Hi Andrew, thanks for the response. I will definitely look into it.

One more question I forgot:

5) For an anisotropic diffusion problem, I would like to use this diffusivity tensor:

D(x) = [y^2+eps*x^2, -(1-eps)*x*y; 
            -(1-eps)*x*y, eps*y^2+x^2]

where eps is a user-defined scalar, and x and y correspond to the x and y coordinates of the cell. How would I express that?

Thanks,
Justin

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Andrew McRae <A.T.T.McRae@bath.ac.uk> wrote:
4) Do you guys support Hexahedron elements? When I look through the documentation for UnitCubeMesh and BoxMesh, I see no option for non-tetrahedron elements.

We support semi-structured hexahedral meshes, though not *fully* unstructured.  One has to go via the ExtrudedMesh functionality to get these.

For example, to quote Henrik in a different mailing list thread,

meshbase = RectangleMesh(Nx, Ny, Lx, Ly, quadrilateral=True)
mesh = ExtrudedMesh(meshbase, Nz, Delta_z)

Or you can supply your own base quadrilateral mesh:
m = Mesh("quadmesh.msh")
mesh = ExtrudedMesh(m, ...)

For element families supported, see http://femtable.org/ to start with.

If your cells aren't perfect cuboids then some approximations are made in the quadrature calculations; if this seems to be hurting you badly then I can give further instructions.

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