H.B.,

On Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 3:02:01 PM UTC-5, [email protected] 
wrote:
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>
> The image of the mapping applied to cell with center [0.295666 0.850622] 
> is distorted. The cell geometry or the mapping are invalid, giving a 
> non-positive volume fraction of -0.000119973 in quadrature point 0.
>
>
> The attached figures show the deformed and initial mesh. How to solve 
> this problem (without adaptive mesh refinement)? Can I use the update 
> Lagrangian formulation in Deal.II without moving the mesh? Do you think 
> that the total Lagrangian formulation is a solution?
>
This is common problem with the Lagrangian formulation. What some people do 
is to periodically remesh the domain. So your restart with a good mesh. Of 
course this means that you need to project all the quantities from the old 
mesh to the new one.

Best,

Bruno

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