[aspect-devel] Traction b.c.

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

On 06/25/2017 09:43 PM, Lev Karatun wrote:
> 
> I was running models with traction b.c. and I'm a bit confused with the 
> "Representative point" parameter. I know it has to do with the point above 
> where density is integrated, but is it only integrated before the 1st timestep 
> or every timestep? And is the resulting pressure then applied to the entire 
> face? And how is the pressure at a certain depth calculated - is it just 
> linearly interpolated or does it take the density variance into account?

There are a number of places in the code where we use representative points. 
Can you point out where specifically the representative point is used that you 
are asking about?

Best
  W.

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