[CIG-SHORT] RuntimeError: Determinant of Jacobian is smaller than minimum permissible value (1e-06)!

[surendra at caltech.edu]

On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Lucas Abraham Willemsen wrote:

> I'm trying to help someone set up a Pylith problem in which a crack is opening up in an elastic material. I generated a 2D block in cubit with a small interface on the bottom, representing the crack. The plan is to apply a tensile stress on the bottom half of the crack interface, and see how the top half opens up. But after generating the mesh and creating a simple Pylith script I get the following error:
> 
> RuntimeError: Determinant of Jacobian (6.25e-10) for cell 0 is smaller than minimum permissible value (1e-06)!

Attached is a working version (including .jou and .cfg files) of tar ball for your example along with output.

--Surendra


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