Dear all, I've been working with deal.ii in the solid mechanics field for both 3D and 2D cases. I am now being asked by my colleagues to develop a model that can combine elements of different dimensionality. This is approach is already implemented in my colleagues' abaqus models, and so we're looking to replicate the functionality in deal.ii.
The elements to be combined would be FE_System elements of type: - 3D volumetric element in 3D space <dim=3, spacedim=3> - 2D planar element in 3D space <dim=2, spacedim=3> - 1D linear element in 3D space <dim=1, spacedim=3> I've attached a sketch of an application that might use this. >From what I've seen, deal.ii does not like to mix <dim>'s. Does anyone have thoughts on how I might go about implementing a model with these elements? If I need to modify or implement new functionalities, could you estimate the magnitude of time required to make changes? (i.e. days, weeks, months) I realize that there are alternative methods to represent the physical system that could avoid this problem. However, I am essentially being asked to automate the conversion from existing abaqus input files into deal.ii. I appreciate any ideas you all might have. Thanks, Alex -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/a7ff55e9-b406-403b-b176-75690c2d121en%40googlegroups.com.
