On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, yunfei zhu wrote:

> I am trying to use arc-length method to track the post-buckling equilibrium
> path. I need to add another parameter and another additional equation to the
> system.
> Has anyone got experience on using arc-length together with libmesh and
> petsc.
> Is there any Class in libmesh that I can use directly? Thanks.

There's a ContinuationSystem class to do exactly that.  I think John
Peterson is the only expert with it; we'll see if he chimes in.

If you want to add an additional scalar equation, coupled to all the
others, by hand, then the SCALAR variable type is now the best way to
do that.
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Roy

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