On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Paul T. Bauman <ptbau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure it's on everyones wish list, but the only discussion I recall is
> that mixed-dimension problems are going to break. That is, if you want to
> couple a shell element (2-D in 3-D space) with a 3-D element, there's a
> fair number of places that will break. AFAIK, that should be the only
> limitation, but others will know better than I.
>
It depends on how you do it... they can't directly share DoFs (nodes)...
but you can form constraints between them (like with Lagrange multipliers
or other types of "transfers" like contact forces). This is something
we've been doing quite a bit.
Derek
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