Re: [Libmesh-users] Composite Finite Elements

2009-10-21 Thread Roy Stogner
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, John Peterson wrote: > Is this idea also sometimes called "overset grids"? You can do it with overset grids, but IIRC they're more often used to have two grids that don't conform to each other at all; with composite elements the research I've seen always had them as conform

Re: [Libmesh-users] Composite Finite Elements

2009-10-21 Thread John Peterson
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Roy Stogner wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Tim Kroeger wrote: > >> Well, actually I don't know what Clough-Tocher elements are, hence it is >> possible that they are exactly what I am meaning, although I don't think so. > > No; they're still technically composite

Re: [Libmesh-users] Composite Finite Elements

2009-10-21 Thread Roy Stogner
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Tim Kroeger wrote: > Well, actually I don't know what Clough-Tocher elements are, hence it is > possible that they are exactly what I am meaning, although I don't think so. No; they're still technically composite elements since they involve a subelement partitioning, but wi

Re: [Libmesh-users] Composite Finite Elements

2009-10-20 Thread Tim Kroeger
Dear Roy, On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Roy Stogner wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Tim Kroeger wrote: > >> Has there ever been the idea of implementing composite finite elements >> (CFE) into libMesh? How much work would that approximately be? > > There appears to be a slight overloading of the nomenclatu

Re: [Libmesh-users] Composite Finite Elements

2009-10-19 Thread Roy Stogner
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Tim Kroeger wrote: > Has there ever been the idea of implementing composite finite elements > (CFE) into libMesh? How much work would that approximately be? There appears to be a slight overloading of the nomenclature here... I'm used to "composite finite elements" being a