On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Roy Stogner wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Jed Brown wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:21:30 -0500 (CDT), Roy Stogner >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> but "domain" is sort of PDE specific whereas LinearSolver is not. >> >> FWIW, "domain" is topological (more general than linear or even metric >> spaces). > > In the topological context I thought a domain had to be open and > connected, and I'm not sure how that applies here. E.g. {1,2,3} isn't > a connected subset of {1,2,3,4,5} under the discrete topology, and R^3 > isn't an open subset of R^5 under the norm topology.
The subsets that I will be working in in my application will neither be open (because they include their boundary) nor necessarily connected (may consist of several connected components). Anyway, I will rename the methods to restrict_solve_to(), which, I think, was one of Roy's suggestions. Best Regards, Tim -- Dr. Tim Kroeger CeVis -- Center of Complex Systems and Visualization University of Bremen [email protected] Universitaetsallee 29 [email protected] D-28359 Bremen Phone +49-421-218-7710 Germany Fax +49-421-218-4236 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
