On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Andreas Hasenkopf <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear FiPy-users,
> in my latest simulation on a mesh containing multiple volumes created by
> extruding a surface in gmsh I noticed a rather strong discontinuity of
> the solution (in this case solution to laplace-equation in 3D).
> As you can see in the attached image (scalar cut plane, z plane is in
> the image plane) it appears that the PDE is solved for each volume in
> the grid independently with no regard for the solution in adjacent volumes.
> I'm wondering now whether this is a problem due to my "poor resolution"
> or whether I have to generate a mesh containing only one volume element?
>

It looks as though the meshes are disconnected or the faces don't align.
Can you check the connectivity in FiPy? Maybe I can take a look if you send
the script that you are running and the geo file that generated the mesh.

Cheers.

-- 
Daniel Wheeler
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