<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:20 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:surendra@caltech.edu" target="_blank">surendra@caltech.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="im"><br><div><div>On Mar 16, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Lucas Abraham Willemsen wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div>
<div style="direction:ltr;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma"><br>RuntimeError: Determinant of Jacobian (1.74667e-08) for cell 0 is smaller than minimum permissible value (1e-06)!<br> <br>This message doesn't really help me a lot. I have no idea why the Jacobian is bad, when the mesh elements seem to have such a nice aspect ratio.<br>
<br></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div></div><div>Try changing your non-dimenionalizing parameters. </div><div><br></div><div><div> normalizer.wave_period = 0.1*s</div><div><br></div></div>Changing the wave period normalizer to 0.1 sec got rid of that error for me. There are plenty of other setting that aren't set properly, though.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Yes, we have a check on the absolute volume of the element, so changing the normalization will get</div><div style>rid of this error for well-conditioned meshes. Alternatively, we could have some idea of the "normal"</div>
<div style>cell size, but this sounds really fragile.</div><div style><br></div><div style> Thanks,</div><div style><br></div><div style> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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