[Libmesh-devel] alternative domain decomposition?

2011-09-15 Thread Vasilis Vavourakis
hi was just wondering if it would be easy to add in the libMesh library the feature of doing the domain decomposition for nodes, in addition to elements as it does right now. the reason of my inquiry is that this new feature would be handy in case one implements libMesh for Meshless methods...or a

[Libmesh-devel] various types of libMesh::Elem volume

2011-06-16 Thread Vasilis Vavourakis
hi all :) it happened for me to need to evaluate the "volume" of Face elements in my code through these functions: Real Tri3::volume () const Real Quad4::volume () const ...however, i noticed that the same function is not implemented for Tri6, Quad8, Quad9 and so on... due to the fact that thes