On Wed, 27 Aug, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Martin Sandve Alnæs
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 27 August 2014 08:25, Kristian Ølgaard <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 26 August 2014 15:59, Martin Sandve Alnæs <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 26 August 2014 15:21, Kristian Ølgaard <[email protected]>
wrote:
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From: Kristian Ølgaard <[email protected]>
Date: 26 August 2014 15:20
Subject: Re: [FEniCS] `Expression`s and their silent interpolation
To: Jan Blechta <[email protected]>
On 26 August 2014 14:18, Jan Blechta <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:50:23 +0100
"Garth N. Wells" <[email protected]> wrote:
> To summarise this thread, it seems we need to introduce the
concept
> of an 'Expression' that can be evaluated at arbitrary points. It
> should not be a Quadrature{Element/Function} because the
proposed
> object could be used in different forms with different
evaluation
Agree. Also it should not have any notion of degree. Pointwise is
pointwise.
> points. The follow-on on issue is then how a 'point-wise'
expression
> should be treated in forms. We could estimate the quadrature
scheme
> when test/trial functions are present, and in the case of
functionals
> throw an error if the user doesn't supply the quadrature degree.
There's no principal difference regarding rank of the form.
Consider
f = PointwiseExpression(eval_formula)
u, v = TrialFunction(V), TestFunction(V)
a = f*u*v*dx
L = f*v*dx
F = f*dx
Still, you need to know what is the polynomial degree of f to have
exact quadrature of any of these forms. Ignoring non-zero degree
of f
(which seems to me you do suggest for a and L) means that you're
underintegrating any of those three forms. This is analogical to
integrating F with scheme of order zero. I don't see any good
reason
why having distinct behaviour based on rank of the respective
form.
Agree.
For PointwiseExpression, one should define EITHER the polynomial
degree that the user would like the use for the approximation (of
e.g., 'sin(x)') OR the (degree of) quadrature rule for the measure.
The latter should take precedence if both are defined, just as it
does currently.
Please, no. Isn't that basically the situation we're trying to get
away from? A pointwise expression doesn't have a degree and it's
not a good abstraction to assign one to it. The rules become
complex which makes the source code hard to follow, the
documentation poor, and confuses the users and developers alike.
Perhaps I got a little confused. Is PointwiseExpression supposed to
replace Expression or will they co-exist?
If PointwiseExpression will replace Expression, my suggestion to
forcing the user to supply the degree (or element) was intended to
solve Nico's original problem.
Good question. There are two sides to that:
From the UFL/FFC/UFC/Assembler side there needs to be two distinct
concepts: If a function is pointwise evaluated FFC must generate
function calls instead of using basis tables and dofs. Whether this
is implemented by adding a PointwiseExpression or a "Pointwise"
family to UFL is an implementation detail that affects other work in
progress so lets not go there in this thread at least. This is
basically the new functionality we're discussing here, and I don't
think anyone disagrees with this, apart from annotating the
PointwiseExpression with a "virtual degree" for integration degree
purposes.
From the DOLFIN user interface side, there are several ways to go,
and this is where most opinions in this thread differ.
The main interface point is whether to introduce new notation
PointwiseExpression("x[0]") and deprecate Expression("x[0]"), or to
change Expression("x[0]") to mean pointwise and remove the implicit
interpolation.
Deprecating Expression("x[0]") breaks all demos and lots of user
programs.
Changing the behaviour of Expression("x[0]") changes the numerical
results of lots of programs.
I'd be reluctant to introduce yet another object in the form of
PointwiseExpression. How about passing a string or element argument to
Expression? For now, the default could be the present behaviour
(interpolation) with a warning that the default will change in release
1.foo to pointwise?
Garth
Martin
These are two distinct issues:
1) We need a "PointwiseExpression" with no degree and no hidden
interpolation under the hood. This expression is evaluated in
quadrature points - this is a clean concept and easy to understand.
If PointwiseExpression and Expression will co-exist, I agree to this
definition. If it makes implementation cleaner for quadrature degree
estimation, we can set the degree equal to zero, but hidden from
users.
2) Degree estimation is not exact and some people are confused by
that. But it is not exact today, never was claimed to be, and never
will be. If that's not acceptable, we can just as well disable it
completely. Disabling it where it isn't exact will break a _lot_ of
programs. What we _can_ do without breaking programs or making the
interface more cumbersome than today, is to make it more obvious
how to control the integration degree, and to document it better.
I don't think anyone can disagree with this.
Kristian
Martin
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