Hi Tuomas,

Concerning the sets of spaces which this will work for, I think that the current implementation probably works for any horizontal space but only for vertical CG. One could just try relaxing the test in that case.

The reason for the restriction to vertical CG is that fs.bt_masks uses the topological association of nodes with mesh entities in order to work out which nodes are on the top or bottom of the cell. In order to allow DG in the vertical, it would be necessary to support the geometric definition (ie which basis functions do not vanish on the top/bottom).

If you look at functionspace.py:78 you can see where the bottom and top masks are generated. This uses entity_closure_dofs() from FIAT. In order to use the geometric definition of dofs one would need to support using facet_support_dofs() (which is how BC maps are set up at functionspace.py:375). Currently FIAT TensorFiniteElement objects do support entity_closure_dofs() but nobody has done the legwork to get them to support facet_support_dofs.

Concerning documentation, COFFEE is deplorably underdocumented (although the author is on this list so maybe this will change ;). The actual available AST nodes are only "documented" by reading the source: https://github.com/coneoproject/COFFEE/blob/master/coffee/base.py However, you are fundamentally writing a PyOP2 kernel, and the C api for that *is* documented at: http://op2.github.io/PyOP2/kernels.html so that hopefully helps somewhat.

Otherwise, keep asking here or in IRC (IRC tends to get faster responses, at least between about 10am and 8pm UK time).

BTW, any chance of seeing you at FEniCS '15?

Cheers,

David

On 10 April 2015 at 02:44, Tuomas Karna <tuomas.karna@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

A couple of questions regarding those extruded mesh -> parent mesh copy operations,

A while back I got the reverse 2d->3d copy working with a hard-coded pyop2 kernel (like in mesh extrusion). I'm not familiar with COFFEE syntax, is there documentation/examples somewhere?

The 3d->2d copy routine in extrusion_extraction branch checks that the function space is CG. Does this method easily generalize to other spaces? DGxCG prisms seem to work OK. I'm also interested in using DGxDG and RTxCG/DG spaces.

Cheers,

Tuomas

On 03/05/2015 10:24 AM, Tuomas Karna wrote:
Thanks David,

This is great, I'll try doing the reverse operation.

- Tuomas

On 03/05/2015 08:20 AM, David Ham wrote:
Hi Tuomas,

This wasn't there this morning but I've implemented one of the cases (pulling out the top and bottom maps). The result is in the extrusion_extraction branches of both PyOP2 and Firedrake. The 2d->3d operation would be rather similar except that you'd have to interrogate the fiat_element on the extruded Function in order to determine which extruded nodes are "on top of" the 2d nodes you have. Unfortunately I won't have time to do that one soon (huge amounts to do before SIAM CSE next week) but feel free to have a try and complain when it doesn't work!

Cheers,

David

On 4 March 2015 at 22:23, Tuomas Karna <tuomas.karna@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I'd need to copy nodal values between fields on parent and extruded
meshes. For example, copy 2d->3d (constant over vertical) or 3d->2d
(extract surface/bottom level). The horizontal function space is the
same. Is there an easy way to do this? Is there a map of extruded nodes
somewhere?

Thanks,

Tuomas

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