RE: [pooma-dev] FieldStencils and Field(Range) views

[James Crotinger]

There is, in general, no good way to construct metric information for a range view of a field, which is why range views evaluate to Fields with NoGeometry. For instance, if you have a non-uniform non-orthogonal coordinate system and you remove every other point in one direction, the new mesh is no longer a simple sub-mesh of the old mesh, and there is no general way for Pooma to calculate this new information. For fields with cartesian coordinates this could be done, but such discrimination would have required the coordinate system type to be a compile time quantity, and in the re-design of Fields our main customers really wanted us to reduce the number of template dependencies (helps code-bloat, compile time, . . .).

        Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nils H. Busch [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 8:32 AM
> To: pooma-dev
> Subject: [pooma-dev] FieldStencils and Field(Range) views
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I was trying to apply a FieldStencil on a view of a field
> defined by a Range domain. I discovered that this does not
> work, since such a view evaluates to a NoGeometry template
> argument of Field. I was confirmed of this when reading the
> tutorial. Does this mean, I cannot apply a FieldStencil to
> Range views of fields ?
>
> Is there a workaround to this or is this possible with Pooma
> v 2.4 ? Currently, I am still using v 2.3, as I am not
> certain whether work on v2.4 has been completed.
>
> What I am trying to do, is to implement some kind of
> reduction operation (for a multigrid scheme) that operates on
> blocks of the finer resolution field and assigns them to a
> coarser resolution field. If anyone could give me a hint on
> how to approach that problem (what kind of classes to use,
> example code that does similar things),  I would appreciate
> it very much.
>
> Thanks.
>
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