On 10/06/2011 04:36 PM, Roy Stogner wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, David Knezevic wrote: > >>> What does "the correct dimension" mean in this context? We currently >>> embed everything in LIBMESH_DIM space, regardless of what dimensional >>> manifold the elements form in that space. I'd rather not accidentally >>> break support for lower-dimensional manifolds that curve through a >>> higher-dimensional space, (plus I still fantasize about supporting >>> non-manifold meshes in the distant future). >> >> Out of curiosity, what do you have in mind with "non-manifold meshes"? > > I think it would be interesting to do fully coupled simulations with > model equations of varying dimension. E.g. do Navier-Stokes in a 3D > part of the domain coupled to depth-averaged shallow water in a 2D > part. Structures type people seem to like being able to mix beam > shell and brick elements, too.
Ah, gotcha. Yeah that'd be a cool capability. I've seen talks on bloodflow simulation where fully 3D models of a major artery are connected to 1D models of some smaller blood vessels. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
