Seems reasonable to me.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Roy Stogner <royst...@ices.utexas.edu>wrote:
>
> Sylvain is working on a GRINS-compatible physics module that is going
> to want to do some preprocessing at every assembly step to calculate
> some radiation terms.
>
> I'm currently thinking that the most appropriate place for this is as
> a DifferentiablePhysics::preassembly() method, defaulting to doing
> nothing, which gets called near the beginning (after vectors are
> closed) of each FEMSystem::assembly(), and which can then be
> subclassed by middleware and user code. We could add a
> DifferentiablePhysics::postassembly() later if it's ever needed.
>
> Obvious pros:
> Maximum flexibility, for people like Sylvain whose requirements
> (another damn integro-differential equations!) don't fit well into the
> existing FEMSystem framework.
> Completely backwards API compatible with existing code.
>
> Obvious cons:
> The library can't get at the guts of such a coarse user-supplied
> function, so there's no way to automatically multithread or even
> MPI-parallelize the contents.
>
> Before I implement this, can anyone think of any issues (or any
> alternatives) I'm missing?
> ---
> Roy
>
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