David, 

 I was worried about the volume element for integration. If I use explicit 
transformations of coordinates to spherical how would I make sure that the 
volume element for integration changes accordingly. 

Paul, 
I am not sure i ll be the best person for the job. With all my honesty (and 
considering my level of expertise in Libmesh) I might do more harm than good ;)

Thank you


Peter 


On May 9, 2013, at 10:57, "Paul T. Bauman" <[email protected]> wrote:

> What David said is correct (and how I currently deal with cylindrical
> coordinates). Nevertheless, while there are no formal plans, I've thought
> it would be nice to try and deal with alternative (to Cartesian) coordinate
> systems at the libMesh level. E.g. JxW comes premultiplied by r,
> curl/Laplacian/div/etc formulae have the right terms so that the same code
> could be used regardless of coordinate system, etc. Alas, it hasn't been
> high enough priority for me to spend any time thinking about it and
> proposing how to do it, e.g. whether it should be an FE type, etc.
> 
> That said, Peter, if you wanted to take a crack at it, I (and probably
> others) would be happy to give guidance.
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:48 PM, David Knezevic
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at, but if you write the
>> PDE in terms of (r,theta,phi), then you can just use libmesh in the
>> standard way. You'll presumably get sin's, cos's and 1/r terms in the
>> weak form, but that's no problem...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 05/09/2013 01:43 PM, Peter Zajac wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>> 
>>> Is treatment in spherical coordinates an option in Libmesh?
>>> If not is there a plan to implement it in the near future?
>>> 
>>> Thank you in advance
>>> 
>>> 
>>> PZ
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