Thank you Professor Bangerth for your response! Yes that's exactly what I am interested in.
I am excited to learn that there are arguably better methods (mixed methods) to solve shell problems. I am not familiar with those; could you please kindly provide some pointers for me to start (anything, either example, code, or paper)? Best, Shawn On Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 1:13:24 AM UTC-8, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote: > > > Shawn, > > > I tried to search but did not find an implementation of shell elements > in > > deal.II. Since this is a commonly used element, I'd like to make sure > that > > it's not me missing it. Could you please help confirm? > > That depends on how exactly you define "shell elements". But if you mean > "elements that are not only continuous but also have continuous > derivatives, > for use in problems with fourth derivatives", then the answer is "no". > > Of course, there are other approaches to solve shell problems -- maybe > even > better ones than using shell elements -- that are available in deal.II. > This > includes using mixed methods. > > Best > W. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Wolfgang Bangerth email: [email protected] > <javascript:> > www: http://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/ > > -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
