Re: [Libmesh-users] Rigid plates as BCs

2019-02-22 Thread John Peterson
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 2:13 PM Renato Poli wrote: > The good news is that, if I "reinit" the equation systems in the first > timestep only, it works beautifully. > However, as I rely on this call to change the boundary conditions, that > means I am not able to change the BCs during the run. > >

Re: [Libmesh-users] Rigid plates as BCs

2019-02-22 Thread Renato Poli
The good news is that, if I "reinit" the equation systems in the first timestep only, it works beautifully. However, as I rely on this call to change the boundary conditions, that means I am not able to change the BCs during the run. If it is a bug, it looks like workaroundable? Perhaps forcing re

Re: [Libmesh-users] Rigid plates as BCs

2019-02-22 Thread Renato Poli
Is there any "close all" call? On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 5:03 PM John Peterson wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 1:53 PM Renato Poli wrote: > >> Hi John >> >> Thanks for the reply. >> It seems that I moved one small step forward. >> I added the coupling_functor as you advised - following misce

Re: [Libmesh-users] Rigid plates as BCs

2019-02-22 Thread John Peterson
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 1:53 PM Renato Poli wrote: > Hi John > > Thanks for the reply. > It seems that I moved one small step forward. > I added the coupling_functor as you advised - following miscellaneous_ex9. > This way, I succeeded to solve the first timestep. > I found out I needed to reinit

Re: [Libmesh-users] Rigid plates as BCs

2019-02-21 Thread Renato Poli
Hi John, I am really stuck here... any clue would be helpful. Can you tell me if the pattern below is familiar? I could not get the "add_extra_ghost_elements" to work. I am using individual "add_constrain_row" to model the rigid BC (DOF_I = REFERENCE_DOF). LibMesh fails when I call "reinit_consta

Re: [Libmesh-users] Rigid plates as BCs

2019-02-20 Thread Renato Poli
Hi John, Should I consider "add_extra_ghost_elem"? Then I add "row_constraints" between the DOFs I need to tie together and this element. Does that make sense? If so, what element should I add? I just need a single DOF to tie many DOFs together. thanks, Renato On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 6:07 PM Ren

Re: [Libmesh-users] Rigid plates as BCs

2019-02-20 Thread Renato Poli
Adding the mailing list in distribution... On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 6:03 PM Renato Poli wrote: > Thanks. > > Do you see a better way to do? > I can see that Abaqus uses an extra node to tie all dofs together. > I need the DOFs to be identical. > That means eliminating lines in the matrix so that

Re: [Libmesh-users] Rigid plates as BCs

2019-02-20 Thread John Peterson
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 2:43 PM Renato Poli wrote: > Hi all, > > Just refreshing this one, because I am sort of stuck in inserting a "rigid" > BCs. > It seems simple, but I cannot make it work. > Hi, >From your error message, it sounds like you are introducing a coupling (through the constraint

Re: [Libmesh-users] Rigid plates as BCs

2019-02-20 Thread Renato Poli
Hi all, Just refreshing this one, because I am sort of stuck in inserting a "rigid" BCs. It seems simple, but I cannot make it work. Some help would be handy... Maybe adding an extra 'virtual' element would be the best idea? How can I do that? Thanks upfront. Renato On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 5:52