 
diagonals?
As an example for the stresses:

[sigma_11, sigma_22, sigma_33, sigma_23, sigma_13, sigma_12]

I believe this is the typical Voigt notation rules, but I'm not sure if 
dealii does it this way. I did try to look into the documentation but 
couldn't quite put my finger on it.

Thanks for any inputs!

Arjun

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