Hello all

In this paper

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.4975.pdf

In page 9, at the bottom, they mention this:

As indicated by the circled nodes in Figure 3(a), level-one mesh
incompatibility results in hanging nodes. The libMesh package handles those
hanging nodes by using the projection method to enforce constraints in the
stiffness matrix

...

Since libMesh does not drop the constrained DOFs in the linear system, the
projected system in (7) is singular when there is any hanging node. Krylov
subspace methods can handle such singularities as long as the right hand
side is consistent, but these singularities may cause problems for
preconditioners

Is this still an issue for libmesh? What preconditioners would you
recommend for a linear elasticity problem with adaptive mesh refinement?
I'm imposing the dirichlet conditions as a constraint in the dof_map, not
with a penalty term. When using adaptive mesh refinement, is the matrix
still symmetric? Can I use cg?

Thanks
Miguel

-- 
*Miguel Angel Salazar de Troya*
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 550-2360
[email protected]
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