field

piecewise polynomial finite element function

Description

This class represents a piecewise polynomial finite element function. Since this function spans onto a finite dimensional basis, it simply stores its coefficients on this basis: these coefficients are called the degrees of freedom (see space).

Interpolation

For any function u, its interpolation on the finite element space Xh as a field uh in Xh expresses simply via the interpolate function:

    Float u (const point& x) { return exp(x[0]*x[1]); }
    ...
    field uh = interpolate (Xh, u);

Linear algebra

Linear algebra, such as uh+vh, uh-vh and lambda*uh + mu*vh, where lambda and mu are of type Float, are supported. The duality product between two fields lh and uh writes simply dual(lh,uh). As we consider finite dimensional spaces, this duality product coincides with the usual Euclidean dot product in IR^dim(Xh). The application of the a bilinear form writes a(uh,vh) and is equivalent to dual(m*uh,vh).

Common accessors

For convenience, uh.max(), uh.min() and uh.max_abs() returns respectively the maximum, minimum and maximum of the absolute value of the degrees of freedom.

Non-linear algebra

Non-linear operations, such as sqrt(uh) or 1/uh are also available. Note that non-linear operations do not returns in general piecewise polynomials: the value returned by sqrt(uh) may be filtered by interpolate function:

    field vh = interpolate (Xh, sqrt(uh));

Also, the multiplication uh*vh and the division uh/vh returns a result that is not in the same discrete finite element space: its result also may be filtered by interpolate`:

    field wh = interpolate(Xh, uh*vh);

All standard unary and binary math functions abs, cos, sin... are extended to scalar fields. Also sqr(uh), the square of a field, and min(uh,vh), max(uh,vh) are provided. Binary functions can be used also with a scalar, as in

    field vh = interpolate (Xh, max (abs(uh), 0));
    field wh = interpolate (Xh, pow (abs(uh), 1./3));

For applying a user-provided function to a field, please see the compose function.

Access by domain

The restriction of a field to a geometric domain, says "boundary" writes uh["boundary"]: it represents the trace of the field on the boundary:

    space Xh (omega, "P1");
    uh["boundary"] = 0;

Multi-valued fields

A vector-valued field contains several components, as:

    space Xh (omega, "P2", "vector");
    field uh (Xh);

Conversely, for a tensor-valued field:

    space Th (omega, "P1d", "tensor");
    field sigma_h (Xh);

General space product interface

A general multi-component field writes:

    space Th (omega, "P1d", "tensor");
    space Vh (omega, "P2", "vector");
    space Qh (omega, "P1");
    space Xh = Th*Vh*Qh;
    field xh (Xh);
    field tau_h = xh[0]; // tensor-valued
    field uh    = xh[1]; // vector-valued
    field qh    = xh[2]; // scalar

Remark the hierarchical multi-component field structure: the first-component is tensor-valued and the second-one is vector-valued. There is no limitation upon the hierarchical number of levels in use: the hierarchy is not flattened.

The xh.size() returns the number of field components. When the field is scalar, it returns zero by convention, and xh[0] is undefined.

Direct access to degrees-of-freedom

The field class provides a STL-like container interface for accessing the degrees-of-freedom (dofs) of a finite element field uh. The number of dofs is uh.ndof() and any dof can be accessed via uh.dof(idof). In a distributed memory environment, a non-local dof at the partition interface can be obtain via uh.dis_dof(dis_idof) where dis_idof is the (global) distributed index assoiated to the distribution uh.ownership(). See distributor.

For better performances, a STL-like iterator interface is available, with uh.begin_dof() and uh.end_dof() returns iterators to the dofs on the current processor.

Representation

The degrees of freedom (see space) are splited between unknowns and blocked, i.e. uh=[uh.u,uh.b] for any field uh in Xh. Access to these vectors is allowed via some accessors: a read-only one, as uh.u() and uh.b(), and a read-and-write one, as uh.set_u() and uh.set_b(), see vec.

Note that blocked and unknown degrees of freedom could also be elegantly set by using a domain name indexation (see geo):

    geo omega ("circle");
    space Xh (omega, "P1");
    Xh.block ("boundary");
    field uh (Xh);
    uh ["boundary"] = 0;

Implementation

This documentation has been generated from file main/lib/field.h

The field class is simply an alias to the field_basic class

typedef field_basic<Float> field;

The field_basic class provides an interface to a vector data container:

template <class T, class M = rheo_default_memory_model>
class field_basic {
public :
// typedefs:
 
    using size_type     = std::size_t;
    using memory_type   = M;
    using value_type    = T; // TODO: run-time dependent
    using result_type   = T; // TODO: run-time dependent
    // using value_type = undeterminated_basic<T>; // TODO
    using scalar_type   = T;
    using float_type    = typename float_traits<T>::type;
    using valued_type   = space_constant::valued_type;
    using geo_type      = geo_basic  <float_type,M>;
    using space_type    = space_basic<float_type,M>;
    using dis_reference = typename vec<T,M>::dis_reference;
    class iterator;
    class const_iterator;
 
// allocator/deallocator:
  
    field_basic();
 
    explicit field_basic (
        const space_type& V, 
        const T& init_value = std::numeric_limits<T>::max());
   
    void resize (
        const space_type& V, 
        const T& init_value = std::numeric_limits<T>::max());
 
    // expressions:
    template <class Expr, class Sfinae =
    typename std::enable_if<
           details::is_field_expr_affine_homogeneous<Expr>::value
      && ! details::is_field<Expr>::value>::type>
    field_basic (const Expr& expr);
 
    // initializer list (c++ 2011):
    field_basic (const std::initializer_list<details::field_concat_value<T,M> >& init_list);
 
// assignments:
 
    field_basic<T,M>& operator=  (const field_basic<T,M>&);
 
    template <class Value>
    typename std::enable_if<
      details::is_rheolef_arithmetic<Value>::value
     ,field_basic<T,M>&
    >::type
    operator=  (const Value& value);
 
 
    template <class Expr>
    typename std::enable_if<
           details::is_field_expr_affine_homogeneous<Expr>::value
      && ! details::is_field_expr_v2_constant       <Expr>::value
      && ! details::is_field                        <Expr>::value
     ,field_basic<T, M>&>::type
    operator=  (const Expr&);
 
    // initializer list (c++ 2011):
    field_basic<T,M>& operator= (const std::initializer_list<details::field_concat_value<T,M> >& init_list);
 
// accessors:
 
    const space_type&  get_space()  const { return _V; }
    const geo_type&    get_geo()    const { return _V.get_geo(); }
    std::string        name()      const { return _V.name(); }
    std::string        get_approx() const { return _V.get_approx(); }
    valued_type        valued_tag() const { return _V.valued_tag(); }
    const std::string& valued()     const { return _V.valued(); }
    bool have_homogeneous_space (space_basic<T,M>& Xh) const { Xh = get_space(); return true; }
 
// accessors & modifiers to unknown & blocked parts:
 
    const vec<T,M>&     u() const { return _u; }
    const vec<T,M>&     b() const { return _b; }
          vec<T,M>& set_u()       { dis_dof_indexes_requires_update(); return _u; }
          vec<T,M>& set_b()       { dis_dof_indexes_requires_update(); return _b; }
 
// accessors to extremas:
 
    T min() const;
    T max() const;
    T max_abs() const;
    T min_abs() const;
 
// accessors by domains:
 
    field_indirect<T,M>        operator[] (const geo_basic<T,M>& dom);
    field_indirect_const<T,M>  operator[] (const geo_basic<T,M>& dom) const;
    field_indirect<T,M>        operator[] (std::string dom_name);
    field_indirect_const<T,M>  operator[] (std::string dom_name) const;
 
// accessors by components:
 
    size_type size() const { return _V.size(); }
    field_component<T,M>       operator[] (size_type i_comp);
    field_component_const<T,M> operator[] (size_type i_comp) const;
    field_component<T,M>       operator() (size_type i_comp, size_type j_comp);
    field_component_const<T,M> operator() (size_type i_comp, size_type j_comp) const;
 
// accessors by degrees-of-freedom (dof):
 
    const distributor& ownership() const { return get_space().ownership(); }
    const communicator& comm() const { return ownership().comm(); }
    size_type     ndof() const { return ownership().size(); }
    size_type dis_ndof() const { return ownership().dis_size(); }
          T& dof (size_type idof);
    const T& dof (size_type idof) const;
    const T& dis_dof (size_type dis_idof) const;
    // write access to non-local dis_idof changes to others procs
    dis_reference dis_dof_entry (size_type dis_idof);
 
    iterator begin_dof();
    iterator end_dof();
    const_iterator begin_dof() const;
    const_iterator end_dof() const;
 
// input/output:
 
    idiststream& get (idiststream& ips);
    odiststream& put (odiststream& ops) const;
    odiststream& put_field (odiststream& ops) const;
 
// evaluate uh(x) where x is given locally as hat_x in K:
 
    T dis_evaluate (const point_basic<T>& x, size_type i_comp = 0) const;
    T operator()   (const point_basic<T>& x) const { return dis_evaluate (x,0); }
    point_basic<T> dis_vector_evaluate (const point_basic<T>& x) const;
 

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