On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Roy Stogner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, John Peterson wrote:
>
>> Something about the mapping to the reference element changes as well.
>>
>> Piola tranformation?
>>
>> http://www.math.uh.edu/~rohop/spring_11/downloads/Chapter7.pdf
>>
>> was all I could find on short notice.
>
> Oh, that's right.  The vector directions depend on the element shape.
> So you need the Piola transformation to maintain H(div) conformity...
> and isn't it different (covariant transformation?) for H(curl)?

Well, deal.II defines separate enums for covariant, contravariant,
piola, nedelec, and raviart-thomas elements....

http://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/mapping_8h.html

but some of those may be implemented the same way.

-- 
John

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