From: Ralf Hartmann <Ralf.Hartmann@dlr.de> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:05:53 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Doc update. X-Git-Tag: v8.0.0~19538 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=435a983c5817b819fe819d6c8c079592e249325d;p=dealii.git Doc update. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@4234 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/2001/c-3-1.html b/deal.II/doc/news/2001/c-3-1.html index 7ccc1b1fa4..882a396b1e 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/news/2001/c-3-1.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/news/2001/c-3-1.html @@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ documentation, etc</a>. (GK 2001/03/14) </p> - <li> <p> - <a name="new_fe_mapping_design"></a> - <h4> New Design of <code class="class">FiniteElements</code> - and <code class="class">Mappings</code></h4> - + <li> <a name="new_fe_mapping_design"></a> + <i> New Design of <code class="class">FiniteElements</code> + and <code class="class">Mappings</code></i> + + <p> New: The finite element classes have been redesigned from scratch to allow also elements that depend on the actual cell shape, like @@ -72,9 +72,20 @@ documentation, etc</a>. <acronym>deal.II</acronym> as we tried to retain the interface to the user (mainly that of <code class="class">FEValues</code>) as far as possible. - <br> + </p> <p> + Together with this new design comes a reduction of 25000(!) + lines of <acronym>deal.II</acronym> code. This elimination + mainly affected code that previously was machine generated + (e.g. by maple). In view of almost unchanged execution times of + applications, the faster compilation and additional + functionality constitutes a significant improvement of + <acronym>deal.II</acronym>. Results produced by the new code + match those of the old design up to machine precision. + </p> + + <br> (RH & GK 2001/03/13) </p> @@ -312,8 +323,8 @@ documentation, etc</a>. </p> <p> - There still exists a constructor of <code - class="class">FEValues</code> without a <code + For backward compatibility there still exists a constructor of + <code class="class">FEValues</code> without a <code class="class">Mapping</code> argument that uses a <code class="class">MappingQ1</code> by default. <br>