On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:51 AM, david wende <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> What do you mean by rank-0 variable? I have seen the term (and rank-1)
> in the fipy manual but not any explanation as to its meaning.
>

By default a CellVariable is rank-0. Essentially rank-0 means that the
variable is scalar valued over the mesh. In order to make a source term, you
need to use a rank-0 CellVariable.


> Is there a way (during the solve loop) of observing the error?
>

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this, but if you read section 5.3 of the
fipy manual you might get some idea of what to do.


Mike Atkins

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