Re: [Libmesh-users] Is libmesh good for contact mechanics?

2011-07-18 Thread Mengda Wu
Hi Vas, Thank you much for your experiences. That will be terrific if you can share your code with me and the libmesh community. It will be definitely a good starting point for me. Thanks, Guanglei On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Vasilis Vavourakis wrote: > > hi all :) i've tried usin

Re: [Libmesh-users] [Libmesh-devel] Good bye

2011-07-18 Thread Lorenzo Botti
Dear Tim, thanks for all the work you have done in libMesh (ghosted vector is a feature that we all use!). I've really appreciated your contribution the open-source community. Good luck for you next work. I hope that it'll bring you back to libMesh, or to some other open-source project. Good by

Re: [Libmesh-users] Is libmesh good for contact mechanics?

2011-07-18 Thread Vasilis Vavourakis
hi all :) i've tried using limesh for a simple contact problem of two elastic bodies, like Mengda describes, but i have not checked for the issues that Roy mentioned above ...and the most important part for which i have not yet come into a clear conclusion is the decision of a proper "penalty" para

Re: [Libmesh-users] Exporting assembled matrix into Petsc binary

2011-07-18 Thread Omar Al-Abbasi
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Re: [Libmesh-users] Is libmesh good for contact mechanics?

2011-07-18 Thread Roy Stogner
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Mengda Wu wrote: > Sure. I am trying to solve a problem with two linear elastic bodies. One is > pushing the other at contact boundary. It this something libmesh can > handle? Technically - yes, I'm told people have done it, and there's nothing in the library that's really i