Dear Rostislav,

I have encountered the same problem, so you are not alone. Unfortunately, I 
have yet to find a solution for this : (

Best,

Marc

On Monday 02 November 2009 09:06:29 am Rostislav Khlebnikov wrote:
> Dear Deal.II developers and users,
>
> I am using Cubit software for generating hexahedral meshes for use in
> deal.ii-based solver.
>
> The problem I am working on now is the radio-frequency ablation of liver
> tumors which includes both electromagnetic and thermal processes.
> The electromagnetic part is a simple Laplace equation with time and
> space-dependent electrical conductivity.
>
> Up until now the geometry of the needle that acts as an antenna during the
> ablation, was simply subtracted from the domain and thus prescribing the
> boundary condition (which is setting a certain voltage on the electrode
> boundary) was not a problem. But excluding the needle from the domain is
> obviously not a correct way of calculating EM field. Therefore right now
> I'm trying to use multiple materials for 'liver tissue' and 'electrode'. It
> is not a problem to create a UCD file such that these subdomains can be
> distinguished within deal.ii code. However so far I didn't find a way to
> pass the information about the parts of inter-material boundaries and/or
> nodes at these parts of boundaries to deal.ii. The boundary marking doesn't
> fit with deal.ii because it throws exception stating that internal quads
> cannot be boundaries. I need this information to set the prescribed voltage
> values at these nodes/boundaries (by the way - do I understand correctly
> that for nodes within domain such constrains should be done using
> ConstraintMatrix objects?).
>
> Is there any better way of finding these nodes other than creating a
> special material id and then searching for nodes that belong to cells with
> a certain combination of material id's?
>
> Best regards,
>    Rostislav.

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