Comment 5 for bug 1010850

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Joachim Haga (jobh) wrote : Re: [Dolfin] [Bug 1010850] Re: Some issues with PointSource

I won't pretend that I understand the issues here, but if it works
predictably (even when hitting the vertex coordinate of a discontinuous
space) then I'm all for it ;)

-j.

On 11 June 2012 14:42, Anders Logg <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:21:57PM -0000, Marie Rognes wrote:
> > Response to 4/
> >
> > (Caveat: I've never used PointSource)
> >
> > How about adding a new measure: a point measure, corresponding to
> evaluation at a given point,
> > say
> >
> > dp
> >
> > Could that resolve the issues at hand?
>
> I think that would be neat.
>
> We set (formally)
>
> dp(\bar{x}) = \delta_{\bar{x}} dx
>
> and then the generated code would need to
>
> 1. Check whether point is in the current triangle (easily handled with
> an appropriate code-snippet)
>
> 2. Evaluate the integrand at the point in question and add to the
> local tensor
>
> This would require adding an addition integral to UFC:
>
> cell_integral
> exterior_facet_integral
> interior_facet_integral
> dirac_integral / point_integral / ???
>
> --
> Anders
>
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