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Finish (I guess).
authorwolf <wolf@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:01:32 +0000 (14:01 +0000)
committerwolf <wolf@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:01:32 +0000 (14:01 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@2611 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d

deal.II/examples/step-7/step-7.cc

index 97b283dfd19ab6af0ae48d41251f0a10c97bacb2..cd7837109b9715ac4dcd8003f06ad29aaa658140 100644 (file)
                                 // ``FEValues'' class:
 #include <fe/fe_values.h>
 
+                                // We need one more include from
+                                // standard C++, which is necessary
+                                // when we try to find out the actual
+                                // type behind a pointer to a base
+                                // class. We will explain this in
+                                // slightly more detail below.
+#include <typeinfo>
 #include <fstream>
 
 
@@ -317,32 +324,66 @@ double RightHandSide<dim>::value (const Point<dim>   &p,
 
 
                                 // Then we need the class that does
-                                // all the work.
-//.......................
+                                // all the work. It is mostly the
+                                // same as in previous examples, and
+                                // we will discuss the differences
+                                // only when we declare the
+                                // respective functions or variables
+                                // below.
 template <int dim>
 class LaplaceProblem 
 {
   public:
-//.........
+                                    // We will use this class in
+                                    // several modes: for different
+                                    // finite elements, as well as
+                                    // for adaptive and global
+                                    // refinement. The decision
+                                    // whether global or adaptive
+                                    // refinement shall be used is
+                                    // communicated to the
+                                    // constructor of this class
+                                    // through an enumeration type,
+                                    // which we declare here:
     enum RefinementMode {
          global_refinement, adaptive_refinement
     };
     
-//.......
+                                    // This is the constructor of the
+                                    // class, it takes the finite
+                                    // element and the refinement
+                                    // mode as parameter and stores
+                                    // them in local variables.
     LaplaceProblem (const FiniteElement<dim> &fe,
                    const RefinementMode      refinement_mode);
+
+                                    // The following two functions
+                                    // are the same as in previous
+                                    // examples.
     ~LaplaceProblem ();
 
     void run ();
     
   private:
-//.......
+                                    // As are these:
     void setup_system ();
     void assemble_system ();
     void solve ();
     void refine_grid ();
+
+                                    // After the solution has been
+                                    // computed, we perform some
+                                    // analysis on it, such as
+                                    // computing the error in various
+                                    // norms. This is done in the
+                                    // following function. To enable
+                                    // some output, we pass it the
+                                    // number of the refinement
+                                    // cycle.
     void process_solution (const unsigned int cycle);
 
+                                    // Now for the data elements of
+                                    // this class:
     Triangulation<dim>                      triangulation;
     DoFHandler<dim>                         dof_handler;
 
@@ -536,8 +577,19 @@ class LaplaceProblem
 
     Vector<double>                          solution;
     Vector<double>                          system_rhs;
-//.............
-    RefinementMode                          refinement_mode;
+
+                                    // The second last variable
+                                    // stores the refinement mode
+                                    // passed to the
+                                    // constructor. Since it is only
+                                    // set in the constructor, we can
+                                    // declare this variable
+                                    // constant, to avoid that
+                                    // someone sets it involuntarily
+                                    // (e.g. in an `if'-statement
+                                    // where == was written as = by
+                                    // chance).
+    const RefinementMode                    refinement_mode;
 
                                     // For each refinement level some
                                     // important data (like the
@@ -560,7 +612,12 @@ class LaplaceProblem
 
 
 
-//........
+                                // In the constructor of this class,
+                                // we only set the variables passed
+                                // to this object, and associate the
+                                // DoF handler object with the
+                                // triangulation (which is empty at
+                                // present, however).
 template <int dim>
 LaplaceProblem<dim>::LaplaceProblem (const FiniteElement<dim> &fe,
                                     const RefinementMode refinement_mode) :
@@ -982,18 +1039,44 @@ void LaplaceProblem<dim>::solve ()
 };
 
 
-//.....................                                 
+                                // Now for the function doing grid
+                                // refinement. Depending on the
+                                // refinement mode passed to the
+                                // constructor, we do global or
+                                // adaptive refinement.
 template <int dim>
 void LaplaceProblem<dim>::refine_grid ()
 {
   switch (refinement_mode) 
     {
+                                      // If global refinement is
+                                      // required, this is simple:
       case global_refinement:
       {
        triangulation.refine_global (1);
        break;
       };
-       
+
+                                       // In case of adaptive
+                                       // refinement, we use the same
+                                       // functions and classes as in
+                                       // the previous example
+                                       // program. Note that one
+                                       // could treat Neumann
+                                       // boundaries differently than
+                                       // Dirichlet boundaries, and
+                                       // one should in fact do so
+                                       // here since we have Neumann
+                                       // boundary conditions on part
+                                       // of the boundaries, but
+                                       // since we don't have a
+                                       // function here that
+                                       // describes the Neumann
+                                       // values (we only construct
+                                       // these values from the exact
+                                       // solution when assembling
+                                       // the matrix), we omit this
+                                       // detail here.
       case adaptive_refinement:
       {
        Vector<float> estimated_error_per_cell (triangulation.n_active_cells());
@@ -1015,20 +1098,70 @@ void LaplaceProblem<dim>::refine_grid ()
     };
 };
 
-//...............
+
+
+                                // Finally process the solution after
+                                // it has been computed. For this, we
+                                // integrate the error in various
+                                // norms, and we generate tables that
+                                // will be later used to display the
+                                // convergence against the continuous
+                                // solution in a nice format.
 template <int dim>
 void LaplaceProblem<dim>::process_solution (const unsigned int cycle)
 {
+                                  // In order to integrate the
+                                  // difference between computed
+                                  // numerical solution and the
+                                  // continuous solution (described
+                                  // by the ``Solution'' class
+                                  // defined at the top of this
+                                  // file), we first need a vector
+                                  // that will hold the norm of the
+                                  // error on each cell. Since
+                                  // accuracy with 16 digits is not
+                                  // so important for these
+                                  // quantities, we sace some memory
+                                  // by using ``float'' instead of
+                                  // ``double'' values.
   Vector<float> difference_per_cell (triangulation.n_active_cells());
-  
+
+                                  // Next we use a function from the
+                                  // library which computes the error
+                                  // in the L2 norm on each cell. We
+                                  // have to pass it the DoF handler
+                                  // object, the vector holding the
+                                  // nodal values of the numerical
+                                  // solution, the continuous
+                                  // solution as a function object,
+                                  // the vector into which it shall
+                                  // place the norm of the error on
+                                  // each cell, a quadrature rule by
+                                  // which this norm shall be
+                                  // computed, and the type of norm
+                                  // to be used. Here, we use a Gauss
+                                  // formula with three points in
+                                  // each space direction, and
+                                  // compute the L2 norm.
   VectorTools::integrate_difference (dof_handler,
                                     solution,
                                     Solution<dim>(),
                                     difference_per_cell,
                                     QGauss3<dim>(),
                                     L2_norm);
+                                  // Finally, we want to get the
+                                  // global L2 norm. This can of
+                                  // course be obtained by summing
+                                  // the squares of the norms on each
+                                  // cell, and taking the square root
+                                  // of that value. This is
+                                  // equivalent to taking the l2
+                                  // (lower case ``l'') norm of the
+                                  // vector of norms on each cell:
   const double L2_error = difference_per_cell.l2_norm();
 
+                                  // The same procedure is done to
+                                  // get the H1 semi-norm:
   VectorTools::integrate_difference (dof_handler,
                                     solution,
                                     Solution<dim>(),
@@ -1037,14 +1170,48 @@ void LaplaceProblem<dim>::process_solution (const unsigned int cycle)
                                     H1_seminorm);
   const double H1_error = difference_per_cell.l2_norm();
 
+                                  // Finally, we compute the maximum
+                                  // norm. Of course, we can't
+                                  // actually use the true maximum,
+                                  // but only the maximum at the
+                                  // quadrature points. Since this
+                                  // quite sensitively depends on the
+                                  // quadrature rule being used, and
+                                  // since we would like to avoid
+                                  // false results due to
+                                  // super-convergence effects at
+                                  // some points, we use a special
+                                  // quadrature rule that is obtained
+                                  // by iterating the trapezoidal
+                                  // rule five times in each space
+                                  // direction. Note that the
+                                  // constructor of the ``QIterated''
+                                  // class takes a one-dimensional
+                                  // quadrature rule and a number
+                                  // that tells it how often it shall
+                                  // use this rule in each space
+                                  // direction.
+  QTrapez<1>     q_trapez;
+  QIterated<dim> q_iterated (q_trapez, 5);
+
+                                  // Using this special quadrature
+                                  // rule, we can now try to find the
+                                  // maximal error on each cell:
   VectorTools::integrate_difference (dof_handler,
                                     solution,
                                     Solution<dim>(),
                                     difference_per_cell,
-                                    QGauss3<dim>(),
+                                    q_iterated,
                                     Linfty_norm);
+                                  // Obviously, the maximal error
+                                  // globally is the maximum over the
+                                  // maximal errors on each cell:
   const double Linfty_error = difference_per_cell.linfty_norm();
 
+                                  // After all these errors have been
+                                  // computed, we finally write some
+                                  // output and put all the data into
+                                  // a table.
   const unsigned int n_active_cells=triangulation.n_active_cells();
   const unsigned int n_dofs=dof_handler.n_dofs();
   
@@ -1128,7 +1295,7 @@ void LaplaceProblem<dim>::process_solution (const unsigned int cycle)
 template <int dim>
 void LaplaceProblem<dim>::run () 
 {
-  for (unsigned int cycle=0; cycle<6; ++cycle)
+  for (unsigned int cycle=0; cycle<7; ++cycle)
     {
                                       // The first action in each
                                       // iteration of the outer loop
@@ -1217,14 +1384,17 @@ void LaplaceProblem<dim>::run ()
                cell->face(face)->set_boundary_indicator (1);
        }
       else
-                                        // If this is not the first
-                                        // step, the we call
-                                        // ``refine_grid'' to
-                                        // actually refine the grid
-                                        // according to the
-                                        // refinement mode passed to
-                                        // the constructor.
-       refine_grid ();      
+       {
+                                          // If this is not the first
+                                          // step, the we call
+                                          // ``refine_grid'' to
+                                          // actually refine the grid
+                                          // according to the
+                                          // refinement mode passed to
+                                          // the constructor.
+         refine_grid ();
+       };
+      
 
                                       // The next steps you already
                                       // know from previous
@@ -1269,6 +1439,40 @@ void LaplaceProblem<dim>::run ()
       default:
            Assert (false, ExcInternalError());
     };
+
+                                  // We augment the filename by a
+                                  // postfix denoting the finite
+                                  // element which we have used in
+                                  // the computation. Finding out
+                                  // which finite element we are
+                                  // actually using is not that
+                                  // simple here, since we only have
+                                  // a pointer to the common base
+                                  // class of all finite elements,
+                                  // but we can use a rather new
+                                  // feature of C++ to check whether
+                                  // the actual type of the object
+                                  // pointed to by ``fe'' is an
+                                  // ``FEQ1'', ``FEQ2'', or something
+                                  // different.
+  if (typeid(*fe)==typeid(const FEQ1<dim>))
+    filename += "-q1";
+  else
+    if (typeid(*fe)==typeid(const FEQ2<dim>))
+      filename += "-q2";
+    else
+                                      // The finite element is
+                                      // neither Q1 nor Q2. This
+                                      // should not have happened,
+                                      // but maybe someone has tried
+                                      // to change this in ``main'',
+                                      // so it might happen. We catch
+                                      // this case and throw an
+                                      // exception, since we don't
+                                      // know how to name the
+                                      // respective output file
+      Assert (false, ExcInternalError());
+    
   filename += ".gmv";
            
   ofstream output (filename.c_str());
@@ -1277,7 +1481,70 @@ void LaplaceProblem<dim>::run ()
   DataOut<dim> data_out;
   data_out.attach_dof_handler (dof_handler);
   data_out.add_data_vector (solution, "solution");
-  data_out.build_patches ();
+
+                                  // Now building the intermediate
+                                  // format as before is the next
+                                  // step. We introduce one more
+                                  // feature of deal.II here. The
+                                  // background is the following: in
+                                  // some of the runs of this
+                                  // function, we have used
+                                  // biquadratic finite
+                                  // elements. However, since almost
+                                  // all output formats only support
+                                  // bilinear data, the data is
+                                  // written only bilinear, and
+                                  // information is lost
+                                  // therefore. Of course, we can't
+                                  // change the format in which
+                                  // graphic programs accept their
+                                  // inputs, but we can write the
+                                  // data differently such that we
+                                  // more closely resemble the
+                                  // information available in the
+                                  // quadratic approximation. We can,
+                                  // for example, write each cell as
+                                  // four subcells with bilinear data
+                                  // each, such that we have nine
+                                  // data points for each cell in the
+                                  // triangulation. The graphic
+                                  // programs will, of course,
+                                  // display this data still only
+                                  // bilinear, but at least we have
+                                  // given some more of the
+                                  // information we have.
+                                  //
+                                  // In order to allow writing more
+                                  // than one subcell per actual
+                                  // cell, the ``build_patches''
+                                  // function accepts a parameter
+                                  // (the default is ``1'', which is
+                                  // why you haven't seen this
+                                  // parameter in previous
+                                  // examples). This parameter
+                                  // denotes into how many subcells
+                                  // per space direction each cell
+                                  // shall be subdivided for
+                                  // output. For example, if you give
+                                  // ``2'', this leads to 4 cells in
+                                  // 2D and 8 cells in 3D. For
+                                  // quadratic elements, two subcells
+                                  // per space direction is obviously
+                                  // the right choice, so this is
+                                  // what we choose:
+  unsigned int n_subcells;
+  if (typeid(*fe) == typeid(const FEQ1<dim>))
+    n_subcells = 1;
+  else
+    if (typeid(*fe) == typeid(const FEQ2<dim>))
+      n_subcells = 2;
+    else
+      Assert (false, ExcInternalError());
+  
+  data_out.build_patches (n_subcells);
+
+                                  // Finally write out the data in
+                                  // GMV format.
   data_out.write_gmv (output);
 
                                   // In each cycle values were added to
@@ -1287,14 +1554,39 @@ void LaplaceProblem<dim>::run ()
                                   // and the captions may not be printed
                                   // directly above the specific columns.
   convergence_table.write_text(cout);
-                                  // The table can also be written into a tex file.
-                                  // The (nicely) formatted table
-                                  // can be viewed at after
-                                  // calling `latex whole_table' and
-                                  // e.g. `xdvi whole_table'.
+                                  // The table can also be written
+                                  // into a tex file.  The (nicely)
+                                  // formatted table can be viewed at
+                                  // after calling `latex filename'
+                                  // and e.g. `xdvi filename', where
+                                  // filename is the name of the file
+                                  // which we construct from the name
+                                  // of the finite element and the
+                                  // refinement mode, as above
   if (true)
     {
-      ofstream table_file("whole_table.tex");
+      string filename = "error";
+      switch (refinement_mode)
+       {
+         case global_refinement:
+               filename += "-global";
+               break;
+         case adaptive_refinement:
+               filename += "-adaptive";
+               break;
+         default:
+               Assert (false, ExcInternalError());
+       };
+      if (typeid(*fe)==typeid(const FEQ1<dim>))
+       filename += "-q1";
+      else
+       if (typeid(*fe)==typeid(const FEQ2<dim>))
+         filename += "-q2";
+       else
+         Assert (false, ExcInternalError());
+      filename += ".tex";
+      
+      ofstream table_file(filename.c_str());
       convergence_table.write_tex(table_file);
       table_file.close();
     }
@@ -1363,29 +1655,99 @@ void LaplaceProblem<dim>::run ()
     }
 
                                   // Finally, the convergence chart
-                                  // is written:
+                                  // is written. The filename is
+                                  // again constructed as above.
   convergence_table.write_text(cout);
 
   if (true)
     {
-      ofstream table_file("convergence_table.tex");
+      string filename = "convergence";
+      switch (refinement_mode)
+       {
+         case global_refinement:
+               filename += "-global";
+               break;
+         case adaptive_refinement:
+               filename += "-adaptive";
+               break;
+         default:
+               Assert (false, ExcInternalError());
+       };
+      if (typeid(*fe)==typeid(const FEQ1<dim>))
+       filename += "-q1";
+      else
+       if (typeid(*fe)==typeid(const FEQ2<dim>))
+         filename += "-q2";
+       else
+         Assert (false, ExcInternalError());
+      filename += ".tex";
+
+      ofstream table_file(filename.c_str());
       convergence_table.write_tex(table_file);
       table_file.close();
     }
 };
 
 
-//.................
+                                // The main function is mostly as
+                                // before. The only difference is
+                                // that we solve three times, once
+                                // for Q1 and adaptive refinement,
+                                // once for Q1 elements and global
+                                // refinement, and once for Q2
+                                // elements and global refinement.
 int main () 
 {
   try
     {
       deallog.depth_console (0);
 
-      FEQ1<2> fe;
-//      LaplaceProblem<2> laplace_problem_2d (fe, LaplaceProblem<2>::adaptive_refinement);
-      LaplaceProblem<2> laplace_problem_2d (fe, LaplaceProblem<2>::global_refinement);
-      laplace_problem_2d.run ();
+                                      // Now for the three calls to
+                                      // the main class. Each call is
+                                      // blocked into curly braces in
+                                      // order to detroy the
+                                      // respective objects (i.e. the
+                                      // finite element and the
+                                      // LaplaceProblem object) at
+                                      // the end of the block and
+                                      // before we go to the next
+                                      // run.
+      {
+       cout << "Solving with Q1 elements, adaptive refinement" << endl
+            << "=============================================" << endl
+            << endl;
+       
+       FEQ1<2> fe;
+       LaplaceProblem<2> laplace_problem_2d (fe, LaplaceProblem<2>::adaptive_refinement);
+       laplace_problem_2d.run ();
+
+       cout << endl;
+      };
+       
+      {
+       cout << "Solving with Q1 elements, global refinement" << endl
+            << "===========================================" << endl
+            << endl;
+       
+       FEQ1<2> fe;
+       LaplaceProblem<2> laplace_problem_2d (fe, LaplaceProblem<2>::global_refinement);
+       laplace_problem_2d.run ();
+
+       cout << endl;
+      };
+       
+      {
+       cout << "Solving with Q2 elements, global refinement" << endl
+            << "===========================================" << endl
+            << endl;
+       
+       FEQ2<2> fe;
+       LaplaceProblem<2> laplace_problem_2d (fe, LaplaceProblem<2>::global_refinement);
+       laplace_problem_2d.run ();
+
+       cout << endl;
+      };
+       
     }
   catch (exception &exc)
     {

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