On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Manav Bhatia wrote:

>    I was looking through the code for System::calculate_norm, and
>    wanted to see if it makes sense to use the
>    System::extra_quadrature_order for the qrule in calculating
>    norms. Currently it seems to be ignored.

Hmm... when we're calculating norms we're integrating nothing but
shape functions, as opposed to evaluating possibly nasty constitutive
laws and forcing functions.  On affine elements, the default
quadrature rule ought to give us exact integration for Hilbert norms
(and over integration for L1/H1 type stuff).

On the other hand, I suppose there's nothing *wrong* with letting
users underintegrate norms, or even overintegrate norms if they're
doing an infinity-norm or they're worried about the effects of the
mappings on non-affine elements.  I'd certainly be happy to accept a
patch here.  Put something in the doxygen comment on calculate_norm to
document the effect, though?

Thanks,
---
Roy

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers
Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore
techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most 
from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
_______________________________________________
Libmesh-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users

Reply via email to