Hi everyone,
I am working on adapting some abaqus jobs for deal.ii. In the abaqus
format, It is typical to specify boundary conditions in terms of (node
number, dof number, magnitude).
I have found a working approach for doing this, but I am looking to find a
more efficient way as I may end up with millions of nodes and thousands of
vertices. Here's an example of how I have been applying nodal displacement
BCs:
// define a "node" by the coordinates
const Point<dim> proot1(0., 0.0209, -0.0101);
// loop through all cells
for (const auto &cell : dof_handler.active_cell_iterators())
{
// loop through all of the vertices in a given cell
for (unsigned int v = 0; v<cell->n_vertices() ; v++)
{
// check if a vertex is near to the node.
if (cell->vertex(v).distance(proot1) < 0.001) //
{
// apply a constraint
constraints.add_line(cell->vertex_dof_index(v,0, cell->active_fe_index()
));
} } }
In an ideal world, I could compute the global dof number based on the node
number and local dof number. Something like:
global_dof = node_number * 3 + local_dof
constraints.add_line(global_dof)
However, I understand that this approach isn't implemented in deal.ii
because it would be useless after mesh refinement.
Is there a good way to find the global_dof numbers for a vertex/node?
If not, can I iterate through all of the vertices directly (rather than
going through the cell)? Something like:
for (const auto &vertex : dof_handler.vertex_iterators())
{
if (vertex.distance(proot1) < 0.001)
{
constraints.add_line(vertex->vertex_dof_index(0) );
}}
I'm interested on your thoughts on how to efficiently import nodal boundary
conditions from an external file. I couldn't find any other posts on this
specific topic, but I apologize if this is a duplicate.
Thanks,
Alex
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