Dear Professor Bangerth: Thank you for the suggestions and for pointing me to Rob Kirby's work and FEniCS. I will definitely look into their paper and existing implementations.
I really appreciate all your help and guidance. Best regards, Tom 在2025年9月20日星期六 UTC+8 00:24:00<Wolfgang Bangerth> 写道： > > Tom: > > > To answer your question about why I'm considering this path: a key part > of my > > research involves a direct numerical comparison between the classical C1 > > conforming approach (like HCT element) and other alternative C0 methods > (e.g. > > step-47). The goal is to analyze and contrast their performance on the > > specific type of plate problems I am studying. > > You might be better served with other software if all you want to do is > compare different formulations. Rob Kirby (with colleagues) has written a > paper implementing various C1 elements, and you might want to take a look > at > what they have and see whether you can adapt that for your purpose. FEniCS > (the software they use) has all of these elements already, and you can > probably save yourself a lot of time by using their work. > > If you figure out that you really do want to use C1 elements for > production > computations, that's the point where you can then think about implementing > them in deal.II. > > > > Thank you again for your generous offer to help with questions. It means > a lot > > to know that support is available from the development team. Should the > HCT > > implementation prove to be a necessary step later in my research, I will > be > > sure to reach out. > > Please do! > > Best > W. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Wolfgang Bangerth email: [email protected] > www: http://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/ > > -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/3419e6aa-770f-42b6-ae01-e11301021e10n%40googlegroups.com.
