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Doc update.
authorwolf <wolf@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:56:44 +0000 (14:56 +0000)
committerwolf <wolf@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:56:44 +0000 (14:56 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@6672 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d

deal.II/deal.II/include/fe/fe_base.h

index 4bc8e706cd6720691ab64981d08f97d950f732ff..9a7c38e6c60e1b7a860719f778e0449fa45f45c5 100644 (file)
@@ -114,8 +114,22 @@ class FiniteElementData
     const unsigned int dofs_per_cell;
 
                                     /**
-                                     * Number of components and dimension of
-                                     * the image space.
+                                     * Number of vector components of
+                                     * this finite element, and
+                                     * dimension of the image
+                                     * space. For vector-valued
+                                     * finite elements (i.e. when
+                                     * this number is greater than
+                                     * one), the number of vector
+                                     * components is in many cases
+                                     * equal to the number of base
+                                     * elements glued together with
+                                     * the help of the @ref{FESystem}
+                                     * class. However, for elements
+                                     * like the Nedelec element, the
+                                     * number is greater than one
+                                     * even though we only have one
+                                     * base element.
                                      */
     const unsigned int components;
 

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