Re: [Libmesh-users] question about surface elements

2018-11-20 Thread Stogner, Roy H
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, Michael Povolotskyi wrote: > Dear Libmesh developers, > I see from the examples that the surface element is constructed as follows: > > // Declare a special finite element object for > // boundary integration. > std:: unique_ptr fe_face (FEBase::build(dim, fe_type)); > > Que

[Libmesh-users] question about surface elements

2018-11-20 Thread Michael Povolotskyi
Dear Libmesh developers, I see from the examples that the surface element is constructed as follows: // Declare a special finite element object for // boundary integration. std::unique_ptr fe_face (FEBase::build(dim, fe_type)); Question: why the dimension is equal to the dimension of the mesh i