Re: [Libmesh-users] [Libmesh-devel] element properties

2011-06-09 Thread Derek Gaston
On Jun 9, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Roy Stogner wrote: > "TransientSystem" is taken. > "TransientBaseSystem"? TransientSystemBase? Either is fine with me. Derek -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced

Re: [Libmesh-users] [Libmesh-devel] element properties

2011-06-09 Thread Roy Stogner
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Derek Gaston wrote: > I think this makes sense... and have thought about doing it myself. > > One reason to still use an ExplicitSystem (or actually a > TransientExplicitSystem) is because you might need old values. So > if you're going to do this should we make a "TransientS

Re: [Libmesh-users] [Libmesh-devel] element properties

2011-06-09 Thread Derek Gaston
I think this makes sense... and have thought about doing it myself. One reason to still use an ExplicitSystem (or actually a TransientExplicitSystem) is because you might need old values. So if you're going to do this should we make a "TransientSystem" as well that just has solution vectors fo

Re: [Libmesh-users] [Libmesh-devel] element properties

2011-06-09 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
> So here's a simple question I should have come up with years ago: Why > do we suggest *Explicit*System for storing element data? That system > allocates a rhs vector for use in solve(), but if you're only wanting > to store (and project, distribute, read/write...) data fields then the > rhs is