Hi Ataollah, this type of problem is indeed called a 'contact problem'. I don't know how to solve them, neither in libmesh nor otherwise. Anyways, here a short recent discussion about it on libmesh-users: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.libmesh.user/3377
Mauro At Sun, 3 Mar 2013 18:05:57 -0600, Ataollah Mesgarnejad wrote: > > Dear all, > > I need some advice on how to implement an inhomogeneous Dirichlet BC for > elastic-rigid contact. This BC is a bit weird since it doesn't apply to all > of the faces of a boundary_id rather it applies to faces within the contact > range (changes with time) and all the other faces should have natural > (traction free) BCs. > > - can this be done using new Dirichlet API? and how? > - if not can anyone suggest a smart way for implementing it ? > > Thanks, > Ata > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > Libmesh-users mailing list > Libmesh-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list Libmesh-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
